New-York tribune., 1878-04-03
LITERARY NOTES.

A new work by Miss Julia Kavanagh, " For
set-me-Nots" will shortly be published.
TN to January, 1879, the house of Harper
Brothers bad published 1921 works, in over 1000 VOL
umeS
Mrs. l.. C. Moulton contributes charming
poem suggested by Mr. Burne Joness picture oil venus
u the current Q.Ondonl AmenGum.
The late President Finney left the mateTia'
for work on Theology which win shortly be puo'
iisbed from Obcrlin, as edited by j. g. faiFchhd
"a Primer of Design" by Mr.. Charles A.
prrv anthor of How 10 Draw" and of the super
visors Of drawing in the Boston schools, viii shortly
published -,
work that should he of value, on the
commercial Products of the Sea; or, Marine Contrl-
bu,ious 10 Food Industry and Art" by L. SimnohdE'
Is announced IN London.
The author of "Credo," "Lost Forever" etc.,
Professor L. T. Townsend. is about to publish through
Iee & Shepard volume OF similar chafsctei' o"'''
"rhe intermediate World"
OF translatlons from Horace there Is no ehd'
sword for Word from Horace is the title OF tae ntN @
the press II Macmillan & 90. =
MIR. Thomas Arnold, an English collector OF
books Is preparing for the catalogue oil HE eA
tersive collection of works Tobacco, its nsageS cUt
walton. manufacture, etc, comprising uP"""' " NV
hundred separate works.
A course of lectures recently deilVereu Nv
MIR. r. Bosworth smith, at the Royal Institution Lon
don on Carthage and the Carthaginians, Will snory
he Gubshcd by Messrs LougInsus the shape OF con
nected history with much additional mh'ter' anu "'
Illustrations and many maps ana plahs'
Some of the London authorities, In noticing
the English reprint OF the Dickens Dictionary seem
strsngey ignorant Of the fact that It was orsna po
hshed in 9s ms s091y sSne an index familiar
other American compilation; MI DE Fon'"iieS D''
Thoughts Charles Dickens
An interesting contribution to the literature
of the var Is promised from the pen OF ConlmOoore
Parker author of "Thc Fleets Of the World whO mas
been able TO avail himself OF Admiral Farraguts own
memorandum book, rs well as OF both Union anu T Un
feoerate reports, preparing monograph on 6 dn
Battle OF Mobile Bays new portrsiI Of Farragnt ana
coored charts win he included IL the Volue' ""''n
viii be issued by A Williams & Co ,
The April number of The Literary W0rtd
which ia showing cOmmendable enterprise, contains
signed reviews by Hon. Joseph 5. Ropes, Dr. Henry
Cabot Lodge Professor Borden 2. Bovine ana others
n conversation On Choice of shakespeares" partic-
mated IN by Arthur Gilman. the Rev. H. Hudson Jus
tin WinsOr and other Shakespearean scholars MI WIZ
sors paper on Recent Caxtonau Discoveries" ana IN
ture of the Roman Catholic question III the Ohteu
States
The collective exhibit of American books al
Paris will make very ereditable showing for TINS cou
try Among the works 10 be shown are; "WeDsters
and worcesters Dictionaries Alibones Dictionary of
Authors Iippncotts Gazetteer and Biographical DC
tiopary the splendid series of ransstiOns from Homer
Virgil Dante. and Goethe, and the uniform edition oi
Taine; the Furness Shakespeare Bryants Hstory the
educational publications OF Harper Ivson scri0ner ana
other houses such periodicals those OF me Harpers
Seribne5s Mo,fIy and ST. Nicholas The Atlantic. and
still others and for literature proper the works OF
Irving Cooper, Motley, Bryant. LongfelI9w, Lowell
whittier Holmes, Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne"
Two volumes forthcoming from the press of
Messrs G. p Putnams Sons bear directly on the present
crisis in Europe The first volume Of their Current Dis
cussions" viii be ready this week, containing nine
salient review papers international Politics., OF
which hose by Mr. Forbes, Vscount Straford de Red
ciAe Mr.. Gladstone, Professor Goodwin Smith, Mr..
Doey and Mr. Freeman deal with one phase or another
of the Turkish question Mr.. f. l.. Burhngane the
editor Of the SERIES furnishes general introduction ana
also preface to the volume giving some account OF the
several writer's The other book, De Amlciss C0stan-
tnope" presents brilliant pictures OF that city in 1871
lust before 1t was disturbed by the outbreak OF the war;
Professor DE Gubenats speaks Of the author In The Con-
feup0rdrv March, "tne most elegant and in our
tint the most popular. of the living Italian writer's"