New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-26
LITERARY NOTES.

A new volume Of Whittier's poems VIII DC
ISSUED in september by Houghton. osgood q Co.
Miss Braddon's tbirty-third and latest book,
An Omen verdict" has just been printed in Englanu
IN clcap form,
Berthold Auerbaeh has written new novel
called Landolin Won Reutershoefen," which VIII DC
IsRned early IN September.
Baedeker publisher of the popular series OF
European aud other guide-books announces Tor the
coming season tie second volume Of his Guide to Egypt
embracing Upper Egypt ana NuDa
The resignation of, Winter Jones as Librarian
and Secretary Of the British Museum win take efeet
nfter the HOLIDAYS Mr. Jones entered inc Us io or
IN service.
An article in the R6pubHqae FRANCHISE
claims that the publishing house Of Haehette Co.. at
Paris the largest in the world It exports every year
900 600 packages, handles 100000 francs, employs
bOOO persons, and publishes book day
An edition of the works of Virgil has been
fouud In the library Of Lincoln College, Oxford, when
s said to be the year 1912, and considered very
rare. Neither the BOdeion Library nor the Nationai
Library Ia Paris possesses copy
NJ. Henri Van Laun, the translator OF
Taine and author OF history OF French literature Is
engaged it is sad history of literary refugees III
England Among noted writers vino have taken refuge
in England are yoltare Rousseau, Chateaubriand MAJ
Eini and Louis Blanc
There has been found in the StatiOnerS
'N''NN
reads as follows: -
6oke inttuled dggeoTss Of SAers L. e. Cyp'"I ana
.Ifsncb work was printed !" remarks The Ahengum.
as most likely it was, we believe no copy OF II Is 10"
known TO exist"
The reverence in which Dante's memory Is
held by Italians was we'll illustrated in late number OF
FaanHa which expressed much Indignation that bust
of Voltaire had been placed in the Victor Emanuel IL
lrary the ground Of its objection being that as Voaire
wrote in sighting way o; the great poet he Oughthot
20 be tolerated by patriotic ltaIans'
A little volume called international Exh-
bitions" by Charles Gindriez French architect will
soon be published by A. g. Barnes & Co. Besides the
descriptions and criticisms of the Paris Exhibition
which will be gwen by NJ Gndriez there will be added
Professor J. Morgan Harris review Of the Vienna Exhi
htion which published in The International heee0
for January, 1875.
A new life of Laura Dewey Bridgman, the
blind deafmute whom Dr. s. G. Howe taught, in the
Perkins Institution for the Blind at Boston, announced
by the New-Engand Publishing Company. The book
was written by Mrs. Mary Swift LamsOn, one OF her
teachers, and is made up largely from Mrs Lamsons
diary written during Lauras school life at the instit-
tion with such selections from DR.. Howes report az
will enable the public to understand now TINS WOhuerI
child gained the education she now enjoys
A volume of constitutional history OF the
limited States has been published in Berlin, being the
work Of Dr. H. Won Hoist, who has also written book
called "COnstitutiOn and Democracy Of the United
States Of America" The present volume deals with the
history Of the country from tue time Of Jacksons inaug
ration TO the annexation Of Texas The AheneUm
praises Il emphahcay, and says sit is weighty con-
trbuton 10 historical literature" OF Jackson, Profess
Ror Hollis SAYS that while Washington represented the
best type Of the American people, he represented all
their characteristics He felt strongly Louis XIV
tbat he was the State only he expression 10 the
sentiment in q republican dialect He was the hIst OF
Tie purely "pOltical" Presidents, John Quincy
Adams was the last OF the stdtesmanhke Presidents,
while the last OF the real statesmen who was candidate
for the Presidency was Henry cray
D'Aubigne's great work on the Protestant
Reformation begun than forty years ago, will be
completed few days, by the issue of the concluding
yolnme When the author died, in 1867 he left the
work all but completed and the volume which is now
published is understood to be for the most part his own
production. The fret series of volumes five in number,
and comprising history OF the earlier period OF the
Reformation, which had It's centre I'm Germany, when
rst published plaeedits author in the
foremost rank Of ecclesiastical historians 1t was soon
translated into nearly all the European languages and
in lands where English is spoken was more widely read
than at home In Great Britain alone it is said that
100000 copies of the translation were s0d While IN the
United States sales thought 10 have been twice
as many The second series, comprising eight volumes
Hs now finished, and treating OF CaYins time, mas not
been as popular the first although its reputation
among critics ia not less. Robert Carter Brothers
have the book in press.