New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-09
LJTERARY NOTES.

A French translation OF Charles LAMBS
ESSAYS Of Eta" Is in progress
The addresses and OratiOns of Rufus Choate
will he among INC Obet books Of Little, Brown NO
Edward Eggleston's " Roxy" will be out in
book TORN at Charles scrlbners Sons this week new
edition OF his Circuit Rider" viii also be issued III style
uniform win Roxy"
Philip Gilbert HamertOn's new book
Modern Frenohmen "-wln be among the Autumn pub
lieatIons OF Roberts Brothers The house has IN
br Draw 7i''-''ON '''' ''''
A volume of historical essays by Professor
Won Ranke has been published in England savona-
roIa Cosmo de Medcl, Philip the Second, Don Carlos
and the administration Of Cardinal Consalvi are among
the subjects which are considered
The BOdley books published by HOughtOn,
OsPood d Co. had large sale. "DOings Of the Bodey
Family" and "The BOdeys Telling Stories" Will be
followed IN the latter part Of the month by the third
book Of the series called The BodleYs on Wheels"
The marble bust of Izaak Walton, erected by
public subscription ST. Marys Church. Stafford the
town IN which the famous old angler was born, has
in the inscription the ue Izaak Walton, Piscator
with the dates OF his BIRTH baptism ana burial Ioo"
ing
Some time this Autumn a volume of poems
by JOAQUIN Miller under the title Songs OF Italy, will
be published in Boston by Roberts Brothers. The same
firm win also publish soon the volume Of the No Name
Series known as " Masqne OF POets' which mas Deon
edited by G. P. LathrOp
The Rev. George Gilfllan, the eminent
clergyman OF Dundee Scotland, who died August IA
left in completed form life Of Robert Burns. which had
already gone to the publishers, besides another DOOR,
described as g. semiphilosophca semi-poehcal 70
NANCE" which is considered his most Important WORK
p The volume of lectures on medieval church
history, delivered by Archbishop Trench of Dublin, at
Queens College, in London, which has been published
in England will be out this week from the house OF
Charles scrbner's Sons The same firm have history
OF Roman literature by e. H. Gru't"eii' III Prepai"'O"
James Speeding, the English scholar, who
prepared the original hfteeu-yolume edition of Lord
Bacons works. has written life Of Bacon, which,
together with letters of the great Lord Chancellor
viii be published in this country this Autumn by
Houghton, osgood & Co. The same firm wlll soon
print new volume by Joseph COOK Whlch VIII pIoO
ably be called Conscience"
The first volume of Taine's French RevO-
luton nearly ready from the press Of Henry Holt
Co TO follow this will be issued Matthew Arnold's
selections from Dr. JohnsOn's olives Of the POes &C
cOmpaned by both Carlyle's and Macaulays essay on
johnson To Leisure Hour Series the House will
add as the hundredth volume A Century OF American
Literature edited by Professor Beers, OF Yale college,
which will be followed by Hardy's Return OF the
Native" and "The First Violin" the work OF new
Novelist.
Henry James, IRIS volume of magazine es-
SAYS which has been published in London comprises his
articles on De Musset, Gauter. Baudeaire Balzac'
Sand Flaubert and TOurguene and The Spectator well
comes Mr.. James genuine and instructive critic
The volume is an admirable book" and Mr. James
an honest Just and enlightened critic" 1t cannot,
however, assent 20 his statement that De Musset ~
talked Of nowadays IN France very much as Byron is
talked OF IN England. Byron made Of sterner
stun than De Musset and there is vein OF manly sense
which we are fond OF calling English IN the formers
poetry which is conspicuous by tie absence IN the lat
ter's It not without reason that one OF ms own
eOuntrymen ncknamed De Musset 4odemoisete BY
ron"