New-York tribune., 1879-02-03
LITERARY NOTES.

Nv Uovells's story, "The Lady OF the
,roostook" will lie completed in the March Auo''o'
ond VIII he published in volume soon aiter' ~ j. '
Uovod tba, Mr. Howells has written no story e'eiv""S
more engaging thah tnlS' 40, ,
IN lIuncary. between the years 14Sl ana
1-l1. 1898 different works are now known 10 nave
ho rphushed within the past century the numoer VI
,,rts on natural philosophy topics alone mas peo no
fewer thau s9I2 while Of papers and pamphlets 'e'c
have been s3i In addition in the same department" Va
literature. cC:
A series of lectures on the Book of Genesis
delivered in chicago by the Rev. DR. j. Munro Gibson
"a IN nreparation at A. d. T. Randolph Co.'S Ihese
lectures are part OF a series on the Pentatcucn "i'
Dr. Gibson in the course Of delivering ol
afternoons in TarveI Hall The tile OF tne p%UN Rose ms
he The Ages Before Moses" a new s'oIl n1 'tton
Porter ~ be called In the Mist" is also III prePa"o
A volume of literary and political miscel-
lanes by Mr.. Grant Dun,of England has Just ooen 'u
ushed hy Macmillan 4 Co. Some OF them otiS'n'lN mP
peared in magazines but Others are entirely new "o
same firm have published new edition OF Murphy
Habit and Intelligence" series OF essays Oh 'n
laws OF life and mind. II is ten years shco tno M
edition appeared, and the new one mas ocell 50 i NV
changed that the author considers II pi"''I'"''
work. -.
There exists among the aboriginal ha'iohs
of South Africa a very extensive tradlt'tHy 'i'e'
In some of the stories which form part OF 'his H0
tpre occur terms which longer appear to he u'eu III
CollOuuial language ana lnc lhfduIHro VI "''''''
instances are understood so that II is thouE"' nv
contain productions OF great antiquity ""lo"
have been handed down 10 the present Eehc''-
non The advances which European ciNlhza'oh n"'
made in south Africa endanger the preservation % |
folklore and In few years the opportunities 'oi 'o
ec,ng it will be fewer than thcy are now Inc osS 20
II would be great misfortune to the history OF man Az
rescnt tberp is in course Of formation at CAPE IoWha
ioklorc society, whose object snail be 10
literature and Il is INTENDED that small eIl9u,tUaI
e1,1 be ulb
gwen accurately I'm tn language OF inc octber
folklore will ~ translated INTO Engiish OF so"o ~
welLknown European language -,
Mr.. Henry James has nearly ready for publ
cation through Messrs. Houghton OsGood q Co, WoIA
entitled Society the Redeemed Form oi Man' anu ''
Earnest Of Gods Omnipotencc IN Human Nature II
is learned that Nj James, purpose IN ths Voluhe j "
furnish q philosophy o. the Gospels in showing 'ne
CHRISTIAN facts 70 be normal outcome expression OF
certain laws Of Divine creative being. Ihese laws
etanlu the creative process as essentially nUhto duu
eternal and therefore keep it from the living or sprl
acknowledgment Of the creature, until he hlmse nus
been released illusion of sellhood by 'o
dempton OF his nature its putting on social iorln
Incidentally TO his main purpose Mr. James Is leu TO
crcise the two leading factors of the worlds DteAI
cence faith aud science; and comes to the conclusion
That they about tquaiB unhi 2i otc PiIn%y i,Syy
Of the human mind, III tidt thcy pom a!,he e'uy i
themselves as rival claimants upon mems attention Nv
practically denyinr the Divine inhntHde Gl d
icfuSiug to look upon creation as purely spIl'ua vi
living manIicsts Of Gods perfection.
, Two interesting paragraphs are gwen IN
yeceut number OF The IccGTdph (LOndom concerning
the career and merits Of Pach three volumes OF car
toous from which have now been published within
few months. few OF the earliest drawings or large
tizc and several hundred of the tiny silhoueeS "ch
nuucar o the page. Of the first two three volumes,
were the work Of great landscape painter, Mr. line now
one OF the most gushei members of the Institute of
Painters IN Water Colors But in time 1t was discovered
that Mr Hines forte was not caiicature, and he was
surng a humorous dTauE by RlCD-
ara Doy ie and John Leech the famous artists OF
Punch in the Old times. In their manner they differed as
widely as ThAckerdy aud Dickens, nut they soon made
fine comic journal "a real power in the land" Ihe
Eoudivo,l Of Dcke Doyle was marked 10y "au inherited
nuor.v Of Quiet ouautu,ss not seldom running into an
,xorsltc faucfu aacc' while johnny Leech presented
real obvious life and character with attcliy seldom
exaggerated even for purposes Of fun" Tnc master
6lo has succeeded thcm-Nr. John Teunel-is an alto
Eethcr different master" BY him the weekly cartoon
has been drawn for many years except when ne Is oc
taSiOpay relieved by Mr. Charles kecne. Everybody
who knows what good AFT Is, or can feel its IN
luencc must Eavo admired The form II not always
the sp!rt Of his "dashns pictures" But he some
times "nixcs in somewhat reckless and nconGruous
fashion the heraldc ana tie purely physical ATTRIBUTES
pf nations The lion aud the bear canNoi WIN me same
warrant taken cIubeWS scNCrjily OF IHEljuu ana
Russia" III the cartoons appear not Oh{ Drhf
winch i "c)uiusou worse cOutOundel,' Tor the non
sud tac twa-fc3CCa eagle pertain 10 naNOnaI coat
aruor the bear belongs to local zoology; TIE cock mas
ap aucet reference Gdu. neither uciI3c LOI local
ZJUlO.ral it IGtCrc, while the symbol o Tue turkey
rests ON Il 10 better base tHan pu"Illc puu.'