New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-23
NOTES ON BOOKS
NEW AND OLD. AND MAGAZINES.

A., ~. loo,,s down the long lists of English pub
,shers' announcements of Forthcoming BOOKS inc
,asnlt i not precisely eXhilarating. There arc
nlenty of good books, rs books go. but on tho
whole # must be said that the lists include but lew
new works of mark; not one of hrst-rAte impor-
tance. The two likely TO have the largest sale arc
Of widely different character. Tho Mcrv Oasis Is
one: Mr. Edward O'Donovan rccouutne MS
travels and alver east of tho Caspian and hvc
months residence among the Tekkcs Of Merry, ms
snecal correspondent Of The Daily Nccs THIS
NIessrs Smith Elder X Co. are 10 issue in two SNo'
volumes with portrait Of Mr.. Donovan, apparent
lv mans etc The other is Canon tasrarS Iuo
Early DAYS of Christianity already out ana a'So III
two Stont volumes DENY Svo. or the popularity
of Canon Farrar's writings there can oe no hio.e
ouestion than of the popularity OF I"e mn!
T,lcgraDh: and among precisely the same kln0 oil
n,onle. Jew and Gentle are worthy ehcn OF inc
other nor would it be easy to say which surpasseS
Che other in unctuous smoOlhuesS of appeal TO
popular tastes.
Not the least remarkable thing about Canon For
rar's book is its dedication to Mr.. Browning. Now
Mr. browning is a poet in whom the most profound
sincerity goes hand in hand with courageous indie
pendence in religious aud metaphysical spccn'a'
ton But cannon Farrar's dedication describes
INN as author of I" A Death in tic Desert ana OF
many other poems of the deepest interest 10 All
students of Scripture This is an obvious attempt
to impress Nh Browning into the ranks not on'V oil
students but OF believers ana believers III canon
Farrars sense; which MI Browane is not. Be
yond the dedication / have not gone. canon
Farrars STYLE of which one has had taste before
now. is of kind which secures him admirers Those
who do not admire il may be excused for thinking
his books are not Of those which absolutely require
70 he read whether fox style or other merits.
If Won turn to reprints clearly the old uovelists
are coming into fashion. Fielding in his new
edition. dc luxe Il shall he grateful to any publisher
WIN omits TO use this sadly hackneyed and wholly
nu-English phrase Is now completed or near com-
pletlon. Mr. Leslie Stephens editing has gi'en
value OF its own TO this edition. and he has ma'e 1t
more complete than any other modern one ROD
ably the lover of Fielding will think he must nave
this with all its doubtful merits of bigneSS ITS ques'
tionabe illustrations and its type too small tor the
page.
Newt comes Richardson. whom all Thacbor5ys
hearty contempt and antpathy have not killed quito
dead The "penny cockney bookseller the " nioH
codale and milksop" has cockney successor bold
enouob TO Iepnbllsh lis endless volumes Of SEN
t,meutal tvaddle" Endless they are not for there
are to be only twelve of them DENY Hvo', about
800 pages each. The last complete library edition
was issued some seventy years ago-a long time
for novelist to be out of print. 1t has long been
scarce book at high price 9lO and upward
Messrs H. SOtheran Il Co. are the publishers OF THIS
Forthcoming one 1t odd, TerhaIs that the editor
of the Fielding above mentioned should also be the
editor of the Richardson; and that he should be
Thackeray's son-in-law. This is not the first time
that Mr.. Leslie Stephen has occupied himself with
P,cbordson The preface to this edition IS the es-
say from Hours in Library" with additions
Two volumes are promised for December; two more
each alternate month thereaftcri and the Whoie
edition is strictly limited to 700 copies. And 1t Is
not an edition de- lure.
But TO that foreign term we have to 90 back for |
one of the most English of noveliSts Jane Austen !
The new edition is ann0nnced-of all houses IN |
the WORLDLY Messrs Bentley. A small number OF |
Jane Austens novels are to be worked upon |
bn,,d made paper in a special ink and bound in |
white cloth should that signify. This means that !
the old stereotype plates which have long been IN
use are TO do duty for this superior" edition, the
number of which is unlimited The publishers way |
of saying unlimited 10 that the number printed will |
be small" To VIke 1t as large as possible in +
tending purchasers are invited to give III their |
names to the local booksellers at the price of three
puineas per set of six volumes. Jane Austen de. |
serves the honor of being well printed and even |
edited, but must. it seems wait for 1t while |
longer
Mr. Irrlauds interesting memoir OF Emerson hes |
reached a second edition. This thin little volume |
is free from pretence and contains many things |
which EmersOn's American disciples will hardly |
find elsewhere Mr.. Conway's book to which he |
at first meant to give the title COncorda." is now |
10 be issued as Emerson at Home and Abroad"
and is advertised by Messrs Triibner & Co. as
nearly ready Messrs. Chatto & Windus to
issue in England the correspondence betW cen En-
ersou and CARLYLE edited by Mr.. Charles Eliot Nor
ton. These are books of which American editions
may he expected simultaneously with the English.
don't know whether much can be said for |
American Humorsts" by the Rev. H. X. HaNeis.
The humorists who ha re attracted Mr. Hawes's
notice are Washington Irving, Oliver Wendell
Holmes James Russell Lowell, Artemus Ward,
Mark Twain and Bret lIarte. | give them in tho
order in which they appear III the advertisement
MI Haweis is a popular preacher, fond of notO-
riety. author of sundry books which had admirers
when published, and husband of tho lady whose
cnrlous account of Beautiful Houses" you re-
viewed not many months ago. What title he may
have to discourse on American HumOr we shall
see presently Messrs. Macmillan, meantime, are
adding TO their sxpenny "peorles edition"
Washington Irving's "Old Christmas" and
Bracebrdge Hall" while Messrs. Sampson Low
& Co. expect to find English purchasers for his
complete works il twentyseven volumes at the
long price of sixteen guneas. They modestly de-
scribe their merchandise as " monuClehJa work 10
Americas greatest write" ~!
Frasey, at half crown, died of sheer dulness;
Ioagmqa's Magazine which springs from its ashes
sets out with profession of being lively at six
pence a number which may or may not be f1i-
filed. Mr.. Froude could not. or would not make
Fraser popular; Principal TullOcL's efforts were
still less successful the unnamed editor IN whose
hands il expired wrought with a forekuOwledge of
its coming doom. The editor of the new periodical
is equally unnamed. but editor there is, or at any