New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-11-13
IITERARY NOTES.

The erection of the library and picture gal
I,,v I'm connection with the buu
.ngs at Stratford-On-AvOn, has begun .,
Those elegant illustrated gift books, F" ltaly,
India" and SPAIN" which the Scribners nave pu"
shed for the holidays recent years, ore %
year by a similar book Switzerland now ready Like
its predecessors is an imperial 9naTdSS Sonna III
separate styles. It's illustrations numoer 4lo.
Anthony TrollOpe's novels III whlch Arch
deacon GRAVITY and Mrs Proudie figure, are TO DO
nnh,,shed in London under the general title OF Inc
chronicles OF Barsetshire" The first volume OF the
series, containing 1.-The Warden and B BsS
Towers" has already been issued by smith q Eiuor.
The new book at Cassell, Peter e. Galpins,
called "Docis,ye Events in History" with sixteen
f,,ll.page illustrations will be ready In week Inc
firm have just published large almanac with try-n'o
woodcus engravinSs and in view o. the ne esns
pcct OF English affairs in Asia nave decloeu " ioe
their illustrated" History OF lndls' -,
A life of the late Bishop Cummins, OF the
Reformed Episcopal Church, TO be published Dy Douu'
Mead& TO- before the year closes will contain letters
from several Episcopal clergymen whO is said uReu
Bshop Cummns OH at inception OF his reform move
ment and afterward failed to follow him IN his hnai STEP
81. Nicholas for December has about hfty
Illustrations and several extra pages A poem is con
ributed by Mrs Dodge, the editor, ana professor T.
Crane, Of Cornell University, tells some weI-known
fairy stories as they have been made familiar 10 INC
children OF Italy in Italian dress. Ernest lngersOll
writes OF Snakes Birds" and an account 10 given
of mistetoe gathering IN Normandy
Long before Mrs. Burnett wrote " That Lass
o. IOwrie's" she published among other things three
shorter stories called Kathleen" "Lndsay's Luck
ana Pretty Polly PembertOn." Early in the present
wear they were reprinted IN periodical published IN
another city, but without the sanction Of Mrs Burnett
they have now been revised by the author ana VII
soon ready in three paper volumes at CDaeS 90iiO
ner's sons. -
The Rev, f. p. ROes new book, "A race
uIup,inedD Will be- out this week, at DOdd, Mead d
Co.'S His early home in ew-Wiudsor-on-the-H Hudson,
which is described in 1.-THE Opening OF Chestnut Burr
rs again referred in the volume, where quaint
old garden has an important place MI. ROes Knight
of the Nineteenth Century" which was pnDished last
wear has had sale of 81 900 copies and 10000 copies
have already been ordered of "a Face Ilumined"
Bret Harte will have a completed story
called "The Great DeadwOOd Mystery" in the Decem'
Der number OF Scribaers MOnthlR. and T. W. HigGnson
n story called can Irish Heart" Mrs Burnett contrib
utes the second instalment OF her "Haworths," ana
Professor BOyesen the fifth of his "Falconberg Pro
lessor W. G.. Sumner has On article ON "The National
Bank Circulation" and Dr. Brewer his fourth paper on
Bird Architecture" undergraduate Life at oxford
is the subject article from Ansley wilcox. Two
short companion poems called Dawn" and "Eve" are
contributed by " H. H."
Attention is called in The World UOndOn)
10 the fact that John Wilson Croker whom Lord
Beaconsneld In his novel. "COniDgsby," treats with
severity under the name Of "Rigby," was trusted
friend Of Lord BeacOnsfeds father In tho preface 10
his Commentaries the Life and Reign OF Charles
L."
ever kind and valued friend the Right Hon. John VIII
son Croker whose luminous and intelligence is as
remarkable in his love of literature aud art as ~ mas
been In the OF long, an honorable ana dls-
guished public lire. STAND deeply indebted" etc.
When Professor Moses Colt Tyler began to
collect material for his History OF American Lltera-
ture," he built him library at Ann Arbor that was
nre-proof Through that means he not only made safe
the books and papers that belonged to him. but was able
10 borrow rare and important works from Eastern
rtie n
by each library that his structure could not be de-
stroyed by fire. is intended by Professor Tyler to
make this history his life work The first part, treating
Of the Colonial period Q6971765) will be ready at g.
p. Putnam's Sons, Tomorrow. The second Will follow
some time during the year. and will cover the time OF the
Revolution including the two years preceding ana the
two following ii.
Asa Christmas feature Hdrper's Magazine
for December will contain four old English pOems-Ben
Jonsons Hymn tho Nativity" George Wither's
"Chrstmas Day." Coleridges " Christmas Carol" and
Tletchers " Mercy's Appeal to God for Man." each
poem being accompanied by illustration. M. d. Con-
way writes Englsnds Great University" ex-Gov-
srnor Seymour on Crime and Tramps," Dr. T. NJ. Coan
on sone Pecularies OF Yellow Jack" Charles Bar
pard on Silver" while Elizabeth Stuart Phelps las
story entitled Two Hundred and Two" and Rose
Terry Cooke q humorous sketch called "KnOware"
William Blacks Macleod of Dare" and Thomas
Hardy's Return OF the Native" reach their
nnal instruments but The entire number contains
sxty-two illustrations paper on Mendelssohn ana
,opy o music and contains portraits Of we6er Handel
Bach, Thaberg, Beethoven and Mozart besides Mendes
shon aud MOscheles. A new novel by Miss Mul0cE u
promised to follow the novels OF Black and Hardy.
Dickens's Mystery Of Edwin brood" has
been completed by WilkIe Collins, and the work
FIRST sees the light in After Dckcnss death Mr.
Collins was one many men who, 1t was said, would
complete the fragments but time passed without bring
ing the promised work. At last Gillian Vase, an Eng
Ushman with little previous reputation as writer,
weary of waiting for literary friend OF Dckenss to
take up the task attempted himself and few months
sgo under the title A Great Mystery Solved" pub
hshed in London three volumes His solution crit
icised as extravagant He has been bold enough said
The SATURDAY. Rerie,r, Ito try to draw the bow
of Ulysses, aud it is far too mighty for his
hands" This work in French appears under the
title "Le Crime de Jasper par Charles Dick
ems ct Wilsie Collins" IL is issued without
preface or explanation OF kind and simply con
fnnation Of Edwin DrOOd taken up just at the point
where its author left it, Why IL should have been pub
shed ia the French language at Paris instead OF the
English ut London NewYorB. the public is not in
formed but nasmucn rs British copyright law does
not prevail in Paris and Mr. Collins presumably has not
had the sanction OF Mr.. piekenss literary
executors, the would seem 10 be clear
few new characters are introduced which
The Examiner says " thoroughly in keeping" and
the conclusion ID, IL says every we'll DONE brood Is
rescued by Durdes Jasper's secret Is extracted by
means Of n drug which cOmpels him 10 speak Jasper
dies; Honeythunder turns out 20 I've the father OF
and BaZzard Is identified with Baclery.