New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-12-11
LITERARY NOTES.

o,s,ce Judd g. Co. will shortly issue 1.-THE
80, sc,oo, Master" story Of Western life, by
Edward Eggleston. -,
C;ilderoy w. Griffin of Lou'sViiie' N.Y. re-
Gently appointed Consul to Copennaeen '.o NUM-.
. " biography Of George D. Prentice OF "Studes o'
I,,.tnre Life Of Col c. 5. Todd" and other works.
"a. ,oo. abroad with the view Of studying scandinavian
ucrafnre in which the Royal Library Of the Danish cap
,,, csncially rich Mrs. Griffin formerly Miss Alice
1c(urej is of the popular poetesses o ken!ucH!
and was the antewai days farorte contributor "
Tie L%visr'ne Jo"radf'
That was not bad description given re-
Gently Of a pert little Girl" novel writer, who 'eo
IN no offensive TO her Creator and failed" That wouu
Il. bright day for all of who read. upon wh''h VIC
could eradicate from all manner OF literary hah"''"
the perpetual effort TO astonish. In poetry we "ah'
another Wordsworth to bring US back to qie' sipei'H'
m prose felton, another Jane Austen to revive our TASTE
for ytrisimtude and in drama somebody VINO If III
f,rcn, In every point from Boucicuut and Tom Ia! l"r-
cav at least another Douglas Jerrold once ana "'h'h
the memory of many, the novel WAS OF the eAquS'e'
kind before that of the raw-head ana bloody
school and now We run mainly TO housenrrnktrs
anu deni-uol,d with frizzled har ana smeihg
confonndrdy of Iuhlus extracts. Humor Ia sought for
chiefly in had spelling or III drIneatons OF ,ne % &
The Parsans. shamcfnlly a. they tihnK the wora as
treated them have their revenge; for mankind ana wo
mankind are eHTS mIr =" "i bcSt thoughts in
the language Ii Is certain thai me use OF eVertuay
TIER r s" Here M English poet lately singing Of the
Flr,-E,t ape Machine after this fashion
In place ~ our dull. earthly
More goA like ewes had g'en.
Like Jacob ladder
Pcrchsnce the f-etsdp< voulI glow
With angels pssNng snd fro
Heaven
We should have promised that III" mes rom which
This - were for the elcCy OF fireman
who was burned while coming down the glowing fre-
escape reminded 10y such bit Of y,rsliled prose
tie simplicity ~ Wordsworth, and of the blankets IN
",;ondy Blake and of poor shivcring Harry GINS
nnd sometimes Cowpcr, III whom the hoinellheSs "i
phrase never ofrnds. such the singers who nave
the gift of endowinc all that IL comuOn with sort OF
mystical and redecmlhg grace
Mr. Charles Rcade has in preparation new
novel, to appear in London Society
Mr.. Gerald Massey is about to Issue his
edition
The literary Mss. of the late Robert Blum
arc bcng published lay his son, Dr. Hans Buh' 'hc
cdito of the Gre n.bpirn.
The correspondence of Gocthe's mother ap-
pears anong Herr Erockhauss publications at Lelslc
under tho cdOiShp OF Hen Robtt kril, with The tile
" Frau Rith."
A critical edition of Shellcys poems. includ-
Ing ,",nc hitherto unct,d pieces, is about to I've pun
U>h,d in London The text is to he that Of the author,
HIicLal .uuIs and Jdc-eis of all The original uticS
vii IL, gwen Including queen Nab" printed al
private b"u-c III C-apr'->t.
The 18th and sixth parts of the Supplement-
tuiL, "ConNri>air IL utnu, published N lroekMus
al INIpsic hung the eleventh. edition down TO oar own
times. the NTH part. articles on the "NafI"hh
t,nmril the { oIn,nlle of Pari,," and Darwni>m"
while the siNth contains ARTICLES on IN" German IN
pr the "Frnco.t ,rIlnAn Var, and fun IrcunntS Ol
The German Amy. Navy, People. and Literature