New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-24
MORE NEW EDITIONS.
Holiday Reprints of Poetry, MisceI-
ldneous Literature, and Fiction.


and Miss Helen A. Clark for the First Folio"
edition OF Shakespeare which they are editing.
and Thomas Y. Crowen 6 Co. are publishing
volume by volume is that II 'alone OF all mod
ern texts follows absolutely the original First
Folio OF 1923" X gives the spelling and pune
tuation OF the dralatists day. and IL is plain
from The Coincide OF Errors" which has just
been issued by these editors. that they have been
NJ pains 20 provide most elaborate notes and
other editorial machinery for their enterprise.
Though there is interesting stuff IN their notes,
we can give heartier approval TO the Penn
broke" edition OF Shakespeare. which the same
publishers print for the same editors giving the
same text, but emitting great deal Of the ed
ftorial matter. The twelve pocket volumes OF
this Pembroke Edition prettily made and
sre published in & box. The Elizabethan
Shakespeare" edited by Professor Mark Har-
vey LiddeIl. and published by Doubleday, Page
& Co.. has very unprepossessing appearance. on
each page little island OF text is lost in a sea
OF notes. On page lO7 OF Macbeth" which oc-
cupies the only volume thus far published three
lines OF the play are printed The rest Of the
space is packed with notes. and the effect is
ugly enough TO send the reader flying TO a less
rretentious edition OF the poet Professor Lid
Dell is a voluminous. but not at all inspiring,
commentator. Both in the study and the school
room profitable use OF The Elizabethan
shakespeare" might occasionally be made. but it
Sc not in a form like this that the poet is TO be
read merely for enjoyment
Some years ago the late Aubrey Beardsley as
Eocished readers OF old literature and interested
eonnoisseurs OF modern pen draughtsmanship
by supplying a number Of extraordinary Illus
trations for Malory's ''NIorte d'Arthur." Miss
Jessie N. King has been spurred by similar
ambition. and she has drawn very much in
Beardsley's style. only with none Of his bril-
Eancy. a score OF illustrations for The High
History Of the Holy Graal" OE. ?. Dutton & Coz
IN the translation made from the old French
ey Sebastian Evans. Dr. Evans. preparing this
work for the Temple Classics" in which it ap-
peared IN 1898. appealed to serious readers on
serious grounds. he put an enchanting bit Of
literature into admirable form. and he was CRATE
FULLY thanked at the time. The new edition OF
his book is a well proportioned. well printed
octave, but II IS al but spoiled by the inclusion
OF Miss Kings fantastic and utterly unsym-
pathetic drawings. II is 10 be hoped that an
other edition wiz be made from which the Of
ssnding sketches may be omitted. The Illus
traitor OF THE Essays Of Douglas Jerrold" O.
p. Dutton & Coz. on the other hand, deserves
well OF the public He is Mr. II. N. Brock. and
his skilful pen drawings do not the least vio-
1ence TO the authors vivacious text On the
contrary, they are perfectly adapted 10 It. The
book is e pretty holiday publication, in covers
OF old rose linen. with a back OF yellow and
gold. From the buttons also comes the third
OF the twelve volumes in which Mr.. William
Macdonald is editing the works Of Charles
Lamb. This volume IS given TO the Critical
Essays" and is freely illustrated with reproduc-
lions OF old portraits and prints Of famous
actors and actresses and facsimies Of several
OF Hogarth's well known satirical engravings.
We have already commented upon Mr.. Mac
donald's qualifications as an editor OF Lamb; he
IS painstakfng and competent. though not not
able for felicity IN adjusting himself to the at
s1losphere Of his author. BourTienne's Memoirs
OF Napoleon Bonaparte' Frederick A Stokes
& Cob, in the new Library Of Standard Biog-
raphies" is first rate example Of modern mex
peE.sive bookmaking. In a handy duOdecino Of
between five and six hundred pages we have,
fairly vel printed and published at a trifling
cost, a worlkmanlike translation OF a book in
dispensable 10 students Of Napoeonic history.
This is the most useful kind OF reprint Prac-
teal. too. is the policy TO which we owe The
Marble Faun" and Letters and Addresses Of
Abraham Lincoln" in the series Of The Unit
Books" published by Mr.. Howard MILFORD Bell
The Unit" system means the fixing OF the
price OF book by the number OF pages Il con-
tains. Thus, THE Marble Faun'' costs only 81
cents: the Lincoln volume costs &C cents The
paper is OF cheap quality, and so is the binding
but the presswork is good and the reader GER
tainly gets the worth Of his money 1t IS the
intention of the publisher to include major and
minor classics in the series.