New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-08-10
SOME NEW BOOKS.


II contains outline engravings Of all the draw
Mugs in the Catin Gallery and they are well ana i~
fully reproduced Mr.. Donaldson prefaces tno o"'~
iogue proper with account Of its growth inc onk
list OF Indian portraits is accompanied with ho'es
and sketches of tribal history and statistics orough'
down to June so, 1885, Then follows the ca'aiosuo
of landscapes. sporting scenes. Indian manners anu
customs; Catlins notes customs, dress, mshherS
etc. Of North American Indians; maps OF the lhuia"
country; Catn's itinerary; Memoir OF 'a'nn' WV
biography OF his works. and a mass OF hiorma'oh To-
Eating TO the Indian Administration, the ihdi@i ier
rttory tho Rcserv atons the Names locations etc., oi
u the Indians in the United States and lastly sketches
of the Indian population and policy Oh MeNco al"
canada In fact this volume contains very COM
lete resume of Indian history and affairs generally,
and 10 exhibits an immense amount OF patient re-
search together with intelligent grasp OF the SUD
1ect To students of tho Catn galleries 1t must DO
Indtspensablc and OF great value to all who desire
10 have at hand trustworthy and compcndous WORK
If reference on Indian matters and history
The first volume OF an abridged and revised edition
fthe third of Professor Charles Woodruff shields's
Final Philosophy is issued (eharles Sc1bners Sohs
under the title Of Phlosophia Ultima or Science OF
The Sciences stated in the advertisement OF the
new edition that the suggestion has been adopHd
shat its main purpose might be better served by IS
suing It in abridged and moro popular form. IN
thus adapting II TO the general reader the author has
found that certain omitted portions really belong cse
where In his general scheme, 1t was at first PUB
lished and should form substantive parts of It rather
Than mere Introductory features Accordingly such
passages have been rocast and transferred 10 their
proper places IN a second volume which IS now pass
ing through the press Professor Shields evidehuS
)ntertans somewhat exaggerated view OF the standard
of popular reading Coget and fundamentally inter-
esng as is his attempt TO reconcile science and re-
lgion the extent of the ground covered the elab)ra
90 ~ 1optc and
must It Is TO be feared, put the work beyond that
general reader who rule IS too Intellectually
lndolent undertake serious studies. and least OF all
philosophical discussions and researches. Professor
Shields will be appreciated by those who value clear
thinking, lucid style. deeply revercntal spirit and
Trained and felicous reasoning the highest ques
lions AS regars the influence Of such reasoning
npon modern currents Of thought time only can de-
terlnne the question. however be noted that
sceptics complain Of insufficient attention 10 the
products of historical criticism and OF comparative re-
iigous science upon the general estimate Of the world
religions
Mr. E d. Walker, in " Rencarnation' (Houghton,
Miiin & CO... treats at great length subject Which
has become of late part of the "vogue' attaching to
experiment. alton In Oriental mysticism and religion
The term "Reincarnaton' is not happy one What
Is meant was much better designated long ago
metempSychosiS and under that desig naton there is
doubt abundance of matter to be found concerning
1t the literature of all nations and ages from tho
lime of the Vcdas to the present year of grace. Mr.
Walker has brought together large amount Of evil
ccnce to tho antiquity and extent Of the belief III
metempSychOsis. Algcr In his Critical History OF
The Doctrine of Future Life.' went good deal
of the same ground, though he did not drop into
poetry" as Mr. Walker has done for the purpose of
showing how many poets either expressly held tho
doctrine of TRANSPORTATION limited at 1t strongly
Most people who take up the present volume VIII
common and familiar in past ages hypothesis
the rcintroductOn of which to the Western World
Gently has been generally regarded as novelty. Mr..
Walker will certainly interest many of his readers by his
endeavorS to prove that the doctrine Of metempsycho
SIS is TO be found In both the Old and New TIES Ia
ments, and that 1t preached by st. Paul Tho
citations may possibly DO thought to involve doubt
full interpretations. AS kind of reference book on
the general subject, however, the volume may be
found useful and all the so because It contains
n partial photographed list
Professor Freeman's four lectures entitled Fifty
Years of European History Tcutonic Conquest in
Gaul and Brtain' published by Macmillan & Co.
The leading theme of these dscourses the essential
unity Of the English character and the falacy Of the
rthnic arguments which regard the Briton man
combining various confused national traits because of
his mixed blood. Professor Freeman is bold rea-
soner, and he knows the value of offensive tactics.
lie does not hesitate to carry the into Africa and
undertakes to prove that the English blood is far less
mixed than that of many peoples who plume them
selves their purity of The English he
asserts, have preserved the old Teutonic strain
better than the nominal Teutons of to-day, and even
their language is to old TeutOnic than modern
high German. AS 10 the French, they nowhere.
We spoke of the Brton above, but that is heerodoxy
according Professor Freeman who holds that while
the British element extirpated, It for
all practical purposes defnitively displaced by the
English element In conclusion, he observes: "No
raffo &c hf2 I. q rlol1v
mixed. The English nation, the English language
mixed as all others are but blood is more
mixed than the blood Of every nation must be which
has played equally great part in the history Of the
world. The vocabulary Of our language has received
vast infusion Of foreign words but under the Gil
cumstances of its history, 1t shows its abiding strength
that 1t only received vast infusion Of foreign words
and not altogether exchanged for foreign tongue
We are not a Mschvolk In the our
French neghbors, who draw their blood from set OF
Sources their language from another and their name
and their political his tory from a third We are moth
ing like mixed the Italian or the Spaniard with
bis national being made up of every race that Rome
ever conquered and every that ever conquered
Rome. We are not moro mixed than Hlgh-Dutci
kinsfolk The Celtic element in England can hardly
DO great the slavOnic element IS in Germany and
there must be a Celtic element In Germany too. We
bow to the superior purity of tho Dane the Swede and
the Norwegian but their purity, only comparative afte,
all is bought at the price of having, in later times
least played less part in the history OF Europe thar
the Englishman, the FIenchman the German
In The Land of the Pueblos" John B. ALDEN, Mrs
Susan Wallace has gathered together the highly in
teresting and graphic letters which were originally
published in The Tribune and other papers, and has
added a number of illustrations. Her account of the
Pueblos is sympathetic, observant, intelligent ant
measurably full and her descriptions Of the country
and scenery picturesque and vivacous. Among
the best of these sketches those concerning ht
turquoise mines, in the of which season
able warnings are given travellers against the de
cetful wilcs OF spectators who offer for sale phenome
nal specimens Of the product There are also one o.
two stories founded upon fact which illustrate tn,
Hicissitudes of silver mining and of frontier life gen
orally. The Illustrations of unequal merit.