New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-11
LITERARY ITEMS.

The Boston Transcript announces that NJ
de Lagarere of that city has been engaged for more
than four years on cyelop8da of naval science which
he to be the most comprehensive work on that subject
ever published
For some months past The London Saturday
RereW has been set up type the separate letters OF
which are Joined together with sort OF gum OF cement
40 that short words and parts Of words lifted from
the by the cOmpositOr in one operation nsea9 Va
picking up each separate and distinct te elder Mr. Wal
ters system OF Is nSt oys Snd dc1ity
of Temembering the places OF ali the varied combna-
tons Of letters rendering the process SLOW ana 'euo
AppletonS Journal gives the following as the
ages Of living American authors announcing that tne
list has been compiled with great care: Cuban u YER
panck 81; Richard II. Dana, SO; George J1cknor anu
Sarah j. Hale "a; VIM. Cullen Bryant 10; stephen ~ II
Tying, Francis Leber, and George Bancroft ~ dfa
Child and Leonard w. Bacon, SO; William II, fmrnis MS
and Ralph Waldo EmeTsGn % dS Oraee and NJ
+ Maury Ga; Theodore S. Fay, john IT, Wnltuer, LOUIS
Agass ana Mel elan. and Oliver Wendell Holmes SC
Charles Sumner Horace Greeley ana Are1 %: oueG ~
So: Harriet Beecher stowe and Samuel Osgood So; e. r.
Cranch and John s. Dwight, o.; D. T. headley' ", n;
C. Hosmer, II. T. Tuekerman, Henry w Bellows, Hendy
, and John Iotnrop Motley 55 John g. SAKE and EPes
Sargent, 5i f. A. Duyekinek and Parke G01wInii Td
Coke, 50; william +. Claiming, Henry Giles
Mrs F. ID. southworth, Mrs L, F. Blle r. 5 SOz W
Il Il. Whipple ana James fusSeH Lowell 81
Howe. Thomas Parsons, q Bristol ana and
Melville, SO; T. Il. Read, Samuel Eliot j. u hoAnuu' CIV
Edward Everett Hale IS; Alice cary Mlinsn ~ ~; A p
James Parton and Donald G. MITCHELL Al; FTanels 5"I
man and George W. Curtis, &C; Richard d. St2o9aI9'
George H. Boxer Bayard TAYLOR. and Charles g. Leland
As; Mary A. DensOn and Charles L. Brace ~; fau n.
Hayne Mary L. Booth, aud william CrOswel Doane' Ssi
William SNinon SO; Ellen Louise Chandler ana james
Grant Wilson, IS; Thomas b, Aldreh and T. s. Rand jr,
3d.
The first volume of Mr.. George Ticknor Cur
tss "IAfe of Daniel Webster will be published by the
Appetons in the course of the present month MrWeO'
ster by his WILL appointed Edward Everett George
tore and requested his son Fletcher 10 Trans,
fer 20 them all papers relating 10 ms p SIsonr
aud public history which in his ,luuSme,li ~
should be placed at their disposal mr. tr VI ca ',s
red out BY Mr. Fletcher Webster, and by hh asssseu
by Mr. Abbott great of papers was tansIeITeu W
tie Literary Executors, by whom they were ar
ranged and preserved Very important MateIlas were
obained nv them other sources, and placed
with general collection OF papers rea,,nk W i,
Webster When finally completed, TINS eohecu3n "as
found tn be exceedingly Tic and 70 cover the WO VI
Mr. Websier fe from his boyhood The deaths OF Mr..
Everett President FELTON, OF Harvard and COL
WEBSTER, who killed in battle at the heau
OF ms regiment, in 1862, occurred beiore any
stems had been taken for writing and publishing
a Life Of the great statesman. Inns uuy, anu
the determination OF the proper period lot plOhcato'
thus deNolved solely on Mr.. TeknOr and myself onW-
ing at advanced to undertake any new literary
labor of Cultude knsnRn, while ready TO give me
his advice requested me TO write the Le ana paeeu IN
nv hands the whole OF the materials belonging 10 the
enee with Mr. Webster, extending over period OF nearly
forty wears This occurred in the WINTER OF 1906 We
were both then of opinion that the time had arrived Tor
the ua fument of the purpose implied in the creation
of the Literary Executorship. therefore Immediately
2egan The writing of the work which now place III your
bands Tor publication"