New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-12-07
LITERARY NOTES.

| "Life Mos nc" by Frances hluley h"'0i1"'
has lust been issued by A. ID. f. Randolph q Io' III
square l2mO. volume, with many colored uuSua''0hS
of ALPINE flowers and views Of Swiss life ana mountain
| SCENERY The poems OF which there il a large numb y
are accompanied by Ornamental head pieces anu Ih''a
! letters.
A book of Spiritual Songs" selected ana
ARRANGED by the Rev. Dr. Charles g. Robinson, VIII De
published early IL January by scribner Co. The reg
Mar edition ~ Al be bound muslin and have red edges
but an xtra edoon is announced which VIII have eili
edges aud ne bound in groSEralh sllH-ah eVleS III"
| style OF binding.
Whittier. Charles Dudley Warner Julian
Hawthorne, Mrs Burnett, Mrs. Dodge and Susan Cool
dee are among the contributors 10 ST. Nicholas Tor
January the holiday number. Whlttiers poem VIII
open the magaz ne, and Is long one IL describes inc
launch and voyage OF a boat in New-hampshife Inc
fontispiece viii engraving after portrait group
by william Page OF three little girls chilcreh oil the '
Professor Names one OF whom is now Mrs Dodge the
editor Of the magazine. Mrs. Burnett writes AIRY
foIe called Behind the White Brick" Which was writ
ten originally for some children friends but was never
before printed Julian Hawthorne also writes falIy
story, called Rumpty- Dudges Tower, am M iI
Dodge's contribution borders fairy land, under the
t,tle Wandering Tom" In the department Tor very
Young Folks" Mrs Dodge has az illstaed D3py sU,y.
on Chiidren's Day ST. Pau's Cathedral London.
Harper's Naga,ine for January will contain
six illustrated articles, the which opens the hummer
being England's Great Seaport" liverpool, ny W. H.
RidCing Miss Jennie y. Young, autnOI VI hS" ""'h
on "The Ceramic Art" contributes paper ON Cloi-
some and L. b. Gustasron Interesting sketch
OF MARA del Occidente," (Mrs. Maria Bgooksl an
American poet who fifty years surprised some OF
the best critics in England, and whose Lophi'l ana
other poems have just been published In Boston
Edward Everett Hale has written poem for THIS mum
ber which Is called THE Great Harvest Year." while
an article is given Rousseau with portrait which mas
special reference to HIS musical career Blacks Mae
IGod OF Dare" and Hardys Return OF the Native are
completed, and promise Is gvrn oil new nGye,S ~ J
Of another novel ny William Black sometime during the
year.
The first of Mr.. Clarence Cooks papers on
the Ola Masters Leonardo da Yuci"-wiH appear IN
SeriJner's Monthly for January. Engraungs by Cole
will be given Of Leonardos Last supper" and Head
OF Christ" and detail drawings Of Raphaes Last SUP
per and Leonarios for purposes Of comparison be-
sides Illustrations OF Leonarios work as mechanical
inventor "Thc Tile Club az Work." description OF the
origin and life OF this half social organization In TINS
city OF artists and their friends viii be another feature
OF the January number. second paper, called The
Tile club at Play" will follow It In February. Or the
three poems delivered 40 the Century Club Bryant
memorial meeting one, Mr. stedmin'sl has already ap-
pcared in The Atlantic the others viii be printed III
ScJibner: Mr. Bayard yor's IN the January and MT
r. H. stoddard's in the February number Inc date OF
publication for the important series OF lluHrdtu pa
pers on BRAIN Is MOI yeI annoulr,u ~ asor
Cornell University, companion OF the llte
Hartt l. IN RIO Janeiro collrcting malenalSs Mi.
i flaTupnON,
Great south Iapcrs and of the artists OF the
present exhibition. has returned TO this country Win
mass OF sketches.
There is now on exhibition at the auction
rooms Of George A. Lcayitt Co.. Clinton Hall, re-
markabe collection Of Illustrated books II was made
by Mr. Irving Browne, a lawyer OF Troy, VINO was en-
gagged on 1t twenty years There one hundred and
fifty Illus rated volumes, which have been made NJ"
e. books in which Illustrations have been inserted by
the collector and they contain more than one thousand
Illustrations so inserted ROgersslpoctca works have
received nearly six hundred; BurtOn's Book Hunter
one hundred aud thirty-three; ROscOe's " NttOra
Coonna " more than hundred; GTmm's " Life and
Times Of Michael Angelo" two hundred portraits and
Warnum's Life and Works Of Holbein " two hundred
and afy including Impressions OF the curious cuts to
the Dance OF Death" MahiaS's Pursuits Of Litera-
ture" has extended to two volumes folio by the In
serton OF nearly hundred portraits Of famous
many Of the portraits being IndiaprOo impre
There are several volumes the collection which have
been partly illustrated, and remain unbound the
lcct0r left them. The editions Of standard books Mr..
Browne says in his preface TO the catalogue, " in
nearly every instance the finest" OF Virgil there
are fifteen ed Ons, and Horace sixteen OF BunYan's
"Pgrn's Progress six and this Mr. Browne remarks
is the only book In the collection which he has
read The entire library numbers about two thousand
three hundred volumes, Of winch six seven
hundred Illustrated works, aside from those that
"madc up." The sale begins next Tuesday evening,
and will continue through the week. handsome cata-
lOgue has been compiled, scyeutyhye copies OF which
have been printed on large paper.