New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-25
NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS.

An extremely interesting book. though plainly not
by a military expert Is Samuel W. O1elis "rhe
Lives and Campaigns of Grant and Lee (Star Pub
fishing Company, Chicago, with personal remi-
n!scences by General o. O. Howard and Bishop John
p Newman The nteres. In the military career OF
these two commanders is cumulative 1t begins
with each separately and eliminates when they
are opposed to each other with the victory Of the
one over the other. victory the most compete in
history But there Is one feature OF The contrast
carried on by the author through his volume which
is more ST ecious than real Put in the brieiesi form
this is that Lee an aristocrat and Grant
plebeian These words do not mean enough In this
country to make a distinction. In the Old World
tho inference would be that Lee had advantages OF
birth and training that were utterly beyond Grant
reach But a matter OF fact, both men hdd prac-
tically equal advantages in military science. Both
were graduates OF West Point. both served on the
frontier. both studied war at first hand under Cen
cral Scott Mexico. The aristocratic traditions or
Old Virginia must not be taken too seriously when
it comes to downright study in the evolution OF a
scholar or a general. Compared with the nara ana
fast ines between noble and peasant in the O.d
World such traditions in America are almost mean
ingess To build a theory on them Is to build on
the sand The strictly personal comparison, the
answer in detail 10 the inquiry as to what each
man accomplished at every turn OF his life with the
forces at his disposal-and this Mr. Odell gives with
praiseworthy completeness-these furnish the only
valuable data for fixing their relative position IN
history The book Is crowded with illustrations,
most Of which belong in style to the art of the war
period
.The Age OF Dryden" Macmillar & Coz. by r.
Garrett LIZ D., is the latest volume in the series
OF .Handbooks Of English Literature edited by
Professor Hales. 1t is full yet compact study OF
the literature OF the Restoration. in which Dryden
ruled both as poet and critical prose writer and as
of transition drama. The was
one of dsillusion cold in its but imprisoned
in controversy 1t laid the foundations OF literary
criticism by the hand OF Dryden. OF English phios-
ophy in tho works Of Locke. Of political science In
the writings Of Locke and Alsernon Sidney. II 1t
lacked aspiration after the highest things. still It's
representative productions. Dryden's satire. the
comedies OF Congreve. the diary OF Pepys the AL
leeory OF Bunyan werc tho the best OF their kind.
unsurpassed and indispensable. 1t was the age.
too OF the English sermon, and or the beginnings
Of scientific writing. Of the epgrammaic essay and
Of classical polemics; in other words, the age OF
South Of the new born Royal Society. OF the Mar
ouis of Halifax and OF Richard Bentley. AS In the
volume on Pope and his contemporaries. hero tho
plan OF grouping the various writer's around CEN
trail figure Is seen have It's advantages In the way
OF clearnes and pc. spective.
The problems Of poverty and the efforts to solve
them treated from many points OF view in The
Poor In Great Cities" Charles Scribner's Sons The
| papers which make up the volume were printed
| some time ago IN "Scribner's Magazine" The
| movement for Frightening the lives OF the poor In
| London Is described by Robert y. Woods. head OF
the Andover House, Boston. and sometime president
| Of Toynbee Hail. and by Sir Walter Besant. The
life OF the poor In New-York and the phanthropic
work of making that life endurable treated by
William T. Elsing Jacob A. Ri!s. Willard Parsons
Evert Jansen Wendell. Ernest Flagg and Oscar
| Craig late president Of the New-York State Board
| of Charities. William Jewett Tucker describes the
work Of the Andover House in Boston, Joseph Kirk
| land writes Of the poor of Chicago Edmund T.
spearman OF the education Of street boys In Paris
| and Jessie White Va Mario of the poor In Naples
Fanny Burney is more agreeable to many In her
diary than she Is in her novels She ceases to be
| literary wonder and becomes a charming woman,
whose life was made miserable by a social position
| which others envied. To be a companion to the
| Queen OF England great triumph. but the
| world thought more Of the novelist than Of the
| rival and victim OF Mrs. Schwellenbers Never was
there a melancholy tale OF years wasted thar
IL told In L. D. seeeys Fanny Burney and Her
| Friends" imported by Charles Scribnegs Sons.
| Less sad. but fully delightful IL Mr. Seeley'.
| Horace Walpols and His Friends Imported by
Charles scribusrs sons), In which that famous