New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-03-08
LITERARY NOTES.

A book treating of the places held by the
stole philosophers in history, and giving extracts iro
their writings on moral and religious SUBJECTS VIII sooh
be ready at Charles L. SninerDy -
Froude has written life of julius Cesar,
which Charles scribner's Sons Will publish aoou'
April l. simultaneously with its appearance in LONDON
single volume OF 12mo size. ana Is puDhshed neo
by direct arrangement OF the publishers WIN "
Froude
The next publications in the Riverside
Etion of the British Poets will be Gay, In one vol
ume and" James Montgomery" in two About the 2oth
Of the month another volume Will be ready In Mr.
Iongfcllow's Poems OF Places 1t relates 10 the
Southern states.
The new volume in the English Men OF
Letters series is De Foe" BY william Miuto. For
issue next week. Harper Brothers have IN prepare
on tbe th,rl volume Of Eugene Lawrcnccs literature
nrmers and Goldsmiths plays for the Half'liour oe
rlrs also book by George NJ. ToWle on " Modern
France" and "Jonn on our CAl'S7 ho''uo"'' -
Thomas W Knox.
Victor Uuro,s new poem, La PitiG SUI
p6ne Just out Paris and the point OF 1t II said to
ne that he true objects Of pity not the victims q"
wrong but the wrong-iocrs. The lot to be ehVle' Is
that of Socrates tnat Of iuSs wne Pate' Sya anu
T,berus were regarded with pity by those whom they
sacrificed Louis XIV is taken as type OF me OLD MOD
arrhy, and a -trikIng picture o. nm is gwen
An edition of Bancroft's History of the
umes with steel portrait each, Is Just ready at
Wortbington'~ The portraits are Of John Smith, Jtntr
SOIL John and Samuel Adams, Lafayette ana "liIlau
Penn. In a few days Mr.. Worthugion VIII nave al
edition Of Pcpyss Diary in complete form for 80 cents
also Eyeyn's the sam unprecedentedy price, l"c
second and third volumes OF the handsome hohere'
comuctInc The edition. are ready to-day. note de
scrlbiug this edition more fully was printed IN thS
PAPER last Monday. Mr.. WOrthins'on VII soon nav
editions of Shakes pearc'- Merchant OF Venice ana
IA
fcssOr Nc lhtj1hn, # Edinburgh
Mr.. Simon Stcrne has written paper on
Hlndrauces TO Prosperity" which q. r. Putnams
sons will publish soon their series OF economic mono
graphs 1t VIII appear simultaneously with secretary
schurzs Honest Money and Labor which has already
been announced. Tie same firm will have ready In
about ten days the Life of Theirs, by Francis lie Coil
which has been long time in PREPARATION /, Will form
an octave volume and have portrait of Theirs, view
of his house ia Paris and fac-simile OF portion or the
Political Testament. NJ L. Gof defends the unity
OF NJ TmcT>'s me- thu9 attempting Il position WHICH
even his most ardent iilends have rarely assumed
Two new editions of Mrs. Browning's works
are published this week by James Miller TIE FIRST
Is called the " Florence Edition." beng uniform
with the popular Tcnuyso. or which Boston firm sold
5000 copies at the last trade sale. 1t Is LIMO Win req
lines and gilt cover and contains Illustrations in
GLIDING a portrait which represents Mrs. Browning IN
her youth. The other EDITION is also be 12mo but
large ono, and is printed in large type, maKluga
fnck book II Is similar III style TO the Riverside
Poets. The illustrations are twelve in number, one
Of them representing Mrs BrownnGs library at Floi.
Mr.. Miller also publishes the poems OF HOod
with ten Illustrations.
Mr. +. Hassaurek, of Cincinnati, has written
another book drawn from his experencc aud ob-erva-
lions while United states Minister TO Ecuador, and
Robert Clarke * Co. will publish it at once. 1t
is romance having the title he Secret of the Andes
with the Laid quito about sixty after the
and OF Peru by tho SpauiaTdS.
Atahualpa last OF the Incas lett AZ Quito great hidden
treasure, the existence of which Eculdorians aud
Peruvlans believe t. the present day He had grand
daughter Of beauty and nellg acuated by an
ardent ambition TO iberate her whom Mr. Has
saurek has maze the heroine Of h+ The secret Of
tn treasure was known 10 her and 1t her purpose
TO devote the treasure To- the cause OF her race on
these incidents Mr. Hassaurck bases ht. story wcn is
said 10 be- written with much dramatic pow r ana 10
possess interest which holds the readers attention
IL the end
About the middle of this month DOdd, Mead
& Co. will publish translation By Benjamin NJ. Hop
hin OF several Greek hero stories from the German Of
Ncbnhr the historian These stories have never been
translated English before. The book Will have sew
era f pace Illus r0ns expressly made for II by Au-
gustus Hoppn. The same house have in preparation
Tor issue about the saline time a new story by Ms.
Charles 10 he called Joan the Maid" and new edition
al reduced price Of Danas Coral and Coral Islands"
which will have al the original 100 illustrations, IN
Guiding the steel plates. They viii bind the Coral ana
Cora Island III red cloth and paper Label style Of
binding which has Of late grown III favor. DOdd, Mead
Co. are the only publishers IN this country Of
complete and unabridged edition Of Crudcn'- "Con-
cOTdancc" They have just printed new cClion Of II
on extra paper ana nave reh s'hHl"% IL on lhS week
The important cyclopcdla Of religious poetry, which
this huusr have IA preparation. vii be edl'cib y the
Rev. Dr. Phiip 9chah, and SIR. Arthur Gilman
work i'll eight volumes quarto, one vol
ulne 10 appear every month oftor pabIcai II begins,
Is announced by SAMPSON Low & CO., az London. with
the title The Hundred Greatest Men" II intended
that each volume shall include certain cla., OF great
men, aud that The entire work shall contain the lives OF
:hc one hundred men In history who were the greatest
In their respective fields. Each volume will have
Of essay introduction which writers of recognized rmi-
nencc in En- ani, France. Germany ami America VIII
furnish. The Engl sh contributors will he Matthew
Arnold, Fro1de aud Max Miller; the German. Protcs-
sors Curtius AMI Hc!mholtz the French. Tame and
X man, while the American contributor Will be Mr..
Emerson. Each Life will have portrait to accompany
IT, As this work will diviie great men into eight ctsses
IT Is interesting To note that Carlyle IA his Heroes and
II rOW0rshlp," divided them mo -IX the hero -
divinity, prophet, poet, priest oil letters
and Is knt, while Emerson, III ms Representative
Men," also divided tcm INTO SIX the philosopher. the
mystic, the sccpuc the poet, the OF the word ana
the writer,
News items from English sources Two
volumes lectures aud ESSAYS by JOHN LnbhocL are
in press at Macmillan 4 Co's.-IAc KIM Of Portugal
la finished his version II the M reliant of Venice"
and Is advanced with translation OF "Othe!o"-
Mr. HepwOrth DXJu recent visit 10 Cyprus will bear
fruit in a book on that ISLAND, which l. probably now
ready IN Loudon.-A Bible which belonged 10 Luther
containing sixteen autograph lines, with his signature
and the date 1912, is exhibition a London book
sellers -Byron's " Lara" has been illustrated with
twenty drawings the presentation work for this year
Of the London Art Union.-Mcrivae's History Of
the Romans under the Empire" has been translated
into spanish, aud Is now printine.-TrAnsations OF
prose writings by Heue have been made into English
aud IIibner & Co WI publish them at under tho
title Hciur's Wit, wisdom and Pahos. Poems by
Aubrey de We're entirely new volume with the tile
Legends OF the Saxon SJlnt-." viii be publish. If In
April, bY G. Krgau Paul & Co. Of LDndo.-R herr