New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-11-17
LITERARY NOTES.

all: 426 authors are represented by l,ioe Poe"is'
and rendered by i2s trsnslascrs. Mr. Longfelow's
contributions number 40, all OF which are con
taned I'm his works They range through OF
tho 10 languages treated, and comprise IS from the
German II from the French, from the italian,
NON the Spanish, each from the Ango-SaHoh'
Danish, and Swedish, and 1 from the Portng"e'e'
but none from the Icelandic and Dutch. Most
among the supplementary poems is "The Des '.s y,
Faust" by Bayard Taylor, from the seoon" i"'
Panst, in press -. franz.
J. Russell Lowell contributes, from mahuS.i ,,
fstion OF Voltaire's poem Madame dn Cna'o ,,,
aB. wster gives five poems nOh GU - .norman
the author of the French answer 10 no' w. = I,oor, -
, l,a-,oaS :, leland writes "My Weary Heart
=. r,,io,,oD,s vers,on of the latter If here gwen '
also .sonco OF Heinrich Hefne's' W. - - -. .n
.-rhe Ruins Of Italica" and The Last blru' lo ".
snanisb w d. HowelIs has 81 POEMS ana " u hoSso'
oPa a.. Ialtan The publishers give this standard
- ,no same slightly dress as the companion volume
s,cb nreeeded t. Hedges Prose Writers OF Germany.
Porter & Coates have also nearly rcaay DrS"o'uS
re writers of America" thoroughly revised to date
The additional articles are not fragmentary nut ecn
,omplete in itself and represent many favorte home
Authors Among these may be specified Henry Gays
Letter Years" by James Parton; 1.-The Bald Eagle by
Alexander Wilson; Excursion 10 Mont Banc," by the
Late Prof Benjamin silliman; "Prcscotts Method OF
Living" by George Tcknor; "science and the Bible
by Edward Hitchcock 1.-THE Coup d Eta' by the late
O. Goodrich; Man the Subject of Social Science by
H. c. Carey; Temperance in Eating" by Horace Mann;
Life at Three Score and Ten" by the Rev. Albert
Barnes; "The Battle of Waterloo by John c. Abbott
conversation" by o. W. Holmes; "The First Predicted
Eclipse" by the late o. NJ Mchcll "My Farming" and
"The Great Senator'S" from "Rccollectons OF Busy
Life" by Horace Greeley; '"The Mothers Struggle"
from Uncle Toms Cabin" by Mrs. H. b. stowe; BuSi-
ness Religion" by Ii. W. Beecher: "second Siege OF
Lcyden," by John Lothrop Motley; Citizens Retiring
10 the Country" by A. J. Downing; "A SOUTHEASTERN
by r. H. Dana, jr.; "The Woman for Wife," by j. q.
To Save and fO nv the late Theodore
winthrop; My Chateaux" and "Our Best Society,"" by
George William Curtis, etc comprehensive Essay on
the Present Intellectual Condition of the Country" by
Prufs Thomas Chase and Jno. II. Dillingham; narrates
the losses and gains to American literature since the
sketch written by the late r. W. Griswold in 1916.
Following these in preparation, is the reprint of
"wson's American ORTHODOXY" with the continual
ton by Charles Lucien BOnaparte from the original
plates. OF Wilson'S saltwater BIRDS Daniel Webster
said che had shot every one Of them, and compared
them with his delineatons and descriptions and in
every found them perfectly accurate to nature"
Mrs. Bowen, the coOTist for Audubon and of national
works, has this edition IN charge, and the publishers
guarantee the forthcoming series to be an exact fac
Eimile Of The first.
JB. Lppincott & Co. have paid a large for the
advance sheets of Sir Henry Bulwer's life OF Lord
Pamerston," and already have an American edition, in
two duodccimo volumes nearly ready for publication.
The report started by The Ahen@um, that Amer
publishing house had offered Lord Lyton 1880 for
advance sheets or ms forthcoming novel; only OF
the truth. And this done without scrap Of in
formation about the title, subject, scope of the book
The matter is yet in abey although il s hoped that
the Eew-Year's number of LippiHcOHs Magazine will
present the first insament from the only living novelist
OF the great English trio The second and concluding
volume q DR.. ThOmass Dictionary of Biography and
Mythology" has been ereOYped, and its printing is
only delayed to allow critical revision. IL will appear
this Winter Twenty-Five years Of labor and $4,000 cap
ita have been put into this book. The third and last
volume of Albones Dictionary OF English Authors
Il almost completed tie editor is at work upon its
Indces which will I'll 800 pages imperial octave May
its writer be spared 20 years to bring the earlier
volumes up TO date " Romeo and Juliet" the first
volume of the varorum Edition of Shakespeare,
edited by Horace Howard Furness, A NJ Secretary OF
the Shakespeare Society OF Philadelphia is nearly
ready for press Its text viii follow such readings
adopted by majority Of the ables editors
textual notes, Illustrations criticisms, and various
readings will be given from all standard authorities
Among the minor books nearly ready by Messrs. Lip
pincott "Flowers from the Upper Alps" contain
ing IL fac siDie reproductions of waercOlor drawings
imported in sheets Light OF the World and other Poems
and Hymns" quartO finely illustrated, printed from i'm
ported electroypes Dictionary Of Docrinal and He
torical Theology" edited by the Rev. John Henry Blunt
from advance sheets The Elements of Religion by H.
p. Lddon Life Of John Adams" begun by John Quincy
Adams, completed by Charles Francis Adams; 1.-THE
ervatiye Reformation and It's Theology repre-
sented the Augsburg Confession by Chas X. Krauth
ID. d.; THE Origin and Development or Religious Be
lief: Part Il. Christianity" by S. Barring Gould; "Ele-
IDents Of Military Art and Science" revised edition. by
MajorGen. II. " Halleck LID. Mrs. A. L. Wister has
almost ready for the Chdrens Holidays five fairy stories
from the German of Hacklander: The Elfn Tree the
Dwars Nest the Princess Morgana, Castle Silence the
Fairy Tankard, under the title" Enchanting aud
Enchanted" with illustrations, I2mO.
The late Thomas II. Stockton, ID. D., of the most
eloquent ministers of his generation-whO separated
himself from UNCONVENTIONAL alliances that he might
bring all sects TO unite in spiritual sympathy the basis
OF the scriptures his sickness prepared for publ-
cation series Of Ten Discourses the Holy Bible,
the only authority earth. Messrs ClaKtOn, Remsen
Hafelfnger have the volume almost ready, under the
title of "The Book Above All" It's hast
I1alnifed Thy Word above ali Thy Name" Appended are
other sermons aud addresses several Of which
delivered when Chaplain To United States House OF
Representatives. "Traves OF an American Owl"
satire, narrated by Virginia W. Johnston, and illus
tratcd by "a shOuettes by HOppin, will very
NOON be published by the house. "TD," his
biographer says, I"was only an American barn
yard, screech-owl, and not at all handsome;
but then beauty is only skin deep, after all lie
persuaded his hOiney and slow-coach' parents
that he have the grand tour, saying: can't be
anything without IT, aud with it can be everything He
was not at all dauncd at dangers for he sd You have
only 10 take your chance OF being demolished on the
hurry boats any day, OF getting run over in the
crowded roads failing that the airy Railroad Is sn left
as sure means,of destruction The rather novel en-
cravings Of black outlines upon a white background are
gems VI humorous expression The children also
cared for by Miss Harriet b. McKcever who tells them
the story OF Little Mary and the Fairy" with which
they get nine eoored pictures moral pretty enough
0S1Ve 10 hundreds OF thousands of little ones
Nov here Is les.on my dsrings this morning
TSensb mo- az, ,H i'0ry and early aAe waning;
4, 1s res.Ia y her , pin or alarm b' her wrath
And pride and unhndness viii he pupisbeI !, ~
Ror He rho has tOltu ia. l,xeor