New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-17
LITERARY NOTES.

LITERARY NOTES.
The "Historv Of Don John Of Austria" by
thelate Sir W. ng-Maxwe was left in completed
t ana IL ready for publication in London at once
The work rs in three VOLUMES.
John Payne Collier, whose edition OF Snake
speare was recently completed although in the nnetieh
year Of his age, cOntempates new edition OF BIS S
tory of Dramatic Poetry" My braiD," he says VII
stand IL, II only my hands hold OUT
General Henry B. Darlington, author OF the
"Battes Of the American Revolution" and historical
Orator at the Centennial celebration OF the Battle OF
Monmouth, has recently republshed Ao-Sofa-Ea,
volume which is fourth edition, giving the eiah
operations on the Plains from 1s65 TO 1873 Win MAPS
~ the NORTHWESTERN Territories, approved by the
Engineers Bureau at Washington - g,
DR.. julius WOldemar Liebig has pubIsheu
at Dresden second edition OF his History ana ler1
ture of Shorthand" This is regarded as the eompees
historical sketch Of shorthand extant After an e1aiD
nation OF the methods employed by the anclehts' OF
which very little is known. Dr. Lebg sketches the pI
OF the art among tTentya asS 1igerSn'
Among the articles in LippiReOtfS Magazine
for August lust out are the fOlowing "AoDg the Dan
ube" Edward King; " TIE Paris Exposition OF 1870
Edward H. Kaight; " The British Soldier" Henry
James IT,; and The Empress Eugenie" by Lacy H.
Hooper OF Eugene Mrs. Hooper concludes as Ioiio"s
"A head loaded with false yellow hair, race coVercu
with paint and powder. mincing gait and the airs anu
rraees OF an antiouated eoquettesuch today Is she
who was once the worlds wonder for her loneliness ana
grace bewgged Mrs skewton succeeding to the d NJ
nojeop III and won his oallOus heart and that stu
smiles upon us from the canvas OF Win erhalter."
In one of the German art journals Professor
Moritz Thausg has started the hypothesis that tne
three Titan female portraits the FlOrentne galleries
and the one in the Bevedere Gallery at Vienna all rep
resent one and the person, and mono other tah
the beautiful Eeanora Gonzaga, Duchess OF Urbno tue
daughter OF Isabel dEste and Francesca Gonzaga Hs
known that Titan painted the portraits OF TINS ady aho
her husband francesca Msra della Revere, which now
adorn the walls Of the UGzi, but Of the Bella di
Tiziano at the Pitt aud of the Venus IN tne
Tribune at the Ufzi less is known. The "Bella is
evidently noble lady in the prime OF life DutN Is
poipted out that the Venus" reclining figure, eOnid
Ee3Ors Of Q6no as her nn not e have
lowed his young wife 70 DC panied n rWents il is
said IN favor OF his hypothesis which he viii give III the
August number Of the periodical.
In Shakespeare's Twelfth Night" Act Ill,
Scene @ are the words He does smile his face into
more lines than are in the map, with the augmeht-
tion Of the indies" fOO-bote TO many editions mas
described this map one engraved for "Linsehotens
Voyages" translation of which published IN Eng
land in $685. the Twelfth Night" having been produced
in 1901 and O portion OF this map, showing Its many
lines, is given IN knights Pictorial Shakspere." =
h. Coote OF the British Museum after considerable IT,
search has lately brought TO light new faets showing
that the man referred 70 by Shakespeare is other
than the rare map Hydrographieall Description"
sometimes found inserted in The Voyages OF Hakuyb"
called by The (LOndon AheRGUBl "that prose epic OF
the English DatiOn," which was printed ID l59S-loVO
The points OF the argument in favor Of this claim are as
follows: At the period of the production Of the play
mentioned it could be regarded as no other than the
new map in the then new projection. 1t had upon 1t
more lines than are TO be found upon It's old riyalln
Ldnsehoten's Voyages" Its claims TO be regarded as
the new map with the augmentation Of the indies" is
shown by the augmented improved geography OF the
ably under the superintendence OF Haluyt Halam IN
mis- Introduction to the Literature Of Europe eonso
ments used by Mr. COOto will be printed in pamphlet
that is soon TO appear
The biography of Rouget de pIsle, the au-
thOE Of the Marseaise recently published in France
by NJ. Rene de la Garde, claims that De Plsle was
ROyalst. Toe hymn was composed in Strasburg, April
"a 1902 In June It reached Marsees, and the revol
fionary band which marched from that city upon Paris
10 take part the terrible that followed seized
upon it their marching song De Isle. prescribed as
ROyast heard the song 1t spread over all France
and taking alarm for his safety made his escape through
one of the Alpine passes He had already refused to
accept the decree which took away the throne from
Louis XVII and had laid down his sword. Some years
aferward he returned 20 France and was cast into
prison. bur owing to the downfall or ROOesperre, ne
escaped the guOtine. When the Bourbons returned TO
power he wrote his " Deu eonservele Roi" which Is
described as "the most anti-Repuboan anthem ever
penned De PIses genius however seems to have been
versatile and Of easy conscience for when Napoleon
contemplated a descent upon England he warned that
nation in a lyric that "a giant with terrible
armsD was about TO strike them; and after
The coup d'6tat Of the 18th BTum0ire, when
Napoleon seized upon the supreme power, ne
Celebrated the event in verse easily as he
had decred the other. The original title Of the HYMN
was; "Chant de Guerre de PArm6e du Rim" While
he psle was wandering i'm his exile il being sung
everywhere, and with that enthusiasm known only to
the French and especially 10 the French OF that exraor
dnaFV time