New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-28
SOME NEW BOOKS.

Under the title @Industrisl Peace, Its Advantages
Methods and Difficulties (Macmillan q Col, L. IL e
r. Price prints report OF On inquiry maze oy inc
Toynbee Trustees The method OF arbitration IN iaoor
strikes are therein examined. as also the various eApen
ments which have been made Of late years with view
70 ,mnrove the material state OF wordngmen. Tho In
ouYy is careful dspassonatc and patient, and u no
no,tive conclusions crown It, the explanation that the
whole problem is at present so beset with dhoucs that
solution cannot be hoped for until much more WORK
has been DONE The pamphlet has been prepared oy
Professor Alfred Marshall, who occupies the chair OF
political economy in the University OF Cambridge.
The tendency OF the discussion Is Enthusiastically 10 tue
direction of Cancellation an agency, the beneficial
effects OF which appear clearly, the further both
employers and workmen can be induced 10 go om inc
old regimen of strikes. AS these are In their nature
predcatcd upon a fatal fallacy-namey, that work
man who abandons employment voluntarily, retains
right to dictate TO his late cmploycrs--it Is evident
that the sooner reliance upon such dcusion can DO
dlsspated the sooner Will some real advance toward
Cancellation arbitration profit sharing, any and every
pureIy reasonable and equitable mode OF adjustment
between labor and capital. become possible The
Toynbee Trust is working on the right lines IN this
matter
Tho twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth volumes OF
the great English Dictionary Of National Biography
Macmillan a. Coz have been issued carrying the work
from Con- to D'Eyn." In those three volumes are
included q considerable proportion OF the more III
portant lives. In the C's appear wonderful num-
Der Of similar names, such as Cookies Coopers CoAes'
Cowleys Cowpers, etc. Professor Gardner con.
tributes sketch Of Cromwell having the contents Oh
a small volume. Austin Dobson writes elaoorateiy Oh
George Crukshank. Sir Theodore Martin has pre-
pared what seems almost al extravagantiy long
memoir of John Wilson Croker s. L. Lee writes In
fcrestingly Of the Admirable Crchton Sir l. Marlnl
has an important biography Of Copley. H. !"
stephen has undertaken Lord Cornwalils' MICS
Coverdale is treated at considerable length by IL. H.
Tedder Tho editor himself signs the lives OF CONVEY
Cowper Crabbe and other Of letters and poets
The least adequate sketch seems to us to be that OF
George Eliot who (no doubt with technical correct
pess) appears as Mrs Crosse Leslie Stephen himself
writes this life and It does not appear to have oeeh
very sympathetically treated. The scope Of the DC
tonary is such that 1t IS and moro questionable
whether 1t can be completed within the numfer CT
volumes originally contemplated, but however that
NAV be- Il IS quite evident that the work being done
under Mr. stephens editorship Will not need to be
done again.
W. r. jenkins has added Victor Hugo's @ouatre-
yingt TreizeD TO his handsome edition OF the same
authors Les Miserabes,' The new volume is uni
form with the Others and Mr.. jenkins purposes pub
fishing the rest Of Hugo's romances. He has also
added to his "Theatrc Contemporaries the dramati-
ration of Erckmann hatrians capital novel, Ami
Fritz,s adapted to the Of American schools
and colleges and annotated In English by Dr. A
Hennequin. 1t IS a comedy IN three acts and very
sprightly and entertaining.
Under the title Brtons and Muscovites' Boston:
Ice e. Shepard Mr.. Curtis Guild, Editor OF :" The
Boston Commercial Bulletin" has recorded his I'M
pressions Of travel in England and Russia He has
great deal of fault to find with the English hotels,
and no doubt much Of this censure Is Just. But tho
difference between the two countries In hotel accom-
modatlon-now much less than formcrly-is due far
moro TO tho fact that the English life has been chiefly
domestic than to any special conservatism in the
people. The demand for hotel luxury viii produce
It almost anywhere, and IS producing 1t at present
in England. Mr.. Guild impressed by what he
saw In Russia, where he was fortunate enough to
escape all attentions the part Of the Imperial
police. He visited many churches picture galleries,
palaces gardens and forth, but scarcely any
thing of tho real life of the people.