New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-28
LITERARY NOTES.

The elaborate paper in favor OF silver cur
,eney road nv Dana Horton before the last meeting
q, the SOCIAL Science Association has been lSsueu ~
ponuhlet form by Robert Clarke a Co., OF CincmDau
Al cont ans various extracts bearing upon tne
,ie from previous essays by the same Wrlel
A proiect has been started in Philadelphia
of publishing several books, prepared BY dnereh WIN
ers bnt under one editorship TO he known as the b
meas Library Series" The object OF the series ~ COZ
Iect for the benefit Of the young information n
titled Common Sense In business, ~ Eu"i" - A
ley. Will appear In September
Samuel r. Croker, who died IN Boston IasC
Thursday founded The Literary World in June, 1870
"a ba hegn 70 feel success within his reach when IN
sanity seized him. resulting finally in his death MI
Cracker served IN the war and had pTactised law But
ms tastes and ambition toward literature ana IN
The LfierQry World he found purpose after MS own
hoart IL was an excess labor that periodical anu
other brain work which he had found necessary III Oioe
40 live that produced his insanity and death'
The Hanseatic Historical Union, having for
its object researches IN the history OF the fourteenth
teenth and sixteenth centuries held its elghth meeF
ING This Summer at G6ttngen, Of the seventy towns
which formed the famous league against King Walde
mar III OF Denmark in 367 Ten volumes have already
been pubshed by the society, and several others are
either I'm press or in the hands of editors IL is thought
by The Academy Qondon that the la6ors OF the society
Enss1d with which country the Hanseatie League had
Very intimate relations from an early period
The third volume of the new edition OF Fepyss
Diary relates tine most part to new plays ana ms 40
nestle affairs and contains copy OF the portrait Oh eys
painted by Hales in 1906, and in the National Por
trait Gallery In London. lie wrote some music, about
the time the portrait was painted of which he was very
proud being also much delighted with the praises lie
received from his friends. In the Diary be ailudes TO
this portrait and the music which ne ho9s IN ms maui ~
be done more 10 my picture, put the mIslque' VIM"
peases me nightly, IL being painted true
J. L. hot 20 0nTVG
Edinburgh Repieo owed its origin to a knot of clever
Iads who met IN third story room In Edinburgh and
started by accamaOn the first number appearing III
1902 Among these "lads" were Smith. who was 81
Jeffrey 90 Brown, "a and BrOugham, % years OF age
cts old humdrum rivals" says the writer collapsed
before it, It's science, its philosophy its literature were
equally admired It's politics excited the wrath and
dread OF Tories and the exutaut delight OF Wings II
was saws Cockhurn pillar OF fire. farseen beacon
Suddenly lighted in dark place It's able advocacy OF
potcai principles striking as It's judicial air OF
criticism unprecedented in periodical literature"
The volume Of cartoons on Lord BeacOns-
field which Punch has issued in London, contains many
good things besides those noted few days ago Mr.
Disrae entered Parliament in 1S37four years before
Punch made its appearance, and eight years before
"Dckey Doyle took any notice OF him. DOyles hFst
cartoon Represented him as "a Cwarf among giants ana
for many years afterward he treated small and
insignificant parsonage In 1s46 he appeared as viper
trying 10 bite a file, again as pedler OF broken
pledges then as a smart errand boy and later as a Will
o'-the-wisp deludng the agricultural party The con-
trast OF these pictures with later ones is srikng-pare
uary with the last In the volume, where Lord Beacons
field appears powerful acrobat carrying the Turk
over tight rope amid the shouts Of assembled multi
tude In 1870 Mr.. Gladstone is pictured reading
"IothairD and Disraeh "Juventus Mundi both books
having been published that year Gladstone eharac
teristicalIy exclaims, flppant !" and Disrael,
"Prosy ." In 1872 he appears as answering con-
seryative delegation, which Is anxious 10 know his
pohcy, in the following words: Tell them, win my
compliments, that propose TO rely on the sublime
instincts OF an ancient people"