New-York tribune., 1879-11-26
LITERARY NOTES.

Jsmes Miller has added another edition 10
Ala long list Of editions OF Mrs. Brownings poems
4 in three volumes octave and is printed IRON ee
tvre an heavy paper publisher has reprineu
- vo,,ms. the well-known Cunningham edition Of
purns and has embelhshed IL with twenty fulpase
fllustrations weiess Fables" with Dores and other
illustrations has at the same time been issueu n nov
edition OF quarto size and square.
Gcike's Life of Christ" is the newest
~sra which the American Book Exchange has an
nounced press This IS book will soon oe onereu
for so cents in what is called the Acme Edition "a
16 mo- cloth volume Of about 900 pages The nrs' vol
ume of Gibbons Rome" which was annonnced py Tue
same publishers a fortnight ago. Will be ready TINS week
Two other volumes VIII iOhow III Deeeni'ei' """ '
final two in January
Under the title Studies in Fermentation
Macmillan & Co. have just published volume which
manufacturers OF beer ought 10 be- and drinkers OF II
certainly will be- interested 10. IL treats OF the diseases
Of this beverage their and the means opreven
ing them. Should the work be likely 10 nave large
circulation among people in general, brewers might
hnd II to their profit to buy up the entire
edition The work translation from the French OF
L. r. "nS sss beer mnder the microscope
One of the books which q tourist Ill rural
England is very fortunate n he have with him In his
going about Is The Ancient Streets and Homesteads
OF England "by Alfred Rmmer and Dean Hawson. IL
was published several years ago by Macmillan & Co.,
but being rather expensive work has found Its way
into fewer hands than deserved to It, The need
Of q cheaper edition has for some time been apparent.
and the publishers announce one as now ready; me
same house has issued a work on " The Economies OF
Industry" hy A.. Marshall, oi University College
Bristol and Mary Paley MarshaA late of Cambridge
VI. Jules Claretie has written play based
OH the early life OF Mirsbeau and his disgracefu family
Quarrcs. " Les Mirabeau" Is Its title. The incidents
were for the most part derived from NJ. dc Lonones
work mention of which has frequently been made in
this column writer, who the play acted the nfst
night IN Paris SAYS the profigate gambler and spend
THRIFT that the great tribune was, Is invested oy NJ
CIaretio with sentimental and romantic tendencies that
The play ends with the dawn Of MiIsoeas career, INC
meeting az Versailles OF the states General ah1 com
mont in Paris j. that IL ends where II ought l" DcEh
Few authors, il any, have lived as Ruskln
has to see the editions Of their works advance To
three and four the original prices. The rarity OF
1r editions part explains this; but only IN part for
it's by 10 means excessively pleasure to see in
certain NcwYork book copies Of these original
issues Complete are, however, hard TO get Even
in London where first editions more numerous than
here a perfect set of the Modern Painters Seven
Iamps " ana stones Of Venice" ia worth the sum of
$500 j. w. Bouton has present complete series OF
The original editions, which besides ne lLIse Dcs'
luclaud"" tn. Two Paths. " Elements o. Drawing
and Lectures ON Architecture aud Painting"
Mr.. Randolph divides his "Home Life i'll
Song with the Poets OF To-day into FIVE distinct parts
which he calls respectively. Baby mood" Childhood
and Youth" Home Life" Grandparents" and Look
ing Backward" In predatory note he explains that
no attempt has been made 10 absolute unity IN
classification or expression the simple purpose having
been gather frsm magazines aud newspapers por-
floating through them Mr.. Randolph has for long
time MED place quite unique III ntelatuIe aS me pre-
the columns of pcIodic.ls. and but for him in a day
or week would go down 10 an untmely grave.
Mr. Swinburne's Study of Shakespeare"
Will be ready at r. worihinStons in about week. Mr..
Funiva and the Shakespeare Society," of which he is the
president give the author occasion for OF that Wild
and writing which is more easily read ard
laughed clubs nj the authors expense than ad-
pred in ones private library when surrounded by vol
umes OF pure English undenled. The society aud its
rresent are spoken o as bTazen- -brOwcd and brazen
throatcd gang OF assembling at the presidential
bray Of professional proficient in the early English
dialect OF Bilhngsgate market" Mr.. WorthnGton o1-
poets 10 bling ont Theodore Tilton's new volume OF
poetry Thou and l." ths week, and has Mr.. Proctors
'Rsusn Ways Made smooth" we'll undcr way; Mr.
Proctor for IL in tho Irish sea on board
the steamer which carried him to this country
DIR. William NJ. Taylor in the preface to his
new volume Of sermons, The Limitations OF Life says
10 would be neither Just 10 himself nor complimentary
his readers TO the sermons have been chosen az
random of that pile Of manuscripts which is con
stantly accumuating in every minister's study, and
whose final destination the fire." On the contrary be
has selected them deliberately account OF the pres
snt and permanent importance of their subjects; aud be-
cause they have been ionnd helpful by those who
heard them preached. There Is not" he says, "a
discourse REPRODUCED winch has not already been
nseful 10 some souls" There ale twenty five sermons
in the collection. ne original portrait OF Dr. Taylor
the nrst one ever printed will 20 with the book A {.
Armstrong & son publish the work
Mrs. Kate BowesW Watson, who is daughter
Of Charles Lever, writes from Venice that the Life OF
her father 10y W J. Fitzpatrick, which was published
fsw months ago was not only written without the
ton bis children and executors, but that IT abounds
in errors and msstatenents The author she says had
scarcely any personal knowledge of her father and the
sketch OF his character much more of carcature
than portrait" The account of her brothers death
s absolutely the reverse of the TRUTH and is cruel
sIander brother died, she says. in her own house
ip Florence having carefully tended by herself and
her husband, nj the story OF his death In strange
aud unknown ana irendess ana ms ~ a6d ss
tha she writes her behalf and that Of her sisters,
one OF is India, tOrepudatc all responsibility
for such egregousy incorrect work ana TO ADJ tDat
steps will hc taken to give TO the world really trust
worthy biography of my father together with selections
from his correspondence
r.. Worthington has brought out new
edition Of Niue. lie Bruins "souvenirs" In which the
original transatio carefully corrected and 10
which additions OF certain interesting passages have
been made. The publisher has issued in red
cloth binding an edition OF Hume's England" from
the wel-knov Little Brown 4 Co. plates. OF this
edition, which IS a remarkably handsome one. a good
story is told. When II first made, John Murray,
anxious TO secure Hume to match his " GibooD,"
purchased the right TO this with his own i'm
print Nothing said about in public at the time,
md before lorg Il got 10 be common belief that Mr..
murray had made the plates and that Little, Brown
* Co had imported from Eiin. This goes 10 show once
handsome books can be made on TINS sde
OF the water the other. Another and rather anus
Ing illustration OF the fact came out some months
ago. when Henry Holt & Co. published symoDdss
Circumstance in Italy," a widey-known weekly paper
ju reviewing spoke Of the printing English work
Tue truth Is that the book, plates and ALL was made
here.