New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-09-04
Observation-Disclosures


One OF the most delightful books OF our time IL
Dean Holes "Memories"-the holiday task OF an
old bow who desires and hopes that he deserves to
rest but is too fond of work TO be quite i'ie'
Surely there never put In PRINT Pieasah'ei
"reminiscences than these. The genial WISDOM Oh
age the humor Of the gente-heared speak in these
pages and Will be dear TO many generations OF
readers We are glad TO welcome the new ana
cheaper edition just brought out by Macmillan
doubly glad TO note that. 1t has been cdied LOT
We open the book AZ random ana come asdi"
upon Thackerays quaint sketch OF Inc carver
Lesson" and upon the jolly little note made IN
response 10 a request for autograph. ann In
acknowledgment Of some game, may 1t not be
quoted again 10 stir with hopeless envy the soul Oh
the autograph-hunter? M
My Dear Hole: Did ever write and comply win IN
your desire TO have a page or autograph gu
welcome to a quire Tell your friend the lazy s;ty
have no pleasure higher than IN co %rIs to
gentleman whom beneyoence dld lhspM i,h eSof or
me 9 whatever the way Of Killing them equal
iy ADMIRE and who of such kind practice down
every time you fire. this my noble sport Sman' Is
-" Editor and Esquire
-Four volumes Of the new edition Of the works OF
Charlotte Emily and Anne Bronte. issued IN Lon
don by ]. NJ Dent & Co. have been received from
the publishers In America. Messrs. Macmillan Two
of these volumes contain Charlotte's novel Jane
Eyre" and the other two her Shirley Inc eui-
ton will be completed in twelve volumes ana Is
one which the book lover who reads his BOOKS con-
not easily resist The volumes are OF "A size most
comfortable handle the type is clear. and the pa
Der of an attractive tint and texture portrait anu
a number of clever drawings by II. 5. Greig repro
duced In photogravure add TO the beauty Vi ue
books; and a short but sufficient biography OF us
author introduces the first volume OF lane Eyre
In addition to these pretty 16mos. there are d hii
tied number of copies printed on large paper.
Apropos of DR.. Wrights recent contributions 10
"McClures Magazine OF some romantic notes on
the Brontes. told that Mrs Hesllp' the oniy
surviving cousin of the sisters, CONTENDS 'h"' tes
are inaccurate. She is described as peihe pai'icu
larry indignant at the story told by DR.. wright OF
her uncle Hugh Bronte. going around with a shi-
Ielah TO punish the author of the vulgar CRITICISM
on Jane Eyre" in THE Quarterly Review Hush
Bronte Mrs. Heslip declares, ala once WISH Eng
land and Haworth. but that was before Jane Eyre
saw the light. She also pronounces the stories OF
kidnapping untrue. and cOntradicts Mr. Birrelis
statement that unkindly relations existed between
the Irish and the Haworth Brontes Mrs Heslps
mother Sarah Bronte, was sister OF the Kew
Patrick Bronte.
One of the latest volumes OF Harper's BLACK ana
White Series" contains Mr.. Charles Dudley War
ner's graceful and sympathetic address on Inc
Works Of Washington Irving" Mr.. Warner fingers
proudly over his assertion that Irving was the in
shared with Cooper the credit of first making a
literary use of Nature. In truth. he was loyal
lover Of Dame Nature and could not do other
than sing her praises and acknowledge her Kind
nesses. II thank God" he wrote to Henry Bre-
WORT "for my having been born in so beautiful
a place among such beautiful scenery L am con-
WINGED / owe vast deal of what is good and pleas
ant in my nature to the circumstance
Some playful verses which Mr. Irving wrote at
fifty to Rebecca the nineteen-year-old daughter OF
Louis McLane. it is pleasant to find in Mr. War
ners little book-for II was LETT TO MIN 10 intro
duce them to the public:
There's certain young lady,
Who's just In her heyday
And full of all mischief, ween;
So teasing. so pleasing!
Capricous! denclouS!
And you know very well whom mean
With an eve dark as night.
Yet than MONDAY more bright,
1t can thrill with glance.
With beam can entrance.
And you know very well whom mean
With stately step-such
And brow might distinguish a queen.
That says ''Touch me who dare
And you know very well whom mean
With toss of the head
That strikes one quite dead.
But a smile to revive one again;
That smile so enthralling
And you know very well whom mean.
Confound her. devil take herr
A cruel heart-breaker-
But hold! See that smile so serene
God love heri God bless her
Nav nothing distress her.
You know very we'll whom l mean
Heaven help the adorer
Who happens TO bore her.
The lover who wakens her Spleen
But best for sinner
Is he who shall win her
And you know very well whom mean
There is a merry echo in these slight verses OF
euckling's:
If OF herself she will not love.
Nothing can make her.
The devil take her.
In 1.-THE Life Of Butterfly CHenry Holt Coz
Mr. S. H. Scudder has used the story Of the Milk
weed Butterfly" to illustrate more or less, the
structure and life of the rest Of its tribe. The ex
periences of Master Anosia Pexipus in world
frightened by honeyed nower-dinners and darkened
by fly assassns could hardly be told with happier
combination OF scientific knowledge and simple die
ton. a number of plates accompany the text
THE Health Resorts of Europe" Cd Appleton &
Coz, by Dr. Thomas Linn, is manual for tourists
which is not intended to take the place OF the
physician in determining a plan of travel. but 10