New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-06-14
LITERARY NOTES.

!
In England the first edition of 5000 copies
OF George Eiofs new work sold before the book
was out One circulating library alone took 500 copies
! Off
Dr. Holland in the July Scribner will have
something to say of the art Of engraving wood,
apropos understood Of Mr. Unions recent article
| in Tie Atlantic.
A German missionary in India has trans
lated into the language of that country the De Imta-
tione Christi" and ST. Augustine's Confessions" His
rendering OF the Pope" in passage Is president
! OF rclg1OnW
The complete works of Button arc to be
published in Paris in very handsome FORM THO edition
will come out in parts of which there will be 300 and
when bound they Will make twelve octavos. They VIII
have 400 illustrations 100 Of them steel engravings
John Wiley s. Sons intend to publish in
two royal octave volumes in an edition limited to 100
copies The Complete Angler OF old Isaak Walton and
Charles Cotton edited by Dr. Betune. list of sub
Scrbers will be published with the WORK. The TWO vol
umes viii $50.
| The tomb of Henry Fielding in the English
cemetery Lisbon has been sadly neglected for many
years. The present English Chaplain resident there
has recently had it cleaned and the Inscription care
fully renovated. being the first clergyman to do SO OF
many who have had charge OF 1t In late wears.
st. Nicholas for July will contain a short
article on Oliver Goldsmith by Rossiter Johnson. Mon
cure D. Conway written little story with the scene
LAID in an English cathedral and Professor W. L. GriGs
story called Bossom-boy of Toxic" which viii have
| thirty-e9en illustrations drawn by native japanese
! artists
! LppincOH for July will have an article on
! BENJAMIN Franklin by Thomas Hughes IN which the
character Of Franklin will he defended against his prju
diced English critics. The number will also contain
biography of Joseph Jefferson from materials furnished
by himself, with portraits OF him III his studio and IN
! each act Grip Van Wrinkle" Another paper will be
an illustrated description of sTatfoFd-on-the|Sound
The late James Grant, author of a we'll
known history of English journalism, which has had
some circulation in this country was subject as Editor
of The Morning Advertiser Qondon) TO the wishes Of
certain men whom London newspaper calls "a COM
mittec OF John Bareycoms." This newspaper relates
tnat al meeting OF said committee one OF tue members
once rose his feet and gravey proposed the following
line OF policy The 'FSer is nothing If IL is not impair
tsl; and a, Mr. Grant has now written twelve able
articles in support Of Sir Charles Napers canddature
Tor Parliament beg to move that he be instructed 10
write twelve more; equally able IN support OF BIZ
The Baron James De ROthschild has just
unfinished in Paris through the house OF Frmin-Dd
AT his own expense the first of five ak volumes on
Ill, Mystere du We'll Testament" 1t is to be a very
| handsome specimen Of bOok-making and 70. the first
volume the introduction notes and gossares have been
! written by the Baron himself. lie Mystere du Wei
Testament is compilation of dramatic works IN which
Od Testament legends represented by various au-
tbors and was last published IN the fifteenth century.
II capprles some 10000 verses The language of these
miracle PLAYS said To be 10 understand Radicals
his language is more difficult 10 read Is that he possessed
a dictionary containing great many unkn0Wn words
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT John ID. Long, OF Mass
acnusetts has published, what perhaps the language
hardly needed new translation OF the hncid OF Virgil
II is tere vigorous and clear and is In blank II
contains 30 per cent lines than the original Mr..
Longs version remarkable for its modern air and for
| q some what bold OF current cooquaiisms. "O5-
tendit dcxtram for instance he renders he strikes
from the shoulder .; he has "let up in the Of
"respte"; he also ventures upon the phrase " al
abroad and actually refers to "a lawn" IN Hades.
The work, the public is informed in the preface has
been accomplished as literary pas'ime within year
saitr Mr. Longs purpose was to make loyal trans
lation of El-d into Twin! English blank verse"
ana n me las not in ali respects surpassed
sT. he pas gwen a rendering entirely respec-
liable, with SOM few merits ali its ovn-ncrits which
every translation Of any value whatever must have.
In the July number of Scrt6ner will be
printed the last of the series Of papers Madame BO
napartes letters Europe. II appears from these
letters that while Madame Bouap2rte negotiating
marriage in Europe for her son b." that young man
was busying himself in al enterprise OF the same sort
nearer home aud his anxious mother WAS annoyed not
little by IT, her letters show II announced by the
publishers of Scri5er that the July and August mum
hers will contain an unusual feature in wood engraving,
eiug The reprint OF large number OF the cuts engraved
nv Mr. Henry Marsh years ago, Tor Harriss In
sects Injurious to Vegetation" These eDgrayngs were
made after drawings on the wood from freshly collected
late Professor Agassz. They will DO published IN two
papers on Summer Entomology" by Edward A. sam
ueis the first paper gyng an account 81 Udnps after
moths and butcrIe, the second dealing with other
field and forest insects The July number VIII contain
| r. H. S,oddard's poem which read at the recent
| Moore Centennial celebration.
One of the most talented of modern Rus
sian uoyelists Madame Pashkoh who, at the Of
sixteen wrote The Princess Vara Gicnski," which
soon made her famous among the choice spirits OF the
Old Russian capital she attempted suicide short time
ago. and has had very strange career Her father was
the owner OF 600 slaves and descendant Of the an-
cen Tartar princes. lie brought up bis daughter a. II
! SIZE were a young Amazon OF the Caucasus. She WAS
taught TO uroste 10 fence the sword aud revol
YER and to ride astride horseback and when she was
seventeen he married whom she did not see
previous the night Of betrotha and from whom two
wears later she was divorced, returning to her fathers
| house In Moscow. Here she was able, through her
fathers wealth. the fame OF her novel and her personal
Rraoes TO create OF the most fashionable salons Of
the ancient town, and in tho HEIGHT OF her success