New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-10
NEV. YORK LITERARY NOTES.

A manual of FrcemasOnry in the Spanish
toncue will he ruhlishcd bv d. Appleton e. Co., who
already have a considerable list in that language
"An exciting and weirdy fascinating story"
by Wilkie Collins, Alicia warock: Mystery" Is an
nounced by VIM F. Gill Il Co. as copyrighted ana Is 10
be published by direct arrangement with the author
A translation of the extensive "Text-book
of Botany" of Prof Julius Sachs Professorn the Uni
versty of wurzburg. will be published by Macmillan IL
Co Ii makes a huge octave volume has 400 Wood cuts
and treats with unusual scope the biology of plants
and the researches into other departments OF he
study.
Scribner's Mdga.ine "counts ten" as Dr. Ho-
land puts it, with its forthcoming number, entering upon
its Xh volume Several changes will be made in It's odi-
torial features in the May issue. The department OF
Etchngs" will hereafter be known as " Brc-Ebrac,
and that Of mature and Science, into which the Rev.
John c. Draper has condensed surprising amount OF
information will be superseded by a review Of The
Worlds Work" The editorial pages will again he loaded,
as urged by many readers Inc May c0ntrlDu-
MTlSs % BY ine Rey Wm Hayes %ad e
on the Grand Opera House OF Pans by freq a.
Schwab; and the Baltimore Bonapartes." There
will be more Of the old letters, which, it may comfort
some doubting readers to know, genuine antiquities
WHEN Of the Temarkabe Creole Sketches and the poets
will number among them Celia Thaxter and Mrs Hunt
The absorption by ST. Nicholas of The Little
Corporal of Chicago and The SchoOiday Ad9asine of
Philadelphia the Oldest monthly OF Its class in the coun-
try calls to mind the previous achievements of this
racOus Saint The RircrSide magazine consolidated
with at The start then followed oar Young Folks, with
its wide popularity and subscription list and The Ch
drenS Hour of T. s. Arthur next. 81 Nicholas thus
represents six magazines and the enterprise of its pub
Usher and the good taste Of its editors have made
il such an excellent magazine that many OF its
readers declare it is good oil the six to-
gethcr 1t has certainly obtained list of contributors
such as other chds magazine few publications Of
any SORT in the world can boast II has also caused the
best writer's in America To turn their attention to the
task giving deli gt and mpartng culture to children
This absorption of rivals might make 81 Nicholas dan
monopoly hut that lts lrOi1etofs may I'VE or-
ougy trusted 10 give the most interesting articles that
can he obtained for money The process OF
is necessary result OF the growth or TINS KIND or iite
which compels with it's increased expenditures, the
massng OF The many weak periodicals oGcePylng tne
same field into few strong ones Ins Is the reason
given by The prOpTietors OF the consolidated magazines
ture that threatens the children some strong vitality
wholesome, and Geay attractive magazine Is required
for them and 81 Nicholas has reached higher platform,
and commands for this service wider resources In art ana
letters than any O its predecessors contemporaries
Several chapters from the work of Fernand
PapitOn have len printedn The Popular Science Monthly,
but abe volume Itself promises to attract still wider at
teDten 1t Is translated from the second French edition
by Nj. A. r Mac&OnOugh and viii be published imnedi-
atoly by ID. Appleton Il Co.. under the title pf Mature
and Life" This tran Station OF the French title, but Il
Is unfor in the American market duplicates
that of volume Of Robert Coyer's sermons. 1t is not
generally known fhat entry Ia the copyright office
guarantee title The works series OF learned
t popuior scIchthc rays Oh 'hc iao' ANU uootcs Oh
the s ton OF matter 1t discusses the cynan-
icsand the philosophy of nature the general eOrstitu
ton Of living beings The relations Of light heat eleo-
tricny, odon, and fenents of life in respective chap
animal crafts and TrgcneratOns great epiepcs,
especially Of Asatic cholera the physiology OF death
and heredity Al physiology. In pedcne and IN pyebol
Ogy These papers present many new and curious iats,
that the "keation Of Odors" being especially noe
worthy Ii may be remembered that George Eliot speafs
Of odOrs the ost powerful means of rcyiylng old aas-
ciflOns. The chapter Animal Crafts details many
cases Of he repiDdicon OF 0storgans and waneh us
sues. and predicts the discovery OF method Of promoting
the growth OF ne% crystalline lens after removal IN cat
In the last chapter the writer
belief ia the innateess OF genius Immortality and <iOd
and measures the scientific value Of meta ply sics