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

Instead ne served the "Westerners' with farm
and dairy products, rowing from Sutton island
to Northeast Harbor, and one day. caught IN
heavy weather he was drowned VI MS i1e
DR.. Eliot says:
If contains no material for distinction, fame or
long remembrsnce: but il does contain the material
and present the scene Tor a morn, orrn1 ahor and
Taet ss1arsitgs and sccess and through the tender
loves of childhood maturity ana ag one auiet
simple lives like this that God made and uph0ioS
the earth.
The work done by English, French and Amer
lean bookbinders of the present oay IS iiteieS'-
ingIy shown in comparison with NUMBER Oh
seventeenth and eighteenth century examples III
a collection now on view at the book shop OF
Ernest Dressed North, in East I"ehtle'h-S st
Conspicuous among the older bindings is one by
Samuel Mearne, a quarto Bible once lhe prop
erty Of Charles II. 1t is OF rei levant morocco
with gauffred edge. deliberately fooled with hne
scroll work and an inclosed border of black not
inlaid. but painted. Another binding with MS
toric associations is that or Noiu!h7 VI
Ritaube's Joseph dedicated TO little Louis
XVII and presented by the unfortunate
Dauphin to the Baroness de Maikau ms also
is of red Ievant and bears on the cover th0
Dauphin's coat of arms. quaint olnaihe pS
the celebrated. but dissipated' Roger FaShe Is
here OF the modern binders one of the most
edition of Walton'j "Comp!eat Angler oouho
bv de sautv. the English binder with the French
name II is notable for its exquisite tore eose
painting and decoration
Along with these bindings which lncluoe Gov
ers by David, Derome. Meunler. 1hou'eii'ii'
Trautz- Bauzonnet Sinner. the Clap rIllNes
Riviere. Miss Hay-Cooper and others MI NORM
shows number of rare first editions OF boswell
Lamb, Keats Fielding and other classics Inc
star piece is the little volume. mot TOT puoIica
ton" in which Mrs Brownings "Sonnets from
the Portuguese" were first printed Only Twelve
copies of this first edition are known 10 he III
existence. eight in England and four in this
country.
P r. Collier & Son have issued In thin Ioho
called "A Book of Drawings, colectloh Vi
full mage 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 well says 'na'
..+be one characteristic that marks ali the work
~ Mr. Frost. the one quality that STANDS out
above the rest is its persistent and ever present
bumor" II is not at all esoteric hunlor' MI
Frost finds his account not so much III cOiii0
situations as in types of human nature. IN ms
picture of the horsenan wrestling with Trac-
tious mare scared to death by an automopiie' "
&c not so much the episode itself that makes Us
laugh as it is the skill Win WHICH 'He "' @ LOS
rendered the expressions of both man ana beast
rrha finn in the study Of village gossips dis
cussng the Monroe Doctrine lies all in the races
~ tbA sossps. The family party spilled out OF
q sleigh into the snow, the old farmer whose
,rrrotb against a sporting trespasseT is sootned
nv the gift Of a good cigar, the baseoah riateh
in the neighborhood of "Cornville"-these ana
cher bomespun subjects are sketched by MI
Frost with an unfailing sense of comicaiity ms
amusing pictures are accompanied Dy rhymes
from the pen of Mr. Wallace Irwin. whose quail
,tv may be Judged from the skit printed opposita
the portrat of a golfer in action and called The
Duffer:
don't know what In blazes
The Scotch would call this s"ihs'
Put II in baseball phrases
j should describe the tnlns'
I'd say he laced a lulu .
Across the health food aos
And brought in every Zuu
That fingered on the PADS
Had crossed the stick south-westy
And made a clean home run
And felt a little chesty
About the trick he done