New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-10
NEW EDITIONS.
Byron, Prior. Cooley and Others in
Excellent Reprints.

The world is full Of new editions. and SO many
OF them are 30 very much worth having that we
dare say some readers would be we'll content to
choose them, and let most OF the entirely new
books go. Poetry Is conspicuous among these
reprints One master appears IN rival editions.
The Poetica1 Works of Lord Byron" Charles
Scribners sons. which is edited. with a memoir
by Mr.. Ernest Hartley Coeridge. bears proudly
upon its title pags the statement that 1t Is "the
only complete and copyright text in one volume"
In the preparation of this edition Mr.. Coleridge
mas OF course followed the seven volume Muir
ray edition, which he himself put through the
press. In other words. he has had access to
unique material. His text has been printed in
double columns, on paper which. though thin, is
opaque. The notes we have praised before. IN
voldminous reviews Of Mr. Coleridge's seven
volumes. The present publication is precisely
the thing which we regarded from the start as
inevitable. and now that we have II we are
pound TO say that II has been produced with
Just the right sense OF what was needed. The
rival edition is Tho Complete Poetical Works
or Lord Byron" (Hougthton, Mf1in & Coz,
printed in the well known Cambridge Edition Of
the Poets" It is edited by Mr.. P. E. More. who
has mado careful use OF the Murray edition,
and supplies interesting notes Of his own, as we'll
as a concise biographical sketch. This edition
which will enable 1t honorably to keep the field,
despite the competition Of the "oficia" edition.
Other poetical reprints include two new vol
umes IN the series OF Cambridge English
Classics" circulated IN this country by the Mac
millans. One is given TO Priors Poems on Sew
eral Occasions" the other to Abraham Cowley's
English writings. and both edited with taste
as well as with scholarship by Mr.. A. r. Waller
For purity of text discreet annexation, and what
is not by any means to be overlooked, good
paper and press work. the volumes in this series
are especially TO be commended. In the series
OF "Caxton Thin Paper Classics" the Scribners
import The Faerie Queene' In two exquisitely
made volumes. They announce a third. which
will contain Sponsors shorter poems.
The prose reprints embrace divers useful or
entertaining works. The Scribners import in
two volumes Mr. w. Carew Hazlitt's Faiths
and Folklore" which is really new edition Of
the Popular Antiquities OF Great Britain" OF
Brand and Ellis. augmented. brought UP to
date. and for the first time alphabetically ar
ranged. The Macmillans have reprinted IN one
volume the Short History Of Germany" by
Mr.. E. F. Henderson. which was originally
printed in two. This is particularly acceptable,
for the book is Of solid value and deserved to be
put In form assuring It Of wider audience.
The same firm brings out editions, nodestly
but quite satisfactorily printed and bound, Of
Levers Charles OMalley" and Harry Lor-
requer." both with the illustrations by "Phiz'
In the field Of biography we have received from
the buttons reprint Of Disraelfs Lord George
Bentinck." with strong introduction by
Charles whitley. and from Dodd. Mead G. Co.
the Autobiography Of Anthony Trollope-ons
OF the most interesting narratives OF the sort
ever written-in pleasant little volume uni
form with the same firms edition Of the novels