New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-11-08
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
DrCE\T FICTION.

15,,o mn 3ql. Harper N ht"'h''S' -
400 Roberts Brothers. ,e,,xn
,oyr ,vn MIRAGE: or WAITING OK AZ , lsLnNHS
An Out-crDoor Romance iomo' PIP ~
brothers. . ,.so |
"Talcs of Three Ci,ies"' Well, il tale hasa
beginning. mil Idle, and IN end we Sh'"'" ",,N
call them tales They are not caSilv Mac'"'
of the thrce pieces contain the theh'' VI al 49,
thc suggestion. of good Story MOI o.' VI -" J
tbrcc is artistically comOletc rs pa'h''' So
his shctch-hocl with fragmentaF S'""i'' VIM"
40 90 lao nscl some day in the composition o'
,,,,f,l MIXTURE. So Mr. James seems TO have 'u''Wu
- ,,,o, fo,, ideas which struck him as oapanic
~, ..i,rn,nt m n storV-a good figure or 'Wo'
49, e,.,ive situoti H. some bits of entertaining
,,,,,nyro Irt hc has gone 10 further I'fhauS ~
,,,, tircd of the ideas, perhaps ne dh NOV sec INV
a, finish aud so instead of finishing ho m'''N
stunned At amy rate he ha7 given va M lh's WV
uu,r not E'ntias hnt studies iof s'"llo7 i"e W."
eirni sitnation ia "lhc Impressions ~ '"uN''
N ,nnno hcr,ss in love with her trustee W." wv
,ohhed hc,-is certainly stthinn' hW " v "'''N
,n,esfol aod the cinse IL uncrtihihl NOR can W.
,,.,,.i,t, NJ, iatnrs uron the result ni hin 'Ns
,s,i,,,, ia ,,,atdmg tho aliaif through the mnd"m
All lady, diary he Ia admirable WHOM lac doa'i'"'
his own imptossious, bat tat less tuoee1s'"' N"""'
,rie, 10 imagine how thing, would mp''H'"'
neopie Lady Rarhruna' is the most Ho'''u' W
The three tales aud II has positive eh'insi S''
iso failure because the idea IS only nan o"'i'"
ont. The conception of a rich Americ'h mar '"s
an Englsh woman of title aud bringing h'' !" w
Yorl was harpy one and Mr.. James dcserin's 'no
G., ,.,, of the adyenture-the wooing and the
,,,l,n,;nor,es of the weddmg-wlth MS ch"i-
octcrsticaiy fine and firm touch hu' i-'"S
Barberinas career In America Is sAo'o"o"
in the vagucst aud hasticst manner we are '''"
that tho experiment in international fusion oiu ~,
answer. but we are not shown why or now 1t uiu
NOT answer ; so that what would nave oeen !"
'svunetucal and artistic story the most important
the most amusing aud the most difficult part Oh inc
work is not executed it is only family ihuc"'eu'
Even the personality of Lady Barberna is SO HI
,,o,fe,tlv nreScn,ed that are left with suspl-
cio, that Mr. lanes himself did not know WHAT
manner of woman he intended her to be- Inc Ias'
oftbe "tale.r A New England Winter" Is the
weakest of the three. Mr.. James was UNJUST u
himself when he gave these triviaiitcs to inc mag
azines. In reproducing them in volume Wo can
not help thinking that he presuIncs upon MS i'p"
tation.
IT NAV =, well be said at once that judith
Shakespeare is dull; and that IN mover Is 'io
rnparaonablc sin The introduction oil the ooe'
,5 La d,ngbter "a personagcs in n story was
dorccrous adventure for the scmi-hlstorlcai ciaSS
o fiction seems to have had Its day; is at any rate
not now in favor and there is no good reason III
irving 10 revive it, Mr. Blacks sketches "i lie al
strotford-npon.A Avon at tho beginning OF inc
seventeenth century neither realistic enough
nor imaginative enough to be particularly
v9lnahe, and of the talk by WHO"
the sluggish movement OF ZIG n"i
,o,ivc il carried On we cannot help saying that
II is extremely laborious judith Shakespeare
in snort must bc regarded as one OF the uuloi'u-
nate vagaries OF a clever writer
"Aluost 4 Duchess" the plot Of which turns
upon the difference between she marriage laws OF
France aud those Of England, teaches the mco"Ne-
neucc of bgamv. Possibly that lesson may ne
needed; but the story, with it, accommodations OF
v.ckcdness. weakness and folly, seems 10 Us oo'"
supctiuous and disagTocablc'
-"Iov. AMI Mirage" is a distre'sineiy senii-
mental and unWhoesome novel of the Laura
Matilda school dsGcured by good deal Of live
LANGUAGE and by q weak apology ior sul'lu' ~ Ia
upoonbtcdly product Of the female imagination,
h,0,m,i bv random reading of the dictionary ana
~ emotional theory of morals
sToRMoVrIlS ENGLISH DICTIONARY.
ArjCIioNAEN orTtI ENoLl H. ifN,I NUI" M
the rcv jaws SlorNoNlu The louon' 'n'lHn
t,ntnM IIarpcr's Franklin square LiwaN.
In, Uarpors nrc issuing m convenient parts IN
,hcir Franklin Square Library the new Englh
dictionary which the Rev. James Stormon'h COM
rl,tcd shortly before his death. The work some
-, tho hca of It's kind, exhihrtna all the Freshest
,hir and being arranged with great care 40 a. to IA
,ni,,to reference Tho vocabulary j, extensive, 40
,,n,b an that If is n uuottion whether many ot the
technical scicutHc words admitted arc justly oH-
Titled 10 their place IN an EugliHh dlcu"haiN
though there eau lac no question that 'ho Nh'ue
Of the work n enhanced hv then udmiHFlon
Tho pronunciation of every word in maj"
M ,lrpt az posHihc lay spelling II IN NUHn'' az
,o,l,nr t. tho rimpost phonetic rrlnolrlce
linn, ia tlptr
iols ate printed at the bottom q every page M
tim, the prccisr ,ound intended can be- asctfMncd
nj n glance The otymolosics arc sufficiently inll
md according to tho best received authorizes mo
results OF the gent research o phlooslla dni-
ing the past twenty years, which have leN"ln'loh-
lied many accepted theories as 10 word ana root
origins. are here very fully represented, and this
consequently Ia one of the most important "epaI'
ments of the new work.
Much care has been exercised In the definitions
but here will bo found some tmperfectlonS' Though
certainly Lot more than should be expected IN so
voluminous work. Where the importance OF the
tonic iuStifcs expansion the explanations are 1ull
md comprehensive, but discriminating sense OF
ulo,,vrton has econOmlzed space whcrevorpOssible.
The grouping systcm. long since employed by Ger
man photographers. has been very wisely adopted
by Nh stolmonth and ii add greatly TO the
,eference-yalue of his dictionary, the root word of
series of compounds being found easily, and the
alphabetical arrangement of the compounds
and dervatons facilitating research. Even
In the typography the salno excellent
indcment has been displayed the kcy-woT1s being
printed III bold clarendon type. catching the eye
instantly There are four appendices, Which con-
tam O) complete list of pTeiixcs aud aiiXes; ~
complete list OF authorizations in common use ; l3l
n copious selection Ct phrases and sentences from
foreign languages found in Enlisgh books; a. Scrip
q .ir. 81 t,T..f IFtfg a nv