New-York tribune., 1879-12-08
LITERARY NOTES.

Anthony TrOllope, WHO rcceh''s P"'
small volume on Cesar. is said 10 DC snS"s'' ""
more elaborate work. with Cicero for the SUBJECT
Marie Mother Goose Melodies" is chill
srcp,. picture book recently published by G. W. oare'
Ton Co. of the enormous sale OF l3o'ooo copes
j. already reported
At recent auction sale i'll Geneva com
,ete collection Of Punch was purchased by a dealer
from Naples for S5f and a copy Of the Jo"'T"' aes
eaur Arts IN forty volsmes. fetched 1904 Among oo
books The Adne Dante of 1902 went for S2i and sscps @
OF In Foutaine's "Cones et Nouvelles en- NerS' 'no
edition of the FermlcrsGcnefaux, Tor SSo.
German lady who lives IN GOttlngen is
ransatng into her ative language the novels or T. T.
Roc Through il-heah Mr. Roe has been obliged to In
form hs publishers Dodd, Mead Co.. that he VIII not
be able 20 finish for the present season has new
novel, without Home" The Same publishers also
find that they cannot complete for the holidays the ed
tion which they have had time in hand OF Volt
mann's History Of Painting" They have sncceeden'
h"%sHfr ,oS H aSery. PrnS Collector aud very hand
some aud useful book IL is
Readers have already been reminded tha'
last Thursday was the eighty-fourih birthday OF Mr.
CARLYLE. scribner & Wexford have just received inc
new Carlyle Birthday Book in which, under date OF
December 4. this extract from the essay Oh
Goethe: " He appears to us person of that deep
endowment and gifted vision, OF that experience also
and sympathy in the ways OF all men, which qualify
him to stand forth only the literary ornament
but m mauy respects the teacher and exempar
OF his age" The compiler at the end OF me oook
wide roa nings OF ours am sorry Tor
1t there pleasure FOR me IN this business"
The edition of the Songs and Sonnets OF
Shakespeare which Francis Turner Pagravc prepared
for Macmillan Co. decade and half ago. has been
added the Golden Treasury Series, Of which 1t Is tue
newest volume. Mr. Pagrave. with due reverence has
placed preface and remarks the poems a the ehu
and not at the beginning OF the volume There tre nc
says, very whose greatness Is so conspicuous
and imperial that their writings have ooianeda pre-
scrptive tight TO appear century after century without
iormality of introduction by other haus; hoi,
Virgil Dante. Milton and Shakespeare moved IN ousn
The ages In long triumph aud even apreiaee c"huo'
presume to 80 before them
Mr. Symonds in his Studies of the Greek
Poets (iarper Brothersl. regards 1t as sign OF
return healthy criticism that scholars begin to a"
init that Honers mad may he one poem ana no
mere patchwork OF ballads and minor epcs-the WORK oi
single poet surveyed his creation as an ar'st anu
was satisfied with ITS unity There Is no dihcuS, nc
saws IN conccdng 10 the Had long genealoCy through
an,ecedent aud now forgotten poens hut of one thing
there u no doubt. w; tHai great altlst kSNc s III
sn form to The Splc ana tna Sls ,ns p6 ~ We're ar
by him with view TO the eject lie had set OUT "
produce.
A twelfth edition of Lewes's Life of
Goethe has just appeared in the German language
The translator In this edition. has made OF the fresh
light within the past few years has been shed ON
periods Of the poets career among which is some
fresh information about the last OF GOethes oves-Ohe
Won LeyCzow, the Bohemian lady-who Is stiil alive.
Goethe met her IN 1922 wnen past seventyhree
Of age and her beauty impressed him that he asked
her then become ms wife, But the young lady con
cuded that difference Of years was too grea; even
for her 10 marry the prince OF German poets accord
ingly declined the proposal Goethe thOugnt lc aiali
IL secrus very interesting and is said TO have
marked tna Ifi md might make a charming play OF II;
an old uncle who his niece too passonateiy."
Frederick WedmOre, whose " Studies In
English Art" decided impulse IN England TO the
reputation he had already made as critic has pup
lished a new volume art called The Masters Of
q, I'm he
striking point Is made that Gcnre painting has -four
ishod most in compact. settled ana highly cvilzed
societies. and at times when mems minds were little
distracted either by political movements or religious
aspirations He cites the bourgeois society OF Holland,
ia which Genre reached perfection at time when
internal trouble well for the state also the
stsd and quiet world o earlier Georges, and the
sher soe'ey Of France society @" OF ne nc % TSaf n a%a
painter occupying itself with themes romantic aud ixu
Genre painting for then society scattered. ex-
quIsite were gone and Art was called upon 10
be heroic"
Among the letters which Lord Byron wrote
20 friends in England during his first abroad, one
dated at Athens in November. 1910, and not given by
Moore. recently published for the first time He
had left England the English Bards" came
out. and on his return brought with him the first two
cantos Of "Chdc Harold" Iu this letter he says
MY wOrks are likely have powerful effect with
vengeance, hear OF divers angry people whom IL Is
proper | should shoot az by way OF satisfaction
BE IL The same Impulse when maue Otno
a warrior will make also. My do
nestle affairs penc moreover. considerably deranged
NV appetite Tor travelling pretty well saliated
with my late presentations. my various hopes
in tins world almost extinct aud not very brilliant III
the xf trust shall 20 through the process with
credable sang frOid and not disgrace line OF cut
throat ancestors" lie audes 10 the fact that he Is
rsse sre 81 Gs not ed Das IN m @ Sr
inatrimOny for having spoiled such an excellent
later death OF his mother occurred Just after he
reached England and while he was on Ms way from
London 10 Newstead
The reissue by Cardinal Newman of the
"Lvra Apostoica" (E p. Dulton Coz which he first
published more thaa forty years ago, calls mind the
peculiar circumstances under which IL written,
related by him the "Apoloeia" Discouraged at the
condition the Church OF England, and anxious Tor Its
future so that he felt "there need OF q second
reformation he and Richard Hurreli Froude had
10 the south OF Europe change and reflection. While
In Rome they to write these poems and TO send
them TO England for publication. From Homer which
they borrowed Of Bunsen they chose a motto the
words OF Achilles on his return TO battle. " You
shall know the dlheIence now tDat am
Palermo and was taken IN the way. His servant
him sitting daY on his bed sOhhlng bitterly,
and asked what Wa The matter ne could only answer;
aching to homo. AT last he got on on an Grange boat
bound for Mrseles. ard II was then that he wrote the
famous lines In the collection beginning;
Lead, kindly Light. amid the encircng gloom,
Lead Thou me on!
The night Is dark. and am far from home,
Lead Thou me on!
The new editition of The LyTa" has a preface in
which the Cardinal says the Lyra" and the Tracts
for the Times" had common object that OF enforcing
tive Christianity at time when ITS principles. doe
trues usages aud sPIl seemed in the length
and breadth of the Anglican Communion 10 lie well
nigh forgotten" OF tho l79 poems in the volume about
two-thrds are by Newman. froude wrote only eight
About nfty are by John Keble