New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-04-08
LITERARY NOTES.

sne are the new issues in the Riverside British Poets
Mr., Browning's coming poems, b0th ID
metres new in his work, are 4" The Two Foels VI
Croisie and lie saisiaz"
Mr.. Edmond About characterizes victor
Hugo az "the Ilustrious author who rules the nine
teenth century as yoltaire ruled the eighteenth.
A treatise on cart Embroidery" and the re-
vival of decorative work, by NJ. = Loeh"COd anu L.
Glaister Is announced by s. W. Tlton Co., Boston,
A little book, discussing "The improve
meut Of the PRAYER Meeting" from the pen Of the Rev.
I. q Tbonpsop Is in press by W. G. Holmes, Chicago
A volume of "Counsels to the Confirmed,
nv Di.bop Oxendcn OF England, author OF "Ihe Earn
est Comnunlcant," Is IN press by a. d. /. Eandolpn
&CO. .
The Rev. A. j. Church, whose Stories
from Homer" are just republished by Harper Bros
Virgil"
A book on "South Carolina; or, Southern
Homes for Northern Men" by Daniel T. Atwood win
many plates will shortly be published by A D. Bekue
Co. It describes the kind OF houses heedci III tue
South E, II,
In The University Magazine, for April, VIII
supear paper on the Ethics OF tie Edda III WHICH MAJ
pnd makes systematc treatment OF the rules OF hic
among the ancient Gel1nauic nations, with the addo
OF representative pOetcal passages
The volume of "West Point 1ic-tacs,' an
pounced 10y Homer lee Co.. viii have an Introductory
DN Bret lidftct ana ILLUSTRATIONS " -''''
The courtesy of Harper Brothers, with whom DIS ell
gagements are exclusively, barley ana Olhels'
Sir w. Stirling Maxwelps pOsthumOus work,
. Antwerp Delivered" will he published III May
Before his departure for Italy Sir William had made Ills
last CORE the etteIpress, aud, with so me uhl
portaut exceptions had arranged every page OF Tie
work
Professor Fawcett's volume on "Free Trade
and Protection with special reference TO the causes
which since the introduction OF Free Trade in England
have retarded its progress in other untres" Is IN an
advanced stage OF preparation at MACMILLAN 4" w.
LONDON house.
A volume of selections from JOhnsOn's Lives
Of the British Poets. edited with preface by Mr.
Matthew Arnold, is forthcoming from the press OF
Macmillan & Co. The editors aim has been to supply
students with good history OF the pOeucal A'efae
81 England from Waller to Gray
The British Museum has acquired series
of notebooks OF the late Mr.. George Smith, the we'll
known Assyriologst, some Of which contain very i'll
teresting personal memoranda OF his last expedition In
one is transcript OF curious Hamathite inscription
In the rude hicrOglyphe character winch mas as !c'
batflCd interpretation
The April Temple Bar promises trustworthy
memoir of the late Dr. DOran, and sketch OF George
Cruikshank by the author of Studies in English Art
Mr. Wedmore deals chiefly with such artistic merits in
the works of the veteran artist as he believes have
thus far been but scanty recognized ny puuIc tl"'
has long appreciated his callcature.
1UC ADIll NONttWpOIUJ WIZ NOh'''Ah !" b''INN
BY Mr. Gladstone on The lis of Homer, and her Rea-
lion TO Genesis * 111G;" "Wife-TOrture in England"
BY Frances Power CobOe !" Positivism an Island:
the new Paul and Virginia" by W. H. Mallock author OF
1.-THE New Republic" ard a symposium on Future
Punishment" reviewing Canon FaITars book.
Porter g. Coates promise further addition
TO our knowledge of Russia in Trip up the Noga TO
the Fair of Mini NovgOrod," by H. a. Munro Butler
tombstone, an English traveller. 1t is said to be OF
inciudiup
hepsye glance over the Russian Empire its trade re-
sources andmngled races drawn from information that
could come only from actual travel.
The new London weekly is called Light; it
promises to be not much Literary" journal as
weekly magazine Mr.. Anthony TrolOpe will begin in
It's first issue q new novel, "The Lady of Launay;" the
author OF St. Abe ard His Seven Wives" willcontrbute
"A Modern Symposium" all by himself, aud among
pther writers Mr. Charles Reade. Mr.. Backmore, MI.
Thcs Hardy, and Mr.. jenkins, NJ p, are announced.
The Royal Geographical Society Of Great
Britain about TO issue edition of their Hints
to Travellers" which has been carefully revised by MI
Francis Cation, FRS. This work was originally drawn
up in 1854 by committee consisting Of Captain after-
wards Admiral Fitzroy and Mr.. Henry Raper. R.N.;
and ISL under the editorsip OF Admiral Sir g. Back
Admiral Collnson and Mr.. Cation
DR.. Essential, a German scholar, is about
10 publish his restored Hebrew text" of the Epstle to
the Hebrews. He considers that he cleared up many
DbscuTites Of the Greek text (eg H. 10, VII A. tx 10
by simply translating Greek back into the Language
Df Mshna. Dr. Bieenthal accepts the statement Of
Clemens AleXandrnus that the Epstle written III
Hebrew by Paul, and was translated by Luke into
Greek for the use of Greek-speaklng Christians.
There is something remarkable in the
number Of extraordinary authors who are heralded
in the letters Of local cOTespOndents-and sadly
neglected afterwards The writer of a recent
philadelphia novel is expected, If she keeps i'm
proving the present rate rival George Eliot" and
Southern romance, promised from Chicago, is to
Dine, :" to considerable extent" Z" the Welrdness OF
Hawthorne With the mysticism Of Bulwer and the
derfully imaginative descriptions of nature which have
made the works Of jules Verne so effective"
OF the proposed Congress of Letters at the
Paris Exposition, NJ. About writes to The AhenGum
vicor Hugo who has refused the Grand Cross Of the
Legion OF Honor offered to him by NJ BardOnx without
previously consulting Marshal MacMahOn, accepts the
Presidency of the Literary Congress organized by the
socGe de Gems de Letres We wish TO take advantage
Of the Exhibition TO collect about all the authors Of
Europe and America (Sc and to deliberate with all our
brethren about the difficult question OF intellectual
property. No ceremony this time, but programme
prepared long beforehand and maturely studied The
desideratum OF French authors can be stated IN six
lines We ask that in all civilized countries foreign
authors should he assmilaed 10 national writers
CARDS publication, translation, and adaptation II
English, American, Germau spanish, aud Italian breth
common effort i'll introducing 1t into all the treaties Of
commerce and all the world Will find the step profitable
shall for beginning to translate at least
many English books England translates French, end
IL Is much the same with the other countries men
toned"