New-York tribune., 1897-08-22

They have not, until now, appeared in book
form. The publishers haze done the best they
could for the waits saving that they nave ad-
mitted to the book an inflated ana superhuouS
"Foreword." by Mr. Crockett, but not me PRINT
nor handsome paper, nor an admirable reproduc-
tion of Boehms bust as frontispiece could turn
the essays into good literature They are CON
scicntiOus productions, naturally, ana the VI
gnettes of Montaigne, Nelson, the two Pitts
and some other important figures are edlfyinS
enough in their way But their way IS not
Carlyle's, it is not the way he had WIN hlll Ill
his prime or even on the threshold of his career
These writings belong 10 his very earliest PERIOD
Of probation as an author. ana they are !nlte
colOrless The man of genius is not even fore
shadowed in them. 1t is. perhaps. as well that
they should have been printed. The can do
the memory of Carlyle no harm. But how they
could ever be expected to do it any good is the
cOmpletest OF mysteries
Another new publisher has begun to issue
books in New-York, Mr. ~ f. Mansfield lie
announces volume OF "Cycling stories ny
Jerome *. jerome. II. G. Wells. Barry Pam w.
PETIT Ridge and others: also "A Batch Of GollinS
Papers" by Mr.. Andrew Lang.
Mr.. Coventry Patmore's will made his widow
his literary cxecutriX she mas al ms manu- u.
scripts and correspondence. she Is using thtin
in the preparation of "A memoir. and is beng
assisted by Professor Basil Champneys ana Mr.
Frederick Greenwood. Inc iCok VIII pOSSipiS
appear next winter.
There is to be a new edition of "MOdcrn
Painters" published at Il much reduced price.
Mr. George Allen who is Mr.. Ruskin's publisher,
is to get it out. The present price for the book.
he points out, is seen pounds for the SIX vol
umes His new edition will he in six crown oc-
tavo volumes, and will sell for two Suineas.
New plates are being made from proof impress
sons If the old ones The new plates are by
various processes. n some cases they are ltho-
graIh hs in others photographers. After the
Modern Painters edition has been completed
a new ana cheaper edition of THE Stones of
Ncnice' will Ie undertaken MI Allen, in giving
these particulars To the 'LCndon Academy"
added an interesting bit Of information con-
cerning the place where Mr. Ruskins books arr
published. Everybody has believed that they
came from Orpington. in Kent. Parties of
American travellers" says Mr. Allen. have re-
pcatedly arrived at OrpinStOn To see what never
existed there Truly. Mr. Ruskin's books
were warehoused at Orpington. and issued from
Orpington. but the beautiful factory. as YOU
call il and as others have imagined it. is Il
been printed and bound in I.cndon."
Mrs Elizabeth Wormecy Lat.mcr is compet-
ing another volume in her "Ninctecnth Century
Histories" This one. which will be called
Spain in the Nineteenth Century," will be pub
lished, like its predecessors, by y. G. McClurS
& Co.
The Editor Of "The Saturday Review" having
asked Mr. Thomas Hardy TO contribute to a
series of articles. in which each describes THE
Best Scenery | Know he sent the following
communication:
Sir am unable to reply 70 your inquiry on
The Best Scenery | Know.
a week or two ago was looking at the in
exorable faces Of the Jungfrau and the Mdttcr-
horn a few days later at the Lake OF Geneva,