New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-13
SOME NEW BOOKS.

new volume Of the Camelot Series contains nir'
James Russell LovelPs essays on thc s
Poets,p Lessing," and Rousseau ana an 30.
for Preface m which Mr.. Lowell. While pro'os'ins
his inability to indlte preface, composos 80 Ter
and sufficient one. We cannot, however, So va
Mr. Io,voll that in regard to prefaces generally tne
4ud,cous reader can ana generally does SKIP tnenl'
No doubt be can but question whether no senersy
does--that Is supposing him 10 De realS 1uui00u
In the uresent instance he would certainly snow very
poor judgment by doing So
Mr.. Henry F. Randolph (Anson D. +. Randolph
n. has selected and arranged "The Hook OF Lat'er
rpav paIadss comprising examples appearing between
rs5s-1sss The collection Is rch enough 70
ncb s have believed current fctons to the erect tha
,,,.a poetry is extinct and IL Is strong enough W
ove that the root OF the matter IS still present Un
fortunately the editor has been prevented from rep
y,sentsng American ballads adequately by the reis
OF many publishers waive copyright monopoheS
MISUNDERSTANDING this hindrance, many OF the inner
Americsp ballads are in the volume though the pan
sollowed confines the illustration to one poem lor e@ch
lanthor.
Macmillan A. co's new edition Of the poetical WORKS
49,. pohsrt browning has reached the ninth volume.
,,eh s,on+asns the second volume of The Ring ana
the Books
nav translation, by J. Wright, NJ. A., OF the
,pboadrs Lyss and Protagoras Of Plato Is issued ID
. very neat and handy little volume by the same hr
THE translation IS smooth, but in no way superior 10
chat Of Professor Jouett The text used is mat OF
Becker.
Fowler q Wells publish volume containing
selections from Pope Milton colerdge ana Godsi.n'
with Aesops fables. Notes and illustrations, the
latter considerably below par, have been added.
The seventeenth volume Of the Dictionary OF
National Biography" (Macnillan Co.. has been isSueu
he includes Edward Ersline." The long line OF
v1-r.rss al the first hundred pages Of the volume
and give It emfnently historical character
The Edwards, Edwardes, Eduries, Egertons. ETC.,
occupy also many pages. Among the most
smuortant articles is the biography Of Queen Eliza
1,eth. by the Rev. Augustus Jessop, who has given
soer temperate and impartial picture Of that rulers
4eteu and character In which the pronounced mas
culhliy of her temperament is fully exhibited ie"
lines may be quoted from the summing-up Her
lifs was the life of man, not Of woman; she couiu
amt all day dance or watch Mosques and pageants
all night till the knees Of strong men rembied nnoer
them as they YEARLY waited in attendance upon her
nerson; yet she never seemed to suffer rom the I'M
mopse tension at which she lived. With her amazing
energy hor want of sympathy for all weaknesses her
fierce wilfulness and self-assertion, and certain
coarsenoss of FIBRE 1t inevitable that she should
be upfesnnine. She swore, she spat upon courters
coat when It did not please TASTE she beat her
gcntlswomen soundly, she kissed whom she PLEASED
she gave Essex good sting ng blow on the face, she
called the members Of her priyy council by al sorts
of nichnames but woe to him who should presume to
take liberties with her, forget that she was his queen
or dare by word or deed to cross her when she was
bent upon any course The notice OF Governor Endl-
colt is by Mr. Gordon Goodwin. There is inter
estng sketch of Thomas Ercedoune, and the volume
IS completed by the annals Of the Ersknes, notable
and active race prolific useful work Of many kinds,
and with family habit of pushing to the front and
staying there.