New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-12-18
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romances; and when. as in "Leonora" she EN-
ploys the epistolary form she is delightful out OF
sheer native idiosyncrasy
The topogra phcal literature Of Provence has
received still another accession. In the series
OF books on old France which Robida. a clever
draughtsman. illustrates copiously and pctur-
esauely and the 'Librairie Illustree" OF Paris
(Ncw-York: j. w. Bouton) publishes In con-
venient form. a volume has just been given 10
the most poetic OF the southern provinces. 1t
Is packed with sketches. forty Of them In full
page plates and over two hundred In the text.
These drawings are good. and give satisfactory
idea OF the buildings and scenery. Mrs. Clara
Erskine Clement has made in THE Queen OF the
Adriatic' estes & LauriaD a book about
Venice which testhes to her intelligence and
industry Her picture OF the city Is assisted
by numerous photographers. She has had
crowded chronicle to reduce to the compass OF
her volume, and she suffers from no lack OF
incident.
The variegated hue which belongs to Oxford. In
spite Of the purely English atmosphere prevail
Ing there is apparent in the diversity OF Color
in it's Geographical and anecdotic literature.
The different writer's Of note who have agreed
upon the fundamental virtues OF the university
have all drawn from II different tone.
Matthew Arnold and Andrew Lang. unlike IN
80 many respects. were peculiarly sympathetic
in their feeling for oxford; yet between the
famous tribute in the preface to the lectures
on Homer and the younger critics picture CT
Magdalen, 'clad In the imperial Vesture OF
autumn" there IS how great a difference! Now
comes Mr.. A. d. Cooley. "a mere DON as ne
calls himself on his title page, and in a volume
81 Lode (Mlcmlllan "
Company he brings yet another strain OF
worthy admiration to lay before an Oxford
which Is decidedly unlike the Oxford OF either
Lang or Arnold 1t liz an unpretentous and
entertaining strain. If this Don has the phar-
isoism for which his brotherhood IS notorious.
he shows It only in being mot as these other
Dons" The latter have a doubtful reputation'
THAT'S College" says n guide to party
Of visitors land there they sits on their turkey
carpets. a-drlnking Of their Madeira and BUR-
gundy and Tokay." Mr.. Cooley corrects TINS
Impression far as the contingent OF fellows
to which he belongs is concerned There are
Dons who are not sybarites, and he Is one OF
thcn He has peercd into all the corners OF
university life. he writes OF undergraduates as
well as Of Dons. OF sightseers and OF examina-
lions. OF university journalism and of Oxfords
qualifications as place Of learned leisure Ills
tone is neither patronizing nor unduly famllar'
but airy. we'll bred and judicious. Never was
there such n Don. His book Is amusing from
cover To cover (Which Is no small thing Tor
DOM and II the publishers had only given him
better illustrations would describe the ex-
animation Of the work az an unmitigatcd pleas
ure The pictures by Mr. j. IT. Lorimer. wnich
were reproduced In large plates as the book
came out from month TO month In THE Port
folio" were In that form artistic. but In the
small page now given to them even these are
unsatisfactory and hardly any OF the sketches
by other draughtsmen are good. Mr. Cooley
should have gone 10 the camera for his iliustra-
tons as the publishers Of Tom Browns School,
DAYS" Porter & Coates. In first-rate new
edition. have done. The photographers In this
reissue Of a famous book are very well made. and
they reproduce views which increase the inter-
est II the authors descriptions.
The latest holiday edition Of Carlyle's French
Revolution" comes in three small illustrated
volumes from the Frederick 4. Stokes Company.
II is called the artists" edition. but so execra-
BILE are the drawings which appear In the book
that we deem 1t charitable 10 suppress the