New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-05-30


Queen Victoria as I Knew Her. which mas
hitherto been printed only for private circuia-
ton. With the sanction Of the King 1t Is now
being published for a larger audience
Mr. lie Row Phillips, whose bibliography Oh
the writings OF Henry James is IaNo'''
known has made book out OF various pdpe'
contributed by Mr.. James. in the GUS ana 'VS'
to various American periodicals TINS eohe0
ton Of sixteen essays is issued by the Ban r""
fishing Company. Of Boston. under the tue OIL
.syIews and Reviews by Henry James NO"
First Collected" Among the subjects treated
are writings by Matthew Arnold. Walt WHIT
man, George Eliot. Swinburne and Tennyson'
The book also includes some contemporary notes
on the famous controversy between Whistler
and Ruskin.
Some time ago we recorded the publication OF
the first considerable batch OF volumes III
"F,veryman's Library the series OF cheap re-
nripts issued by Dent in London and by f. r.
/ Dutton & Co. in New York. Further volumes
/ in the series have reached from time to tirne'
and now we have received a group OF nitE-
three more, completing the collection OF oio
volumes This last instalment well illustrates
the high standard which was adopted at the
outset There is not an III chosen DOCK III INC
lot The broad scheme of 'Everyman's is
| pie cloth binding being Of different color IN
each division Space has been FOUND lot MS
tory biography poetry and the drama. essays
| and belles-Iettres philosophy and theoiosy'
travel and topography. classical literature ana
| fiction There is also division assigned W
| romance in which find works Ike the
| "KaIevala' "Morte dArthur and Ine fa
| of the NibeIungs' There is even group OIL
| books especially selected for young readers
| books like THE Water Babies or Hoilo at
| Work and "Rollo at Play"
The volumes now before US include works
which one must rejoice to see put before the
nuhlc in such attractive, convenient and mex
| nensive form In the historical section we have
| two volumes given to Tacitus, one TO Prescott
! Conquest Of Peru two to Parkman's con
| spiracy Of Pontiac and one to that classical
| book of military history. Creasy's Fifteen De-
cisive BATTLES Of the World" In biography the
| additions embrace Carlyles Cromwell. Vol
| taire's Charles XIII and "Lewes's Goethe
| Carlyle. Emerson. Thoreau and Ruskfn are
drawn upon for volumes Of essays, and In this
part Of the series there is also translation OF
Macchiavellrs Prince" Dante, Chaucer. George
| Herbert Herrick and Wordsworth figure among
| the poets Hakluyt in eight volumes. appears
in the travel section, and here We have further
the travels of Marco Polo and Lanes Modern
| Egyptians" The volumes Of fiction en-
| brace famous books by De Foe. Goldsmith, Ball
| FAC Thackeray Dickens. Charles Reade and
| Charlotte Bronte. All Of the books in this
| library printed in good editions. and most
of them are provided with introductions
by competent hands. The price. when the
| series was started. a low one, but IL has
| been still further reduced. From every poin.
| of view it is warmly to be commended, and we
congratulate the publishers on the successful
completion of their scheme.
There will issue from the press OF Bren-
tano's translation of lie Mystere de la Cham
bre jaime" This is the detective story which
The r. E. Lee Company. OF Boston an
nounces an edition of The Debate of the Body
and the Soul" the early fourteenth century
poem which the late Professor Child had pri
vately printed In a modernzed form for cir
| culation among his friends. For the new edi
|. ton his colleague, Professor Kittredge, ha
. written an Introductory essay.
| OF contributions to the literature Of Napoleon
| there is no end. The latest for English reader
!, is Dr. c. X. Fortescue's translation of the me
, ! moirs of Thibaudeau. This work, which thu
, Macminans announce under the title Of Bona
, parte and the Consulate" is rare in French ana
, has never before been put into English.