New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-09-12
LITERARY NOTES.

LITERARY NOTES.
"They All Do It." is the title Of The Dan
,urg Noos Mans for .ncomlng book
The Popular Science Monthly FOR October will
contain an ai.,e,e on The Modern Pianoiortc' by Dr.
& A.sten pcalre tracing its remarkable and rapid de-
Ns1cpmcnt IN America
Prof. Proctor will conclude his papers on
"sars - the Months" with that in the October number
OF ~ Nicholas but he promises IN NONchoet 10 '' 0
little people all about Mars.
A Scotch clergyman, Dean Christie, has re-
Gently published u volume Of tho "Traditional Ballad
Airs" OF Scotland with the view Of accommodating the
sues and "cIitomizing" those Ions drawn out
The "Publishel's Trade List Annual" for
1877 iUst issued by T. Lcypold containing besides te
Isis lGopnbshers the annual Reference s Of books
iS77 the Educational Catalogue Tor ~ AMI an ey-
Tended Biographical sketch OF ihe four Harper Brothers
With portrait, on steel
Mr. Keeps American edition Of Audenrieths
German "Iomcue Dictionary" is praised by The
dandon) AcadcmM which saws: 1T Is cioditabe TO
American teachers that hooS Of THIS character snond
be lkcly fine place in their schools aud We ay even
hope that the English teaching % Homer may saln "'
vantage from IT,"
"That Husband Of Mine is rumorcd to be
from pen OF Mrs Dcnson. the wife ~ c1apl9n al
the Washington navy yard Lee & SHEPPARD have al
ready printed 100000 copics 1900 orders hayjnc becn
received single dl} The companion hros on 'thar
wie Of slime, by the Same writer's Is saia' VIII he'
tand's assist ucr-s nearly ready.
The September Contemporary will be remark
ably vigorous in contents. Goodwin smith discusses
"Thc Labor Question n tho United states; and George
Howell. English eador Of workingnen discusses H.
Fourth Gospel Prof. Etw. Dow. "a anal! rs -" 4Ae
Scientific Movement and Literature"
Mrs Harriet Prescott Spofford is busy re-
visne her Harper papers household art Tor puhic-
ton I'm a sump-uous volume AT. Applied to House
hold Furniture" which Harper Br'ihcrs VIII puhI 2.
II j. h,pcd' before the 4old' hi. WIN S.'
Art" viii make interesting tro OF art books IA un-
form style.
The October number OF The american LGr
Rec,ei, will contain e paper Presidential Elections"
By Senator Eimrnds OF Vermont It's NOT the purpose
OF tie rido 10 vndicate TIC judgment o. &c majority
or 10 coIdcmu he opinion Of The minority 81 tc t"mus
sOn bl. 60 present suggstoIs Tor SacH ctnt III tNe
law now existing rs viii avoid recurrence Oh the s'u"
ton OF last year.
In the October GALAXY, among other note
worthy contributions there VIII De papers by Horace
White. on Tie Tariff and the Hard Times 80; by the
Hon Gideon Wecs. uyiuc President Lncons views on
colonization rs related 10 emancipation by Capt Ray
Inoul. United States kin crs, ana m 'uDer OF tic
Transit Of Venus Expedition. on toe planet Mars 10y
Warfare" aad fresh story BY Tufseuoh-ls this laaga-
zinc olitolnizes his name.
Thackeray, Turner, Dickens, Doyle, Rogers,
sanGcld IAudscer, the Losles and other writer's and
artists of the time were among tho friends OF Old Capt
T. r. Morgan who sailed from NcwYork harbor in tic
good old times " The European packets lie left behind
Torn tHe nate.iI' g.. % 81" - a XIt o Ia ami rs
Friends" Capf. Morgtu was the only lay member Of
tie c1tcr, ~ 2Tiis who composed the London Sketch
ing Cu' some Of whose sketches are reproduced ID Inc
paper
One of the pleasant features of the October
Serrers will be the biographical sketch OF the youIg
HoIwcg auAmcrcau author Prot Boyosen, who is even
now only twenty nine years OF age The writer traces
the freshness and truth Of Goyesens stories Of Morse life
back 10 the early "a! OF me BOY no"u, NHeh ne 10y
away 10 humble hredes 10 listen 10 the Goth stories OF
The people. and wandered about among tie majestic
scency described IN re closing chlpiers oi NoisS
mans n image, which pictures accurately ms grand
fathers home. A Likeness a;ter cidyOh D. MI wyatt
Eaton, accompanies the sketch
"Tocas and Toggely " is the title Of Clar-
ence Cooks forthcoming ScrJner paper on dress, which
will be finely illustrated Mr. Cook has become
thorough disciple Of Herr Tcufelsdr0ckh; be says:
"Cothos 10 hand m hand with mans develop
rneut a. social being and every hghde in civilization
has been marked by great inycntycness spendor ana
certain recent articles in Scbnes for be maintains on
other hand that n Peaily man has NJ need OF fur
niture ana - n thc highest ~ age 90 civilization men
will not need et.ero bed table stool or a candle
added that be writes about dress as on art
Gen. Mcclellan viii have an important pa
per in the October HdFpcs ''The Iesuar Army Of
he United States" IN which the advocates OF reduction
will ind few crumbs OF comfort. Afterprotesn8 against
this proposition, De dcvocs nearly hall lis paper TO sUg
gestinc how the army may DE reorg-nzei into more
effective usefulness. Among the illustrated artlcl 70 OF the
number viii be the leading paper. on "Mytown" 10y Mrs
Harriet Prescott SrOdord, who describes real place
without romduciug; stirring description rs VIM. L.
b0nC. under the title q The Camp o Burgoyuc Of Inc
battit at Saratoga; paper on "Walrus Hunting de-
scrptl.e humorous, by W l. Alden and ihc ronciu
SION o. Horace = seudders description OF Group Of
Classical schools"
About ten years ago, W. c. Prime picked
upon Baltimore booE-stani the O!dflShiOned little
volume OF Sencca's Morals" which bore the first I'M
print OF j. j. Harper, Printers" Two or three other
copies Of this first piece of work have since come to light
At MI Primes request, in January 1869, only nine
months before The brotherhood broken by the sud
den death Of James the four brothers atteted his copy
their first ubcatou, signing their several names
the hyeaf This interesting relic was presented by Nj
Prime To Mr. John W. Harper, and facsimile OF The
titlcpagc and signatures is with the sketch Of the
brothers In the publishers Trade List Annual" Of
1877. The elder wrote: This edition OF Scneca's
Morals published hy Duycknck in 1917 tie first
which printed. having then recently gone into
business" and the younger two added We worked a
cOnpOsOrS this book In 1917 being then boys in the
printing Office OF our brothers.