New-York tribune., 1879-04-09
LITERARY NOTES.

LITERARY NOTES.
Mrs. Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, the daugh-
Ter OF Nathaniel Hawthorne, has just begun in Ihe
Boston Courier a serial story entitled Miss Dettant
The edition de luxe of Thackeray's works,
that is now printing in London has reached the four
teen,h volume, which is just out. it contains Inc
Book of snobs" and "sketches and Travels IN Lou
don"
The French Academy has awarded Its ilrst
prize in poetry TO a writer who turns out to be Com
munist refugee in Switzerland named Jules Renard ana
no little annoyance has been felt IN consequence oy
this the most conservative institution IN France
way out Of the embarrassing situation Will is oe
leved, be found in procuring pardon ior the ohonu
before he IS publicly honored.
Tennyson's dedicatory poem to the Princess
Alice viii be published in The NiHetceah CeHt'B Tor
April The mag Zine will also contain an article by Pro
fes>or Huxley on Sensation and the Unity of structure
OF Seasferous Organs" ply from Mr.. Froude TO MI
Freeman a review OF Count Leo TolstcyS novels Dy
Tue Political situation in Burmah"
On Saturday II. WorthngtOn will have ready
new edition Of Arene Houssaye's Life in Paris"
series OF letters art literature and society Inc!
were first published in book form about two years ago.
aud originally appeared in the columns OF lHE TRIBUNE
whose eorresp spondent NJ. Houssaye was IN 1870, 1870
saturdaV new eGltions OF Canon Puilens D." Modern
Christianity n Civilized Heatnfnlsm' anu h"""iu
Clodd's Childhood of the World"
The Goethe manuscripts, recently purchased
by the Library Of Strdsbmg University INCLUDE the
letters OF which Schiller wrote follows TO the poet
K6rner: Frau Stein is really an interesting per
,on and quite uud tind what has attached Goethe
10 her Beautiful she never have BEEN Dut Der
pomtcnance has SOFT earuestness and peculiar open
ness. . she has moe thaG thousand letters ron
Goethe and from Italy he writes TO her every week
This connection is perfectly pure aud blaInelets'
Justin McCarthys "IIistory of Our Own
hall
columns In the current number Of Tie Spectator The
book SAYS the reviewer, supplies want that was dis
unciy fc and though it has defects, yet those very
ayfects will secure the attention of readers who ma
Miss Maltncau aud Mrs M0.eswOrth 100 tough iOf
digestion" II deserves TO be read, and We hope VIII
be read very widely by young mon and mIdens who's
weary sous dnd little uourshment IN the arid wilder
mes, OF those 'haudboo<s,' primers and 'epochs'
which gentle pedautry is at present 50 fond OF making
Moreover IL IS "a healthy book, emphaticaHy, as well
amusing One,' Iud the "ilter Oi me IeNle" uo
not know of another rom Wu,cd lV'3vI ,o,,4
20 proh;aOly or 80 pleasantly gam Information aOou'
the event, OF which it treats
ApropOs of the coming Shakespeare memo
rial celebration the May HarDer VIII nave an article
from william Winter on "siratiold-upon-Ayon,' which
wIll be embesned with twenty-five illustrations OF
stratiord including view Of the memorial buildings
Another important paper III this number Will DC on
"The STUDY OF Art In Boston," by Geo. r Lathrop'
with twenty-eight Illustrations The opening article is
sailed "a Pennsullr Canaan" being description Of
quaint and along the eastern shore OF Della
ware. Maryland ana Virgin Colonel Waring con-
tributes another number OF his series, Berg und
Thai in which relates the story OF visit TO the late
william Hewitt at his summer home in the mountains.
Mrs +. ". Latimer has an Illustrated siOIy caIleu
"Lord Aliens Daughter" and Miss MulOck continues
her young Mrs J'rdne" T. r. Whpnle VIII ,,.1 nave
some personal "reminiscences OF JohH LOtnrop Ao.tS
ana Wsm Bac, paper m P dschss tae 9A1 new w 4s fer
ture O. international copyright.
Efforts are making in Ireland to revive the
study Of the Irish language. society established at
Dublin years encourage such study has just
published report, which says that an interest in the
movement amounting To enthusiasm has been excited
among Irishmeu residing in England. Scotland and
America. In America the spread of the movement is
taid TO have been e1traOrdnary" thousands are de-
voting themselves study of the Gaelic. and classes
consisting Of three and four hundred have been formed
in American cities" The report remarks further that
the study OF Irish is being more cultivated than
formerly in Berlin, Paris Lcipsc and Copenhagen,
while in Ireland It has been placed on the programme
Of the national schools and the recognition OF pro-
fciency is given as IN Greek, Latin and French The
demand for the text OF the society is undated
tnns rbse the Second ITsh Book T. in its twelfth
thousand One OF the notices of the society Is the fo
Irish ancuace il free from anomalies, stery and
hecierOc redundancies which mark the dialects OF bar
ana copious, and affords those elegant conversions
which other than thinking and lettered peope can
The protest Of Elhu Vedder, the American
painter against the criticism Of his two works. The
CumRan sibyl " and The Young Marsyas," winch ap-
peared in the December number OF LArt has called out
n long reply from the editor OF that periodical MI
Vedder's complaint that lie had been requested by
LArt to permit reproduce OF his Plctures that
he felt this 10 be Intended compliment and at once
sent two OF his pictures TO the office OF Tart both Of
which were reproduced. but with criticism which no
described as an exceptionally elaborate naSellau0n'
He took no exception 70 the low estimate OF his artistic
ability on the part OF the critic but protested against
the species OF trap into whicn he had nadvetent
been drawn. LArtnOw replies that 10 did not commit
itser 10 praise pictures when 10 asked permission 20
reproduce them; that there is danger In tue
theory that such courtesy granting aTeqeSt Otth hd
Shout influence the verdict to be given on an artstS
pictures Ar further sets forth that the reproductions
OF the pictures faithfully executed-a point which
Mr. VeddCr himself has admitted in private note.
Ffnallv IL + remarked that EArtS criticism ana the
discussion Il has caused, have done more FOR MY.
Tlihn Vcdder's uO'Oriety than The Cumaan sOyl' and
'TLe Young Mgrsyas.'" Certainly Mr.. Nedder uas
ga ned n0OretY II that IL what artist most desires
for IN addition all that has been sail heretofore Tie
prcseDt arucc comprises four columns on the 1OlJ
paccs OF what Is probably the most eminent art perl
OdIcal III the world.