New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-11
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF sPORT-HOLl-
DAY BOOKs-sOME VENETIAN
SKETCHES.

DAY BOOKs-sOME VENETIAN
SKETCHES.
The sportsman who reads must look with avid'y
:or each new instamen. Of "The Encyclopedia OF
Sport" the American edition OF which Is published
by tire Putnams. II Is work TO which we nave
more than once referred with warm approval. Dui
Parts seyen and Eight. which have Just appeared
provoke further cordial comment The article on
fencing which was begun in Part Six is continued
in the following number. and NJ Camille Provost
brings TO q conclusion a study which is interesting
10 the general reader and lucdly Instructive to the
amateur. Football Is discussed and explained AZ
great length, Mr.. Caspar Whitney contributing a
brief account OF the American game MT. l. a.
Cook, by the way, signs a short paper giving an
English View OF the American game Patriots VINO
stl cling It. in spite OF the severity with when
In It's latest phase II has been criticised, VIII not
relish this writer's conclusion. For the Pheasant
uncertainty" he says land all the sudden oppor-
tunties OF independent brilliant play outside the
scrummage has been substituted cut-and-dried
system OF signals interference and mass-pIays'
which have utterly changed the aspect OF 'ne
game" We may add that these numbers OF the
Encyclopedia, like their predecessors win hearty
admiration for the beauty Of their Illustrations as
we'll as for the thOroughness Of their text
Holiday books beginning TO pour across 'ne
horizon The Scribners send us several specimens.
headed by reissue Of Mr.. G. w. cables oiu
in the late seventies but they are still full OF VI
talitv Mr. Cable never did anything better. They
have endless picturesqueness. and In this FORM VIII
delight a host Of readers. The ILLUSTRATIONS ny
Mr.. Albert Herter are gracefui, pohsIeu Piouu'
tons and they have been reproduced with care
hodtting the pages Of book that is In all the de-
tails OF presswork. artistic and finished The dec
orative cover Is charming THE First Christmas
Tree" is a devotional tale Of the year ~ In whlch
Dr. Henry van Dyke has handled a romantic
theme with Just the touches Of religious eNaitauoh
and tragic picturesQueness calculated 10 make 'he
austeritv Of the subject human and pathetic IL Is
an appropriate little glftbook for Yuetide and MT
Howard Pyle's Illustrations along with the decofa-
tive border on every page, make It not only appro-
nr,ate but beautiful. The Scrbners also bring out
"a Capital Courtship" by Mr.. Alexander Black
whose spirited text Will amuse the reader but 10
whom the latter will be more grateful for the pho-
tographs OF political celebrities scattered among
the pages.
Houghton Miflin & Co lead off their holiday
publications with new edition, In two volumes
OF Thoreaus walden" 1t is perhaps his best
hook. and no one Will disagree with Mr.. Bradford
Torreys iudicously eulogistic remarks In the long
preface printed In the first volume The iliustfa-
tons are mostly from photographs OF scenes men
toned in the text with Few PORTRAITS OF
Thoreaus friends distributed among them. The
manufacture Of the books is in the handsome style
characteristic OF the Riverside Press. and the
binding, in dark green and gold, is festal but re-
fined and of design that ought TO wear we'll
"Gondola Days" which the Houghtons bring out
for Mr.. F. Hopkinson Smith In dainty little
volume Is a reprint OF the text written for larger
work printed elsewhere with many Illustrations In
color and black and white. The illustrations In
this edition are small halftones, but they preserve
the captivating style OF the author and IN the
text OF course. he is. II anything more readable
than between folio covers, which are usually awk-
NantNn &
intimate side he sees the unconventional things
and writes OF them in an unconventional way. He
has had the discretion, too. to feel the importance
of the human note In a place which most observers
are fam to regard having the all-pervadins
artifc!aty OF theatre about IT. Accordingly his
chapters are descriptive not OF monuments, but OF
episodes In Venetian lfe These. and the types
IMPLICATED In them, are realized with sympathy
and precision The book is we'll named and readers
who carry It with them in gondola Will be
doubly repaid.
Professor George Mclean Harper. whose essay
on Sante- Beuve in "Scribner's Magazine" has
lately attracted attention. has edited seven Of the
"Causeres du Lundr and published them in a
small volume bearing the imprint of Henry Holt
& Co. The appearance OF the book is we'll timed.
sainte- Beuve is needed desperately to-day; his
sanity. his thoroughness. his distinction, are ex-
actly the things which contemporary essayists lack
and may be expected TO think more about at any
rate. II they read this volume. II will perhaps
send them. and students generally. to the noble
low OF volumes In which more good criticism is
gathered than in the number OF volumes by
any other writer known 10 fame. II should be
added that Professor Harper's selections are
tactfully made and that his Introduction and
admirable.
The Macmlans publish a students edition OF
Carlye's ION Heroes Hero-Worship and the
Heroic in History" with notes and introduction by
Mrs. Annie Russell Marble. A. NJ The notes
elucidate many illusions In the text not always
comprehensive TO the student. The book is well
printed.
From the Putnams have received pretty
little book by Mr.. Henry c. Shelley The Ayr
shire Homes and Haunts of Burns There Is
nothing in this typographical record. but It il
neatly written. contains useful information brought
into convenient compass. and is adorned with
merous pictures that IN themselves will he at
tractve TO the buyer OF holiday publications.
The Brentanos have added to their series Of pocket
volumes games by Mr. r. F. Foster manual
on Dice and Dominoes." 1t has the merits Of its