New-York tribune., 1901-04-23
LITERARY NOTES.

Year Book II is admirable compendium,
completely comprehensive in scope. and thor
oughly well edited For ship owners merchants.
publicists and students of shipping affairs gem
orally il is an invaluable work of reference.
Overheard in the Wilmington Family Uife
Publishing Company is collection OF draw
ings by Charles Allan Gilbert which have ap-
peared in Life" Mr.. Gilbert is a clever
draughtsman. whose models generally drawn
from fashionable life. The pictures here gath
cred together might be printed without any text,
simply portraits OF pretty young women and
their handsome well groomed adorers but each
plate, carefully printed calendered paper, is
faced by a legend at once sentimental ana
humorous
The Macmillan Company issues new edition
OF Mr. John La Farge's Citations on Painting
the book in which the distinguished artist
brought together the lectures which he gave IN
1892 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. These
lectures are deeply thought out. they are, in
fact. among the most intellectual and penetrat-
ing contributions made to the literature OF art
In recent years. Although they were primarily
intended for art students. the general reader
who is at all interested in the subject Will de-
rive pleasure and profit from the work
The Perr,en- -Keydel Publishing Company. of
Detroit.
of a serial publication, entitled Deeds of Valor:
How Our Soldier Heroes Won the Medal OF
Honor" This work compiled by William F.
Rever and Oscar F. heydel assemblies personal
"reminiscences and official records Of officers and
privates in cur army who have been awarded
the medal Of honor for conspicuous acts OF BRAY
cry in battle. II is a popular compilation.
ebundantlv illustrated with portraits and
sketches Of many of the dramatic episodes Illus
trated in the text. The press work is fair
The set of twenty-five volumes projected by
the Macmillan Company under the title of The
Library of English Classics is now completed
by the publication in one volume Of The Com
pleat Angler of Izaak Walton, the lives OF
Donne wotton. Hooker Herbert and Sanderson
being also included. These classical pages, fault
lessly edited and printed fifty close an especially
engaging publishing enterprise. We hasten TO
add however. that hope this enterprise Will
be resumed and that twenty-five more volumes
will he arranged for. Certainly no better series
Of reprints at the price has been put upon the
market and there is reason why the series
.hould mt he almost indefinitely continued
The Charity Organization Society has just pub
iished its "New-York Charities Directory for
1901 1t is, of course. invaluable compen-
6ium This new edition has fuller index than
has been given any of the previous volumes
The list of institutions and associations is COM
plete. and there are useful pages which carry
the field of observation beyond own shores
and put the reader in full possession Of all impor-
tant facts relating charitable societies IN for
eign cities.
Mcclure Phillips & Co. publish the Z. H.
Sothern acting version of Hamlet in deco
rative octave, handsomely printed The cover
play The illustrations scattered through the
volume are half-tone reproductions Of photo
graphs from Mr.. Sothern's presentation Of the
play. A portrait of the actor in costume is
given frontisDiece.
The Macmillan Company issues two more vol
unes in its "Chiswick Shakespeare" Illustrated
by Byam Shaw, a well printed and well edited
series Of pocket volumes These two latest
issues are devoted TO Julius Cesar" and the
first part Of King Henry "" We like the little
books in everything the pictorial accom-
paniment. Mr.. Shaws drawings add nothing
to the edition which could not well spare.
In its series Of Pocket American and English
Classics the Macmillan Company prints a selec
ton from the prose tales of Poe and little
anthology Of The Southern Poets" selected and
edited by Professor William L. Weber. The lat
ter is an especially admirable textbook. The
The Commonwealth and New-Zealand," by Ar
thur w. Jose; a workmanke survey.
Alexander Johnstons History Of the United
States for Schools. has borne we'll the test of
constant use since its first publication. in 1885.
IL revised and continued by Winthrop
More Daniels, and is again revised and
tinued by Professor William Macdonald of
Bowdoin College, and is published by Henry
Holt & Co. under the new title of High School
History OF the United States" with maps plans
and illustrations. The book has been brought
up to date. The treatment Of some of the topics
dealt with has been expanded and
topics have been added. The final chapter is
entitled Expansion" and treats of the salient
events Of President McKinley's first administra-
tion. The photographed index has been con-
siderably augmented.
Two new volumes have appeared in the series
Of Bells Handbooks to Continental Churches
circulated in this country by the Macmillan
Company. One Of these is devoted TO Chartres
and is by Mr.. III. ]. Masse; the other by the
Rev. Thomas Perkins, is about Rouen We
have previously testified TO the excellence of
these compact little manuals The text is ex-
cellent in both the examples before U.S. at once
comprehensive and concise. and the numerous
illustrations. chiefly in half tone, are exactly
suited TO The purpose. The salient merit Of this
series is its practically
Paul N Hasluck's Practical Gas Fitting"
published by Casse & Co., Limited is clearly
an English work. In the Introductory chapter
the writer confines his attention to the making
of coal gas, and devotes only a paragraph to
water gas. Nor is there any reference to the
use Of acetylene for enriching purposes Again