New-York tribune., 1879-04-12
LITERARY NOTES.
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published March l. In three weeks second edition
was ready. and Jansen, McCurg Co. now have third
III press.
Mr.. Longfellow and Mrs. Mulock Craik will
have articles in the May number OF The International
Reris,. Mr.. Hamerton will conclude his notices OF the
Art Exhibition Paris in 1873, dealing principally
with American artists A paper on American Auto
Gratis is contributed by Felix Oswald. Mr. Longfelow.
contribution will be poem entitled " Jngurtha, an, ana
Mr.. Craiks a study OF sydney DoDeiI' the Eugilsn
| poet.
Mr.. Vedder's "Marsyas,r one of the pic
lures involved in his controversy with Il Art will be
engraved early number OF Scribncr, the drawing
being made for the purpose by the artist himself IL
Will accompany descriptive paper on the Paris Ex-
| hibition by Mr. Russell sturgis and the paper viii
! have Illustrations of other notable pictures
John BurrOughs's " LOcusts and Wild Honey"
nearly ready at IIoughtoD. Osgood Co.'S Will consist
Of several essays with the following suggestive titles;
Pastoral Bees" sharp Eyes" strawberries Is 1t
G9iIg 10 1ln SpecRird ;;, FIIoyinG " the
| Halcyon IN Canada" "a White Day" and "A Red Fox
To-day Charles Scribner's Sons will have
ready two additional volumes OF Gadstonc's Clean
ings" being volumes III aud ", with the sub-titcs
Foreign" and Speculative" Professor Boyesen's
"Falconberg" will also he ready to-day. Before the
month is closed this house will publish Dr. Hodges
"Confereuce Papers" FRANK Il. Stocktons Rudder
Grange and Professor FISHERS falth ahd i'heIoIai
| ism"
The proposed indexing of The GcnHeman'S
Magd,ine viii involve the examination Of 2Z3 volumes
extending over - years and the making Of no fewer
than 900 separate entries London newspaper In
an incidental comment the value OF indexes recently
remarked suggesugly tnat is the elaborate indexes
appended to Alisous Histories " that keep those stu.
penIOus mplldtlOns alive, ana give them th'r cheI
value"
The new one volume edition of BuSch's
bismarck" at Charles scubner'- Sons has been pub
lished to counteract expected competition from an
edition OF the work which has been announced by
Canadian house. Their original edition an author
oue and the plates have been used In making
the one-yolume edition. while style of binding very
! similar To that used for tho two volumes has been
adopted The complete WORK in thls form Is offered IOr
| 81 30.
The Rev. Leonard Woolsey Bacon has writ
ten biography Of Mrs. Emily Bliss Gould well-known
and honorod for her charitable work In Rome which
will have the title "A Life Worth Living" \. ID. T.
Randolph & Co. will publish it in few days. por-
| trait and a view Of the Gould Memorial Home"
Institution in Rome for poor children. will be added to
the volume. Itpromises TO have Q special interest to
the general public from the viva skeehes IL contains Vi
nature, art society and contemporary history
+. Z. Whipple has written an essay on Dan
ie Webster, as an introduction the large octave vol
ume Of d" Great Orations and Speeches" by Webster
which Little, Brown Co. have IN preparation. II Is
intended that this single volume shall contain about
onehalf The contained in the sxvOlune edition
Of the great statesmans works. Sometime during the
Spring the same Will issue new edition Of Park
mans Discovery OF the Great West" which has been
! entirely rewritten and improved from new material
The first part of Herbert Spencer's new work
on The Principles OF Morality" which he calls the
Data OF Morality" will be published in England as
a small volume OF $50 pages. German and French trans
laons will appear at the time Mr. Spencers
works been translated into the most OF Euro
pean languages. and his last volume appeared at the
same tmo in London, Paris Berlin, Naples, Buda
Pesth and ST. Petersburg In the of his Sociology
amusing story IA told that difficulties thrown
in the way OF its publication IN Russia by censor on
the ground that 1t would contribute TO the spread OF
Socialism,
The new editions OF James r. NichOls's
"scence at Home IA just ready r Worthington's.
The book comprises 4 series OF popular
tlac subjects connected with everyday life Many OF
them appeared originally in The Boston Journal Of
Chemstru OF which Professor Nichols the editor,
but they have been thoroughly revised, and some
tons OF them have been rewritten for the present vol
uIne. The essays are twenty-three in number, and
among the subjects treated are tho following: The
Chemistry of Hens Egg The Chemistry Of Ctcar"
''Tne Human HAIR" "Rebreathed Ar" The Chem
! Wear"
NJ. Arsene Houssaye, who at various times
has held positions which brought him into rea-
tions with OF the most celebrated people OF
France. is about to write his memoirs. Probably
could tell unknown incidents OF tho career
OF Rachel he for he tho director Of the Theatre
francois during her memorable trlumphs that
ton OF Rachels letters and private papers which
left him and which brought to him BY special
messenger her order the night after she died al her
Summer home the Mediterranean. NJ. Houssaye in
tends at some future tine 70 publish these letters but
while her two sons are stu living. Ills own me-
mOirs Will not be given u the world unilaer his DEATH
Escott's Social England now in press at
Casse Peter aud Galpn's, has been long IN prepara-
ton, and when read will comprise two handsome
tavo volumes. One chapter is devoted to modern E.
gsh thought, the main school OF which is said 10 be
! tue psychological, having It's origin IN antagousm
the one hand 10 the Scotch sense school aud
French ecectcsm. and the other positvism. The
influence OF German thought England has been in
considerable, producing IN the first period COeridge
| and Carlyle, and IN the second German meta
physics In English dress. It's INVASION OF English
ideas has been some what htful and splsm0lic and
its reality aud pcrmaucncc have questioned though
unusly. German thoughts, which lie deeper than EN-
~ pFc9 % '' snri m III bef2 ~} thy tie y,T % I ESan S
ized OIc sucl spirit found IN COlcridgc and
another In Carlyle, 10 both OF whom than To any
element. ere 10 bc found In the ordinary thoughts of
Engshmen. Carlyle is AN unique figure ~ tie literary
| world, passionate. mastcrful bizarre, perctratcd
through aud through with German thought, ideast.
| lauda,or tompors acti.' modern Heracius"
1t is now more than ten years since Thomas
Couture. the great French artist who died Paris
fortnight ago. caused animated controversies art
cs by the publication of his EutrGtieus a. AtelIcr"
In America. where Couture has had many pupils wh,r-
the most Of his pictures have bccu sold. and which
country his book dedicated the interest second
! only TO that shown IN Paris No translation or
! the book has been issued here OF in Eng
| land, that the promise OF translation
! from the house of G.. T.. Putuam's Sons. De-
! ready within few weeks, has bocn very welcome
to the admire aud pupils Of the artist The publishers
expected al time 70 have before tli- but
delay has been caused by thorough revision has
UNDERGONE. K. swain Clifford has written a preface for
It, Couture his Introduction, remarks that he 10
au uulcttcred " know nothing he says hay-
/ ing had no instruction" lie feels that he
! can iuspIrc sympathy only by "a profound
| elu,critv" Anticipating criticism tue score OF