New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-08-27

| of Captain Mahan's books
Mr. Henry NJ. Stanley Is preparing a new book 10
| be called MY Dark Companions and Their strange
| Stories \ few OF the stories have already been
printed. but of the legends included in the
volume They were all told round the
| explorers campfire In the African forest
Or. wrights volume on the Brone family which
the Appleons are bringing from the press Is said
to be full Of romantic interest. That is to say, 1t
appeals the curiosity Of most readers while CIV
ing food for thought to the few who Ike to study
the influences affecting intellectual development
Professor Goodwin Smith is preparing to bring out
not only his book on the United States but also
another containing series OF TRANSACTIONS from the
Latin poets This is to be called BAY Leaves
NJ Sarccy furnishes a solution Of the mystery
| involved In the annual publication Of "A new volume
| OF Victor Hugo's pocms-rathcr poor poems. 1t may
be said While living in Guernsey he says Hugo
was In the habit OF composing endless verses in
! the course OF his morning walks. These he put on
| paper and preserved and during his life selected
and published what h, considered the best. Now
his mercloss executor are publishing the others.
bringing ont eight volumes In M many years; and
there remain enough in Ms to make many more
| annual volumes, At this rate. man may fill his
library with a set Of IIugo's works.
Professor n T.. orr. Of Tulane University New
orleans. has written book entitled "A Theory OF
Development and HeredIty." which Is to be pub
llshed soon by Macmillan.
Two now books 10y Henry James ann9uncea
hy the Iiarpcrs The first is collection Of Essays
in London and Elsewhere" including papers
Flaubert Lott. Ibsen. Browning. Mrs. Humphry
Ward and Lowell. The second 10 be called The
Wheel OF Time" will contain the story which
gives the title. with two other stories entitled
respectively collaboration" and owen Wingate."
Several unpublished poems by Austin Dobson will
lc found IN the forthcoming beautiful catalogue Of
81. Edmund Gosses library. II is. moreover To
contain notes some nine hundred books relating
to the seventeenth ard eighteenth centuries. Only
sixty-nvc copies will be printed.
Mr. Dodcson otherwise Lewis Carroll" and the
author u the nlmitable "Alices Adventures"-has
brought out book. which. under the title Of
''Curiosa Mathematical" sets forth Il series Of
mathematical problems with mentally worked solu-
tons These he calls "plllow-probems" TO be
thought out during sleepess nights. by ordinary
mathematcans when mental occupation IS needed"
4 great inventor is writing what ought 10 be
OF the most interesting Of autobographss. This In
ventor IS STR Henry Bessemer. who Is now in his
cightieth year.
Divorce Is 10 form the subject OF Mrs. Deand's
novel. Philip and his wife" 1t IL divorce
the ground OF incompatibity and II is said to be
dealt with In very Impressive manner The Oc-
tobcr Atlantic" will probably present the first
nstament Of the story.
In review OF Part VII OF the splendid new
oxford English Dictionary" THE Saturday Re
view waxos Joyous the restoration therein OF
"a marvellous coupet OF iackmore's to it's justly
deserved fame. 1t Is quoted Crocodile from
that poets paraphrase of the book OF job. We can
not what passage OF job ii resembles in matter
to say nothing OF the form but that Is irrelevant.
The precious lines these.
His plighted faith the crocodile shall keep.
And. seeing thee for JOY sincerely weep.
Only the pencil OF Caran dAche could do fun
justice to Blackmore's faithful crocodile. But We
fear Caran dAche does not read Blackmore-nor
even the oxford English Dictionary though we
doubt not that some learned Frenchmen doing
50 to the future profit of both nations
An edition OF "Shakespeareis Female Characters"
by the distinguished actress. Helen FaucIt lady
MARTINI, is coming from the press of a. ID. f.
Randolph a co.
Those lucky people who heard Charles Dlckens's
have lively remembrance OF the general gor- !
geousness OF his attire on those occasions-espe. |
cially or the glittering chains and lockets with |
which he was adorned. He far less ornamental |
then, however. than in the days when his first |
American visit was made. Mrs. T. w. Latimer
says in ''I.ipplncott' My first view OF Dickens
was at an evening party. when he was standing in
the midst OF circle OF ladies' relieving himself in
very energetic terms OF his impressions de voyage
His hair was long and light. and looked as II it
had not recovered from the tangle incident to DAYS
OF seasick misery. He had brought with him two
velvet waistcoats for full dress OF vivid green
the other of brilliant crimson: these were further
ornamented by profusion OF gold watch chain
In 1871 black satin wastcoat was almost the
national costume OF gentlemen In America so that
Mr. Dickens's vivid tnts were very conspicuous"
Concerning the novelists wife Mrs Iat,nar
writes Mrs. Dickens was small woman NJ
about thirty. Her position as the lions ,roto
seemed embarrassing to her. She was NOT accus
toned to dwell In the fierce light that shone unon
every word ana deed OF the popular IDOL and she
evidently round satisfaction in quiet talks with me
concerning the best shops in Oxford Street and
other such homely and familiar matters There
was no sign then Of any disagreement or incom-
patibility between husband and wife on the whole
shou'u nave Said that In those days Mrs Dick
ems showed signs Of having been born and bred her
husband social superior. After their return to
England saw several amusing and familiar letters
written by Dickens to his Boston friends Letters in
which repeated and arectionate illusions were made
TO Kate ana II struck me with the greatest sur
prise "heh several years afterward / learned that
conJugai dinicuities In the Dickens household had
led to estrangement and separation"
various humorous phases OF life on the Pacific
coast are sketched in Miss Kate sanborn's forth
coming DOCK. "A Truthful Woman in Southern
California {