New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-06-30
LITERARY NOTES.

series of books on the history OF french
Professionalism under the collective title, Classiques
Dc Protestantsme is about TO be issued in Paris by
the society which has been formed to promote the study
OF such history.
The new Charles Dickens letters which Miss
Hogarh and Miss Dickens preparing for the press
was first intended TO publish last April or May, but de-
lay has ensued which win not admit Of publication
until some time In the Autumn. certainly before Christ
mas.
At Berlin has been published q fac-simile
reproduction OF the original edition OF Hobelns dance
Of Death which appeared in Lyons from the press OF
the Melchors and Caspar Trechse in 1888 and the re-
productions the fac-simile edition are said TO DC re-
markedly clear and Bright
The late David Laing, who prepared an
edition OF the works Of John Knox began movement
for the building at Edinburgh OF monument to the
Reiormer's memory. He beQueathed $500 as suDscrp
zion 10 the fund but the movement failed of proper sup
port and was likely to die out II has Just been revived
The new work on which Canon Farrar has
FOR some years engaged is entitled The Life ana
Work Of ST. Paul" aud will be ready for publication
very soon Two editions to be published in this
country by f. p. DuttOn & Co, being in two vol
umes uniform with the Library Edition OF FarraFs
Life OF Christ and the other lowpriced one-volume
edition.
NJ. Maxine Lalanne, whom Hamerton re-
ing has written treatise etching which Is much
esteemed and Estes & Lauriat, Of Boston, announce
that they will publish In the Autumn an authorized
Translation Of it, which s r Koehlcr editor OF the forth
coming American Art ReUe0 Will make. An introduce
tory chapter the simple elements OF etching VIII DC
added by The plates for the work have been printed
in Paris and will be equal IL is sad in every respect 10
those IN the Paris edition.
Gibbon himself has related how 1t was in
the Church Of Ara Coe on the Hill of the Capitol at
Rome as he sat musing amidst the ruins OF the Capi-
col while the barefooted frars were singing NespeIs
that the idea OF writing the Decline and Fail OF the CITY
first started TO his mind. Francis Grumpy, IN his new
volume called Pictures Of the Past" which is mainly
recoections Of people whom be had known, tells the
reader how 1t was while seated upon fallen monarch
Of tho wids Northern Australia. discussing midday
meal Of bush tea and damper that suddenly occurred
70 HIM to write his book
A Life of Albert Hopkins, who for forty
years was professorin Williams College, which has
been carefully prepared from his letters journals and
published articles, supplemented by contributions from
ex-President Mark Hopkins President Chadbourne and
others IS nearly ready at A. D. F. Randolph Co.'s. 1t
has been said Of Professor Hopkins that his mental
range was far greater than that OF most men and that
his heart was large. He conceived the aim OF life TO
be heroic cheerful, Chrstlke service ana he sought
that aim with drectness and resouteness OF pur,
pose which held him steadfast when most men would
have fallen"
King Oscar, of Sweden, has published new
work on Charles Kill Of which "a translation has been
brought out in 1t the result Of genuine inves
legations and is said TO be incomDaraby more accurate
than the lively aud brilliant pages of VOtaire, while II
gives the reader deeper impression of the courage,
resources and mental greatness Of Charles King Oscar
is Of opinion that Charles failed because unlike Gusavus
Adolphus he did not form great school OF statesmen
and generals so that when lie died there left
who could carry his designs. His title to remem-
brancc and honor is that real dangers of his
country and boldly met them His purpose was high
ana hOnOrabe his blur dcrs many but II must be
remembered that when he died he was yet young.
The sixth and final volume of Masson's
Z" Life and Times OF Milton" work wdch promises TO
remain standard authority the history of the htera-
ture OF that age has just been completed and the manu-
script Is already IN the hands Of Macmillan Co., OF Lon
dom for publication this year. The volume comprises
four books Book deals with The Year OF the Restora
tlon aud Millions Dongs during that Year p Book
H. with The Clarendon Administration OF 166I-1667,
the aureatesnp OF Dayenaut and the first Seven Years
of Restoration Literature MtOn's Life from l661-1667
md the Composition OF Paradise Lost Book Ill Is de-
voted to English Politics and Literature, 1867 10 1874
and the Last Seven Years Of Millions Life" while the
WORK is closed IN Book ~ by chapter on POSTUM
nous MlltOnlana.'
Heine is known to English readers only in
the unsatisfactory form OF translated selections from
his woras. Henry Holt q Co. few years published
a volume called Scntatious from Helue' Macml-
Ian & Co. have recently issued small book containing
some of his poems and there brought out in Lon
don short time &C. ap interesting volume with the
ttle Wit Wisdom and Pathcs of Hene." There can
be no doubt that popular interest in this strange and
little Understood poet critic and philosopher mas been
in late years growing rapidly and has led Mr. snod
grass who compiled the " Wit, Wisdom and Pathos OF
Icne" 10 undertake the translatons of some Of his
complete works be ginning with the "Reiseblder" or
with one of the books on Germany He intends 10 pub
lisa them I'm volumes Of convenient ana not too bulky
t,ze.
Emile Gebhardt. q French writer, whose
essays italy aud RIbelas have attracted attention
only in France bu outside Of France, has just puh
lsncd in Paris "a volume the origin Of the Italian
Renaissance which lac inquiries Why the movement did
not north OF the Alps instead OF south OF thom in
word why il did take place in France. He is Of
opinion that the essentially and almost exclusively lyric
style OF Ianguedoc poetry independently OF the crusade
against tae Albigenses and the wars Of Simon dc
MoniOrt sufficiently accounts for it, He also holds that
the Laugue doll was equally unfit 10 he the medium OF
the great movement because IL wanting in the har
mony and grandeur which belong artistic excellence
But Italy intellectual freedom the social state and
classical traditone furnished causes which
prepared Jat aud 10 be the cradle OF the henalssce
An acquaintance of Nine. Christine Nilsson.
whose name is not gwen has published in London,
der the aIlitera we title Throw for a Throne" what
will amuse OF disgust readers Of Shakespeare. according
as the mood Is. only pamphlet but In that short
space the author attempts show that Hamlet
quite another person than what Ophelia thought him,
since he was a liar and thief forger and bngand,
while his uncle was full OF sacred emotions" and
humbeness OF spirit" and, first, acted towards his
guilty and am bilious nephew with afectOnate and
sociude but at last delegated his judicial office 10 the
weapon Of the injured and brother Laertes That
talk Of very tall sort is wanting alongside this wild
speculatOr in the following picturesque dash
tn eternal shrinking spirit, far midst writing my
forms that umut I'm that OF fOu dependence and
woe thick. scething Oatbs 20 luld zones OF
notwithstanding gloom"
The suggestive remark is made by Mr.. Den
mis- IN his work on Etrura, that II the Etruscans had