New-York tribune., 1878-12-04
LITERARY NOTES.

Tennyson is writing new drama, the suo-
lect of which is Thomas Beckett.
Goodwin Smith will have paper on the
vreatuess OF England in the December number OF INC
Contemporary Rcrtee , ..
John Wiley g. Sons have followed their
a. practical Treatise on China Painting in America
with a similar work japanese decorative Sr' WIN"
sWill be ready before Christmas =, -, ~,
holiday book for children called " Inc
Little Chatterbox has just been published Dy h "or'n
hgton. II Is printed thick paper in large tyne ana
contains many illustrations with etterpess on the op
pOsite pages.
Madame Blennerhasset Timothy Dwight,
De Witt Clinton and the poet Percival are among the
persons OF whom Z. d. Mansfield writes in book OF
personnl recollections which Robert Clarke Co.. OF
Cincinnati, have announced
The sermon of the Rev. DR.. Charles r.
Deems against modern Spiriulhsm, which gained some
prominence in the Vanderbilt will viii be reprinted
in the January number o Frank LeslieS Sunday Naga
Eine, with an introduction by the author
Travellers in Italy who desire to examine
the archaeological remains Rome aud to trace the ms
tory Of tue ancient cityb the light OF recent expoa
RSv r. Eurp of Trinity College, Cambridge and author
of {" Rome and the Canpagna," is now preparing
Mortimer Collins's British Birds" was de-
clncd by the publishers when first submitted TO tem
They were afraid fits satire and personality Eventu
ally il WAS printed 10y company, which failed imme-
diatoIy after the work out 1t being now out or
print. that chance copies bring large prices IS'
Collins has decided TO publish new edltlOD
An effort is making to purchase for the
library Of the school which John Leech, the oldtime
artist Of Punch received his first lessons in history,
largo collection of his original sketches His family
have offered purchase at far and reasonable price
considerable number OF men, incuIins InY II r ~
"ComIc History OF Rome" and the "Comlc History VI
England"
Ruskin's "Aratra Pentelice," the six lee
lures on elements Of sculpture delivered at Oxford az
1870 in John Wiley sons edition, has been embeshed
with series of tweny-one plates after the manner OF
the English edition. John Wiley & Sons also have IN
preparation addendum their complete edition OF
Ruskin's works the photography which X. H. Shepherd
London recently prepared for private Distribution
OF this work only few copies were rtcelNeu IN lnls
country. and It is impossible 10 purchase one mere
Mr.. William Winters series of Edwin
Booths Prompt Books now numbers fifteen, the latest
issue being (" The Merchant Of Venice" Just out A
large and increasing sale Of these publications
IS reported at Charles T. Dillingham; The set com
prises the following: Othcllo,"" Hamet" -" Richard
H." "RchelieU," The Fools Revenge" " The Mei-
chant of veniced Much Ado About Nothing" Katba-
BSs. ~" KiTs Lear" Macbeth" Rlcnard ILL.,"
Henry WILL" and " Brutus"
In new English volume called " Past,
Present and Future of Engands Language" by VII
liam Marshall loud complaint is made th&t English
speaking people wllfully given up their home
bred aud words and their power OF making pure
non-hybrid compounds-n which they might have out
done the Germans-and have, Of malice afOrethought
Unmarried I'm their stead weaker longer and words
from French. Latin and every other language under me
Hare in an eauyalept for impenctrabity OF ma tier"
Instead OF acknowledgements OF stun or IN
acknowledgements OF stuff" he would get rlu OF ne
French statf Ia word which imported into
France by the NOrsemen) and proposes unthurltenes
Of auwork," the AnglO-SaxOn thvrlian " meaning
penetrate" ard anwork being 1r. Marshals com;
thus being the subject OfwOrk. or 4" matter"
DIR. MOritz Busch's "COunt Bismarck and
his People during tho Wars with France, just published
at Leipsic has caused a great cOmmotion in Germany
Princes minister's dplOmatsts aud soldiers alike.are
appalled, by its frunknoss. 1t is reported from Berlin
that no work ever published in Prussia produced so
much irritation Many members Of the highest aristo-
cratic families declare that they have been nsulted ard
not few taking steps TO proceed against Dr. Busch
for libel The heirs OF Count GOtz, intend, It said
to bring an action against both publisher and
writer for spreading the sneers OF t6e Prince
against that Ambassador and II IS hlnted thaU
breeze OF anger ger has mas ggcd m0ycdd b Rgbper roGoSs
against Chancellor himself for exposing number OF
faithful servants Of the Prussian throne including dead
statesmen and ambassadors TO the laghteE OF Europe
There IS talk or compelling the Chancellor 10
sentments aud speeches which Busch has put into his
mouth. The OF the Minister Won Arnm-Boytzen-
burg complain that Prince bismarck has not even spared
the honor rrigniug princes. The Conservatives are
hOrrded and doubt whether there can be true heart
nearly all BsmarcEau JUDGMENTS upon great per
sOnages, they assert, have destructive and leyelng
tendency Bismarcks extraordinary panness OF
speech the remarkable since Il is not the went OF
Gipiomstist6 says The Times LondonJ ever spoke SO
frankly about himself and every one else; none had
fessOn; none ever poured uch stream OF humor
while transactng work Of tlnscendent historical I'm
portance; and his character viii be better known per
haps than that any other man Of our century The
publication OF his afterdnner talk whether discreet or
not, will be of priceless biographical value ne Times
pays the book further compliment by calling It " a
picture. as true to life as Boswsls Johnson; S OF tS
foromost practical genius that Germany mas prouuceu
siuee Frederick the Great"