New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-10-27

scientific English journal in the English language
The Practitioner is highly regarded as YAK
liable medical journal, and 10 this must o. auueu
Brain "a Journal of Neurology" In TINS coz OF
nectiOn is to be mentioned The Portfolio inc
! English art journal and EArt,' the artsuc
French periodical for which the firm are agents.
I There are also The Quarterly journal Oh Ecv ,,
Monies" and 1.-The American Journal OF PhiIoioey'
SOME wELL-KNOwN PUBLICATIONS.
/ Among the many notable works to be found
on the long cataogued list of the firms puDnea-
tons is Mr. Bryce's great work on the American Com
monweaIth. Groves Dictionary of Music and Mu-
sicians,' covering the years from 1880 to 1881
The work is complete in four volumes, and has
many Illustrations and wO0dcutS Wlthn INV
covers The articles are oil by eminent WriWrs
and authorities of different countries ureei
historical works occupy prominent place III ,le
rank held by successful books and equally W9rUhS
of mention are the historical writings OF rec
man, among which special attention sho1n "
paid TO his Norman Conquest Inc Olopt
editions cover large field, including me t
works of Shakespeare Scott, Pope, SpenSer Dry
den, Horace, Virgil Milton and Others.
II is interesting to note that Macmllans Ul0oe
Shakespeare was the first Globe book s0-calleJ
TO be published There are the novels of Char
lotte NJ. Yonge, Matthew ArnOldS poems, ana
works the Golden Ifasnry 1 Sere sor Mvru of
Mrs. Oliphant, Charles Kingsley. Thomas Hughes,
Alfred Russell Wallace, w. Kingdom Clifford Ian
freys History of Napoleon Noroensk ,!so.s
Life of Milton President Anderson, OF Rocnes;;
ter University, calls one of the few historian
monographs of this age
so well known everywhere that it is scarcely neCeS
sary to select any particular books as examples
The firm are agents for the OXFORD Clarehuoh
press and for the Cambridge !Nersity Press
This privilege makes them the sellers OF hundredS
Of works of long and firmly established pre-
elninence in the literary world.
It seems especially appropriate to speak OF the
IF thp HArpS
Maurice as among the tbeolOgians whose works
have been published by the firm. as both Daniel
Macmillan and Alexander Macmillan were long
and intimately associated with them.
TWO BIG WORKS
One might easily continue the enumeration
The names and the works referred 10 form only |
a small part of the many equally wellknown and
prominent ones which are contained in Mac
milan x Co.'S catalogue. But there are two works
which must be spoken Of more at length. 1t seems
safe to say that the great Oxford English DIE
tionary- and the Dictionary of National Biog-
raphyo both issued in this country by this house,
represent two of the most important works coming
from the English press during the present cen
fury. The scope of The BIOGRAPHY, ur n tar;ni
which fills the pages mark this work as one OF !
those great publishing achievements which have
made the recent years OF sending out books |
period of brilliant successes in undertakings which
not MANY wears ago seemed Impossible. Nine |
teen volumes have already appeared, and
il is expected that the work VIII be |
finished in fifty volumes. new ones |
being issued at the rate of four wear at regular
"The first aim" says The pubhSherS |
notice has been to give biographies which shall |
embodv with sufficient fulness the latest results |
of historical research, and be founded upon an |
examination of original documents $50
Ii is needless TO say, perhaps, that the high !
standard set by Daniel Macmillan during has |
active life's work has never been allowed to |
become less eminent by his successors, NE present
~, Al0ks,4t tl
Frederick Macmillan, George A. Macmillan, George
L. Crak and Maurice c. Macmillan