New-York tribune., 1899-06-10
French artists ara acceptable The BOOKS af'
hound In Charming blue cloth. with backs oeSo-


bound in charming blue CLOTH with backs de7e'
ratad EFFECTIVELY in gold. AS we have stated
over and over again. Miss Wormeleys transla-
ton is nv all odds the best. II gives satls-
factory equivalent for Balzac's style 1t Is fiexi-
b,e and tdiomatic and II is lucidity itself BAL
zac is indispensable to every reader or cassc
fiction. and Miss Wormeley's translation is the
one In which he should he read In fact' baizac
in the original is only for readers VINO nave
thoroughly mastered the French language
Novices who might possibly read MIN WIN
notion of getting at his special quan'y "o"''
much better Use this translation anu ~ ~
other writer's for mere practice IN freno"'
Balzac could sometimes be eloquent pu' he was
never a master of style.
Tho scribners send us in the new edition OF
the Bronte novels. published In Lonoon oy
Downey & Co.. Charlotte Bronte's sniriey
and Anne Bronte's Tenant OF Wiidreh man
the former In two volumes, and the latter III
the same form, but as yet only hait prin'eu
For this Thornton Edition" Mr. Temple ocot'
is providing brief but sufficient notes. Inc nrs'
volume of Shirley" contains fine frontispiece
picture of Oakwell Hail. the "F1eldhead Oh 'ne
novel A portrait OF Anne Bronte Drawn ny
Charlotte is preixed to "The Tenant OF ""u
fell Hail." 1t shows a gentle and comey phSs
ognomy the full eye speaking OF high ih'eil,-
gence which is also suggested by the snhoolh
and lofty brow from which the hair is drawn
back in the simple style of the time Inc ois'"-
ing is admirably executed. recalling the fact
that Charlotte Bronte handled the pencil with
no mean ability. The volumes are Handsomely
made, though the paper is perhaps TOO sarihsT
white.
Mrs Anna Bowman Dodd wrote, In her
cathedral Days" and "In and out OF Three
Normandy Inns" two of the most captivating
books Of travel in American literature ana we
welcome the new editions Of both works just
brought out by Little Brown e. Co. The Illus
trations for Cathedral Days are by MI Il.
EIdon Deane. The late c. s. Reinhart made
some OF his best sketches for the Three Nor
mandy Inns" which is also embellshed by some
good Photographic plates. The charm OF Mrs.
Dodds writing lies in its genial and viVid re-
production of whatever is most human and ap-
pealing in the scenes and things she describes.
Whether in England or France she seems al
ways to have had a good d-humored appreciation
Of the simplest as well as OF the most plct-
uresque episodes and architectural monuments.
She wrote her two books with animation, and
this makes her fresh and ever readable au-
thor.
In revising his Myth. Ritual and Religion"
for the new edition just published In their Silver
Library by Longmans, Green e. Co., Mr.. An
drew Lang has brought it into harmony with
the ideas expressed in the second part of his
Making Of Religion" issued only last year. The
work has borne we'll the lapse Of time since It's
original appearance in 1881 Its subject is too
abstruse to be traversed again in this place in
as much detail as upon the occasion Of its hrst
publication. We must content ourselves with
e. paragraph. merely stating that while Mr.. Lang
has provoked many controversies, the essential
conclusions of his study now accepted by
competent authorities. We may add, too that
this book is a perfect example of the authors
faculty for writing Of obscure themes not only
with clearness. but in really entertaining
manner and the two small volumes in which 1t
is now printed, being convenient to the hand,
should help to increase its popularity.
The Sribners issue four more volumes in the
exquisite Temple Edition" of The waverley
Novels" published in London by ]. n. Dent
Co. "Redgauntlet'' fills two of these. and "St.
Romans Well fills the others. The latter work
is accompanied by interesting portraits of Scotts
cannot speak too highly Of this edition. The
volumes small enough to go easily in the
pocket. are printed beautifully. and the flexible
lambskin binding is the daintlest given to
the works Of any novelist.
The series Of Temple Classics published by
Dent and circulated here by the Macmillan
Company, increases so rapidly that can
hardly keep pace with the volumes. We note,
as recent issues, the third and fourth volumes
in the group Of ten which is to put Norths
Plutarch into the hands of those who like to
have great literature in small compass, De
Qunceys Opium Eater and Poems. Nara
tive. Elegiac and Visionary" by Shelley. In
their cheap series of Pocket English Classics"
edited for in secondary schools, with crti-
cal introductons, notes etc, the Macmillans
publish Godsmiths Vicar of Wakefield"
Burkes Speech on Cancellation with America"
Drydens "Palamon and Arctic and Addison's
"Sir Roger de Coverley" papers.