New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-03-05
LITERARY NOTES.

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"a Roy Astronomer" and Horace T. scudder nndert the
,,lo Little Puritaus describes child life among tue
carly settlers OF New England There Is Oograpcai
sketch OF John Milton with three portraits OF NM
story Of German fairies and some comca verses from
MIS- Marg NapeS Dodge about - Inc Llt'i' DE- "''
aud The BIG Little Grl."
The diary of the Rev. Thomas Dugard VINO
was a student at Cambridge University when Johh H-
ton wa, there has been found among tho mahuscr'p'
in the British Museum II is written in Laun' anu u,
chief interest lies in the full account Dugard gives VI
his Studies thus furnishing clearer notion thah 'o
world already possessed OF what were the acaGc"''"'
studies NJ tne noat II happens also that DuGard was
an intimate companion OF Edward King Mlton ueil
est college friend and on WnoSo ite mari NJ the
composed his cccy of " lycdas !! I"'e rai " ~
ditry Ducard mentions haNu. read these verses VII"
ten 10 the memory OF Ms irlehd' ,
NJ. ClajryiIlc, author of LA File de Mad
ntnc Ansot." etc who died I'm Pars three weeks ago.
had written no fewer than 600 pays-thi' on the au-
,hority Of a correspondent OF Tie telegraph QondonJ
or these coo PLAYS 400 were printed HIS hrst "otH,
produced at very early age, was Fourteen Years oI
the Life Of Nap0icon.' For eighteen years he continued
tovrte plays Tor the Luxembourg Theatre, Until nc
made his first great success II "Ddns Ia Luue. ms
opened the way for him until the Olton and the
Coutic Franchise were eager 10 obtain his plays lie
was peculiarly happy says The TeegroPh in the choice
OF titles for his vaudeves. nut his was not men Only
merit "A rich fancy ana plenty Oh NE au fs for
Ingenuity and point and the after more than any hlhR
works"
A French novelist. VI. Henri Annie, has Just
puhlsaed a romance called " Renee" in which are con-
tanned few lines addressed to MIN by George Sand ana
heretofore imprinted. II seems he had intended Deiore
The great novelist ded TO put his under her
patronage ana having been encouraged In his work. NC
addressed her ew words saying: There are none OF
ny ideas that have had their birth in your WORKS or
that have not enlarged by you" TO this she re
rpoudsd Believe me. dear child, have never given
you anything tnat did not already exist IN yourseh I'll
nv happiness in this Is that have found the way that
makes one see clearly within ones self. l am only
little lamp tit hight the way OF one who is already on
the road ward the country of God has also given
you good share OF inner light wlich has no need OF
niue. You Ike mine because 1t SUITS your eight by
seeking well you Will discover that only pair OF
spcctaccs that VIII never make shOrt-sighted persons
See clearly, but which may, perhaps, preserve eood
eyes" 1t was long ago that Emerson s4ld Ie poe, "4s
tile person who sees and handles that when others
dream o. raycrsos the whole scale OF existence ana IS
IeltseuAlNeOl il", im NtS "a nj ~ arlirr Isy
lie sand " In every work Of genius We recognize our
Owu It, .ctcd thoughts" And again " man who has
taste, IKE niue, but ID greater power VIII rule me any
day, and maze me owe my ruler
The late NJ de LOmcnc, whose successor
in the French Academy NJ Tame, and whose praises
NJ Tame such preparing soon 10 speak
was engaged m writing history OF the MlIabeaufa family
a. the same time that NJ. Tame was engaged on his
French Revolution" Two volumes OF the history had
been finished when he died aud tho TWO others are so
far advanced that - is believed they can easily be com
pleted The first two have just been published They
make the reader acquainted with The iaDeau family
the grandfather, grandmother, father mother and
uuclcs OF the great Of the Revolution making up,
SAYS The 1cqdeUy the most extraordinary family hat
has ever been seen" From the Old Marquis. who hav
Ing been wounded ~ the neck, always had his head
supported boy q SILVER machine to the tribune OF the
Constitutional Assembly they were all OF them huru-
canes turned INTO They seem a. II they had been
born % blast OF the mstral Tho father OF the riD-
uuo iouni time the midst Of ali kinds OF law proceed
iugs % write 900 letters TO his brother full Of 81
simouan tdrus Of rxprc>son and an incessant 6'w
az new and powerful ideas" The entire correspondence
The AcIdsmV thinks, should be pupnshtd, men the
figure 81 the balh NJ rt'tdI Vhe bTolntf) uS VISIT
aud the most eDsib," Of the whole family, who never
attained the positions his talents deserved" would be
seen m It's true gGl. lie was 100 PrVn9 anu TPguE
post 10 the g chtecnth century,
John Ericsson, whose name is linked with
a." fame OF The uJuclad Monitor, is now an old man,
living IA Ncw-York and Colonel William c. Church Las
written an account u MS life and work for the April
ScrjbHsr. Although scyeuy-sN wears Of age, ErcssOns
whole Thought is SAID stl TO 10 absorbed with
lis scientific and mechanical studies, bo that he
never leaves the roouy old house in Beach-st..
which is at once us dorntory and his workshop, tx
Ccpt it De for exercise pressing business Social
recreatious lc p3rtaEcS not Of He accept, no invitations
and gives Each day he concludes ms labors with
record ~ the events that have happened For nearly
forty ne ma kept GARY giving slhec piEe 10
each day until the Work las reached lis fity'eventh
volume comprising over IA 600 pages In tins diary
only twenty DAYS are missing the forty years the
omissions being dnc 10 accident in 1886, which de
pryed hun Of finger on the night naud. Among other
illustrated articles in this number OF ScritHeri is one on
ACTORS and Actresses IN Ncw-Nork,' winch has pic
ne. Of john Brou.hau. Miss Jcwett, Mss CaXton,
Mr.. Coghau, James Lewis, John Gilbert, Nj
Thoruc, Mr. Beckett and othera, in their fayore
parts C-rcuce G. Puc contributes paper on
Henry Byrgh and his Work. which has eight
illustrations and Ernest Ingcrson Que with the title
"In a snaicry." which also l. illustrated There are
}nne Geod" qnc OF me IVA AUTHORS OF apps
The Tendency of Modern Thought as seen IN F"luai-
writes on " The Measure OF a Man.
The April H0rper viii contain 4 series of
heretofore unpublished letters which Dr. sam
ueI r. MtcluI, then 10 Congress, wrote to his
wife from Washington during the cary years Of
the present century. Dr Mnchin IS well known
10 many readers for his SPIRITED controversy
with the famous Dr. Pu"sty. These letters
abound lu interesting gliupscs Of The society
ana the measures OF hat time. Mr.. : G. W. Benjamin
Will have m this number OF Harpra paper on Ameri-
eau sculpture, ia which there Will be several illustra-
tious among them OF Wards new statue OF Wash
ington which was unveiled ten days ago at Newbury-
port Mass. one Of the bust Of the artist
Page. by william r ODonoydu, and one of the
work IN the chanccl Of 81 Tuomass Church,
representing TIE alteration Of the Cross 10y angels
Colonel Warning contributes the second Of Bis series OF
Illustrated papers on Berg uud Thai" which is the
opening feature o. the magazine. Olive Logan writes
on The Ancestry IF Eruddcr Bones ana Mrs. Helen
s Conaut on cture.que Edinburgh There arc also
Illustrated papers on " street scenes in Havana and
"Ihc Phad. phd ZJJ." " POr CoIdIm," story OF No
Mans Land Ii by Mrs. Lizzie W. Champucy, while
Miss Mulock continues AeI Young Miss Jardue.'
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