New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-28
SOME NEW BOOKS.

Macmillan & Co. have brought out third edition OF
Walter Pater's Renaissance with rcvslons
by the author In nothing he has written-not even
IN "Marius the Epcurc"-has Mr. Patcr com
pletey found his vocation than IN these ESSAYS. The
search for beauty of character of FORM OF production
.ould nowhere be carried under such picturesque
and stimulating conditions during the renaissance
nor could Mr.. Paers peculiar esthetcism anywhere
find moro thoroughly assmilative ard nutritious pab
uum. The fine subtley and fastidous dclcacy Of
criticism which mark his work. not less conspicu
Gus and prevalent here than the dreamy and mcdita
tive spirit which throws strange gsmor over his most
vvdly colored pictures and gives TO them the attrac
ton and the instability of compositions growing out
upon the spectator from the surface of some magic
mirror. and vanishing again almost before the meaning
Of them has been graspcd. There is historic,
ethical. artistic scientific purpose in the PAPERS
They simply illustrate the highest tendencies OF won
derfuy fermcnting. changing and productive age:
the seeking after beauty physical and psvchical the
influences which dominated the pencil and the In
the fifteenth century and chiefly in Italy and France.
where the Renaissance was most vigorous. The repu-
taton Of Mr. Paers graceful and suggestive studies
Is too firmly established to need further testimonials
1t is model for STYLE and lexicon for cultured
ideas.
f. A. Stokes & Brother have lately published
pretty edition Of "Cavcndish" on whist. Dilllng-
ham has brought out cheap edition Of Poles book
the same game: and neat little volume on
the "Laws of Euchre' adopted by the Somerset
Club Of Boston last March has been issued by
Tlcknor & Co.
beautiful edition of Lord Chcsterhcd's d" Let
tiers" has been included in Putnams refined httle
series of Knickerbocker Nuggets
The third volume of the new and admirable edi-
ton Of Brownings Works (Macmillan Coz has
been published. 1t contains "Pippa Passes
"King Victor and King Charles The Return of
the Druses,' and "a Souls Tragedy The volume
also las a portrait OF Browning taken in 1885,
which seems to have scarce anything in common with
recent
Several additions have recently been made TO
Dohns various Libraries (scribner & Welford)
We note Madame de stacrs "Carmin or Italy"
translated by Emily Baldwin and Pauna Driver;
book which, Notwithstanding its fame, probably
very few persons belonging to this generation have
read revised edition Of Agnes Strickland's
Lives OF the Tudor and the Stuart Prncesses' ;
entertaining work Of no great historical value
but we'll adapted to general reading transla-
ton by c. W. King, of Gregory Nazianzen ard the
Emperor Juans Theosophical works; and in Bohn's
Select Library a translation by Alexander Rogers
in hexameters, OF Goethe's /" Reneke Fox" The
translation is rather spirited In the same library
appears Goldsmth's Plays, edited by ]. W. NJ
Gibbs, and translation into English prose Of
Moliere's "TartuHe,o "L'Avare,n and lie Bourgeois
Genthomme," by Charles Heron Wall
"The Story Of Some Famous Books by Frederick
Saunders "a. c. Armstrong Son, is the latest issue
BY the Book Lovers Library. 1t consists Of Cos
sippy talk about the origins Of many famous books
and is rendered entertaining by anecdotes Of authors
some familiar and Others more reconcile. The
work is in the line Of the elder Disrseps books
about literature, but a much more modest scale
and collated in lighter and more desultory way.