New-York tribune., 1903-06-16
NEW EDITIONS.
Historg. Fiction, and Some Poetry.

History, Fiction, and Some FoeUy.
The new STANDARD Library Edition OF 'ne
works of the late John Fiske' pu~oiisn.u ~
,,.en+,,-four volumes by Houghton, Miffln a
Co. is divided into two parts Ihe iis'
volumes. which we have recently received are
savote5 to his historical writings. The rest ol
she SET will be given TO his philosophers anu
kindred productions. The form CHOSEN Is d 00
venient octave: the paper, though STOUT enoO9N'
5s of such moderate weight as to make 'he ooO'
very light tn the hand, and a very soou' 0ie
type has been used. Numerous llustra'i"is ~
scattered through these Handsomely Pii
,,ares half tones and photographers from III
.eresting old originals. and the books are gen
erously supplied with maps Besides the iai &c
gallery of rortraits there are facsimiles OF DOC
,,,,ents diagrams and other NlustrauoHs'
These twelve volumes constitute survey VI
American history from the discovery OF the
country TO the adoption of the Constitution anu
in their present form, with full generai lhoeA'
they possess a finished character which "ouio
nave rejoiced Mr. Fiske's heart had ne hNeu
"a see the completion of the enterprise winch
was planned. and in part prepared, before ms
death two years ago The philosophical aho
miscellaneous writings have yet to appear. In
,ba mean time we may note that the same pub
fishers bring out a reprint, IN TOUR Noiuihes' VI
the Outlines of Cosnic Philosophy with d
long introduction by Professor Josiah Royce, IN
which the work is considered i'm the light OF de-
veloprnents during the years which have elapsed
since its composition.
Innrmans Green & Co bring out new
edition In two volumes of Mr.. Lecky's Leaders
Of Public Opinion in Ireland with a preface
sketching the vicissitudes of the book. The
author published it anonymously in 1851 just
as he was leaving the university. Public opn-
ION on Irish history at that time hardly eX-
listed he saws and as the book, on his own con-
fession showed only too clearly the crudity
and exaggeration of a writer in his twenty-thlrd
year" it fell dead. Ten years later he revised
II and published il again. this time under his
own name The Irish question was then much
in tho minds of his countrymen, and when Mr-
Gladstone in his Home Rule speeches and
writings appealed to Mr.. Deckys book as a
justification Of his policy it became very pop
ular The author gives amusing note on
what he calls the strange resurrection OF the
first edition .'I remember" he says. that
one occasion Mr.. Justin Mccarthy in describing
the growth of the Home Rule idea, gave con-
spicuous place to the influence of my book when
il first appeared. and Mr.. Gladstone, while
praisfng greatly the existing edition. urged
those who could procure it to specially study
the earlier and more authoritative one Some OF
the worst specimens of its boyish rhetoric were,
indeed. frequently duoted-usually without the
smallest indication that they had been sup
pressed by the author in his later edition.
The book has long been out Of print NOW MY
Iecky<has enlarged, revised, and in a great
measure rewritten it. The sketch of Swift mas
been excised altogether. The author worked it
over and enlarged it for an introduction to the
recent new edition of the great Deans works.
But nothing has been taken from this book 10
diminish its value as peculiarly comprehen-
sive survey of its subject. While the leaders
loom large, men like Henry Flood, Henry Graf
tan and Daniel OConnell, the authors scheme
is broadly historical The work has an ad-
rnirable index
The fourth volume of the illustrated
edition of the late H. d. Trailrs Social Eng
land" has just been issued by G. P Putnam's
Sons To the sterling worth Of this history
we have more than once testified since its first
appearance in 1895. Mr.. Trail a man of
brilliant gifts exactly suited 10 the carrying out
of work OF the sort: he had just the right
cola borator in Mr.. ]. s. Mann, and the con-
tributors who came their aid, Mr. Arthur
HassaIl, r. z. Prothero, W. H Hutton, w Laird
Cloves and half a dozen others. entered warmly
into the spirit of the undertaking. This new
illustrated edition is very satisfactory indeed
Hundreds Of portraits, documents and prints
are given ia half tones a goodly number of
first rate color prints are included.
The ]. B. Lippncott Company, of Philadelphia,
has published the second volume in the new
edition. going forward under the of David
Patrick, of -'Chambers's Cyclopsedia of English
Literature" This is the editon-to which we
had occasio to refer not many months ago in
terms of great cordiality-in which this indis-
pensable work is not only being thoroughly
overhauled to its text and quotations. but is
being enriched with scores Of good portraits.
The present volume embraces the period ex-
tending from writers like Locke and Newton to
Banco White Jane Austen. Robert Burns
Lady Marine and other literary figures of their
time There articles by Mr. Dobson
and Professor Saintsbury. and these and other
contributors have revised a number of the old
essays. over a. hundred English authors are
treated in this volume who were not even named
in the old edition. The literary history of the
United States" says the editor. will form a
separate division of the work; the American
authors of the eighteenth century will accord
ingly be treated along with those of the nine
teenth. in the concluding volume, where will be
found also the sections on the literature of
Canada. Australia and other British oversee
dominions" We must commend again not alone
the perfect editing OF this justly famous
book Of referenec, but the sound typography and
the fine collection of portraits
From J. F. Taylor & Co We have received
novels and poems Of Charles Kingsley 1t will
by his wife, the edition running altogether to
fourteen volumes ''FIareyvar6 +ba UV.l,o