New-York tribune., 1902-12-11
HOLIDAY EDITIONS.
More Reprints of English and
american Classics an Christmas
Garb-Recent Popular Ffc-
fion zrith Nee Mustra
tions ard Deco
rdtsORs.

NUMBER We have already noticed goodly
array of such publications, and still they loom
large before us. Giving precedence as always
to the works which have been tested by time,
we take up first to-day two new volumes In the
series of Century Classics" published py the
Century Company. The first Of these is given
tn sterne,s Sentimental Journey" the second to
Lambs ESSAYS Of Ella" The earlier OF the two
famous books has for introduction those pages
in the English Humorists' which Thackeray
devoted to Sterne The frontispiece is a repro
d,,ctior of q r,1ezzotInt after the well known por-
trait bv Sir Joshua Walter Paters essay on
Lamb is prefixed to the other volume, which
has for frontispiece reproduction of the por-
trait painted and engraved by Henry meyer.
Both volumes show the excellent typography
and the tasteful binding now familiar to a wloe
public From the same publishers we'haVe In
tho canftaJ little -"ThumbNail" series. eacn blno-
ing being stamped with a, different design, three
vo,urnes containing, respectively. Tennyson's In
Nen,oriam" with an introduction borrowed
fron, s,edrnan's Victorian Poets; Sherfdans
.~r2ivals" introduced by brief remarks reprinted
,ror, Josepb Jefferson's Autobiography, aho
..SelA-t,ons from the Thoughts of Pascal with
@, in+roductfon by Benjamin E. Smith por-
+.t+ &c r,reaxed to each Of these dainty htle
hooks We are especially grateful for the repro
dnc+ion of the unfamiliar crayon sketch Oh 'ne
French writer.
An admirable introduction to the "riunsS IN
s,,oIIe-t is provided for the general reaoef III
s-cornrnodore Tr11nnion's CouTtship anu '
c~r,,ise o< H NJ s. Thunder CBoston: herDef u
Turner & COB The two fragments thus taNen
from -Peregrine Pickle and hooefioA iNN-
So .-a characteristic and sufficiently innocu-
,us They are printed in a pretty pocket WI
,,,a with a good frontispece portrait anu
similar
- ,ss,e Su-ift's immortal Tale of a Iuo'
,+, tho ,ortrait in the Bodleian for fronusplece
- . ,;e-,ette of St Patrick's CathedraI on Inc
.,+1e mage We do not recall having seen pe''e-
,on,,lar repr-int of the work than thls- Inc Ma
milan Company reprints 'The vicar Vi "
eeld - with Mt Dobson's preface ana MI i1"sn
-rtorason's ininitabe pen drawings IN holn
,,uch cheaper than that given TO the lii ~
.fon with these illustrations IN Ioso' put e'i-'
very attractively made A compaloi '0i"--'
,,,-o,,iso illustrated by Mr.. Thomson. and accom-
,an;ed by Mrs Ritchie's delightful preIdce' 10
,t,,., ~ Mrs CaskeITs Crawford" first pub
risbed with the sketches by Mr. thomson III
1921. Two new editions of Carlyles fTehci
r9erol,1tiar" appear at this time One Is issued
IN q .insle small volume printed on thin Inola
rsner tv Thomas Nelson Sons The other is
:, three substantial octave volumes, pubilsheo
bv q p Putnan's Sons. This is especially Ineri-
-orioue MI C. r. l. Fletcher. OF Maeoaleh Coi-
,ege Oxford writes scholarly 1hlrouuc'ion'
sunrlements the authors notes with soihe VI
his own-carefully printed in brackets-aho aouS
q 1,seful appendix number OF serVicedpie
mans are scattered through the volume, Which
in all points of manufacture is uninpeachapie'
This edition appears in "Putnams Library OF
standard Literature" which was so well inausu-
,a+ad some time ago by Birkbeck HfTs edltloh
e r-ibl,or,s Memoirs" and which has since
laan enriched by half dozen other Vaiuapte
works.
The Complete Works of Samuel Lover" (Bos-
ton: Little Brown s. Cob should be sure OF q
warm welcome The set OF six volumes Is SUD-
stantial and dignified in form. Typography paper
and binding being such as to deserve pernla-
nent place in the library Of the fastidious reader
Handy Andy" and Rory O'More' occupy, re-
sr,ectivelv the first two volumes Treasure
Trove" fills the third, and the amusing Leg
ends and Stories of Ireland" are included in the
fourth The remaining volumes are devoted to
the Dramatic Works" and to the Poems" The
illustrations are from different hands, old and
new They include good portrait of Lover
Hawthorne's Marble Faun" CThomas 7. Crow
ell & CoD in the Luxembourg illustrated Ii
hrary." makes very presentable octave. fairly
well printed and illustrated with reproductions
of photographs of Roman scenes and famous
pictures hy the old masters. A portrait of the
author IS printed the title page The long
introduction is written by Katherine Lee Bates.
IAN Inland Voyage" QCharles Scribner's Sons.
nv Robert Louis Stevenson. appears in a dainty
pocget volume with q dozen half tones from
photographs taken by Mr.. J. B. Darlington The
game author's -evirginibus Puerisque." in one
volume and his Familiar Studies of Man and
Books in two are published by Herbert B.
Turner & Co. of Boston, with good frontispiece
rortraits and In q form otherwise identical with
that given to the reprints of Swift and Smollett
mentioned above THE Death Of Ivan uyitch
end Other Stories (McClure. Phillips & Coz is
published in q new translation made direct
from the Russian Of Tolstoy by Constance Gar
nett. There are Illustrations, the book MAX
ing its appeal through handsome press work
and simple cover. The edition Of Ouidas
Under Two Flags Oh NJ. Caldwell Company
is called the blanche Bates edition. the Illus
trations being from photographs Of the play in
which she has appeared, based the novel The
cover Is burdened with too much crude color.
Mr. ChurchilIs THE Crisis" [Macmillan Com
pany1 reappsars in what is called the James K.
Hackett" edition. his presentation of the story
on the stage being drawn upon for the fllustra-
tions.
Kate Douglas Virgins delightful book OF
travel notes, 'Penelope's Irish Experiences
(Houghton, Mifflin G. Co), is added to the series
for which Mr.. Charles Z. Brock has supplied
quantity humorous drawings. II Is like its prede-
cessors pretty holiday volume. Two valuable
classics Of juvenilia once more come before the
public in new editions OF Miss Alcotts Little
Women Q4ittle. Brown & Coz and AN Old
Fashioned Girl'' tsame publishers). They are
handsomely printed and bound. and the illus
trations- in the first volume by Miss Alice Bar