New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-16

~orAI b Te nv the Scrbners this season. The
renPpoductions win be photographers: on gener.
Gus scale Mrs. Alice Meynell contributes " ZIG
book note Mr. Sargents ART
Mr. r w. Bulge is publishing book on Ine
Gods of Egypt 1t gives an elaborate ogsCat ~
ion of the worship of spirits, demons anu Gus
in F,eypt from the earliest times 10 the llltio
duction of Christianity. The work WIZ appeaf
in three large and finely illustrated Volumes
Tho Auoust number Of 1.-THE Printing Art" is
fu1I Of good Typography and illustrations Among
several interesting papers we have notcea SpG.
ci9II1y one by DR.. Biagi, Ciroher, 10 Whlch -
nrefxed a beautiful reproduction of the painting
Of Grolier in the printing house of Aldus when
- in the possession of the Groiler Cluo. we
take this passage from Dr. Blagls paper.
.o.,o 90 ~, o-raatest collectors of those times
Who sDent immense sums for binding ana glld-
ing was Messer Grolier. He mad Deeh hlhS
Francis Is Ambassador at HCIIle anu ne na 49, q
library of about three thousand volumes eacn
one differently gilt with the name, Joan. Gro
lierii ct amicorum.' This library was preserves
in the Hotel de Vic till 1915, when II was pup
Iicly sold Another French writer OF the sew
enteenth century, Bonaventure d'Argonne' VINO
wrote under the name of Vigneul Marville.
n,bIisbed i'm 1850 some 'MeIanges d'Histoire ct
de Literature, in which he tells US sonethn5
about the dispersion of Grollers library. 1t
was sold by auction. and almost all the DOCK
buyers of Paris fell upon its remains. Inc
beauty of the copies, Of the paper, of the BIND
ings. was marvellous The gliding, says MAJ
VILE was of a delicaCy unknown to our pres
ent workmen.' The sections are painted IN
various coCTS, perfectly drawn, and all win
different ornaments; the incloSed spaces bear
on one side the title of the book in gold letters
with underneath words which attest the eX-
ceent character of Messer Grolier. 10 Grolierll
ct amicorum," and the other side the legend
indubita BILE sign of his piety, Porto mea, Do
mine sit in terra Viventium." The title OF the
books is repeated on the back, where we place
it now, between the two fiets and from this
we may deduce that librarians had already be
gun lay the books on their sides, as they still
do in Germany and Spain; whence II happens
that the titles of the parchment books
that come from those countries are written in
big letters along the backs of the volumes.
We are to have more old letters emanating
from Prussia. A translation Will be issued, in
the fall. of The Correspondence of William 1
and Bismarck.
A wicked paragrapher in THE London Out
look" alluding to THE Eternal City" which
ISSUED a serial after at least a hundred
thousand volumes bearing that name had gone
their way and ours makes this edifying
disclosure: 1T only the other day that we
read an advertisement in a ladys paper offering
the numbers of Household Words containing
this impassiOned work in exchange for "a large
sponge bath in good condition" At the same
time Mr.. Punch" his Poet, being inspired by
the announcement that Hall Caine is going to
spend six months in Iceland, piling up local
color for his next novel, bursts forth into this
lyric to The Coming Saga:
From rom that that far G9i land ne OF, Of ice and snow
Comes freghted with the Call and 10.
The BOomster fareth forth.
TIL Eternal City, left behind
Suits not his present plan:
The proper study mankind
Is longer Man"
He the Northern Lights fash out
Along the midnight sky;
For him the giddy geySerS spout
Their boiling springs high:
Ger mountain, berg and icebOund strand
His ardent he takes
In quest OF local color and
The fam'd Icelandic snakes
Though other things he will not miss
Those mentioned enough
To suit the purposes of this
Preliminary puff;
Others will follow for we know
A chance will not be lost
TO save this Saga of the Snow
From turning out frost