New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-09

Instead he served the "Westerners' with farm
and dairy products, rowing from Suttons Island
to Northeast Rarbor, and one day, caught in
heavy weather, he drowned OF his life
DR.. Eliot says:
If contains no material for distinction, fame or
long remembrance, it does contain the material
and present the scene for q normal human devel-
rest adversely and success and through the tender
loves of chrdhood, maturity and age We cannot
btIt believe that Il is just for countless quiet.
simple lives like this that God made and upholds
the earth
The work done by English, French and Amer
lean bookbinders OF the present day is interest
ingly shown in comparison with number of
seventeenth and eighteenth century examples in
collection now on view at the book shop of
Ernest Dressed North, in East Twentieth-st.
Conspicuous among the older bindings Is one by
Samuel Mearne quarto Bible once the prop
erty of Charles II. 1t is OF red levant morocco,
with gauffred edge, deliberately fooled with hne
scroll work and an inclosed border of black, not
jnlaid but painted. Another binding with his
toric associations is that of volume OF
Ritaube's Joseph" dedicated to little Louis
XVII, and presented by the unfortunate
Dauphin to the Baroness de Naikau. This also
is Of red levant and bears on the cover the
Daupbin's coat of arms A quaint binding by
the celebrated, but dsspated, Roger Payne is
here OF the modern binders one of the most
striking examples is copy of the fourth MAJOR
edition OF Walton'S "CompIeat Angler" bound
by de Sauty, the English binder with the French
name It is notable for its exquisite fore edge
painting and decoration.
Along with these bindings. which include COW
ers by David Derome. Meunier. Thouvenin,
Trautz- Bauzonner Sinner. the Club Bindery'
Riviere Miss Hay-Cooper and others, Mr. North
shows a number of rare first editions OIL boswell
Lamb, Keats. Fielding and other classics Inc
star piece is the little volume. mot for puorca-
ton" in which Mrs. Browning's "Sonnets from
the Portuguese were first printed Only twelve
copies of this first edition known to be IN
existence, eight in England and four IN this
country.
P. F. Collier & Son have issued in a thin folio
called "A Book of Drawings q collection OF
full page half tones from scenes IN American
life drawn by one of the most gifted OF our
draughtsmen, Mr.. A. B. Frost. In an introouc-
ton. Mr. Joel Chandler Harris we'll says that
1.-The one characteristic that marks all the WORK
of Mr. Frost. the one quality that stands out
above the rest. is its persistent and ever present
humor." It is not at ali esoteric humor. MT
Frost finds his account not much In comic
situations as in types of human nature. In his
pcture of the horseman wrestling with frac-
tious mare scared to death by an automobile 1t
is not so much the episode itself that makes US
laugh as it is the skill with which the artist mas
rendered the expressions of both man ana beast
The finn in the study Of village gossip5 dis
cussInr the Monroe Doctrine lies all in the faces
of the gossips The family party spilled out or
q sleigh into the snow. the old farmer whose
wrath against a sporting trespasseT is soothed
by the gift Of good cigar the baseoal natch
in the neighborhood of "Cornville"-these ana
other homespun subjects are sketched by MI
Frost with an unfaiiing sense of comicality. HIS
amusing pictures are accompanied by rhymes
from the pen Of Mr.. Wallace Irwin. whose quail
,tv may be Judged from the skit printed opposite
the portrait of golfer in action and called THE
Duffer'':
don't know what In bazes
The Scotch would call this swing
But If I'm baseball phrases
/ should describe the thing,
ia say he laced lulu
Across the health food ADS
And brought in every Zulu
That fingered the pads;
Had crossed the stick south-We sty
And made a clean home run
And felt little chesty
About the trick he'd done