New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-11
NrW OOKSAND NEW EDITIONS

noda Mead A. Co. publish My Study Fire
,,n. ~ dtsn,rsive ESSAYS by Hamilton Wright Made
These papers are characterized by wealth OF lhias'
,,on. scholarly tone and grace Of style The author
&c a lover OF Nature not less than Litcra'uic' anu
he delights study her changing MOODS anu ="
pcture them. lie touches upon many mgh topio',
and has something suggestive tc say upo" u" "
them His thought is marked by s'iVis 49,
fancy There should be some essays III ts 'o'''''0
10 please all kinds of readers
A summer Holiday in Europe by Mary Ehzaoe'n
RIahc (I6ston Lee & shepard, is DooA OF u''oi "
observation better worth reading thah ho'' wo'N'
OF the kind The author has seen many 'ninsS
clearly and meditated upon them shre"d!' @nu n0i
descriptions and speculatons are carried teioW uic
surface so f,couenty as to convey an air OF fresh
ness and originality 20 her remarks upon even
trite matters.
Estes g. Lauriat Boston, have issued an edition
de luxe OF Victor Hugo's Hans of Iceland UNIFORM
in stvlc with the twovolume dc luxe eoluo" Vi
the same authors Notre Dame The size Is crown
octave it is well printed in clear type upon hesNy
GLAZED paper and is fully illustrated with etchinss
nbotnrravIres woOdcuts and haftonc plates, from
designs by A. Dcmsrest. The translation is by ~
Iangdon Alger. "Hans OF Iceland" is one OF Hugos
earliest works. He was, in fact. only boy wheh
he wrote it, and it is full of crude extraVaSanzas
OF the Radcliffe type but as one OF The lahdmarks
I'm the evolution of genius it has It's value.
aTb. Cherol,ees in Pre- Columbian Timcs,' by Pro
fessor CYRUS Thomas On d. c. Hodges. is one OF the
"Fact and Theory Papers," and discusses the newest
evidence for the theory that the ChcrOkees were
mound builders. and the more general hypothesis ta
all the mound builders were the ancestors OF the post
Columbian Indians Professor Thomas reverses the
usual method Of research, and beginning WIN inc
earliest Trustworthy records undertakes to trace INC
history of the Chcrokees back by mound discover
les traditions, etc. The brochure is interesting and
suggestive.
A revised edition Of DR.. C. T. Everctt's Science OF
Thought" Boston: De Wolfe. Fiske CO.., Is is
sued. No serious changes appear TO have been made
in the work, though there are both additions ana
omissions.
Macmillan & Co. publish edition OF Burke's
@Refections on the Revolution I'm France" with
Introduction and notes by F. q Teby. NJ. A. The
EDITORS work been done consclentiousy and fully
The notes especially exhibit great amount of labor
"The Myology of The Raven" by r. W. shufeld
C,lacmilIan d Coz is a guide to the study of the
muscular system in birds, and marks new de
parure in this branch of anatomical research being
tile first handbook of the kind in the English Ian
guage. II should be welcomed by the specialists to
whom it appeals.
Papers relating TO tornadoes contributed to Science
and The American Meteorological Journal by Pro
fessor VI. Allen Hazen, Of the signal Service, have
been collected du0dScmO volume OF l4o just
issued by y. D. C. Hodges, AZ Lafayette Place. New
York. In several respects the work Of Finley Is
herein supplemented; but Professor Hazen disscnts
from of the theories Of that writer and Of the
older end more eminent peteorologists, Espy and
Terrell as 10 the functions which heat and vapor per
form in causing Storms. He incines to believe that
electricity is the, at least al. agent in
producing snch phenomena, instead OF being merely
result of atmospheric disturbance. If students Of
she weather science do not find this book as help
ful as Hazens Meteorological Tables, and some OF his
papers on Mount Washington air temperatures, they
should at least examine "Tornadoes7 as an in
tercSting incident in current discussion.
Books like A Complete History of the Boston
Fire Department." by Arthur Wellington BrayleJ
(l}osOn John r. Dale & Co. PIP 1870, serve double
purpose, and have two fold value, first direc.
tories of the present, and secondly monuments Of
antiquity. The former chiefly interests the small
army Of whose names, lives and pro
cess portraits fill the atnr and larger half OF the
volume but to the former will be due such interest
as the narrative may possess for the public Begin
ming with alle prohibition of wooden chimneys
March 10, 1880, the first great fire Of January
IA 1858 or the first fire ordinance Of March Ia, from
ladders and poles down through the purely voluntary
bucket, with its accompaniment of clothcS-bag and
bed key to the day of the steam fre-engnC
and the paid fireman, every page is full of interest
and value.