New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-03

picturcsqucncss but there is natural movement,
there is human cohcrency and there is an orig
inality which plcases without passing over into
ecc"ntricity. On the whole. the books make
noble pair in their tawny bindings, and although
their bulk makes them a little awkward FOR the
hand they form. when spread out upon the
table just such a treasure house as the lover or
Spcnscr and Of old poetic romance nndS best
adapted to his taste and his convenience
The Scrihncrs publish in "Amercan Nobility"
by Pierre de Coueyain. "A novel which makes us
first appearance in an unusual manner AS q
rule. wait for the productions Of French
writers until they have run their course AT home
and have got themselves translated. but IN this
We have French novel published COMPLETE
in English before it has passed through all its
serial instruments In ale Temps.
quo Nadis is to be- printed by Little Brown
& co. in gorgeous holiday edition. with many
pictures 10y artists of the day, with Reproduce
tions Of old sculpture and with maps and plans
This viii expand Tremendously an already bulky
book but the idea * "A good one Synkei"icA
Is writer who rarely knows when To stop; his
books ar" good. but they are woiuHy long. ~
lot of pictures scattered through the text VIII
break the todum of chasing the climax or MS
plot 10 the bitter en-
John Henri Isaac Erowere was born in New
York in l1J2. He was a sculptor by profession
and Interested himself particularly IN the tax
ing of casts from the living face. lie used "a
{, opposition of his own, and many OF ms WORKS
are preserved in his family 10 this day. Mr..
Charles Henry Iiari has partially told the story
of I;roWcrc AMI his work i'm Met 'lur"S. where
In Their" are also reproduced the casts made
from the features of Jefferson. Madison. the
MARQUIS de La Fayettc John Adams and Charles
Carroll of tariollton. These portraits are full
of expression and posse -. indeed. a positively
unique Significance. Mr. Hart mentions buStS
of several Other celebrities of our history still
preserved 10y the HroWcrc family. and inspires Il
hope that the entire collection may b. i'm some
way reproduced and Described IN a volume.
Mr.. oscar Fay Adams's "Dicti,nary II Ameri-
can Authors - which the Houghtons have just
published. is Described 10y the author as out
growth of his "IIandbook of American Au-
thors" first published in ISL The handsome
octave is really 50 much better than its pred
cccssor that ii seems wholly new book. The
paragraphs of biography are brief. but compre-
hensvc. and follow an admirable system. The
list is fattcring in its length To our National
pride. We may not have "A literature but at
any rate "" have had authors enough t. ill q
book Of more than four hundred pages with
Just the enumeration of their names and the
names of their works An amusing homily might
be written on some Of the obscurer names in this
Time hath faded their fame with
vengeance.
NJ. Henri Pene du iois has translated anew
the Letters an Unknown" Of Prosper Meri-
NEE and the Brentanos have printed his version
in "A pretty book 1t IL worth having although
the proofrcading has been poor and several
typographical blundtrs have crcpt IN. Other-
wise the work is well done. The translator has
A sympathetic style and the publishers have
given Il dainty dress to one OF the most aFtiSlo
fragments III French literature