New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-12-02
LITERARY NOTES.

Bret Harte will have new story In the
mbcr Of yanity Fair Q.ondOn). which will be
out December 10. ,,ou
The publication of the Duke of ArgylFs new
work on the Eastern Question has been delay u w
end of the year. although the entire book' eAcep' 'N'
last two chapters, mas been pIln'cu' n.4L
Tn an ANTIQUARIAN bookstore at Baireuth'
Bavaria has been found original document pertain
,ro IN the American War OF independence III Is tne
manuscript diary Hessan officer VINO ser'eo IN .l
British Army and covers the period rom January Il; ~
10 March 1779 IL contains daily record not ohS VI
aons an the field but OF other news and rmnors Vi
s the ii@ Sa tho '''N' '
Early in the: month A. d. F. Randolph a
Co. will publish series OF sketches of the Lambeth Ooh
ference land the Sheffield Congress- by Bishop beue
Ohio under the title The Canterbury fHgrl""h0
This firm will be the American publishers OF the ne"
international Presbyterian magazine, whose title Will
tits said he The catholic Pres6yert9n, aiG io
can Editor The Rev. DIR. Mathews OF Na"-hoih.
II is only two years since Madame Durand,
the French novelist who writes under the pseudonym OF
"Uenr, GreyiIle" first became generally known to
French readers and at present her works of fiction num-
her more than a dozen. Some of them, however, were
published in q St. Petersburg newspaper at an carrier
date There have been in French and Engiish neuon
me scene OF most of Madame Durands stores Is ia
Russia is thought TO be largely dne 10 nis "a ''
stance that her rise TO distinction has Deeh 30 rapu
The library of the late Charles 5. Hunt,
comprising many rare and valuable works on political
economy as well as some miscellaneous books, has been
carefully logued and will be sold early this MONTH al
Bangs & Co.'S auction ROOM This collection contains a
copy of the best edition of the treatise by John Law" OF
south Sea Bubble and other fame on Money ana
Trade Considered -; complete set Of TOokes history
Of Prices" and Lord Overstone's - Tracts Oh Me'"ilc
and Paper Currency" 800 ,
An exhaustive and sumptuOus work entltled
ale Vatican ct Ia BasIlque de Saint Pierre de Rome y
is among the announcements Of French publishers III
If nub
which there will be ten or Twelve and promises to form
one of the most important works the subject ever
issued The text was prepared by the late NJ. Paul
and has been edited and extended by another writer
TIE chief feature Of the hook promises TO he lis usA
lions of which there Will he 24O, including twenty OF
twenty-five large folio acknowledgements plates
I" Rock of Ages" which is now ready at
Charles T. Dilnghau's in square l2mo, with many IL
lusratons the fourth hymn that has been published
In this attractive gtft-book form. The first Nearer
my God to Thee" which appeared IN 1870 the two
Others being "Oh, Why Should the Spirit OF Mortal nc
Proud and "Abde With Me-; appearing IN each OF
the two following years. In the "ROck of Ages BRIEF
sketch is gwen Of Augustus Montague Toplady, the
autbor of the famous hymn. He born in Surrey.
England, in 17IO. aud was educated at Westminster
School He BEGAN life a Jealous minister OF the
Church of England but afterward went to London,
where he became pastor Of q French Calvinisuc Re
formed Church. lie wrote magazine article IN 100,
treating of the National uebt or Great BIital
he alluded to toe debt OF SIN in me world anu 10y hl
Teal showed how multitudnOus are The sins
OF mank nd. About the time he wrote ''hOck OF
Ages Two years later he died. This edition OF the
hymn is handsomely printed on heavy paper.