New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-04-10
LITERARY NOTES.
sor William Matthew's new book

Professor William Matthew's new book
win be on norators and oratory."
r. Worthington proposes to issue new
edition Of Knights England in eight volumes al slo'
Professor Max Miller is making such prog
ress with his Sacred Books OF the World that h''
i1salment may soon be expected. -
DR.. Francis Hueffer, Wagner's chief English
expounder is about TO publish work ON Ine IrouD%
dours history OF Provencal life and literature III TIC
middle ages.
A posthumous work by DR.. DOran, Memo
ries Of our Great Towns with,anecdoc geanings con-
cernng their worthless and their Oddities is shortly to be
published in London.
Mr.. VIM. O. Stoddard has been writing
serial for boys Dab Kinzer story of growisg boy
which will shortly greet the little readers of ST. Nicholas
The boy is Long Island boy.
A collection of "Latter-Day Lyrics" poems
Of sentiment and reflection by living writer's, edited by
W Dayenport Adams with note " some old French
Forms Of Verse" by Austin Dobson, is an interesting
English announcement
The list of French bOok-trade exhibitors at
The Paris Exposition includes sixtynine manufacturing
and ninetyseven other publishers besides score Of m
thors designers etc. from Paris, and fftyine repre-
sentatiyes OF publishing and similar interests nom the
provinces.
Mrs. Mary Hallock FOote will contribute the
frontispiece and accompanying story of hsherfoK
life on the Hudson to the May s. Nicholas This num-
aelphia Mint an historical article Mayday some pic
lures OF Partisan children, and poems rom lucy
LarcOm, Celia Thaxter and ten-year-oid Dora ooouae
Mr.. Poole has now allotted all the serials
which It is proposed to include in his new Index to
Periodical Literature with the exception of the English
Journals reserved for the English committee to the libra
ties which have offered cooperation These number
orty-one including Of the largest in this country
i s proposed to complete the preliminary WORK WITHIN
Ix months.
The "Challengern expedition for deep sea
EXPLORATION has already produced shelfull OF BOOKS
but the most important the official work OF Sir C. "yvhe
Thomson, is yet to come Harper Bros. Will shortly
issue the part relating to "The Atlantic" under that
little In two large volumes at 49, fully illustrated with
Pacific, and a fourth on the South Sea Islands.
The May ScribRer's will contain fully illus
trated paper the EewYork Post Offce, now prac-
tcaly the largest in the world by Edward Eggeson-
one of the illustrations being large portrait Of Post
master JaneS, drawn by J. Alden Weir and engraved
by Coles another archery article by Maurice Thompson
MERRY Days with Bow and Quiver;" an account OF
"Camps and Tramps About Ktaadn, illustrated by r. L.
Church. R. Clifford and other leading artists; the first
of series of illustrated articles on Bird ATctectufc
by DR.. Thos. NJ Brewer; paper transporting days.
"Our Pets and Protectors" by Wm NJ 1ileston, with
portraits in advance from the coming Bench Show a
contribution from Bayard Taylor AN Impossible
Ftory;" more nonsense from Mr. stockton; VINO dec
kcribes Camping Out at Rudder Grange by OF
home travel from H. H., and q dissertation on 1.-The
Use Of FagOts at Geneva" by Leonard W. Bacon
HarperS Magazine for May will be devoted
IN good part TO birds and poets An article Song
Birds of the West" by Robert Rdgway will be found
notable, even the present standard OF woodcut Illus
traon the remarkable beauty os pictures OF birds
and their surroundings. Eugene Lawrence will have
fully illustrated paper The Italian Poets pendant
10 which are poems from the Italy OF the poes by
Miss Preston DR.. Coan and Z. HoNland. Other Illus
trated papers are Coast Rambes In Essex County,
Mass" by Samuel D. Drake; "Along the Havel descrip
tive Of o German Imperial Summer palace, by Arthur
Veuner; and paper Rubeus, in tho series Flemish
mTIs noinoneut; FIAT is 10 make the coming
Civil Service" Among The storyteers are Julian Haw-
thOrne and Lucretia r. Hale.
The project of universal catalogue of
printed books has generally been looked upon as prac
caly impossible and left to the German photographers,
who from time time put forward tho most stupendous
plans amusinglY beyond realization. One OF these, who
estimates the number titles at three mons-prOba
bly, much too lowbeeves that he can finish the work In
ten years at an expense of about million dollars. Mr.
bikes idea for such catalogue, published in The Ate-
n0Un ABOUT the time Of the London Worlds FAIR QS51l
was however brought before the British Society OF Arts
AFTER and has length borne fruit In good earnest
The society Issued circular to experts asking opln-
ions aud suggestions projected plan, of which an
account given in its Journal 1t is proposed that the
shall be undertaken in parts corresponding to chro
biological periods Che earlier long, the later by decadcs)
and that each country by governmental arrangement
through agreement among Its public libraries, shall
furnish on slips Of uniform pattern, OF dis
tnetively eoored paper or ink for the several
countries titles of all books published therein There
would be uniform system for registering titles, always in
the the ttlepage but according to Sir James
Iaeaisa's suggestion, with added notes universally in
Latin as a common tongue. These slips arranged like
card catalogues would give the material for class
hedoatalogues Of any alphabetical special national
chronological etc 1t Is not improbable that full cata
lOgue Of books printed 10 1850 may grow out OF the
movement. the plan of which has the advantage that
any individual part will fit into the general work.
whether this be completed before A. ID. 2OOO or not
Meanwhile the question OF printing the MS catalogue OF
the British Museum is again vigorously discussed Mr.
AxOn, OF Manchester, estimates that 1O3 doubecOumn
0uarto would be required costing about 81 900
per 1t Is improbable that this work may be
undertaken, but as alphabetical not subject, cata
logue. Mr.. Henry Stevenss project Of phOtObDOgra
ply " cOntemplates the direct transfer, ON reduced
scale OF actual title pages 20 slip OF uniform size
which would card catalogue. OF course the
most accurate possible.