New-York tribune., 1890-06-18
NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

"Italian Characters in the Epoch Of Cnifcatlon'
by the Countess Evelyn Martnengo Ccsaresco scrbner
Wclfod is the title of collection OF biographical
sketches ten in number the subjects being bctlho
Ricasoli, Luigi Settembrin Giuseppe Martmengo'
Daniel Manin The Pocros, Constance dAzegho'
Gofredo Mansel Ugo Bass. Nino BiXio and the
Carolis. These lives are written with deep sympathy
and admiration, and apparently with fIlncss Oh
knowledge The book is interesting in many ways.
but not least so in its showing Of the storm and
stress through which the patriots struggled forward
To Italian unihcatOn The men and women whose
histories the Countess CcsarescO has set down mere
were in pcrs Oft; Of them passed long years
in prison. all had felt the pressure of Austrian
despotism and all alike vcntured every thing-foiane
liberty life itsclf-for the glorious cause of athcrand
Here is a simple passage from the account OF Lug1
settcmbrini which has the makings OF whole tragedy
in IL. They had to announce TO INN, IN MS
prison. that his wife had borne him daughter " The
babe whose birth was thus announced to ScttcmDrh
was christcned Giulia Elcnora Beatrice when she
grew up and was married il was only from his prison
that could and when in her turn she became
a mother. he stlll in prison. OF what years ot
misery those words tell And the libcrators of Italy
told many tale sad as this. When the victory
came at last there not many OF tie original
band left.
The Rev william Parr Greswcll has written short
"History of the Dominion of Canada" and the book
is printed at the Clarendon Press. Oxford under the
auspices Of the ROYAL Colonial Institute. 1t may
be regarded" the preface states. the first of
series designed illustrate the of (the
Britsh) three great groups Of Colonies in North
America South Africa and Australasia. 1t is IN
tended primarily for educational purposes. and to be
mt into the hands Of the higher classes of public
schools but il may also be found useful TO the gen
eraI reader compact history of Canada is certainly
welcome and Mr.. Grcswell has packed this modest
volume very full Of information. 1t is also furnished
with eleven particularly good maps and is we'll h'ea
for reference purposes, apart from and beyond ue
educational for which it was paruculafN pre-
pared.
The ninth volume Of the Bankside Shakespeare tthe
Shakespeare Society of New York. contains the tragedy
of "Othelo.n the players text of 1922 win inc
Henninges and Condel text Of 1923, and an lntroduc-
ton the construction and types of shakcSpeares
seen in the play. by Thomas r. Price NJ A.
IL D.. first viceprcdcnt OF the shakespeare society
of New-York. The introduction is a stiff piece N ana
lytic work. based. as to method upon Dr. Edwin
Guests d" History Of English Ryltlms'
Fr Pustet & Co. publish 4" Natural Religion from
the Apologize des Chrstcntlums of Franz lettneeF'
D. d. professor Of theology at the University OF Wurz
burg edited with an Introduction on Certainty. by
Henry Sebastian Bowden Of the Oratory This for'S
the first volume Of a new and the only autho'7ea
English edition Of IIettinger'S work Ihe se'ol"
volume, Revealed Religion" is promised shorty
The positions Of author and editor are II Is perhaps
OF Rome.
That proIfc writer of books for young people. Mr..
George NJ Towe, is the author Of Heroes ana MarNr'
OF Invention" Boston Lee a shepard), IN Which the
history is given of Lawrence CoSter. John Gutenberg
Paissy the Potter: William Lee. inventor OF the stock
ing-frame the builders Of the EHdystone Lighthouse
the inventors of cotton machinery James Wait 'ic
Mangolfers Humphrey Davy. and James Na'nyth OF
steam hammer fame The sketches are clearly written
md
trated.
Macmillan & Co publish a translation, by j. T.
r,nnin CHAM NJ A., F. Il. :. F., Of work by Dr.
g. II Theodore Elmer entitled "Orcanic EvoIutI;l
as the Result Of the Inheritance of Acquired Characters
According u the Laws Of Organic Growth Ihe BOOK
IS by no means unimportant, for while its main con
tention which i against WcaNmann'N theory "i
Y,credty follows quite closely the lines laid down by
Herbert Spencer in his Principles of Biology. the
German student has added great deal OF fresh matter
in the shape experiment and ply Scal research Bu
tits difficult work to profit by because of its generally
ronfused and bad arrangement, want OF continuity
and excessive difuseness. In respects the trans
lator's introduction may be said to be more suggestive
than the body of the book, but must in strict ustce
be said that Dr. Elmer has put his finger on some
formidable II not fatal Deficiencies in the evidence Tor
Weismanns hypothesis and has certainly made II
spparent tra that theory cannot be accepted without
great deal more inquiry and much more conclusive
demonstration than Is 20 far attainable
Tho Eighth Series VIVID of the Johns Hopkins
University studies contains translation by MISS
Henrietta Leonard. of Professor Paul Fredcricqs The
Study Of History in Germany and France THIS
important paper Is admirably supplemented 10y Pre>
dent Charles Kendall Adams's Recent Historical
Work IN the Colleges and Universities Of Europe and
America" which appeared IN the January issue Of the
Papers Of the American Historical Association Vi. r.
P,tnam's Sons). The April number of the same
Papers has an essay by Dr. G. Brown Goode on The
Origin Of the National scientific and Educational In
sttutions Of the United States.'