New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-11-02
LITERARY NOTES.

A life of Charles James Fox is in prepare
ton by G. o. Trevelyan. p.
BerthOld Auerbach has new novel In press
which be calls Forsmeister."
Karl Blind will deliver next November IN
England series OF historical lectures on Early Ger
maustrugges for Freedom and Union"
Mr.. Emersons home will be the subject of
the article in the Poets Homes series Of the January
Wide Apakc This series has now reached twenty-five
numbers.
The "FIreside Encyclopedia of Poetry"
which Mr. Henry Coates has edited will be ready No
vember s. at Porter & Coatess Philadelphia OF which
firm he Is the junior member.
The unedited literary remains of old Izaak
Walton have been collected into volume by Mr. r. H..
Shepherd under the title Watoniana," which Pickering
& Co., OF London, Will soon publish.
Portraits, addresses, pictures and poems have
often published from the silkloom but never t s
believed an entire book until now. AT Lyons volume
has Just appeared with all the leerpress executed IN
silken thread.
The London suburb, Chelsea, where lives
Carlyle has been the abode of great number OF famous
literary men. The list includes Sir Thomas More and
his friend Erasmus Swift, Addison and Steele; Boyle
Locke and ArbuthnOt Goldsmith SmOllett and the Wal
poles. and. In more recent times, COlerldge Haztt'
Lamb and Leigh Hunt
OF Dante's "Divina COmmedian in the orig
mai nineteen editions were published between l492
and 1900 During the sixteenth century there were
forty editions; the seventeenth only five; in the
eighteenth thirty For the last seventy or eighty
years editions and TRANSACTIONS have multiplied enor
mOusy. Dr. Johnson, In bis Life OF Milton does not NEIL
ton Dante, nor does Addison IN his travels IN italy
Six selections from Washington Irvings
" Sketch BOOB" have been issued by Gnn Heath,
Boston, in small volume, to when Professor Homer
B. sprague has added Irving chronology. brier
of Irvng's literary and notes. and sug
gcsfivc questions. The The Voyage"
Abbey, Legend
" The Widow and Her Son." Rip Van WInkle " and
" Christmas Eve"
A work called~' Shakespeare ct rAutiquite,"
has been written by NJ. Paul stapfer, whom The
cddemy (LoHdon calls one of the most subtle critics
OF the French University" and the first volume Will
be published in Paris, and translation OF 1t IN
London NJ staper gives. It is said. from an entirely
Original point OF view, stGy Oh those plays Oh onake
aud traces tue Influence of the antique genius on the
great dram8tist
Miss CoIsOn's "Twenty-tive cent Dinners
for Families of Six" has had a sale OF 10000 copies.
aud another thousand Will be ready lat the Orange Judd
COmpauy's, November /. The house has In press
a new book by Miss Corson, called Cooking School
Text Book and Housckeeper's Guide to Cookery and
Kitchen MANAGEMENT" which Is designed as hand
book of the principles OF GOme tic economy taught IN
the New-York Cooking school aud WILL It IL hoped as
sst the establishment OF similar schools III other
cities.
The manuscript of a poem of 1000 verses.
and dated 1914, which has been found IN the Waraf
Museum 81 Cologne contains an extraordinary alluslon
the death o" the inventor Of printing" Whether by
that term the writer refers to Gutenberg does not ap
pear. 4 certain Jan ButZbach the author OF the
poem which he composed Latin, and In It he speaks
Of inventiOn by means OF which the works OF
tho ancient writer's De rapidly multiplied " adding,
that this invention has proved fatal 20 the dscOycrcr
band Of mHcOurnts have entered his house borne
nIm away in a carriage. and cut his throat" The
moral which the wise poet derives from TINS melancholy
end is that the love OF gain Is often the cause OF our
ruin"