New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-09
NEW PUBLICATIONS

RocKLANp ,s CEMETERY By wM W p 1 na
doph Co.
This is the title of a small volume which apar.
from its purpose to make the public acquaint o
with the particular merits of new and oeautnui
park cemetery, readily accessible to Guy res Oo'
has peculiar claims to the attention OF those ""o
have been in the habit of taking gloomy view Vi
the end of life. THIS little treatise instead oI i>ius
the FINAL inevitable "-quotlng one Oh us "p'
phrases-a dark shadow upon existence treats 40 as
an altogether fit ing and acceptable termination OF
one phase of our being an event 10 be contcmpia-
ted and accompanied with all the cheering and
soothing accessories which spring from entire reslg
nation to the DEGREES of higher will to those con-
solutions which come of love and sympathy of
blends and to the assurance of the pleasantest sur
roundings which can be had to console the living on
bearing the loved and regretted to their last home.
In marked contrast to too many books treating of
the close of life, this volume aims to scatter sun
light upon the pathway all are called upon to
tread and the writer has brought to his aid
tracts from many of the most choice and beautiful
poetical and prose passages in the language in con-
frmaton of his views, 1t is very handsomely
brought out, with some twenty beautiful ilustra-
tions of Hudson River scenery in and adjoining the
new park cemetery.
The +. NJ. Museum of Geology and Archaeology of
the College of New-Jersey has with laudable enter
prise begun series of memoirs with the view of
describing its valuable collections and offering the
scientific world the results of the studies of the
paleontologists and biologists connected with the
institution. The first of the series is q~arto,
handsomely printed and supplemented by several
careful plates and dawings. In the memoir proper,
Mr. Henry +. Osborn, Lecturer on Biology treats
of "Loxolophodon and Uintatherum," two mann
moth animals of the Eocene period whose remains
have been found in the Bridger beds of Wyoming
They are distinct genera of the sub-order Dino
cerata not so tall as a goodsized elephant but full
as long in body. In their day there was u vast in
land lake between the Rocky Mountains and the
Wahsatch range. The climate semi tropical
and for neighbors these giants had, are told
carniverous animals of great size and strength
tapirs variety of crocodiles, and straDgest of all
primitive horses no larger than an ordinary modern
fox. After this who shall say that fairy stories
have no foundation in fact, and that Hop-o.my-
Thumb is exaggerationY He may have been
giant compared with dwarfs that existed before
him. The memoir is accompanied by a stratigraph-
cal report of the Bridger beds in the Washakie
Basin, by John Bach McMaster, C. f.. and of the
value of such aids Mr.. Osborn says: The ancient
geography and the ancient fauna should be placed
and studied together mole intimately than has
been done hitherto in order to afford the mind
comprehensive view of the whole. For the facts of
The structural peculiartes of specis and genera
of diminished value when isolated from an nvos-
tgation of their natural and physical environment"
Mr.. r. w. Kerr of tho Government Printing
Office, WashiD gtOn, has prepared illustrated his.
tory of that Office comprised in two hundred pages
which give brief record of the public printing for
the past century: the laws relating to public print
ing; full description of the organization. equip
ment and operations of the Office, and bographi-
cal sketch, accompanied with portrait of the
present efficient Public Printer, Mr.. John ID.
Defrees. When the Government purchased the
aCta ll ir1
Mr.. Defrees reorganized the concern The office at
that time gave employment to three hundred per- |
sons. In the busiest season it now finds work for
about eighteen hundred employees. Instances of
rapid printing under great pressure are given The
engrossed copy OF the Revised Statutes numbering
loss pages, was received in copy" by the Public
Printer Wednesday at 8 p. M, and the bound
volume placed in the hands of Mr.. Poland who
had charge of the matter in the House. at noon on
the following Saturday The volume passed three
separate times through the hands of proof-readers
and it had to be printed with great care since it
was to receive the signature of the President In
the introduction Mr. Kerr describes the process of
converting the manuscript of public officer or a
Congressman into public document When the
manuscript leaves committeeman for the print
ing office, 1t is frequently almost hopelessly mixed
as to the order of the pages, and grammatical and
rhetorical revision is not always unnecessary OF
the strengthening and polishing process the au hor
humorousy says: The manuscript at the printing
Office first falls into the hands of careful and con-
scientious workmen, to whom the authors of
Government literature a debt of gratitude of
great magnitude, who exert rectifying' influence
over this rumped monstrosity that smooths its
future career, and places the author in the first
ranks of modern WRITER'S
Montana and Yellowstone National Park
ansas City Ramsey, Millet d Hudson) is a
work supplying a great variety of information by
Mr.. Robert f. Strahorn, who at one time described
portions of Montana for readers Of The TRIBUNE
The aim of his book TO serve the capitalist in
search of an Investment the seeker after n home
in the new country and to make pleasant the ways
OF the tourist. To this end he writes fully of the
climate scenery, game, neral springs. and farm
ing, stock-raising, mining, numbering and other !
industries of the Territory The illustrations which
are numerous, devoted mainly to the picturesque
features of the country.