New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-04-22
NEWBOOKSAND NEW EDITIONS

Volume thirty OF the Dictionary Of National Biog-
raphy' includes names from Johnes to Kenneth Ill
and contains admirable articles. ample anu inter-
esting persons within the range OF popular klow-
edge like the Kembes, the Keans Koightey The mythol
osist Keats Kcble the originator of the oxford Move
ment, Sir William Johnson the father Of slnscrt
study Ben JOnson, Samuel johnson, and lingo
Jones' well tie crowd of men once famous OF
whom now It is not objectionable to be ignorant. Mo9t
Of the articles models OF what compact biography
should be. That Keats for example. might please
one who had Just risen from the perusal Of u IonG
biography OF the poet.
we nnve lately received all Interesting Photography
Of The ,~lgOnquian Languages" BY James Constantine
Filling. Government Printing Ofhce.) Mr.. Pilhngs
plan of Il photography of the North American Indian
languages which it thought coud be realized In
single volume has now reached five, including works
devoted to the Esquimaux. Sioux, IroquoS Muskoccc
and Algonquin families The magnitude Of the work
Is startling even n those who have less ac-
Quaintance with the titles OF books relating to the
Indians. OF course. from thoroughly modern point
of view great numbers Of the books alluded TO are
useless II not worse than useless. except for the
ovcrshadowinS fact that they prove the white mans
Interest in the Indian not to be thing Of Yesterday.
lie may rot have directed his efforts with
much practical wisdom but he meant TO be
Of use TO hs savage ncighbors sooner or later the
tree so deeply rooted in the soil of centuries must
bear abundant frIit. The present number 0ivc) of
Mr.. Pilng's work Is far the most Interesting vet pub
nShed. rs he says in his preface: The AlgOnquian
speaking peoples covered greater extent al country
perhaps, than those OF any other linguistic stock In
North America. stretching from Labrador to the Rocky
Mountains. and from the Churchill River OF Hudson
Bay to Pamico Sound in North Carolina and the
htere OF their languages IS by far the greatest i'm
extent of any OF the stocks uorth of Mexico being
equaled. If at al. by only one south OF that line
namely, the Nahuat some indication Of the mnuteness
OF the work he gained from the Observation that
the article on John Eliot. which Mr. Pillng says
prepared By Wherefore Eamcs. covers nfty sevcn
pages exclusive Of the tides and specimen pages re-
produced in fac-simile. still better criterion for
estimating the Of the field covered is the fact
that ts volume contains 2.245 ttuar entries which
1926 relate TO printed books and articles and $40
to manuscripts.
The tenth volume Of Scrihncr's Magazine" has been
added to the line Of It's predeCe sors To those who have
read IL month by month there is little need Of calling
attention 10 the things witch proved attractive in
its pages. The phases of life represented arc mani
fold and there not a few articles which viii be
scanned for long time TO come in the search for
Information not readily found elsewhere. 1t would
not be easy to pick up. for example the information
that one gets at glance over tile study Of "Odd
American Homes" There is also much that is of
mere passing interest growing quantity in maya.
zine literature
Heinrich Van Osterdineen otter wept in the romance
fountain OF tears Mackcnle's Man of Feeling, but
he was lachrymose To degree highly satisfactory 10
the almost maudn sentimcntalism that covered The
closing eighteenth and the opening nineteenth cen
fury with flood Of brine Nevertheless NOvali,s
story is beautiful one. full Of agreeable though and
delicate fancy. The incomplete acgory undcrlvin.
II, while profoundly suggestive to timber, Of a pa,t
generation can hardly be said TO meet any Of the
questions Of philosophy, science or religion al the
present day. y volume Including TIL, tale. and
fugitive thoughts Of philosophical or devotional
character and the brief biography by has been
edited and translated by VI. J. Hope fr the scrie,
Masterpieces of Foreign Authors published by Nc
Clurg & Co.
Another volume Of this series contains transations
of a seect number of Goldons "Come1c,." oIitcd b.
Helen zinmem. The books arc neat in appearanc,
and the idea of which they are the embodiment /, a
worthy
Record of Scientific Progress is the title of n
convenient book Of reference, edited by Rober; Grim
shaw and issued by the Cassel. Publishing COMPANY
1t contains classified collection of facts respectnc
new inventions and discoveries and new achievements
In the application of scientific knowledge 10 the wants
OF life. The author purposes apparently TO make the
book the beginning OF an annual series
The John RusEin should live forever in
two brief works intimately associated with each other
not only in theme. but in the time Of their production.
They the treatses the relation OF art TO re-
DglOn ana 10 morals In the Lectures delivered
at Oxford The opinions in the discourse on the
relation Of art TO may become antquated by the
progress OF knowledge and by the isistence of human.
ity on utllitaran methods which Ruskin condemned
But the substance Of the two essays mentioned can
not easily be worn by time. Some eccentriclics OF
thought may become obsolete as for the rest let us
hope that 1t will take its place beside those few
ancient studies similar themes which are as fresh
to-day for the mind of every reader OF them
though they written yesterday. That Mr Ruslin
himself put high value upon these lectures was
evinced in the preface which he for the edition
OF 1887 This has been reproduced in the Irant-
wood edition OF the lectures There is an appre-
cative introduction from the pen Of Charles Eliot
Norton.
The Graphic Atlas and Gazetteer Of the World
edited by j. &. Bartholomew. and published by Thomas
Nelson q sons, Is admirable example Of map
making-a thorough work Of art In its way clear.
compact precise with hardly broken letter. even, to
be found. We do not pretend have gone over the
pages with a magnifying glass but ordinary
specton. only obvious where the chart
set forth what its maker di not intend. In the
general map Of the United States, Western division,
the Niobrara River is set once as Niobrora The
States of this country and generally important
ratey, that 128 maps afford ample details for close
ing both sides Of the sheet the atlas and gazetteer
no thicker than that would contain the maps alone
Ii they were printed in the usual fashion.