New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-02-10
LITERARY NOTES.

,,..,. Irr;r, will have an article in the
ll0"'! - Tb> y,s,tr,nh century, and Thomas
,5,rnss one in Nacn,lians Magazine for February
Dr Jnlius Frauenstadt, who has lately dlc"
o. por,,n was devoted disciple Of schopcnhauer' ''
,t,sopher; he had been his editor, ana was 'e 'o"
rilcy OF u concordance 40 MS ""rAS' ..
rbo March Vide Atrdke will have portrait
,ur y swain Clifford, with illustrations of MS s'"u'S
and painting nv him. Tho biogranh'ca sk',ch "h'o"
viii accompany them is written ny MI : g. W, Su1
Mn me circulation Of NiGe ATGEe has uVu"ieo i'S'
this season. II,
II il said that Murray. the London pub
Usher has made arrangements for new lAfe 't eW'i
readers III remember how Mr. Forser's work ON s"iIt
was suddenly arrested by the death OF MI
the first iustalment only had Deeh "'''c"' 80,
The late WHITE Melville's last book, BLACK
INIT Comelv had not left printers when the "uhor
died IN, Erdmtaer in reviewing IT, remarks 'hd' II 10
NO, on. OF the best he written, nor one OF 'ne worst
The mprobaby OF the story is its iaai'' ana II snow"
,irns that the hand that wrote il dd not revise one
massage in n ia however declared to he one OF sIt
I.c.i and truest pecos of writing that probably
Whyte Melville, master as lie was OF men ana manners
has ever pchhcd.
Letters which Eugene Deacroix wrote be-
,vyc,o 1919 and l-63-from hl4 seventeenth year 10
within few DAYS Of his deahhave just been puOsheu
in Paris The AMcnpmn tIoAdon) says they contain
"cndarug evidence Of the warmth OF h's inehu7'lP'
,isd,,,ate courtesy his Vvacy, his genial philosophy
n bi. deviation 10 all that was noble in art and oia,
iure" Bcs!des letters TO personal friends, some OF
whom were lifelong friends, there are many e''eIS ~
diStinc ui>hcd contemporaries III ant ana letters
RuSkiu's "Notes on the Turner Drawings
have been pubisacl IN new edition, illustrated with
nhotocravurcs from csrsvuSs o. thirty-hyc OF Turn
~, works They are printed large paper OF quarto
size and The edition Is limited 20 coo copies Inc paper
i.b,ntnsde and the book is bound in half Eo1"rshe.
Among the illustrations are TIE following; num-
.Iioh5yC', %. ester Bolton -" Roucn, Plains
Of Troy" "Corinth" and "JerusaIem.' s'liO"er d"
Wexford have the book
If the spelling Ipformers ever sit III conven-
,t f., consider different systems that may lie proposed
"a them The following letter written by an appl cant Tor
q peusioD and furnished by correspondent, may I'LL
4aro>t them: Dear sly: No1 IN your Last Ieter
that ivoi'd have toprove that twas IN the Battle az
plasbre on the 11th of sept 1874 idont now reWem-
her But one that ia now alive and that is the omyta
tdopt think he ever Cous 10 Washington D. C. il ne
over comes tIaI; Sou T'! Iiv' a." NJ pensions ali
caes j. y. =. em rs Poor &s HI and must Dl
In commenting on the recent burning OF the
Tree Iiarar, Of Birmingham, The Teirgrdph uondon)
recall. good story OF sir Isaac Newton. One day pet
dog managed by uqsotlng lighted taper IN h' mas
ter study 10 destroy all the papers on when the
great man had recorded the results of his chemical eG
rc1imeut. extending through several years. But
Ittl. d., Diamond, little Dog Diamond what hast
tbog done Pc Was the sole e. .lauatiOu q SORROW made
nv tli. h.rr8ycd SIR Isaac. Subsequent hI"odnG
over HIS Loss however, NOT only injured his health
buf e. n certain c1lcut imPWrcd LIS understanding
'.Ir was moi himself saysa contemporary manuscript
- Tor whole month aitoiWdfi'
The Examiner NondOn) asserts that III these
days of literary activity there is positively 10 chance
for the pa.ia. lists" Lord Bcaconshed's wel-Rnowu
Derby chapter IN "syrl" was recently shown to hC
copied from an article IN magazine, and I'VE are al
ACQUAINTED wh the the noble Lord once made OF Al
grafton frat delivered by II Th'eIs, and Of certain
essay Of NacsnIay " here with he oEcs out his 'Ncncta
The FIdausyAea1s from Paris Of later literary detec
i've case IL IS the eminent VI Emile Ioa who has been
caught this time About eighteen months ago he wrote
n story called " Une H.stJIrc GLAMOUR which had Z
great success Some has forward 10 point ont
that 1t contains few passages from the sixth chap
fey OF another book, the Memoirs de Casanova Tie
likeness is less evident I'm the treatment Of situations
than IN style, for on occasions when Casanova IS
tender, lola trcmeiy coarse.