New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-05-27
NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

The Sassoun massacre Of 1884 was dreaolEl
enough TO shock the whole civilized world Yet i
pas nereIv a prelude TO the far greater crimes OF
the next year. throughout all Armenia Inc prei 1
account of the former. which Mr.. fredericn na'i'
Greene has prepared in THE Armenian Criss III
Turkey &C. p Putnams Sons). may similarly De
regarded as an INTRODUCTION 10 great mass oil HI
erature on that subject which IS certain soon 10
appear As sueh and also for It's own intrinsic
merits, 1t Is 20 be esteemed, 1t gives cheHy Al,
the form OF documentary evidence grapmc anu
convincing record OF one Of the most hideous lhci
dents in modern history. together With suficeh'
account Of former and general issues IN Armenia
and the Turkish Empire to enlghten the cursoTy
reader
less elaborate but more convincing ana impress
sive view OF the more recent phases OF inc T
dreadful subject is afforded in Mr.. William W. nov"
ards Horrors OF Armenia" (the Armenian heHc4
Association New-York). The writer Is an Ameri-
can Journalist and phanthropist, who al imminent
risk Of death personally visited the devastated re-
rons of Armenia talked with the people observed
the accumulated horrors imposed upon them' ana
then wrote plain. Straightforward tale about what
he had heard and seen. The result Is not peasant
reading There IS blood IN every line, ana dshohoT
and death are every page There is much lha'
enc would hesitate TO circulate for general readhg,
so inexpressbly shocking the details set iorth'
But Il bears the stamp OF truthfulness. and Is
doubtless TO be taken as an accurate portrayal y.
Kurdish and Turkish atrocities and the unsurpassed
suffer:ncs OF the Armenian people 1t is not pleas
ant reading but 1t should be read By all 10 whoH
humanity is dear and TO whom the power is gwen
IN any way, by diplomacy, by almsgivng' or what
else TO alleviate in even the slightest degree the
deplorable lot of the most ancient Christian COM
munity in the world.
Soma wears ago one Sefor F. Moreno wrote a
hook about Cuba which may may not have done
Justice 10 its subject. Probably II did NOT Al any
rate Senior Raimundo Cabrera thought 1t did not,
and he wrote IA book called Cuba and Its Critics
to prove that II did not. This latter work ran
through numerous editions. and was translated from
the eighth into English by Sehorita Laura Guiteras
Now the Cuban revolution making the venture time
ly Mr.. Louis Edward Levy revises and EDITS the
book and adds in an appendix a historical ana de-
scrptive sketch Of the "everfaithful isle, and the
Ievytype Company Of Philadelphia, gives It to the
world under the caption of Cuba and the Cubans
There Is much good matter In this composite pro-
duction but II is not we'll arranged There are many
portraits and other pictures not well executed The
book SERVES the Pnrposey however. OF furnishing In
readable form a good deal of information about a
country OF intense present interest and is infor-
nation not easily got elsewhere for the literature
of Cuba is painfully meagre. <rT 49,
Another work on Cuba. Of a somewhat different
character is Cuba and the Fight for Freedom by
Mr.. James Hyde Clark CThe Globe Bible Publishing
of the island but Is especially devoted TO the
Ten Years War and the present revolution. and the
Spanish oppression that provoked them The nara
tive of the present is brought down to date and
IN pdGion numerous pictures. admirable
OF the Of conflicts given 1t is yet early to
write complete history Of Cuba's struggle for indie
pendence, but. rough -and-ready chronicle OF II
q, down TO the present time this volume will serve an
excellent purpose. 1t seems necessary or at any
rate inevitable, every striking should
provoke hastily DreDared books. dealing
with 1t prematurely and incompletely. That is not
admirable class Of books; but this specimen of It
is as creditable any that has recently appeared
With some bad grammar and much superheated
rhetoric Mr.. William Frederick Regain gives in
'Boer and Uitlander" Digby Long Co, London)
what he modestly reckons to be the first unbiased
endeavor to deal with and matters In the South
African Republic wholly and solely in the interest
OF truth and Justice" Perhaps; though he elsewhere
calls it his lease for the Beers" which does not
SAVIOR Of entire imparality AS history. the book is
sadly Incomplete, since it written and published
before the trial of Rhodes Hammond and the other
conspirators Pretoria and before the revelation
OF the cipher dispatches AS argument and special
pleading, 1t is of value 1t contains. however the
OF the Boer conventions of 1881 and 1884, and
the charter Of the British South Africa Company,
which Of interest for reference and al
ways readily accessible and many pages OF news
paper testimonials 10 Mr.. Regans character, ability
and enterprise. which appropriately conclude vol
prepared by gentleman who had mo to
grind, Interior objects in view" Oh. yes; and
there is beautiful fronjispece portrait OF Mr..
Regain, with his autograph and, in less conspicuous
places, less beautiful portraits of Mr.. Cecil Rhodes,
DR. Jameson and President Kriiger, the lattcr's
being persistently misspelled.
Another evil result OF the Johannesburg conspir-
acy Is DIR. Jemeson's Raid'a book. not the thing
itsef-put forward by the Rev. James King through
the instrumentaty OF George Routedge Sons
The vicar Of ST. Mary's Berwick pon-Tweed. is
doubtless estimable man; but he would be more
benefactor of the If he had not imposed upon
the reading public book superficial, tre, in
complete and incoherent as this. Why should a his
tory of Jameson's raid "its causes and conse-
quences" have been written before the were
known and before the consequences appeared?
There is little In the volume that does 10
have been clipped from the newspapers of the day
and used often without editing or revision. and
sometimes without credit Mr.. Chamberlains long
dispatch to the High Commissioner for South Africa
is given in full! That helps fill up the book, and
gives II some slight value work Of reference
In catalogues Of books pertaining to the develop
ment and of electricity find dozens that
deal with particular class of appaIltus re-
quired phenomena involved in illumination by
this agent. But there are few works which at
all comprehensive in their scope; and these are
usually much condensed, and suited rather for
popular reading than for study and reference by
perts Professor Francis B. Croker, Of Columbia
University has undertaken. therefore. to fill dis
tinct gap the literature of electrical engineering
The first volume OF his Electric Lighting" embrace