New-York tribune., 1879-03-24
LITERARY NOTES.

The April number of The Information al ne
y,eo will contain article the taxa'ion OF muniei
pal bonds, by Perry Belmont OF New-Iork'
Cassell. Peter g. Galpin intend to publish
work on Edinburgh. similar in plan to their olo anu
New London" James Grant. the Scotch novelist Will
prepare IT,
Mr.. Gladstones magazine articles on Homer
have been translated into modern Greek and printed as
the feuleton of the O!io, newspaper published al
Trieste The journal recently printed trahsla
tion Of Lewis Sargents New greece
The series of articles called "The Political
Adventures of Lord Beaco sacd," originally published
in The Fortnghy Rer;c7, and reprinted in TINS couh!
by Charles scrbners SOns, has been printed IN lnS'
ments in the columns OF The Indian Ddy Ne@s' pup
lshed at Calcutta.
The late James Macdonell, the London
iournalis had planned and partly prepared DooK
on France The Spectator in noticing bis DEATH remarks
that society had begun to recognize his briahce IN
conversation that bs house had begun 10 be acentre
for the cultivated and that his position in his profession
was well displayed his funeral. II is scarcely too
much to saw that train ch carried his friends
20 Beckenham had been wrecked Liberal Journalism III
London would mOmeutailS nave slOpIeu'
Three more volumes in the English Men OF
Letters Series in preparation. They are 6peh
SER" by the Dean OF st. Paul's Thackeray, by An
thony Trollopc and Hawthorne" by Henry James, II
Fiyo other volumes have been arranged for. VIZ:
"Pope" by Leslie stephen; Bentley" by Professor
Jebb: "Iandor," 10y Professor Sidney Covin; " Sou
they" by Professor Dowdcn. and Wordsworth" ny r.
Myers Goodwin smith intended originally to WIltc tge
volume Wordsworth, but will contribute one on GOV"
per instead.
The Academu in noticing the second volume
OF the History of the United States by william cullen
BRYANT and Sidney Howard Gay, remarks that II was
from the events of the present century which include
the second the mother country, and the more
terrible home conflict still fresh in our minds that inc
most was hoped and expected from Mr. Bryants con-
peetion with the work. The veteran journalist OF
efv years sandingit remarks, must have had 1t in
hta nWpr tO
respecting which there are conflicting opinions ana ms
weil-knowu character would have inspired commence
In any statement for which lie vouchcd'
In his recent London lecture on myths and
legends current in European and Aslauc lore, '" H. =
Ralson quoted Bazic as authority that Clnderelas
glass slipper not glass slipper at All, Dut 'ur
,hoe that the wolf the Little Red Riding Hood story
VINO an old goat which, instead OF destroying grand
mother swallowed SIX kids, and suffered much from
Indigestion when the kids transformed into stones,
that il was pitched into river and drowned by the
weight Of its burden finally, that Puss in Boots was
really Fox in Boots. The telegraph pays Mr. RIstCh
the plment Of describing hlm as scholar OF con
siderable cmncnce ana story leler' ooNiousi & nj li
most courteous and PickwickiAn SENSE, OF acAno"i
edged ablhty."
Mr.. Ouaritch, the London bookseller, is
,oout to publish a catalogue OF English literature winch
The academy says will be curiosity ia It's way IL en-
braces five works printed by CaxtOn and several books
by other early English printers; the four folio Shakes
peares fourteen Of the early quaros Of single plays and
ihe volume Of poems printed 1910, as well as first
editions of many OF the other English poets ana
aramatists catalogue Of books to be sold by Mr.
puaritch early in April Includes a copy OF Claudes
"Iiber Verltatis ," the scarce Neuchatel 1855
I4t edition of AgasSz's POissons FOSsIles, complete
set of The GcntiemanS Magazine from It's commence
mcnt in 1871 to 1882 comprising III volumes, uhCut
aud unilormy bound and copy III Yen zen % Goie5 5 81 t
the works OF Noudel, who was probably the chleI OF
The uoets Of Holland, aud from whom IL las Detn
charged by the Dutch that Milton TOOK sOule o. 'ho
Ideas OF Paradise Lost"
The AfhcnqHn is of opinion that as literary
critic alone no writer could ever attained the pop
ulatty which Matthew Arnold has won. Mr.. symonds,
Mr. Pater and Nj swnburne il thinks, TOO remote
from nd to De held by It Of more than dIcttante
account" NJ. Arnold has most III common with John
Morley and Mr. PattlsOn bat hc lacks the ferYOr OF
Mr. Morley and the lucid precision and incisye wit OF Mr.
Patton But Gin q certain fascinating suaYlty" he cx-
ees them both The essay Goethe, III Mr. ArnOds new
volume leads The AHeneum express its regret that
be has " ionod the ignODe thrOng who have thrown
mud at Christiane Vulpus" The fact Of her long
relationship to Goethe should have been enough 1t
thinks 10 shield her from attack by any who has
real reverence FOR the MASTER" IL adds that " rreiut
able testimony was collected by BaY ard Taylor which
Eproyea Cbristiaue to have been a woman not
puly Of very sincere and devoted aHecuoh' but
also OF real gcuce and even Of consider
able culilvation." NJ. Arnod's estimate of Goethe
as a mau OF genius is that lie is " the greatest
poet OF modern mcs aud this not because he Is one of
the batdozen human beings who IN the history Of the
race have shown the signal gift for poetry but be-
cause at the same time he hy far our gr' atest
noderu man" Throughout MI ATnOlds essays there Is
q tone of perfect ecnt!encss and moderator, I9g
lesson they convey ia Of courtesy geuueness ana
liberation" He is Z" high-sOuCd preacher WHO mas
continually reminded us by Ms own example o1 me SUI
prcIne value OF noble cOndu I ana hgh demcahOl'