New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-12-16
LITERARY NOTES.

Leigh Hunts "Seer is promised for TINS
month at Roberts Brothers
Moscow publisher is to issue Russian
edition Of DIR. Busch's book on Bismarck.
MANY searches in the Salisbury registers 10
And a record OF the baptism Of Phillip Massinger' une
English dramatist have been frutless but at last u
record has been found. 1t reads: NOvemOef, do9 80
II4i Ih.P N'''"Hs'' '''''' Tue SUI ''
Mr.. Frederic VOrs has written a DOCK OF
10 pages on Bbeots and CuTiOs," which he Will pup
nsb early in the coming year. glossary containing
French and English terms whisa have s'i"yeu HON
tbeir original meaning VIII De ADDED
Gustaye D0r6 has been engaged for elght
years on illustrations for AriOstO's Orlando FuHos"
and Hachette & Co.. OF Paris are about to puhlSh an
edition of the poem containing them They are ooo III
number -.
Longfellow's poems have been published III
eleven pockct-vOumcs contained in cioth case ny
Routledge Son. Of London " Size and type say
The Ahenaufa, are alike delightful. and THIS edIUoh
sould he prccrred to all others by American poets
.mauy adniTorS
Miss Alcott's "Under the Lilacs has been
published in London, by sampson Low Co. me l."
o1piasr remarks that while her name was not Oy any
means unknown aud her previous books justihcd u ID
cGidrn's stories yet it was hardly prepared Tor 80
fresh and delightful a tale as ms
Mr.. Edmund Yates says the only Frenchman
lie heard of who did q tunly tnhe III uuo' wac
sainte-Beuve Having 10 fight on very rainy day lhe
great critic persisted in holding an umbrella over MS
head with his left hand IL vain did the seconds IcmO-
strate with HIM and tell him such contact was out o.
order. don't mind being shot said be, but never
cau,e hove I, get wet" With the umbrella waving
nroudv over his head he stood the fire of his ANTAGONIST
Mr.. Irving Browne has received with salts
faction at home in Troy the reports OF inc sae III
This city Of his valuable library To reporter oi me
Troy Times said the books were bringing nearly
NOT quite, all they cost me-" He inNtancCd CERTAIN
works which brought than he paid Tor them, Du
ntbcr. that went for considerably less 81 Think" he
adds the will demonstrate that such library a.
mine H. good Investment as some other thhSs s'n
orally supposed 10 be better"
Professor J. Norman LOckycr assisted by
his wife, has undertaken new work as successor TO
his English edition of Am6d6e Guillemins Forces OF
Nature" the parts Of which have now all been com
plcted. The work is also by A'nedee GuH!emlh'
and is entitled The Application of Physical Forces
IL VIII appear in eighteen monthly parts ana WI con-
tain four caorcd plates and neatly five hundred engraV
ings Mrs Lockycr translates it from the French and
and notes Macmillan & Co. are the publishers.
General Horatio Rogers, Of Providence, is
now engaged IN preparing Tor pnbhcauon parts OF
Journal kept by British artillery officer who served In
the campaign Of General BUrSOync. Ala late meeting
of the Saratoga Monument Association, Mr. W. L. Stone
remarked that this journal perhaps one OF the most
important manuscript documents bearing upon Bnr-
goyne's campaign that had yet been discovered Ii lor
mery belonged t. William Goblet, the famous English
aclator The position taken by several late wrtersthat
the manner ia which the British General lost his army
was unnecessary, If criminal is sustained, ana me
importance Of the sraegca positions taken by General
Schuyler is indicated by elaborate maps
When Louis NapOleOn's Government, after
the publication of NJ Remains "Vie de Jesus" removed
Renan his pro essorship of Hebrew in the College
OF France, the Bishop Of Marse,s thought tie r'pr
mand insufficient lie therefore determined to nsJltnte
for all time memorial of the insult offered 10 Catho-
lie France" by the publication Of the book winch
should serve at the same time as perpetual act Of
"reparatiou" He gave orders that on every Friday
afternoon thereafter "dadbell should be solemny
tolled in Narcotics, and very Friday for the last
fifteen years this ceremony has been regularly Cd
served. The present Common Council OF marseles
is Republican, and o stop has been put by 1t TO the
demonstration.