New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-05-05
NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

The Chicago Legal News Company has issued The
story of the Empire state by the Hon. Elliott An
thony II Is a compilation presenting no features OF
historical kind which call for special mention but 1t
includes some CmcagOcse comments upon the Imagined
jealousy Of New-lok toward the Western city, ana
is further distinguished by occasional spasnS OF tal
peculiar tail talk" which has become associated with
the Wild West. Judge Anthony has published his own
portrait in the front OF the volume. though the Nie-
vancy OF this proceeding IS not conspicuonsy apparent
D. F. johnson & Co.. Richmond, publish life OF
Mr. Gladstone Nv J. L. NJ Curry Ii. d. IL IS based
upon George Barnetts well-known biography, ana mas
no pretens.on to originality Mr. Curry Is an ehInus
sStc and uncritical admirer of Gladstone anu VIZ
throughout with much more aT1or thah !uNe
The author claims that his book is more stnuF Una,
biography. II certainly is not much OF oosr'pnS'
ht we are dispOsed 10 consider II even less OF suul
No hrsthsnd knowledge brought into 1t at any pohO
and the most rcma, kable phases of Mr. Glads'ohes
character appear to have been overlooked
F. A. Hazeitine IS the author Of A Year OF SCUM
American TravelS-a volume Of letters from te River
Plstn countries and Brazil, printed at PhadeipM' py
the LipplpcotN The letters were originally sent 70
newspapers They are light and rather lhn' the
writer having an unfortunate fondness for that knd OF
language which, not being in any true sense English
has b.en called "Inited States The caow tourist
who tries 10 make fun of the natives wherever nc goes
seldom succeeds in being amusing and generally re-
volt MINDED
gives some indications of the possession of more sense
than he commonly shows in these letters. but that Is
as much as be said.
Appleton & Co. are the publishers of Electricity"
nv p NJ Caillard sketch for general readers"
ITS purpose is TO populanze the salient features OF
electrical science, and II does not pretehu 10 NC
treatise for the use of students. Mrs CalilaIu mas
appaently carried out her plan with considerable sue
eess and we have fault find only with the chapter
What z
with the question In a satisfactory For the
general reader who only wants an approximate ldea
81 the progress of electrical science, however, this
volume Will be useful
The indefatgable Dr. George Birkbeck has at the
request Of the delegates Of the Clarendon Press maze
a volume Of selections from Lord Chesterhelds
writings under the title Lord Chesterfeld's Worldly
wisdom The editor in a long and Interesting intro
duction deals with "tIe POlonius Of the Eighteenth
Century" IN a way which 10 some readers may seem
like an expression OF opinion hostile to the prodncuon
Of any examples of his lOrdships philosophy anu
some may therefore doubt whether the work was worth
dong. But whoever dips into the selections Will ma
ample reason for justying the editor ana also ror
reading further.
A recent issue in Rohns STANDARD Library Serb
ncr &C Weford) Is a new edition of The hives Of the
Norths,' edited by DR.. Augustus Jessopp The dls
tineuishng feature of this edition is the insertion Oh
the autobiography OF Roger North, which was hiSt
published In 1883 III SUBSCRIPTION edtHO" anu ""'
never before been put openly upon the market. Tine
autobiography which is fragmentary, occupies htue
over 200 pages of the third volume. 1t has all the
literary characteristics Of Roger North and is very we'll
worth reading if only for its quaint locutions'
We have received from the Putnams, who publish
tho work. the volume Of the English translation
of Tallcyrand's Memoirs. already reviewed by The
Tribune in the original French. The translation, IL
deserves to be noticed has more portraits than the
original and the contents of each chapter are synop
sized, which Is convenience TO the reader
B. Westermann & &C. send parts TO of the new
fourth edition of FlugePS Engish-German and Ger
manTnglish dictionary. This standard work has, it IS
claimed been entirely rewritten for this edition. II is
ssued very handsomely. and the revision exhibits much
care How greatly II differs from the former editions
can however, determined only after further portions
Of 1T have appeared.
Macmillan d CO. publish translation from the
fourth German edition Of DR.. Friedrich Kluge's ety.
mological dictionary Of the German language The
translator is DR.. John Francis Davis. The importance
Of Kluge's wck has long been established. and the
translation will be welcomed by scholars and students
Elizabeth Harrfson's little book, "a Study of Child
Nature from the kindergarten Standpoint" Will inter
est mothers and teachers. The author is principal OF
the Chicago kindergarten Training School, has had large
experience IT, the education OF the Young, and is
In full sympathy with the most advanced educational
views The way in which tho folies Of
mothers in the training Of their children dealt with
is particularly to be commended and if the authors
remarks up-n the abuse Of cardyeating do not pro-
duce salutsry effects 81 will not be because they
superfuOus or exaggerated
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