New-York tribune., 1870-11-05


"And grasps me a long unwonted yesrniDg
For that serene and solemn Spirit Land
Ny song to faint Hoan murmurs turning,
sways like a harp string by the breeSes tanned
thrill and tremble; tear on tear II burning,
What possess, far distant lying
And what lost, grOws real and undyng.'
speech Of the Manager, from the Prelude
the Stage, speaking Of the play which must be made
"a suit the
a who some result intends
Must use the tools that best are fitting.
Reflect soft wood is given TO you for 81 Ilittng,
And then, observe for whom you write
IL one comes bored. exhausted quite,
Another, satiate, leaves the Danquets tSptrs,
And, worst of all, fnl many wight
Is fresh from reading Of the daily papers.
Mere T g curiosity sdty them spirits warning
The ladies with themselves, and with their tnery, aid
without a salary their parts performing
What dreams are yours IN mig high poetic places
Draw near, and view your patrons fsees!
The half coarse, the half are cold
Wild night on a wenehs breast another chooses:
Why should You rack. poor, foolish bards,
Thus shall you hit the mark Of gam and glory.
Seek to cOnfound your auditory!
To satisfy them is task
II has been whispered for several weeks that Prof
James Russell Lowell would have a new volume OF
essays ready for publication this Winter hut the
got abroad before the decision absolutely reached
Now however, IL f. certain that there shall be such
book but title yet decided is 1t possible
90 give a list of its contents. Another book which
Fields, OsgOod Co. have added 10 their list,
and which there been warrant for expecting in the
general desire positive rumOr II the poems OF
Nj. Francis Bret Harte The copy has now been re-
oeiyed from san Francisco and the book will be issued
immediately, before the current of popularity swelling
up from that remarkable piece about the
Heather Chinee has time 20 ebb. No piece
of verse since Nothing TO Wear" has SO touched
the public in the midrift this delicious
production, the call for copies of it is
prOcig1ous, and knows abatement Mr Harte's book
will big his last years volume OF prose-about
oo pages-and will have not only the dialect pieces"
by which his best known but an equal or greater
number OF sentimental poems Most OF them have ap-
pesred print before but many date back before the
dsys of The Orerland Monthly, and the great majority
will he quite 70 Eastern readers.
George Eiot's publishers have tdings from her that
she is engaged-not mOre's the pity, upon the novel
which all the world is hoping for from her pen doubly
precious that Dickens has followed Thsekeray and
left her the head of writers Of English fiction and En-
giisL humOT-but upon long dramatic pOeIn the name
and subject of which are not Yet divulged.
Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Of AndOver p at work
upon a story which will not appear until Spring.
The principal serial in Atlantic Monthly for 1s71
its now decided will be romance by Nj Henry James,
H. running through nearly the whole year, and 10 be-
entiued Rogers's Little Girl" The December number
of this magazine is already blocked out" II viii have
poem by Mr Whittier, Of the best things he has
done q late years entitled The Prayer Seeker" Mrs
II b. stoves story will he entitled "Thes Ghost IN
the Captain Brown House :" Mrs L. NJ. Child will have a
PAPER on the Resemblance between the Buddhist and
Roman Catholic Religions" Mr.. W. ]. sullman,
Oh tIuondsm Consul in Crete, viii have an essay
or John Bull at Feed :" Mr.. HOwells, who Is
~ singularly successful in throwing a light of
DE cate humOr over the affairs OF common life,
viii contribute a picture Fitting" picturing the
moving experiences OF his household Mr. Ralph keeer,
to - boldly climbing up into literature VIII recount
10 COME ssions OF a Patent Medicine Man" who once
uhaed his history 10 the writer and Mrs Helen Hunt,
who's sketch OF her German Landsdy Is one OF the
sr pieces of magazine work done this year. VIII nave
- essay on the Autumn cooring OF the forests ID the
Ihte Mountains. under the faneu yet apt tte OF ihe
Miracle Play Of 1870 at Bethlehem, New Hampshire
III custom Of throwing extra amount OF strength INTO
the January number Of a magazine still prevails here
and the FIRST issue o the Atlantic for 1871 will be fuzzy up
aLy " the great numbers which have preceded
il yet early speak Of IFS contents IN detail
Tle editorial change the management OF me Ho'"'
lo,r,ean Reriee has been announced since my last
lstt.T Mr. Henry Brooks Adams Will take froi'
Gurnsys place in the supervision Of the January
mber Prof Lowell continuing the honorary relation
shy the quarterly which ne has sustained Tor several
years Mr.. Adams If OF the youngest editors the
ancient review has had, viii be by no means the
bsst capsls vigorous. His own Keen hcisVe sty 10
Of writing political affairs has been apparent i'll
several past numbers and his editorial policy will he to
IN the pages Of The Reuie1 Hospitality wide TO all
1tsrs who have anything sufficiently notable TO say
whichever side they may stsnd-making II not neutral
boldly independent and assuming D0 editorial
pOnsbity for the advanced by the contrbutor7
The December number Of Old and Aeu II to contain
5obg other things. t. Wanted, Statesman by Rev
lanes Freeman Clark; Natural and Revealed kell-
Jn," by Rev II. ". lBellovs; another OF Mr. p ".
ISrlngs bright theatrical sketches narrative OF per
sons experiences in Week tbefore the sur
render Of Lee at AppOmsttoI al enthusiastic paper on
Joseph Jeferson's Rsp Van Winkk, viewed IRON l<
s.hetie side an article the better class OF the
Chinese seen In the mercantile circles OF Ban iran
.isco and Mr.. William Eyereus poem read At the Last
reetug % the Phi Beta Kappa society entitled Athens
ard her Enemies "a sort Of defense of classical
studies.
One Of the Of the extra CHRISTMAS mum
brT OF Old and sec IL 70 oe q story by Nathaniel hsv
thorne sketch contributed blythe great romanei"'
many years ago the New Years number of salem
sewspaper and Dy some odd forgetfuDess, never III
sded IN any Of the collections OF HE fugitive pieces
aud before reprinted. II IL now unearbod py MI
J. b. Bsbson, who writes under the name of Ton fOho
~ literary detective whOse success ia restoring
si property OF this kind it, rightfn oNners IN" pun
ls has been something remarkable. The uii" 81 ha"
tborus's skrtct il " Old Father Time
bessTs Roberts Brothers have added more Ia theii
hs Of holiday 1ft bO0ks-a specially ID which they Do"
d. gbsp any other BostVD house hi, Iep'"