New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-11-06
LLTERARY NOTES.

,,af,rilrt on "Vulcarian Horrors, the
ouesfia. %. ls Ncs" dedicated 60 tue KAI non W l.
Glad,ious 49, T., &c, Eas jas been ss'e' III o"Oi
A Cornish MSS. society Is beng organizer
In England f1rths purpose Of printing al su'h remains
of The Cornish language hive mol. been already pun
Tsld a. Vol rs any s-. u otlrr languages taat may
besr upon Tie history og antiquities OF tic DucAy'
DIR. McCosh will print, through Robert Carter
A Brother. % small volume entitled The Development
Hvuotle.: T. il sualccutf and consisting Of four pa
pers respectively treating Of tnc argument Tor anu
Against dcVe1pin answering the sIecl5 qttIS I.
ssntcd m lie general tto. discussing tic deyelopmsnI
giyeu ly coiuJiued science and religion
According To official statistics, DOC DOCKS
were issued 10 Russn during tie yeais 1919 ~" -
OF these G7g were Theological. 81 legal, ll' aS'icu
tural 247 historical, 247 gcosraPhicai apo 9
ic1l 1q5 mathematical, l3j military - sTent en-, -
Iosdca 49, thologica 81 artistic, While ls1i Iea!eu
OfHghtcr literature aEd 44| were 'i"'i'i'' "
bellies iet'rcs.
A Lcvdcn publisher, Herr Brill, proposes to
,ssno youe OF extracts from the Tamud embracing
scb ,ors of that voiuminous work important or
interesting even in eyes Of those VINO are not lsie
lies rclatnr history morals archdpioHy 'c. la'o
transiauon together With necessary explanations ana
remarks The author Is ii. j. spro.
The book on "The Caliiornians,' by MI W.
n Fisher who WIS an assistant of 5Ir H. II. bancroft,
In collitlng FOR his great work. will be comprised IN 't
ehapcIa dealing respectively with tie country If .
nees Its Spanish inhabitants. lts Chinese Ms
its women, It's Inen It's politicians ana lls writers.
last cbaptcr l. said TO b. " an aent protest aAds Wv
religions Ouackery which is gaining ground lh O"Hul
MIA" Macmillan & Co. viii be the rublShtlS'
Prof. +. II. Palmer, author of ." The Desert
OF the Exodus."is a man Of many acqurem.hts his
metrcal translation Of the works Of the Arabic poet
Bella cd din Zoheir completed and will be shortly
issued bv the Cambridge University Press. The Aramc
teYt was puhli,hed some few months age. MeS'is.
Tr6bucr have also IN tie press volume Q poems ny
Prof Palmer entitled Tic song OF the Reed, ana con
taiuinc TRANSACTIONS from tie Persian ana ARABIC ana
original humorous English pieces.
The Chaucer text is the latest object OF at
tack for the ieOroclasts. a Mr.. H. Simon OF scimahai-
den has tran lated enlarged for 'hc ChauceT Society
his essay "Chaucer q Wciifite," which Is, in iac
treatise on the Parsons Tale" aud its Inconsistencies
and on tie character Of the Parson Mr.. Simon urges
that the Parson accepts. by his silence, the rer0Schim
title of lNer" OF LnlaId, applied him IN the Man
OfIaw-Sluman LINZ, that the character OF INN IN the
general ura0cu. is that q WiclitC that the Tar
sons Tall wis utcIpottod, and turned INTO EolusA
treatise by slnt monk after Chaucci DEATH; lHa' INC
second ANA third parts of il me spurious; thu many
spurious la,-iEcs are alsl contained M the hst Il
and that whcH these are removed CONSISTENT Nlcihtc
tract Oa penitenCe remains. Though Eu-lsh 'iE'u
cerians saws Tie AGicEVUH, win 10 COubt re4use 10
desert their best NSS which firm on the tCNi let ~
is well % have all possible objections 10 The Admitted I
constituencies and Commissions OF the tale brought Of"du