New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-30
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
ILLUSTRATED GIFT BOOKS.

ESSAYS or Ella BY cHARs s hI GS,r1s uIT pIat
s. Church &C. p. Putnam's sonsD
THE NEW TESTAMENT. With engravngs on WOOD
from designs OF Fra Angelica PieTo PepnO rTso
Titan Raphael, Gaudenzio Ferrar Daniel al VOL
terra and others Boston; Houghton' MIMI ~
SPORT WITH GUN AND ROD IN AMERICAN WOODS
AND wATERs. Edited by ALFRED NJ MAYER Il
lustratcd The Century Coz
| THE HIGH TIDE ON THE COAST OF LINCOLNSHIRE,
1871. BY JEAN INGELow Boston: Roberts Bro
thers)
| ARvINE A. NJ Illustrated. QBoston Estes LaE
| natJ
LEAD. KINDLY LIGHT. By JOHN HENRY NEWMAN.
| Illustrated. Boston: Roberts Brothers.l
| THE MERRY ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD. BY
HOWARD PYLE. Charles scrthners sons)
| The essays of Ella possess perennial CHARM Ihey
| do not dwndle by comparison with any later inter-
ature Their strong individuality their delicate
and graceful w.t. the tenderness of their pathos'
the simple geniality Of their humor assure to them
that survival whichbelongs to the ttes that
we cannot have too many editions of Ella, provided
they be good ones, and the Putnams have provided
very fit one in the handsome volume before us.
| Lambs essays do not lend themselves very readily
to illustration but the clever artists employed nave
done the best that was possible, and the resulting
etchings are if not in every instance precisely APP
poste suggestive and creditable works of art. The
/ type and general mechanical execution of the book
are satisfactory, and it is in all respects well htted
for gift at such season. for few writer's ever had
what may be called the Christmas spirit more fully
| than Charles Lamb.
! The publishers of this splendid edition Of the
! New Testament had the happy idea of bringing to-
gcthcr in illustration of the sacred text, copies of
the most celebrated works of the old masters. The
designs selected mainly if not altogether from
! the Italian school, and while the utmost pains has
been taken to reproduce them as perfectly as posi-
| bic the volume has been further enriched by mar
ginal ornaments, initial letters, medallions, ETC.,
many of which are copied after Illuminated
missals and books of Homer, while not few have
been expressly designed for the work by artists of
reputation The engravings wood comprise
copies of the paintings of Raphael Nicholas Pous-
sin, Guido REM, PeruglnO. Francesca Fran
cia, FRA Angelica, Votcrra, Andrea del
Sarto, Paul 'Veronese, Leonardo da Nnci,
Gaudenzio Ferrari. Fra BartOommeO, Annibae
Caracci, Luca GiordanO, Jacopo Bassano,
Titan, Van Dyck. etc. These engravings are exc
cued with great care, and the impressions are even
and clear. The title pages, letter page borders,
border frames, initial letters, medalons etc, which
profusely adorn the volume, in most cases taken
from missals and Illuminated MSS, some Of which
are in the British Museum and Others iii the Rogers
and Grenvie and other collections Many of the
borders are marves of beauty, both in conception
and execution, and though the monotone printing
necessarily detractS from the brightness which their
original brilliant cOlOring gives them, yet the eff
feet is sufficiently rich. The cover of the volume
is also handsomely Ornamented in arabesque and
medallions, and the entire work is really tri-
umph of boOk-making.
In Sport with Gun and Rod" we have the chase
illustrated with learning and an art characters
tic of the times. This is an American book, and it
certainly does credit to American skill. both artistic
and typographical. The work consists Of series
of pleasant papers various kinds of hunting and
fishing, beginning with necessarily speculative ar
ticle on prehistoric sport. Professor Alfred NJ.
Mayer of the Stevens Institute has edited the book
judicousy and well. Most if not ALL Of the articles
appeared originally in The Century magazine, bat
they deserved more permanent existence, and the
publishers have done their best to assure it to them
That destructive spirit which prompts the average
to mark his sense of the beauties of Nature by
efforts TO kill of her creatures and
which has 50 dcfcd civilization that the conception
of special manliness is still allied with the fondncss
for this form of sayagery, will surely COM
mend lively and varied "a record of sporting feats
and adventures TO large circle. And those who
are too eilemnate 10 take the proper pleasure in
recrcations of slaughter may yet admire the beauty
of the numerous engravings of furrcd feathcrcd
paper, and all of them well drawn and en-
graycd. Type and paper are alike excellent and
the cover is unique.
Jean Ingelow's poem, " The High Tide on the
Coast of Lincolnshire, 1871" has been chosen for
illustration by Messrs. Roberts Brothers. The
Illustrations have been drawn and engraved under
the supervision of George +. Andrew. The least
satisfactory of them are those in which Ny sons
fair wife Elizabeth" appears. The artist has not
caught the conception of the poet. lie has given
Us a very realistic and somewhat blowzy mlmald.
We are told that " a sweetcr woman meier drew
breath" but do not get the idea of such
woman in these drawings. Nor is the catastrophe
itself at all satisfactorily represented. Nothing
be more graphic than the poets description Of
the way the "eyzu" rushed up the river
and the way the banks burst and "all the
world was in the sea-; but we look
in vain among the illustrations for any
thing which suggests this most impressive
Many of these illustrations how
ever, are extremely pleasing and appropriate |
and but for the sadness of the poem which has i'm !
it relief to the gloom Of the tragedy this little
volume would be pleasant addition to the swell |
ing catalogue of Christmas books.
Estes Il Lauriat publish with their imprint an |
English "CyclopedIa of Anecdote of Literature and
the Fine Arts" edited by Kazlitt Arvne. As |
specimen OF DOoknaklng TINS is very far below the
works which We have already noticed The illus
trations are woodcuts, most Of which appear to have
done duty before and which were by no means good
when they were new Type and paper correspond to
the illustrations, but perhaps this general inGrmty
~ after all only an unconscious admission that the
class 10 which this volume belongs deserves no
better equipment No doubt there are people who
can SIT down and deliberately read a Cyclopndia
Of Anecdotes or such works would not be manu-
featured Perhaps there are still persons who COM
heIo min to
dinner or to spend the evening as many old
fashioned rdcoateurs were accused of dong But
II ls pity that any one should he encouraged
to pass intellectual bad money in this way and
snch cNclnnndin. n1ll,. aasi.t