New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-02-11
NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

~ JOhnstOns
respondeuce and Public Papers OF Jom jay covering
bo years I7sl17s2. Jay during the greater part
Of this period frettng and worklnG 10 10 purpose ~
Madrid while the Congress was doing It's best to MAKE
his plaoe both untenable and ridiculous by drawing
b,us nm him which spain expected 70, but would
NOT furnish the money for. tbs shameless DcSehS
from foreign Government was one OF tine strongest
proofs of the ncapacty Of Congress which made the
work of all It's foreign agents thou'andiod dhcuit
and dsagreeabe by these unworthy tricks Of cmcane'
Law had hardly reached Madrid, and IL was quite Ger
tain that he could not have obtained any SUBSIDIES
trom the Spanish Government when the bills began to
popr in upon him. Finding protest and rcmonsirnce
useless he in his turn fell back upon Franklin whose
sanguine temperament and tranquil audaciiy hoatHd
him over financial shoals in surprising way. jay (
could mahe Roadway with the Spanarc', who never
meant to help the United states, but did not wish 70
expose their intentions. Jay went to Paris IN Isl 10
assist Franklin in negotiating with England. TIC soon
learned diStrust Vergennes and the French Court
generally and he shows how far apart he was from us
colleague Franklin, in many Of thee letters. 80 /
doubt his long batting at Madrid had souicd nm con
sdeaby. for his views of the purposes OF France al
this time were less keen and acute than those o. me
Philosopher though he doubtless right in ascrDhg
TO motives of sefinterest some advances which Frank
lin credited to pure magnanimN
The Clarendon Press Oxior1. publishes the second
volume of c. p. Lucass Historical Geography OF the !
British Colonies" The book IS in three sections the
first treating of the Bcrmudas the second OF the west
Indian dependencies of Great Britain, and the third OF
the Falkland Islands and south Georgia The se'ohu /
section which occupies the greater part of the VoHmc
embraces a chapter European colonization III INC .
West Indies, and separate chapters on the EaiamaS'
Jamaica and its dependencies, the Lee"ad Islands
Barbados, the Windward Islands Trinidad and 1oDaGo
British Guiana and British Honduras. The stati9uch
parts the volume credited to Mr.. Harris, OF tho
Colonial Office secretary 10 the late Royal COMMISSION
to the West Indies. The information, statistical
.uff a
full, aud the plentiful maps are uncommonF wen
executed. As authority on the British COLONIES /
the work must take a high place.
A. Lowell & Co. send us Walter SCOTS last Came
lot" volume which contains 4" Comedies by Alfred de /
Musset" translated and edited, with an inrOducuoh'
BY T. L. Gwynn. The comedies presented thus II !
English are Barbarine," "Fanasio,' mo Trilng |
with Love" e. On ne Eadine pas avec fAmour). ana
"a Door Must be Either open shut e. IL Faut /
qu' une Porte soft Ouvcrte Fermer"). Mr.. Gwyms |
introduction is meagre and not very sympathetic MS
translation is fairly good though somewhat wooden III
places. The comedies he has selected for translation
do not afford a sufficient view of de Musscts dramatic
genius though enough to whet the appetite of such as
not having become acquainted with these highly arts
tic and graceful productions. may be impclled 90 pro
coed further in their Investigations
Macmillan & Co. begin the important unde;tak
Ing of third edition of the Cambridge shakespeare,
edited By William Adds Wright. The first Volume is
now issued and the work Will be completed in nine
volumes The first edition, under the cditorshp Of
Nessrs Clarke and Glover Published in 1sG3, and
the secoDA IA 1867. There appears TO be some mis-
understanding between the publishers and the present
editor TO the number Of editions, for whereas the
former this the third, the latter. in ms
preface, refers it the second. Not many changes
appear to have been made 10y Mr.. Wright, who says
that he las followed substantially the rales laid
In the preface the first edition., although he
has exercised his judgment in occasionally departing
from them, and in applying them more strictly tran
the original editors of the first volume found it neccs-
Sary to do" The principal alteration consists IN
placing the reprints Of the imperfect quartz, in the
last volume instead Of, formerly. directly lfer the
plays TO which they refer. The mechanical appear
of the edition leaves nothing 10 be desired.
The type clear and bold, the page ample the paper
of good quality, and the press-wOrk excellent.
volume will be published every three months until
the work is complete.
Mr.. James Parton has prepared a second series of
his Captains Of Industry" CIoughtOn, Mihin d Coz. |
comprising a large number of sketches OF military
men, merchants, seamen, mechanics, teachers, in [
ventors, manufacturers, contractors. publishers etc.
ranging through many periods and countries The
biographies all written in an eniEeu,ly interest
ing and readable way and will doubt be studied
eagerly by Young America for example, Of the means
Of in life The ethical implication, Of nearly
all the examples are wholesome and their tendency is
to encourage integrity and the loyal performance of
duty under all circumstances.
Idonatc English Phll-ea7 by James Main Di>cow,
Professor of English Literature in the Imperial Uni.
versity Of japan. The work Originally compiled
for the use Of the japanese students AID Tor tiat
purpose il is well fitted. Tor the the s;udcn,
however for English speaking people large it has
few If any recommendations, being drawn nom an |
apparently deSultOry reading Of purely modern t,.a
ture, containing little analysis or research and
being arranged after decidedly ccccutc method. 1t
is that the author says that hi, classification may
10 difSto 10 rfa e4aRp
the of the conslltcr" intimate, that il
must be looked upon merely an approach u an |
ideal division" His notions, however. 50 aibitrry
and fantastic that but regard his classification
reccdlng from Instead Of approaching ian ideal /
DIVISION for he exclude, from what he calls Familiar
Phrases" far too many good cJlloquiasIns ana in J
cudeS among the latter many fr entitled 10 Tic
designation slang tlan cthcrs 30 Labeled.
Brentauo is the America publisher Of a German .
literary joke. emitted The Secret Los-Bohe Of Chris,
tOpher Columbus II is supposed u have been lnown
overheard by the navigator and T. have been ."i up
and exactly initiated for publication, The cover ~.
senblns wateI-S'ained Old parchment. is hung with
weed and crested with lttlo shells. The lcayas
are dscOloTe1 ard warped. tc ink las apparently uu
and the general look OF Tie v1um, bars out the .
supposiuon Of its origin. Al this pant OF the matter
Is ingenious and amusing: ard pariap, those Wli bay
the secret Log liobc" curiosity need not inquire
too curiously why Christopher Columbus should have
preferred to write il in Engl h. q h!uua- with which .
he is ccmmOnl, believed u have bean unacqu'.u;ad
The matter OF the ALLEGED manuscript. it mus BE- said
is less interesting than the general gctup" Of the
little volHEc.
The fourteenth and final Volume OF The Collected .
Writings Of Thomas d. Crncey.7 edited by Professor
Mason, and brought ont hc,c by Macmillan. contains
number OF mSccsncou, article, and the index. and
also inclCdcS Il Chronological and bbli0gIaphcal ap-
psndiS, and an cpogue by the editor. Tn, hand.
some and very complete edition will in all probability /
lie accepted as the final collection OF De Quinccy's
works for it Is scarcely possible to Of one moro
elaborate and exhaustive
Frederick Warne Co. have published a new edition