New-York tribune., 1902-05-17

rived from family papers To epistolary liter
ature has been added More Letters of Edward
f1tzGerald" (The Macmillan ConoDepy, vol,
ume affording delightful glimpses of the famous
scholar and hermit in his most characteristic
moods. Two other literary figures Of the Vic
torian era are commemorated in a couple of
auhlrabIe volumes the autobiography OF Sir
walter Besant" (DOdd, Mead g. Coz and will
lam Black, Novelist QIarper & Bros0 by
Wemyss Reid both containing personal traits
and both interesting for their reference to the
world of letters in England Among the vol
uihes relating to an earlier period two de-
voted to the English girl whom George III
wanted TO marry. Life and Letters of Lady
Sarah Lennox" (Charles Scrbn-rs Sons). The
fascinating qualities of this book are such that
1t has been received with instant public ap-
proval, and 1t is announced that cheaper edi-
ton in one volume is In preparation. A precious
addition has been made to the Youminous Wal
pole correspondence, in volume edited by Sir
Spencer Walpols, Some Unpublished Letters of
Horace Walpcle' Uongmans, Green & Coz,
containing thirty letters addressed to two of the
writer's kinsmen. OF special interest to Amer
leans is the volume of Colonial journals edited
Mr.. ]. S. Bassett. The Writings of Colonel Will
lam Byrd of Westover in Virginia. Double
OS'' f@|'ANNSAOAAS
The Letters Of James Murray, Loyalist" CBos-
ton: w. b. Clarke Company, edited by Nina
NJ. Tiffany and Susan Q. Lesley. and "Unpub-
lished Letters of Charles Carroll of Carrollton"
(The United States Catholic Historical Society.
compiled and edited, with memoir. by Thomas
Meagher Field.
In the field of literary study a number OF good
volumes have been published. Mr. w. c. Brown
MaS
Scribner's sons, writes with freshness and pen
etration on ThaCkeray Carlyle, George Eliot,
Matthew Arnold, Ruskin and Meredith. A new
volume of "Miscellanes' Dodd. Mead & Coz,
by Mr. Austin Dobson is made up of essays
on divers eighteenth century themes, and Of a
goodly number Of exquisite poems hitherto un-
collected. Mr.. A. f. Benefits Fame and Fic-
ton &c. p. Dutton & Coz is concerned with
a number of contemporary novelists like Miss
Braddon and Mr. Barrie, Mr.. George Moore
and Madam Sarah Grand, into whose popularity
the author inquiries, discoursng his investi-
cations in a light vein. Some fugitive COM
positions unimportant but readable. by the late
Charles Dudley Warner, have been collected
into volume entitled Fashions in Literature
and Other Literary and Social Essays and Ad-
dresses" Dodd Mead & Coz, with introduc-
ton by Mr.. Hamilton Wright Mabie. Mr.. Her
bert Spencer has just brought out the volume
which he says will be his last. Facts and Com
ments" Cd. Appleton & Coz, a collection Of gen
orally brief papers. philosophical in drift but
often light IN subject. and throughout charac-
terized by much vvacity wisdom. This Is
at once gravey suggestive and entertaining
book. Comments of a Countess" John Lane
is an amusing series of chapters by an anony-
nous English author on fashionable diversions
and other social topics DR.. Robertson Nicolls
Letters on Life (Dodd Mead G. Coz, which
he publishes over one OF his pen names. Clau-
dus Clear, treats of literary and other mat
ters in tone of Unconditional common sense
He is often commonplace. but often satisfying
by virtue of his straightforward and absolutely
judicious attitude. Our Literary Deluge"
doubleday, Page & Coz, by Francis w. Halsey
is book of pleasant papers literary sub
jects of present interest. Mr.. William Morton
Payne has collected into two little volumes, en-
titled respectively Editorial Echoes" and
Little Leaders" Chicago: A. c. McClurg &
Coz, number Of his well informed and smooth
ly written contributions TO THE Chicago Dial"
Dr. Norman Bridge prints in THE Rewards Of
Taste and Other Essays QIerbert S Stone &
Coz eight papers, which disclose some clever
ness, though, the whole, not very impress
sive and Mr. William Archer, in his Poets Of
the Younger Generation John Lane). is read
able without being at all convincing as he sur
Feys the minor poetry OF the day. Sketches
of Some Booksellers Of the Time of Dr. Samuel
johnson" Charles Scribner's Sons), by e Mars
ton, is capital little book. MaeterIinck's The
Buried Temple Dodd, Mead q Coz contains
much suggestive thought, rendered difficult Of
access to the reader by the authors excess Of
mysticism and his frequently too subtle style
Mr.. Edrian H. Joline's "Meditations of an Au-
tograph Collector QIarper & Bros1 NAV be
favorably mentioned here. and there are two
or three rather elaborate literary studies en-
titled to notice, "A History Of English Ro-
manticism In the Nineteenth Century QIenrv
Holt & Coz, by Professor Henry A Beers a
welcome sequel TO the authors volume on the
eighteenth century; Mr.. Einstein's italian
Renaissance in England" CThe Macmillan Com
pany), and Mr.. Lounsbury's weighty contribu-
tion to Shakespearean literature, Shakespeare
as Dramatic Artist" (Charles Scribner's Sons)
The new books OF travel include fewer for the
tourist than for the reader who is content to
take his Impressions of distant countries at sec
ond hand Conspicuous among the volumes to
be put into the steamer trunk are those In the
series begun by Miss Hannah Lynch's French
Life in Town and Country" C. p Putnam's
Sons), and carried on thus far by similarly en-
tertaining surveys OF German, Russian and
Dutch Life. Mr.. A. G. Bradey's Highways
and Byways in the Lake District" (The Mac
milan Company is good guide book and a
good book to read. Apropos of guide books Il
may be observed that in the long list OF Baede
kers circulated in this country by the Scribners
there are several new editions, including one of
the handbook likely to be most in demand this