New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-02
LITERARY NOTES.

A history of Dartmouth College was pub.
hshed Wednesday that day being the 10Th ami
versary Of the first commencement at the college
The September number of The Penn Monthly
will contain an article on the late Henry Armitt Brown
by prominent member Of the Philadelphia Bar.
In France $780, 900 copies of the peoples
edition OF Victor Hugo's Historic dun Crime have
already been sOldthe same number that was SOLD OF
the illustrated Paris edition OF Les Miseraoles IN
1s63JG5. cheap illustrated edition Of the Historic
dun Crime is how in preparation.
The life of Alexander H. Stephens by Rich
ard NJ Johnston and william II. Browne will be out to-
day from the press of B. LppeneOt Co.. but Will be
sold It is said only by agents 1t makes an octave vol
ume Of 600 pages and steepOrtrat of Mr. stephens
and an engraving OF Liberty Hail." his home.
In the latest volume of the Encyclopedia
Britannica, the articles on Emperor" and Empire
were written by James Bryce; the article on English
Literature" by 7. Arnold that on Engraving" by T.
g. Hamerton that ON Euphrates" by Sir II. C. Raw
linsop and theNone on Evolution the joint work
OF Professor Huxley and james Sully.
Samuel r. CrOcker and Evert A. Duyck-
inok died within the week, and both founded
journal called The Literary World. Mr.. Duyckincks
publication was started 1917 in this city, but was
discontinued six years later Crockers, which took
no origin from predecessor, started eight years
ago in Boston. and has been for some time welknoWh
literary periodical.
II is reported that one Of the NewYOrk
Cullen Bryant and Evert Duycnek to prepare an edi-
ton of Shakespeare. The work first done by MI
Duyckinck who. when number of pages had been pre-
pared submitted them t6Mr Bryant for his supervision
The entire edition completed in about year ana
half and the last pages given the publisher over
year ago. When the work will be issued or whether IL
Is TO be Issued at all, the public has nOt been IOlmeu
1t is claimed by writer in The Guardian
1ondon) that the word Jngo," now SO familiar in
England comes from the language OF the BasQues That
ancient and peculiar people who during the many
periods of European civilization have remained I'M
changed in their homes the slopes Of the Pyrenees
Mountains Its meaning is " God" and it is commonly
used adiuratOn. The writer is of opinion that the
word was brought to England by Basque sailors, who
appear in various dialects given lingo, Jnco,
Jainco, Jaincoa, Gincoa Yinko and Hainko.
In his two volumes, "FashiOn Now and
Then" Lord William Pitt Lennox in passing deserved
criticism on the use Of slang fashionable English soci
ety is authority for saying that such words pals"
"mufs," Irregular bricks" "daddies' and "sow
coaches actually in and relates an anecdote OF
young lady who asked to dance by officer whose
name she did not hear In making the entry on her
sard she DESIGNATED him the three BIS" When the
yOung man came up to dance with her. he noticed the
entry and asked what it signAed. Never mind"
Iponded the GIRL in need of parental correction,
didn't catch your name, SO booked You as the tnrte
B's-beeT, brandy and baccy" This 1t appears, was an
uson to the color of the officers face and the perfume
Of his clothes
John IL. Ingram, whose memoir oil Edgar
Allan Poe published four years ago, will be recalled,
advances in The AHeHsm for August II, new theory
to account for the origin of the Raven" He relates
that in October 1913, when Poe writing for The
Nee York Netc Mirror, then edited by g. p Morris and
H. p Willis poem called "IsadOre was published in
the columns that paper from the pen Of Albert Pike
It was preceded by introduction written by Mr. Will
s in which were the following words: ave do not I'M
aersrand why we should not tell what we chance to
know-that these lines were written after sitting up
late at studythe thought of losing her who slept near
him at his toll having suddenly crossed his mind in the
stiffness OF midnight" The distinctive feature OF the
poem is the refrain Of forever" with which each
stanza concludes, while the words "never." more
"no more" "eyermOre and forevermore are OF ire
Quent occurrence: Note the following stanza:
Thou art lost TO Inc forever- have thee Isadore
Thy head will never rest upon my loyal bosom more;
Thy tender will never more gaze fOndly INTO mine,
Nor thine arms around me lovingly and trustingy en-
Thou art lost TO me forever, Isadorel
In one of his prose articles Poe has related that the
theme which he adopted for his poem was A lover
Iamenting his deceased mistress" There is mention
In Isadore OF raven, but into Of the stanzas
mockingbird is introduced aud lie sits and sings
a melancholy strain" Mr. Ingram is of opinion that
Poes first hints Of the raven derived from reading
Raruaby Rudge" and says that Poe once called atten-
lion TO certain points which he thought Dickens might
have made, suggesting that the ravens croakings
might have been pTOphetcaly heard in the course OF
the drama" This suggestion, however, was made long
whole plot of DiCkenss story when he had only read
the opening chapters The last number OF The Examiner
that Poe is almost II not quite the greatest ntr-
airy genius America has produced"