The National tribune., 1883-12-20
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE: WASHINGTON G., THURSDAY,

ideas of the significance of events Here is
history, on the other hand, told in pleasant |
narrative form, in which a child cannot fail to
be interested and which our young people can
readily master without effort.
From J. W. Carleton & Co., New York, we
have publication that must prove of special
interest to our ex-soldiers. 1t is entitled Lin
coins Memorial Album of Immortelles," and
is a compilation of extracts from Lincoln's most
famous speeches, letters and addresses together
with collection of autograph tributes to his
memory from the hands and hearts of his most
distinguished American and European contenl-
poraries. The collection Is the work OF Dir. ..
III. 0ldroyd and contains introduction by
Bishop Simpson, with a sketch of Lincoln's
life by the Hon. Isaac N. Arnold The fronts
piece is one of the most superb steel portraits
of Lincoln that we have ever seen. 1t is
work of nearly GOO pages, and would be a most
valuable addition TO the library of any Grand
Army Post.
One of the most intensely interesting books
! that has recently been published, is " The Spy
/ of the Rebellion" by the famous detective.
1 Alien Pinkerton, who, under the nom de plume OF
! Major e. J. Allen, was chief Of the United
States Secret Service during the war. it is
true history of the spy system of the United
! States army during the rebellion and re-
veals many of the secrets of the war hitherto
/ not made public. 1t is written in easy, col
Ioquiai style, in the first person, and is chiefly
descriptive of Afr. Pinkerton's own experience.
] OF course, ii abounds in exciting and thrilling
adventures, and it is as entertaining as it is ins
structive. 1t is book of nearly 700 pages. but,
unlike some subscription books, it is not at all
| padded. Those of our ex-solders who are in
terested in the romance of the war will find
this volume very much to their taste.
From fainter Bros, Merrill & Co.. New York,
we have a volume entitled Mexico and the
Mexieans,' by Howard ConkIing based upon
tray fbaf
ter and spring of the present year 1883. The
book is not simply descriptive of the scenery
Of the country and the customs and manners
of its inhabitants, but contains much valuable
information and many tables of reliable statis-
tics concerning the resources of the region, and
will serve to attract public attention afresh to
this old and, as far as modern enterprise is con-
cerned, comparatively new country. 1t is far
from being gnide-book in the ordinary sense
of the word, but it gives q very clear idea OF
the character of our republican neighbor, the
value and extent of its mines, the nature OF Its
climate and its capabilities OF development. 1t
is just such book as every man who IS con-
cerned in the course of American development
ought to read.
From the Century Co, New York we have
their Revised Portfolio Of Select Proofs Of Illus
trations from ScriJners Monthly and the So
Nicholas magazines. The selection seems to
have been made with the greatest care and
none DuG the cn0iceSG WORKS OF art are 70 De
found in ESPECIALLY notable in the Porto
lilo are the portraits of Edgar Allen Poe, Bry-
ant, Walt Whitman and Oliver Wendell
Holmes. They alone are well worth the price
of this Portfolio, which, as viii be seen by ref
erence to another column, we offer as one of oul
premiums for subscriptions to The TRIBUNE
From j. B. Lippincott & Co.. Philadelphia
. we have new and revised edition of Pal
graves Golden Treasury" III many respect.
+ the choicest collection of English songs and
lyrics ever made. The original edition o
1860 has been enlarged by the addition of Sc
leetions from the works OF recent and living
; poets, edited by John Foster Kirk and is en-
! riched by numerous Illustrations chiefly O
) pastoral scenes. The value Of this collection
lies in the fact that the examples therein giveI
, of the verse of the last four centuries are jus
those masterpieces which have survived il
3 literary favor the Indifference of changing
taste. Thus MarIowe's Passionate Shepherd
g to his Love-" is q type of the selections EN-
= braced IN the first of the five periods of Eng
lish poetry which the book embraces, just a
: Herrick's Gather ye Rosebads while We May
or Ben Jonson's Drink 20 me Only wit
Thy Eyes" is a type of the second, Gray
{ Elegy Of the third, Wordsworth's To th
Daisy" of the fourth, and Tennysen's Lotu
e Eaters of the last 1t is clear, indeed, as on
turns the leaves of this volume that here, a
last, in loving propinquity, are all the oil
r favorites, not wantonly separated from eael
other by whole epochs of poetry, but shinin
i in their own proper company once more. Tn
work is exqui5itely bound In pale blue clot
and gold, aud the Typography is admirable.
q choicer holiday present conld scarcely be de