New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-01-07
LITERARY NOTES.

by Be; Harte, The Hoodlun Band"
Florence Marryatt's new novel, "a Little
step<or" has been published in London.
"Relnbrandt viii be the next volume IN
The Artist Biographies Of Aessrs James h O's'Ou
new library edition of George Eliot IS IN
course q publication by the hessrs BiaekWooa'
Edinburgh.
ContajD Frederick Whitaker, author Of the
life Of General Custer ms a. G, wSTk Oh iDi HO'''
Canon Earrar's new volume of sermons.
winch he vii issue under the title az EterIl Hoi
vii Be published American editon .! l. + Du''o
4 Co
new religious story by Hesba StIetton'
d. Tnroug, tie Needles Eve" the most exterded Voc
she yet undertaken Is in press IoI cary
b. Dcdd, Mead a Go. ood
SEQUEL 10 Daniel Deronda " is announced
b. Wm T. G.n Co, under the iitle Of G~enooieh OF
Reclaimed T; Is not announced whether L . 10y the
antbor o. the continuation Of " Edwin brood
Edmund W. Gosse. an English htterateur, Is
about to publish drama in yers 5oT rI'ys'S S ech
by an ESSAY on the Chamber Drama in England.
The forthcoming No Name novel, The
VOL at the Door l. ruored TO be from Boston gu,
tior. II deals with modern ne in the d" HUB, ana
has Ioy bs FOR the especial edhcati0n of Bosohla'
LANDS Appleton Morgan will shortly publish,
through Robert Clarke Co.. Cincinnati. collection o.
legsl rnaxms ID their original forms aud IN hnsii-
transIatioI, alphabetically arranged, Wl'h an ihueA u
subjects.
Miss Julia A. Matthew's coming story,
"Resse Harriugtous Venture" IL fuii-gr0wn n9yeI,
similar in tone and character to these OF tic .ssss a.
DeT she has hitherto been Known eAlehS A' . "-' Az
The young.
Estes & Lauriat have just ready Alphonse
Daude;'s new novel, The Sabob Of which seventeen
editions were az once sold in Pans. The hero Is under
stod to be the Dnc ao1ny, 10 whom tie author was
for tine private secretary.
CaDtain Parker Gilmore ("Cbique y has IL
press new work The Great Thirst Land, CONTAINING
-
Tausyaal, and KsaLaIi, which VIII e puolisAeo can!
in he Year by Me,,ls. C4s,el, Peter & Galpin
Tie new volume Of the Library of Contem-
porsry Science Just ready at ). L. Lpllncot Co.'S
treas Of Bolor and l PsI9alif o be Te e a # o.
by Dr. CHARTS LetouTnesu, leading French scientist.
The hitherto unknown romance 10y Poe,
rnbished in London journal to which was furnished
by John H. Ingram, proves TO 6e IRON tle ms o.
Tr,f5g's GerQeuan's 6agaziae Of abou, lS43 he in
1roGuctOry fragment reprinted was never continued
John Habbertons serial i'll the new Spring
feld magazine Sunday feTHO0n, Will run through I'VE
prmberg and will be followed by written ny EDWARD
Everett HE. stones by John Esten Cooke Nj Il: II.
DAVIS and Ii. l. scudder are promised Ior e@ii! NUN
beIs.
Littelrs Liring Age proves its right to the
,econd art OF its title By announcing volume with
fresh attractions for the new yea aad the third by
the fact thai tins volume l. the l36tn "iam baek
story Will the standardization Of inis iaVoTaO! Aho"h
eclectic
The Rev. Joseph Cook says the SIX greatest
works Of fiction OF century Kiehter's Titan
Goethe Wilhelm Meister,' Hugos - Les MiseIabies,
M stoves Uncle Toms Cabin" IN the order named
with great gap" between the iiIst three and the
last.
The Contemporary Reriac for January Will
contain An IMPORTANT contribution from the Duke Of
ARGYLL on Dis stabishuent' It viii also contain tie
second Professor stanley Jeyons's papers on john
Stuart G Ns IN r1cS Se e ndPs G Of Ldes one by
d.. Acland, Of Oxford on The DOG Poison IN Aai
ard articles, by M Edward A FREEMAN S5hof oe
Gubernaiis, and Others.
AartLur" Gilman writes TO The Literary
Torld concerning spelling reiaurIn": 1t is eez
eenuf to sssur that peng aut too bee uaid noer
sjnpl and moer neerly fOeneuc, but ]; u
bic noe Degnz eeguS eezi 70 IA a. A Sro Su
that TefsuT1n win be efekd, but hou it wi bee Gun r.
am bic noe pTeepaird to protest Aftur eSLai.l-
ing al number proc oezd afbetz e hy tnaui bet Of
the wan hwch yoczing. az thee Iaoest siinpl
and eezil colDprehended"
The American price Of The Portfolio Ia re-
dnced for 1875 from SO to So Having IN the last
volume devoted especial attention to the old masters 1t
will tits year make speciality Of contemporary art and
it, etchngs will reproduce pictures by sr John Gilbert
Alma Tade1na and other leading artists Of the time
R1ayiuci0u All nso. will furnish Of papers on
tie schools Of modern aTt Germany. to DC Illustrated
cted hy German eBCravers. T. l. Stevenson viii write
OF the p;cuIe.q que asIects 81 EdnOurge win ctCh-
iicesi and Mr. HamcTton hopes 70 finish his lie OF
Turner. The American publisher Is j. W. Bouton
Nm. /. Olu promises lew cultlOH u HIS
life Of Poe" enlarged by forty Of new mat
ter and with fac smile Of previously unpublished let
Ter by him IL will include POcs crltiQue GriswOld
"Poet and Poetry Of America" published in The MI
scum Philadelphia. in 1913, and preserved by Thos.
Core Clarke who associated with Poe IN the editor
chip Of that paper II IS interesting not only Tor us
place in the Poe GSwOd controversy, hut also
tanning the germs Of his essay yeTsitcaOD IN this
first sketch Of which GrisW ODDS poetry l. made the
"awfu example" letter Of Mrs. Susan Archer Weiss.
formerly Mss fully, Richmond ful nshes some inter
estng particulars to Poe's life in that ciy Chatto x
Windus London have ordered edition Of the enlarged
work, for publication IN London
The Literary World presents in its January
issue reviews OF Joseph Cooks Transcendentalism"
BY the Rev. y. P. Gilman, Of Boston, Mass Unitarian
clergyman the Rev. DR.. Dorus Clarke, OF Boston, a
TrnitaIian CongiegauOnalst; and the Rev. Dr. J. L.
Dudley 10 Theodore Parker IN the pnpt OF the
Twenyegith Congregational Society. Boston, and yet
at the time. member IN fun standing OF an assO
citation Of orthodox Congregational ministers. DR..
Howard Crosby finds sufficient time, the in
TERMS OF his work church pastor, college
president and temperance crusader 10 review Schlie
mauns MvcenR,' and this and other reviews are ac-
cOmDane1 by illustrations from the books MT Whit
tiers Response" t. the pleasant tributes In the last
number has already been printed in THE TRIBUNE