New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-11-16
Arps. aebOrns, and Looking BaoE." by Mary E Ship

Hon J. r. Dodge of Washin gton, and Editor OF f'e'e
and Forest has written story of seaside nie' oaeu
Louise and l." which G. ". Carleton 20 VIII puon'"
next week The characters are said TO De Sns P0 in
sons and the authors knowledge OF nature, as sce "
it, varied FORMS appears IN many pleasing passages
II f. a fact known TO very few people, even
in England that In 1880 octave volume, bearing on
its title page the simple words Poems D. H. ana PIT
vately circulated printed in London Tor Johh huS
Kin The hook contained the poems which, IN his earlier
years. Mr. Ruskn had contributed 10 keepsahes anu a
nuals their number being many ana 'her Appe"i"n'0
frequent.
A volume of literary studies by the late
Walter Bagehot Is about to appear IN London IL III
cludes essays written betwoen 1855 and ls09 on Sner
ley Lady Montague, Macauay, Beranger, ana one Oh
Wordsworth, Tennyson and BROWNING mem1, ie OF OF
Mr.. Baeehot, by Il. III. Hutton VINO wrote INC nc VI
Ghbon the English Men Of Letters series Will W
added to the book.
Captain Mayne Reds books have cXpe-
renced a revival in the trade. James Miller. who no"
publishes them has found difficulty, at times in meet
inc the demand Mr.. Miller has inst published new
edition Of Srickands Queens OF England, with many
Eeoiy added IL the en2ravngs when ihe loliner
Ctusoe " and Of " the STORY OF Cecl ana MS Dog
Frederick Kcppcl, whose taste and zeal IN
the collection ~ fine cngravinSS have made his print
shop fvorte place OF resort or lovers or engraving
has reprinted in beautiful large form his attract
I've article the golden OF cngrayings, puDSheu
IN Harrers Woq-inc for August 1873 II is admirably
dU%tion to tic more exen lei study OF the old
,ngs.
John Pine, the famous engravcr Of Horace,
published in 1889 . work illustrating the Spanish
Armada tapestry winch adorned the OLD British Hon-e
of Lords In the lire OF 1884, which destroyed th'
Houses of Parliament these ceicbrat tapestries were
lost and Jonn Pines book rerained-he only falthIu
representative Of them. His book has become rare
Ncw-Hayen, who has just reproduced it, ON hn',iG
copies OF the work have been published.
When William Shakespeare was one OF the
Kiug's players he belonged 70 the royal household but
poor paicrs IN the royal accounts nearly az the
end OF the class called TrOmpcters and Musiti"nS.'
For royal procession into London on March lol6o"
be and his companions got four and half yards each OF
'skarlet red cloth" lie probably had yearly fec
which was in amount the same as mas Deeh Iound IL d
list OF James Is hOuscOld IN 4Oli;
c""iIsf'%s. a5 ,' ts9 t? Sc i" 81 .S q
The sofa which has reached England from
Italy, and which was believed 10 have belonged 60
Shelley IS now cOncsIvcy shown 20 be the one he used
in Pisa Al his death it went Mrs. Shelley who, on
leaving Pisa gave il to Leigh Hunt When Hunt lefJ
Pisa be gave it to Mr.. Charles Brown, and Mt Brown
when he returned 10 England, sold il to Baron Krku
the painter. Lander" says Krbup, always laughed
at mc for paying he value OF BT9Wns apiralseT "no
cordingy" II is known that shelley slept on tbs sofa
voyage.
A life of SavOnarOla written by w. X.
Clark vicar Of the English Church has just been puo
ished by the London Society for Promoting Christian
knowledge. The book is mainly restatement OF con
illusions and facts which have been reached by various
writers since 1885, when the reaction against tho long
established custom of regarding the great pI1or Of san
Marco a rogue or fool began The chief merit Of the
book The Examiner thinks, that il VIII enable even
the unIuItiaed reader to understand how sayouaroa
tortured aud burned ony because ine Se,lh "''a
pure and great. and the age so petty ana We
An edition of Dante's "Dyina ComGdia'
which printed at Padua in 1873 has 800 pages
which are Just under inches length and about one
and quarters inches wide type with which iJ
was printed said been destroyed immediately
aferward and the 900 copies shortly 10 10 sold
are, therefore, the only which II will be possible to
obtain. The whole amount Of paper employed in single
copy only two sheets" Of printing paper Of the
usual SIZE which were divided Into sixteen parts each
before beng used aud the text small that 1t re-
Guires IA magnifyng glass read 1t. 1t is the ast OF
long Of attempts produce work OF the kind in
one Of which several wOrkmen became blind rive run
S ySeTs a nnY Has pa os In
4OOth edition OF them that has been published
George Wither, whose " Christmas Day is
one Of the four poems by English writers dead that
appear III Hdrper's for December had singular literary
history 1885, he lived to be seventyninc years
Of age he sympathized with the Puritans ana was
popular with them writer but in spite o. this served
a. captain the expedition Of Charles against the
Scotch Coyenantcrs; he wrote enormously, so that
about 100 separate publications OF his are known to
modern photographers and yet after he died his poetry
sank into oblivion contempt. II was not until our own
time that he was rescued from the fate that had belen
him To southey and Charles Lamb chiefly belongs the
credit of restoring him fame and book Of choIcc
affections English poets would now hardly ne
considered comp II OMITTED him The contempt III
winch be was held POpe's time may be judged from
line IN the DuneIad." where he is called ~retehed
WitherE" Richard Baxter, his contemporary, called
him honest George Withers," who. though rustic
40 to others for his plain country honesty" His
is found in three forms "Wther," "WytheT" and
a. rgt1