New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-02-07
BOSTON LITERARY NOTES.


NEW FEATURES OF EVERY sAIURDAT-hAs
GEORGE ELIOT An INTELLECTUAL DOUBLE -
MRS. tcIEMENT's "HAND-BoOK'-osGOoD CO.'S
APPROACHING IssUEs-NTENTIoNs OF ROBERTS
BRoTHERs-LrTLE BROWN.
IRON A REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBuNEI
BosroE. Feb. 5.-A few changes are to be
made in Eoery saturday by its new publishers Hurd
Houghton one Of them is TO be the publication from
time to time OF original American novels the first OF
which will be His Two Wives" story OF married
life nv Mrs Mary Clemmer Ames. In the editorial
department there will also be an addition Hitherto
Messrs H. & H. have published little sheet cailed inc
Rirsrsde Bulletin which they used 10 circulate with
pleasant and lavish generosity. II was paruy an
advertisement, and partly discussion OF matters anu
things in general-a friendly monthly visitor Ihe por-
ton OF il not connected with advertising Is hepcetOith
10 be incorporated in Eoery Saturday. which will con-
tain weekly two pages similar 60 the former contents
OF The BUiietin-a little essay. notes ana comments
on various literary facts and intentions ana observation
on trfes Of taste and In the number of Eoey Sat
,trday for jan 81 was begun serial entitled Far
from the Msddiug Crowd" quaint title taken from
the nineteenth stanza of Gray's Elegy:"
Far from the madding crowds ignoble strife,
Their sober wishes never learned u stray;
Along the cool, scquestered vale OF lie
They kept the nOiseless tenor OF their way"
The London Spectator thinks that George Eliot Is the
author Of this tale "If not" it says, then there is
new light among noveIsts In every page OF these III
troductory chapters there are dozen sentences winch
have the ring OF the wit and the wisdom OF the only truly
great English novelist now living" IL seems now
ever so improbable that the author OF ROmoa and
"Middlemarcb" with her assured fact, her
Kingdom already conquered, would masquerade anony-
mously that II is, think, rational to indulge in
the hope OF a newly risen sun the literary ornament
Certainly in the chapters already published there are
touches good enough for any How fine is this
about the want Of power in Gabriel TO convey what be
felt:
He wished she knew his Impressions; bnt he Womb
AS soon have Thought OF carry ny an olot IN M T. a. Oh
attempting the intangibIties OF his feeling
In the coarse meshes OF language.
For the new edition Of her Handbook Of Painters
and Engravers," which is just ready, Mrs Clement has
written a preface clearly explaining the intention Of
the book hat cannot better facilitate acquaintance
between author and reader than 70 giyeit 20 you:
For the convenience OF my readers It seems best 10
book In writing It | hat Two objects constantly Ia
mind. namely that 1t must be kept within portable
excu ted, aud those not iIyinS spoken OF
with as much conclscneSs as possD'o WINE h lew Were
travellers. THIS last rule when applied TO the artists OF
antiquity. takes a very small number Oh antique
paIatings we have almost nothing remaining, and Of
antique sculptures ont small number OF well dttested
cceded this respect by adding few artists OF anti
guilty OF whom. much a. written ana sald, Dut whose
works NOT extant It's pleasure TO elaborate, TO
dwell with mlnueucss, upon every known circumstance
in the lives OF those VINO nave lett us works OF art aud
this has often been done Our libraries are rch IN sgeh
outlines; supply the want OF "A handbook Tor travel
err and yenient book OF reference Tor all, IN which
facts may be quickly ascerained. 10 make suggestive
rAther exhaustive work IN short book wherein
The learned reject 90 What oaiore they sne~."
new edition OF Felds's Yesterdays with Authors"
Is also called for, and J. r. osgood Co about 10
supply this want oy issuing II in somewhat cheaper
form The Life Of Theodore Parker" by that other
strong douOter and brilliant radical the Rev. octayins
b. Frothng ham, which has been talked about aud an
tcipated for so long, at last nearly ready. Another
announcement OF j. Il. Osgood Il Co. is Fables in
Song" y.Robert Lord Lytton (Oweu Incredibly. The
issue Of q volume of poems BY the son of the great
novelist lately gone fron among Us is an event Of
real interest. While Swinburne and Buchanan have
been falling into poetic frenzles OF unntclbgbiity,
owen Meredith been working patiently, aud with
All artists love for his art and shall all like TO
what he has accomplished. The author Of that clever
but hardheaded and unsentimental novel. " Ready
Money Mortiboy," has written tale called Tie
Son of Vulcan" which osgood Co. are sooa 10 pnD
hsh
The Record OF school," by A. Bronson Alcott
which has been in type for nearly two years. last
on press and will beissued by Roberts Brothers
Its publication has been delayed by certain differences
of opinion concerning the ownership OF It which
among the cuuoses Of literature. IL the history OF
q marvellous school conducted by Mr. Alcott many years
ago in Boston, where the scholars too wise for
their years and it IL wonder they lived TO grow
up One OF the peasantest promises of the Spring
complete edition OF the Poems OF the painter WIN. Blake
edited by the poet Rosset Christina Rossetti Will
give a new volume of devotional poetry. or course
these two books will have the imprint OF Roberts
Brothers, WILL probably, volume OF Songs and
Poems, by Mr.. oshaaghnessy. enutied Music by
Moonlight"
Little Brown TO publish the tenth and con
cuding volume OF Banorofts History OF the United
staes which brings down the narration TO the end Of
the Revolution. The firm have Just issued the first
two volumesl Of THE History Of the Birds of North
America" aud the third volume will follow In March.
This work Is notable addition to the literature Jf SCI
ence, being edited by Prof. Spencer +. Baird OF the
Smithsonian Institute, Dr. T. NJ Brewer of Boston, and
Robert Rdgway OF Illinois. IL II most abundantly
illustrated aud contains lfesZe pictures Of the heads
Of each species OF birds l. q. NJ