New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-09
LITERARY NOTES.


Summers speeches now publishing at Lee shepards
Boston, will be completed. The money which was APP
proprated for the purpose has already been used up
BONE needessy, and at present nothing Is dohs
Count ColOnna Walewski. whose memoirs
are soon to be published. the French Minister OF
Foreign Affairs 1886, and in that capacity presided
over the Paris Congress Of that year. The memoirs VIII
give orig al ana interesting information about inc
congress.
NJ. Sarcey first of dramatic critics in Paris,
and now in London with the Theatre Franeaise Com
pany viii have in the July number OF The nineteenth
Centgry an article on The Coincide Francaisc" and
She Ab6e Martin on Z" The Education Question IN
france"
, Information which rebounds to the credit
Of The late Prince Imperial will it is said be given IN
the forthcoming memoirs Of the late SIR P'n'zz the
librarian Of the British Museum The letters were WIT
fen 10 Pauizzi by Prosper Mcrlm6e. and viii throw
valuable light the inner life of the late Court oil TIE
Tuileries.
A London bookseller has published in cheap
form a phy little sketch OF Lord Beaconsfeld' with
bright accounts OF his abuse of o'Connell Peel ana
Hume II has a motto from ArtemuS Ward, who is fast
becoming a classic IN Engand The motto Is; nc
asked me what was my prinser2ulsf haln1 eot ehn}'
sad I; not priuserpul. line I'D the SHOW bIIn'sS'
Henry James's "ROdericb Hudson" first
published IN Boston years ago. has been revised
retreuched and in places rewritten for the English pub
lie to whom appears, practically as fresh WORK.
In three volume edition from the press Of Macmillan
& ca. The Pail Mall Gazette pronounces 1t an able
and attractive piece OF work" aud remarks that MT
James used not o. b. displsSiouatey unimaginave
as he now IS. Realism has claimed nm Tor hcr OWL
from the first,
Nearly a year ago it was announced from
Paris that a translation had appeared there OF Dickenss
Edwin brood as completed by Whkie Collins whose
name appeared the title page Joint author OF the
book with Dickens tile itself being changed TO ole
Crime dc Jasper" Why the completed book should
make its exit the world at Paris and not at London
was explanabe only the copyright grounds But me
true state OF the case made clear Wkic Collins
did not write the conclusion at all Il was written by
the Fronchman who published it, Mr.. Darosne. Mr..
Collins sued him. as he had good reason for doing,
claiming that iujury was done TO his reputation ana
prejudice to his genuine productions ana judgment ms
now been granted Damages withheld. but the
Court has ordered the Judgment 10 he advertised at tue
defendants expense.
In Paris has just appeared an interesting
volume correspondence and other matter pertaining
10 Theopble Gau;er the celebrated French critic, who
declared long that the progress of Republican ideas
had made poets and monarchcs the greatest TWO hngsn
tho world impossible and at the same time eNemplifd
IN own person that poets at least are not Gauter,
GitLoUg clearly entitled by his eminence in the tera
tUJe OF bis time 10 seat among the ImmOrtas Of the
Academic FRANCHISE, persistontly denied ad-
mission. MANY persons have believed that his
"Mademose,lc De Maupu was the real cause Of the
opposition to him. 1t being sufficient 10 ovcrbaance
long and brilliant in mary literary fields But
Gauter died without entering the company of the
Forty mmortas, and his friends endeayor5d TO give
him comfort by reminding him that Bazac, Pascal,
Mulere ana George SAND mad died without nelng per
nllttu 70 give lhc ho'I OF Ielr names 10 'He IN'd'
OF Gdutiers caudidature many details are given, is
anecdotes ana "reminiscences OF the author Of "A Win
ter in Russia"
The method in treating of art and literature
which Tame has best known TO English readers is
employed by ~ Vosmaer In his important work on
Rembrandt which has furnished the substance of the
volume Rembrandt just published in Scribner
Wcliords series OF Artists Lives All the infu-
OF time, country and are gathered together
by him the whence came the peculiar genius
Of Rembrandt The artist born with powerful
and creative century, the seventeenth and around his
cradle moved proud and vigorous nation, fresh from
desperate but victorious struggle for liberty" and now
new and independent state, whose flag is unfuIed
hud whose national anthem IS chauted TO the four
winds" The history Of Rembrandt is the history of
movement in art and stage OF the progress that
eliminates in him had It's painter, who moves steadiX
these men, claims NJ. VOsmaer capable OF arrange
mtnt by their works. and OF them Rembrandt Is the
art which is symboIiz'd in Rombrandts pictures, in
what Is known as his "manner"
Some lectures OH the literature of BabYlOnia
by the Rev A. sayce have first been printed in London
and furnish much fresh information this little under
stood subject. Every great city OF BabylOna had at
least library, but OF the contents not much Is yet
known; nor viii much be learned until excavations
bring the remains OF the libraries TO light. Almost all
that is known OF ancient Babyonia and Assyria was
derived, Mr. Sayce, from the contents OF single
Assyran library at Niucyeh two-thiris of which
in the British Museum. That library was founded by
E1rdana palus, the OF IsarhaddOn, who dstiu
Euished among kings for his patronage of learning.
Some OF the earlier Libraries of the country merged
into this one. and scrbes were employed to copy aud
TeGdit the old CBa!dean literature, that text
became the most valuable present a Bdbylouan city
could send Nncveh and II priced with about
ardOr classical manuscript IN the time Of tie
Renaissance. large part Of the literature of Assyra
derived from Babylonia from which It IS
iEGt the Assyrans were literary people, na-
uon q waTorS ana LEGISLATORS IKE me Romans after
them. Their literature mad its inspiration from Baby
libraries II AssvTiau founded in imitation
those III BajyOnia aud such art and learning they
bors.
In lecture on the languages of Africa de
Ivered recently in London Robert Crest poin ted out
Elk ngasuc divisions for the entire continent They
/. Semuc 2, Hamitic Doth Of which are obvious III
trusions iuto North Africa from Asa); 8. Fuah-Nuba
4. Negro and Negr0d 3, Bantu; 6, HottcntOt Bush
man. Among the Semitic some, he said, like the old
Punc aud Old Abyssinian, are dead others. like the
Arabic Amharic, and TgTec, are living vernacuars
Among the IIamitic, old Egyptian and Coptic Dead
but Bcrber, Kabyle. luwareg Gala Somo, and others
are spoken by millions Tie Fulah-Nuba languages are
spoken by couquering races, some of whom lave
adopted Mahometanism They stretch from the Allan
tic the northern fringe Of the negro the
continent the basin Of the middle Nile. The negro
extends the continent south OF the Sahara
Desert and north Of the equator and reaches from
Atlantic to the equatorial lakes Their languages
numerous, totally distinct from each other and Of many
Is known little nothing. II is great fact that the
diverse languages OF these numerous and powerful
races, of whom he Zulu and Caffrc we'll known.
which mas persisted The Hottenots and Bushmcn rep
resent all that remains Of the original earliest inhab
tans OF The continent aud they nave been pushed for
ward hy the BantuS ana nearly destroyed.