New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-03-14
NEW PUBLICATIONS.


.,r,u Nrwsp IpER AND BANK DIRECTORY
OF TiE WORLD. with Gazetteer and Atlas So hr
Sned 3 vols thick svo, Edited and Pubiisheo ny
H. L. HUBBARD. 49,, l..
If ever there was q cosmopolitan book, TINS Is
one II contains an enormous quantity oil inioiina-
.ion which man is likely TO want in some Oh us
details. and may want at any time Inc ineio
enumeration of its contents would MI coiuni"'
1t contains, besides large amount oil
matter and general statistics, very iui n,' %
American newspapers, with memoranda vi ."0"
circulation and of all other facts OF value 10
Users The extent of this catalogue Will be unue'
stood when we state thai 1t covers several hunoieo
pages In this are included newspapers piih'eu III
the British American provinces There is also
similar list of English, French, Spanish. ltahah'
Egyptian South American and Australian news
napers with those of several other nations with
all these brief explanatory observations In several
loncnages are given Mr. Hubbard claims that no
Enropean catalogue is so full and complete as this
even in the description of the newspapers OF It's own
country" series of gazetteer articles folloWs ue-
sc,intive of all foreign countries, the names being
given in all the leading modern languages.
Mr.. Hubbard's immense manual also is rich IN
mans which are particularly we'll executed. lhele
are also tables of the currency and coins of all
countries A list of The Responsible Banks OF the
World embraces about twenty thousand financial
institutions
Probably no work has ever appeared in any Ian
enare which so fully covered the whole field OF
journalism These two porty volumes are indicative
of immense labor aud include the reports of great
number of correspondents. We are happy 10 sta'e
that full indexes, without which the BOOK would oe
of much less value, are not wanting. We coneratu-
late Mr. Hubbard upon the success OF his great en-
terprse His work is quite masterpiece III Its way
and very convenient and useful way 1t rs. me
Typographical execution of the bulky volumes Is eN-
ceent, and we may commend the result OF SO much
industry and skill to the attention OF those VINO
NAV have business reasons for availing themselves
of its assistance, well as to those VINO deignI III
the merely curious.
The lesson which we get from a great compilation
like this is one of the 7ast proportions and the use
funess of the modern newspaper press, apart from
Its vocation as a teacher of politics. of morals ana
public economy. We see it here as the assistant OF
the business man, the aid of commerce, rs the
promoter of manufactures, and rs the necessary IN
strument Of international relations. If all the files
of newspapers III the world were destroyed. AMI II
newspapers should cease to DO published, Mt.
Hubbards aborious compilation would remain as a
monument of the lost institution.
The recently issued number of The Journal Of the
Military Serrice Institution of The United States which
is published quarterly in this city. contains very
little of grand strategy. There not sound of the
rolling drum, nor sight of the long whte-crested
waves of fight: but the volume is devoted TO the
discussion of such practical subjects as the proper
thickness of a soldiers shirt and the best method of
ventilatng barracks. There Is little i'll this num-
ber unless it be the article by General Rodenbough
on Militia Reform without legislation which
would be of interest to the majority of civilians but
10 officers of the Army the subjects discussed are of
importance and interest. The circulation of such
periodical as this which ignores all gold-lace non
sense and oud-souuding bombast, and pays attcn-
ton TO the right method of fOddcring horse as well
as to theories of the marshanG of armies cannot fail
10 be of use both to the militia aud the Army. Ii
ought to De- of special benefit to the officers OF the
former organization who are not brought In daily
contact with the questions here discussed, bat
should nevertheless, be familiar with them. The
subject of Army Clothing is discussed by General
HOlabrd. Lleutenant-COlOne Anderson, of the
9th Infantry, has an article Army Posts, Bar
racks and Quarters" which is smoothly written and
dresses up the dry facts in such manner as TO make
them really attractive. Captain Hall, of the 10th
Infantry, writes on Early Discipline at West
Point