New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-02
LITERARY NOTES.

Charles Dudley warner, JOhh puilo"S"'
Rose Terry Cooke, Charles l. Norton Frank >
and others, will contribute to The Chrtshdn on'o"
during the Summer months series Of articles appro-
pirate TO the season
A perfect set of the first editions OF nus
lin's Modern Pain;ers,' stones OF Venice aho
Seven Lamps OF Architecture" comprising nine ro!"
octave volumes Is worth in the London book m"'-
ket the Extraordinary sum OF $1,000, or H'''o ho'
than $3.50 volume.
Mr.. William Blaikie's readable and useful
little book How to Get Strong and How TO etaV 90
has reached its fourth edition. The first eduoh was
exhausted in ten DAYS the second went on IN FOUR u"lS
and there was brisk demand for the tLlrd tha' q
fourth was ordered close upon IT,
Some time in Juy Il. Worthington Will pub
lish Lord George Campbelrs new book OF U"vel III
America being mainly Of travel IN the southern states
during the past year. The English title Black anu
wh.e." VIII probably be used as a subtitle Win an
other perhars &" A Scotchman'S Views OF America -
the main title, The book VIII undoubtedly have g1ou
deal interest for Americans, ana is sure al any ~
TO attract attention.
Tho first three volumes of Max Muliers
TRANSACTIONS Of the Sacred Books of the World are ready
for publication. Ffty-ve of the first volume are
devoted to preface IN which three cautions are gwen
one for persons who forget that the grain is mixed WIN
the cha in sacred writings, another for those VINO 90
NOT properly estimate the difficulties Involved in making
a rIgd of uanslatons, aud thlrd TOT thoso HhU 70
not know what pcss ole ana what iupoSShle lh leu
derng ancient thought into modern languages
New editions of those old stories Ras-
selas." Paul aud Virginia." Undine," LhzSoc'n'
or the Exlcs of siberia, and The Swiss Family hoO
fnson" winch everybody supposed TO read at least
once before he becomes Of age preparing with new
Illustrations added to the old, at James Millers' MI
Miller will also publish soon One-volume ediuon OF
Elizur wrgnts translation OF La FQntaines rabies
which has been long out Of the market lie VIII auu W
II reproductions OF forty French Illustrations
The recent report that ShakeSpeaIe's Alders-
ratet house in London was be taken down, in
order thar profitable building may be set up III us
place, II followed by bit of news from Rome winch
ought to put to projectors of SO rreyerent an
enterprise. The melancholy and unfortunate Giacomo
Leonard. regarded by many the greatest Italian
poet and philosopher of his time, once lived in Rome
for two years lane which runs from the CorsO 10
scriItion has s been placed upon the house to CON-
InomOrato the circumstance.
The charge of plagiarism brought against
NJ lola began In destinations that he borrowed certain
situations and types for his EAssommoir' from book
called lie sublime" When he published his novel
.Th6rese" aud afterwards his " La FaUte de Fable
Mourct was said that he used situations invented by
Casanova, and made known TO readers through Casa
novas celebrated Memories" :" lie Mort d'Ollvier
seij 10 be IN kong To vs. or by NJ Autonu Mulet called
:. Historic de Mort" aud published IN 1852.
Karl Rosenkranz who died recently in Ger
many had prepared valuable edition OF Kant had
written "a biography Of DiderOt, which holds high rank
among similar German works, and the leading
thinker OF what is known the Centre party-which
was OF three that out OF the breaking up OF
HegeIiansm after the publication Of strauss Leben
Jcsu and the controversies of which srausss book
was the cause. The contributions WLlcl he made 10
rsvcho5gv logic and aesthetics considered impor
I'M ord gor which ne uld as a hlstol ian of literature
Is described as excellent.
Tame, About and Sarcey twenty-One years
aro were candidates for admission TO the Ecole Normse,
f,a passed 10 together. correspondent OF The Pal
Ar.- s.ose wha notes this circumstance, adds that
Tame stood first GC@ug tke successful Ab0ut thrd ana
sarc,v ffth. Numbers one, SAres s0 five have always
remained close friends aud at Jzs they appeared
T. have divided the domain Of literature among Them
Taue being tho historian and ossayist About the nov
,,t aud sarc.y the 1t "a saroey alone of the
three, adhered TO his own ground without tres
passing 10 the right the left for lecturer lie
remains o cltc but "Taine has become something Of
q ptmpLereer ailutug bis histories VIII political dis
la. tbg ncoucd woodworking. IN which he exceed 10
become industrious but rather commonplace Journal
TIE reputation of Etruria for her literature,
Nj Dennis claims was not wide. Mentions found
OF Tragedies histories and poems hut their alone
survive Ii that the language fOr6idding to
the translator but Il IS hard 70 believe that conspicuous
literary merit would have failed Of translator to hand
Il down O. pJstery. IN Roman annals there are many
names fla high positions which accord with names found
Inscribed on Etruscan sepulchrcs showing to what large
decroe the people IL the literature OF EruIia
elnssamatad with the Romans. Until the third or sec
oud century before Christ Rome borrowed In genera!
fr more from ETuria than she did from Greece, but 1t
was IN the solid and useful arts, and not ID literature,
1cF this she bOrrJwc from Greece, and her alpha
bet was OF Cummau origin. RomGs indebtedness 10
crmysigriJus neiehbors Tor art works in clay,
terra Gotta aud brouze; for tue anusements OF the
circus aud It's horse races perhaps l4t music ~ gen
era but 'It"S iol s' au 40 & ]
aud drainage works, OF Whlch sp'ehuIu auu uhFl,-
geied example Is preserved 70 our times In the STILL
existing ami still-useful ClOaca MaXma In Rome.
The Riverside Edition of the British Poets,
Ms originally published, VIII he completed Saturday
b. the issue two volumes. making siXty-fve IN all
and being Surrey and wyatt" and shakespeare and
Ben Jonson" Chaucer viii not be added to the series
until some months hence. Houghton, OsgoOd Co
Will also publish, Saturday five volumes in their new
edition II Dickens being Little Durrt ~ BaTnaby
Rudge" (1) and Great Expectations" ~, and five in
the new edition OF the Waverley novels, quentin
Durwari " %. "Ihe Monastery" az, Guy Manner
lug" o. The Abbot" q J, and The Pirate" ~. This
completes the waverley." III twenty Five vSumes.
tanning nearly Hfy steel plates and sold at 81 vcl1me
Othcr works be published saturday by the same
house are lhe Life ana Epoch OF Alexander h1iI-
ton. bV Geo. shea, win portraits OF hanAtou, MIs,
Hamilton Taiieyrand. Burr. and Bishop seabury
spain IN Profile" book OF rayS ana SGseIy99p by
"Tac Philosophy OF Music" by William Pole.
The new and beautiful edition of Hume's
"Engaud just published by Harper Brothers, gives
fresh the lasting record Hume has LETT IN his
brief autobiography OF the early fortunes Of his great
work &" / was. own nguine in my expectations of
the success Of this work - and then he adds: But
miserable was my disappointment" He was assailed
on all sides by partisan critics, and after the first
ebu ituus Of their fury over, what was still more
mOrtifyiug, the book seemed 10 sink into OBLIVION MI
Nll!ar told me that in a tweyemOnth he sold only
ioryayc copies Of 1t. scarcely indeed heard OF one
man In the three kingdoms considerable for rank or
culture that could endure the book Had not the war
been ut that time breaking out between France ana
Elglaud. | had certainly retired TO some provincial
town OF the former kingdom, have changed my name,