New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-05-31
LITERARY NOTES.

| IN press ana Will publish IL sOoIl
A life of DR.. Livingstone is in preparation,
under the supervision Of MS family and has specia!
reference TO his personal and domestic character and
hIs work MS missionary. Professor Blake, OF Eiin-
| burgh, has II III haud
A new volume of historical essays by E. A.
Freeman is in press at Macmillan Co.'s. London, for
pub caton during the Summer Among other essays IL
includes the following: "FIrs Impressions of Rome"
q" The nlyrian Emperors and their Land" augusta
Treyerorum" 1.-THE GOths st Ravenna," Race and
Language" THE Byzantine Empire, and Medieval
ana Modern Greece"
Macmillan g. Co. have in preparation
work in four volumes consisting OF selections from the
English poets which their purpose shall be truly
representative selection from poets other than dram
atists, embraced the period from Chaucer to Lam
dor COugh Each poet TO be assigned to speca
writer who Will be responsible for the selections and
short critical introduction Matthew Arnold
Will write general introduction. Two volumes are
promised Tor this year
The newest addition to the ChandOs Clas-
sizes, which now number more than sixty volumes, Is
Townsends Literature" just received by H. Worth
ingon This book although first published several years
ago shortly after the comper's DEATH has never been
well known in this country. consists OF extracts from
the writings of the most eminent men IN modern ter
ture the being seldom longer than two pages
Only one is given from each author Shakespeare and
CARLYLE share about equal with their obscure
contemporaries. The work Is IN Two VoIueS lHele LAO
recently been change In the binding OF this Cnandos
series, another style or cover Delns useu "nHe Ino
edges are now cut.
A clergyman has lust died at Lincolnshire,
England who, it Is said, the man that won the af-
fections of that shallow-hearted" Cousin Amy, IA
miar to everyone who knows Tennyson's " Locksley
Hall >" and who does mott He very fond Of horses
and extavagan stories are told OF his love for dogs 1t
Is to him that the following lines refer;
the husband s the wife is thou art mated with
clown,
And the grossness of his will have weight to
He will hold thee when his passion shall have spent
Something better than his dog little dearer than his
horse"
Mr.. Trollope shares with many men the
opinion that Esuond" is Thackerays best work. He
his book that he once told Thackeray 1t was
not only his work. but much the best that there
was none second to it. THAT what Intended"
the author Of 1t replied, but have failed. Nobody
reads it," after ALL what does matter g. he went on
after awhile and then added II they like anything,
one ought TO be satisfied. Aor all Esmond was prg"
OF VANITY Fair" Mr. TrOope remarks that the reader
derives from the conviction and this the only posi-
bic conviction, that among men George was as
weak and Dobbin as noble as any he has met In lit.
and mat Ssg ms1 A oops az fTs saa
ay" is nearly ready at Harper & Brothers.
Tennyson's Lovers Tale that little known
and almost forgotten poem which he In 1928 aud
never gave the world, at last TO see the light He
has consented to It's publication. and c. Kegan Paul
Co. will have ready in London very soOn In 1888, the
author then only twentythree years OF age took to
publisher and when nearly readyn book form decided to
withdraw 1t. few copies were given to his friends,
but the volume has become rare that single copy OF
il sold in London month for 800. This book con-
tanned II appears only of the three parts OF which
the poem consisted The work now In press Will con
tain them all, and will be followed by The Golden
simmer a work of his mature years. which has already
been added IT, his collected works. but which was written
AZ a SEQUEL to "The Lovers Tale" and published In
1863 IL IL founded on story in Boccaccio
IL, ,-,,.A zr.D 9 L',,.nra
,s SAID to be engaged writing history OF the repay
mont t he Bank OF France of the debt which the
contracted at the close OF the Franco-German war;
being financial operation which IN its magnitude has
few parallels in history. The sum which the Govern
ment was obliged then to borrow was 1.530,OOO.O0O
francs or about 100000, the whole OF which has
now been paid 6O;OO0OOO francs, the last nstanent
having been paid months ago. 1t is noted by
The PaU lfaH Gazette that in spite of the Commune,
which at time threatened the destruction OF the
Bank as well the ruin OF France and In spite OF Violent
nous transaction accomplished with marvellous
larity" The circulation OF banknoes was neyer,t
saws disturbed and the bank, authorized by law, was
enabled increase its paper issue without seeing It's
notes suffer any depreciation"
The Moore centenary has brought to light
in the shop of London bookseller several very inter
esting manuscripts OF that author There two OF
Lalia ROOKIE" copy Of his Juvenile Poems which
he made for his mothcr his "EpIcurean;" many Of his
poitcal squb the first draught OF his Life of Lord
Byron and forty other manuscripts OF less i'm
portance The Byron contains the passages which
were omitted and has them cancelled. II is written
partly in pencil aud partly ink and is offered for 500
The rough draught of Lalla Rookh" is thick quarto
of 100 leaves and contains four tales not Incorporated in
the published work The writing Is in small hand on
both the paper, and has been laborlOusly re-
yi.ed The price put II Is $3.50. The other manu-
script or Laa Rookh" which il copy or the com
plete poem entirely the handwriting of the author,
with futerneatOns and corrections, Is small quarto
OF Isl leaves, aud Is offered for $500.
An essay by Professor Nettleship, of Oxford,
on the poetry OF Virgil in connection with his life and
times has just been published by Macmillan Co.
Unlike many writer's who. with Buckle, have pointed
out the results OF patronage in literature aud art
Professor Neteshp at the very beginning OF his
claims that the imperial system, of which Augustus
CAESAR laid the foundations. did not create the ters.
ture OF the socalet Augustan Age seriously modify
ITS FORM influence II 70 any great extent by patron
age but found Il already existing the genuine and spon
taneous product OF the later OF the republic" Be-
fore Virgil aud Horace, the great writers OF Italy had
mostly attached themselves 10 the Of the Repub
ic and Horace In his youth wasa republican, and had
been with Bruius and Cassus the side OF the oil
Rarchy at Philipp That they rccOnciled 20 the
Cesar, il due he thinks, their desire for a change
from constant civil war TO fair prospect OF tranquil
nty. Tney mainly concerned about peace, the
peace which Lucretus prays IN his mortal prelude.
Marius and Sylla The results which the
modern mind are melancholy, but whish at the
same time inevitable, they did not foresee.
| Mr. Trollope asks why was Dickens already
great when Thackeray still literary Bohe