New-York tribune., 1878-10-16
LITERART NOTES.


lished in cheap form on Saturday by Harper
Brothers.
Dante as a field for literary study has not
been neglected in the past seven More than $50
publications concerning him were issued.
history of the English Bible, 10y the Rev
DR.. W. +. Moulton, Of Cambridge, England hae just
been published by Casseil, Peter Galpin
The first volume of John, Henry Blunts
Annotated Hlbc." quaro in three volumes, viii be
| ready at E p. Dutton 4 Co.'S in November
A likeness of Charles Lamb, which was
painted BY William Haztt and presented to CocriJgc,
has been offered to the National Portrait Gallery Of Lon
1t is said that 10000 copies of Mrs. Bur
netts lass O. Lowre's" have been sold In England
during the year and hall since the book first ap
pesrcd.
A general catalogue including nearly all the
publishing houses in Italy Is a volume considerably
larger than the Trade List Annual the publication IN
this country to which II corresponds
Documents showing that Napoleon III. re-
peatedly offered Egypt to England In consideration of
the occupation Of Morocco by France said BY Paris
journal to be forthcoming In printed form.
Pierre Vidal, best-knOwn and most eccentric
of Provencal poets, married Greek lady OF Cypru1
whom he always declared DC the niece Of the Greek
Emperor and through her he laid claim 10 the lmpe-
rial throne.
The house in which Corneille lived, near
Rouen will soon be restored aud furnished with relics
OF the great poet but the house in Paris where ne 'ed
and died must yield like everything ese In Paris sacred
or profaue. TO the demands OF q new street.
Farrars Life Of Christ" in the London
library STYLE has Just reached ts twentythrd edition
The illustrated edition. also published by Cass, Peter
& Galpin, containing 800 original cats end 80 steel
plates will be completed the last OF October by the
Issue OF the final parts aud the appendix.
Twenty-one of. the early poems OF Long
fellow all Of which except five have been rejected by tho
author from his published works have appeared Ia Lon
don in a small volume Seventeen Of them printed
originally In The United States Literary Gd-ste when the
author was eighteen and nineteen years OF age.
Miss Stokes, who edited Lord Dunraycn's
folios on ancient Irish architecture, has published
abroad m octave Early Christian Architecture IN
Ireland" which embraces the iuteref!nr per'd i!on
the Introduction Of Christianity the norman nyascn
in which Irish art was purely national growth.
A wcll-knOwn English novelist, relates The
Echo was In the habit Of sending his books L IhoHas
Carlyle as they came out ard at last vontured TO cal
in Cheyne-rOw After some moments OF general CONVEX
saton the novelist brought the conversation round t.
his own works Ay ay" said the phil. gopher they'ra
very good; but when ye gauu to write book mon
A new feature of Scribner'S MOHthiy is the
publication Of articles which illustrated by tbo per
son who wrote them. such papers will appear IN
the November number Bret Hartcs poem Will De
called 1.-THE Spelling Bee at Angess" and Will have
nlustr atoms Edward EggIes.on will have paper In
the December number called g Parsons aud Parsons"
To Nicholas for November L T. CrhhCh contributes
poem entitled Ccada."
A new story by +. p. Roe, entitled A
Face Illuminated" will be published by Dodd, Mead Co
early in November Mr. Roe's knight OF the Nine.
eenth Century" reached It's twentieth thousand with
in year publication, aud durag the year ended Au-
gust J. 1873 1880 copies OF his Eve earlier books
| sold Dodd Mead g. Co. have just published a life OF
Tecumseh being the first in their series Of lives Of
lean Indians which Edward Etg'cstonand his daughter,
| Mrs. Lille EgglestOH scelye, ar preparing
Among the announcements at g. p Put
pans Sons are An edition OF Bryant's "Thanatopsi5.'
uniform The Flood OF Years" published In 1877,
an cdiio Of the two poems bound together under the
general title Of "Bryants FIRST aud Last Poems" and
bearing the title the respective dates OF publication,
| 1917 and 1876; cheap edition OF Irvng's "skech-
Book" aud American Colonial Literature" by Proles-
sor Moses Colt Tyler forml tie first part OF his His
tory Of American Literature" which published two
| volumes instead OF In one, a. first announced.
| ErmeuonvlIe, where died Rousseau and to
| which long afterwards turned the footsteps OF
| many pilgrims aud enthusiasts who fanced Tint the
spirit of the philosopher st inhabited the place and
had been seen there sale upset price GOO
600 francs The last Algnm 10 this place was George
| Sand who visited IL N 1880. In the old register,
0uartO Of 900 pages, which the concierge kept
written many remarkable autographs among them that
OF Marie Autonette Malesherbes ot Nccker and lis
family OF Mirabeau Robespicre David iae FAINTER aud
OF Camille DcsmOulns the Anacroon of the guotne"
| Another volume of selected poetry is in
preparation 1t Is to De called "The Frcsde EIcyclo
pedia of Poetry and has been collected and arranged
| Mr. Henry T. Coates. Porter & Coates, OF Phladol-
| phia will publish II in November. The work begun
In the Fall OF 1871 and has been "a labor Of love with
the compiler" Each poem will De given In rs complete
ness and nearly all the longer minor poems IN the Ian
guage that have become classic will pc found III the
volume In all there will be 26i poems by 30S English
and American authors, besides complete alphabetical
index OF the names OF the poems anu the authors and
| index OF first lines.
The sequel to Dickens's Mystery Of Edwin
Drood" which Gillian Vase has published in LONDON
under the title a Great Mystery Solved" comprises
three volumes. Mr.. Vase his preface remarks that
weary Of waiting for OF Dickcnss literary friends
| 10 " weave the story to tie end" he began 10
solve il himself EncOura led by few friends, he was
at last led to the work by something strangely like am
bon" In concluding its notice Of the sequel IN: Sat
urddy ReUieV remarks IL Is not worth nile follow
the writer through any OF the eXTavagant scenes
OF the story. He has been bold enough to Try 10 draw
tho bow Of Ulysses and We have SAID enough aud
than enough show that II Is far too mighty for his
hands should be again had himself stirred by some
thing strangely Ike ambluOn, We would advise hin 10
| try pOpgun Of his own"
1t is recorded that the Farmers General edl-
ton OF the celebrated "COntes" OF La FOntane pub
shed In 176O which NJ. Brunei bought in 1887 for G25
francs and which at the sale VI. Brunets library in
1868 fetched 200 francs, at the BenzOn sale, seven
years later went for $4,000 francs. Rare and choice
editions OF Moere have also brought astonishing figures
OF late years. selling for 500, 5000, and 1900
francs Single plays OF Moere have gone for higher
nrices than the Shakespeare quaTtOs which have not
1908 excepted. OF this Hamlet two copies only are
known, and both are imperfect complete eoby Would
II now found, realize IL Is believed, between ~ 900 ana
| s3, 600 VIII hibliO-maDa ever reach high udei
| Tho monkey and the parrot were put into