New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-10-05

Longmans. Green & Co. publish in a
venent octave the OLIVER CROMWELL of Samuel
Rawson Gardiner This is the same work which
was published by the Messrs. Goupil in stately
folio with many splendid illustrations, the pres
ent edition aiming at placing the text carefully
| revised) in much cheaper form before wider
public 1t is sterling piece of historical compo-
sition, forming. indeed, of the best bograph-
| les of Cromwell extant, and it gives pleasure
| to announce its temperance in popular form.
| Though without the luxurious Illustration that
the original edition received. it is well adorned
We may add, by a fine photogravure reproduce
ton of the portrait by Samuel Cooper at Sidney
| Sussex College, Cambridge.
| Mrs. Garnett, the translator of Tostoy's Anna
| Karenina." which Mcclure Phillips e. Co. have
| just published. is the wife of Edward Garnett
| a London essayist and man of letters and
| of Dr.. Richard Garnett, curator of the British
Museum, poet and Oriental scholar
| G. P. Putnam's Sons send us volumes TX and
X IF The Worlds Orators" University Edition.
edited by Professor G. Carleton Lee, thus
| pleting the set. These volumes round out the
selections from the masterpieces of American
Oratory the record being carried on from John
Quincy Adams to Abraham Lincoln. In previous
reviews have testified sufficiently TO the mer-
its of this enterprise but in recording its ter
mination may express once more our appre-
citation of the good judgment shown by Professor
| Lee and his collaboration, Horatio Collins King
and of the wisdom of the publishers in giving
the book suitable form. Paper. presswork and
binding beyond praise and the illustrations
are all that could be desired.
One edition after another of Miss Katharine
Prescott Wormeleys translation of the COM
plete works of Balzac continues to appear,
fact which is a welcome testimony to the en-
during excellence of her work. We have so
frequently commended that work that we need
speak of no than the form of the latest
edition in which it appears. This is published
by Little Brown & Co. of Boston, under the
title of The Pocket Balzac,' and consists OF
thirty volumes. the first four of when lie De
fore us The size of the volume is really well
adapted the pocket, and, though thin paper
has been used in order to make the book smalf
and light in the hand, it's quality Is so eooo
that the publishers have been able TO secure
perfectly satisfactory typographical effect
They have employed type OF a good open
face and, small the book is. it involves no
trial TO the eyes. The illustrations consist sim
ply of a frontispece for each volume, these
frontispeces being drawn by well known artists.
The binding is a cloth one of delicate color,
hearing a decorate design in good taste We
NAV note that there is also an edition bound
in limp leather. and that in both cases the vol
unes can be purchased separately as well as In
sets.
There will be for many NEWCOMERS memories
of old friends in The Mulligans," by Edward
Harrigan, that the G. w. Dillingham; Company
has Just published. These memories will be
| deepened by the dedication, which is to the
| memory of Tony Hart" The book relates the
nd Of
| and Tom and Cordela. 1.-THE financier OF the
Mulligan family; Gustavus Lochmuller,
| butcher; the MulIigan Guards. the Skidmore
Guards and many others. all typical New-York
| characters of the East Side. Mr.. Harrigan's
story is of an artless sort. but it is full of the
| humor and go of the life it depicts,
new book by Ian Maclaren is announced
| by Dodd, Mead Co.. called Young Bar
| barians" 1t is story of school life in Muir
town.
| Last year Doubleday. Page & Co sent A Rad
| clyff Dugmore to Scotland for the purpose of
making Photographic Illustrations for ne"
edition of Alfred Onivants 'Bobs. Son of Bat
| tie" large number of pictures will be the
result including Scotch types. views OF Scotch
| scenery and Bobs himself. which are likely to
| increase the interest in this popular story The
edition will appear in November.
The Print Collectors Handbook" which the
| Macmillan Company is publishing, is dis
tiIctively practical in its aims. 1t is by Alfred
Whitman of the department of prints ana
drawings in the British Museum, and his object
has been to convey hints TO beginners and ad-
vice to the amateur in all branches of collecting
including etching. line engraving meZzotlnt'
stipple auuatint woodcuts and Autographs
THE Marriage OF Mr.. Merivae." by Cecil
Headlam. which the Putnams have In press. is
a novel which deals with English politics dur
ing the exciting discussion of the South African
question. The time of its action is to-day, and
some of it's scenes the floor of Parlia-
ment.
DR. Carl Lumholtz is about TO publish through
the Scribners the results of his elaborate ex-
plorations in the remote parts of Mexico and
his observations and studies of the almost I'M
known tribes of Mexican Indians. The book will
be entitled Unknown Mexico: A Record of Five
Years Explorations Among the Tribes of the
Western Sierra Madre, in the TERRA Caliente
of the Topic and Jalisco and Among the Tar
rascos of Mchoacan." OF most of these tribes
little has been known than the names.
| Some of them cave dWellers' and their
customs and modes of life strange, and have