New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-01-08
LITERARY NOTES.

dent woolscy's International Law" Is PROMISED ny
Charles scrDncr's sons, for this month.
Professor Boycsens long-promised biograpm-
cal and critical study of Goethe and Schiller Is almost
ready for publication at Charles Scrioncrs sons
Martha Finley's ELSIE Books" juvenile
series have had a sale OF nearly $4,000 copies Douu'
Mead Co.. the publishers of them. announce Tor ,is
mouih a new novel by the same author TO be calico
"Signrc the Contract
The lectures which Max Miller delivered
last Spring. nSne Cnapter House OF Westminster h'
hev. have been collected into volume which Charie'
scribnci's Sons will publish shortly under inc ',.o
&" Hphert Lectures on the origin and Growth OF ho'
lgion as illustrated by the Religions OF lndia' .
The "Lifc of Bishop Cummins," at Douu'
Mead Co.'S. is promised for January II VIII oe~ Noi
une OF several hundred pages, Of octave sze' "nu W.
tain, two portraits and other Illustrations IL VIII DC an
tmpotant work as giving OF the origin ana nc
veiopmeut Of tnc R.foLncd Lpi &c lrs; hshop
mcnt of wmch DIR. Cnmmns was INC me- ' -.
Gladstone's essays will be published I'D 'iis
country by Charles scIibneI's Sous FIVE small 'ol
rmes arc 10 be brought out under the title oean'
tpcs Of Past Years. and win embrace his most lmpor
tant contributions to periodical literature r. Gui TWO vol
entire period from 1913 10 ISIS. Inc h's' wv W.
umes are nearly ready for pubilcauOh' -,
Pdmund G. Stedman will have in the zen
rna,v Scribaer a paper on " Aerial Navigahoh'' III
which confesses that subject to be his hoppy' anu
docs not hesitate 20 PRINT his eangulnc n''cuo '
solution of the artravcl problem is near q" manu- luc
stednan long AGO in connection with theories OF ms
own and contains valuable information snom, ~ thai
illus far been accomplished from experiments 'h''
have been made.
The important books from Charles Dickens
library which Scrbner & Wexford have secured are eA
pected TO arrive from London this week. There mas
been great demand the reading Dooks' ana u Is su
that several were disposed of IN England at uouoo o
amount they brought at The orr sina sale Two OF D'A
ens's reading books" Nicholas Nickleby" ana MIS'
in he Il
The COPY of Hoods Comic Almanac" for lo42 also III
the collection has been much sought after IN EnSi"u.
fewer than thirytwo orders h4vlHE o'Cn and
IL It's peculiar value consists III the Or,Gl'l anu
unpublished which Hood addressed 10 Dehes ""
his proposed departure iOr America
With the beginning of the new year StA'cHOtdS
reports gain in circulation OF from 10 to 20 per cent
Ofthc January number over $1,000 copies have been
sold and the publishers still repinting It. For Feb
ruarv 90 900 copies will be issued The table OF contents
for that number fully mp TO former tables TIC OPEN
ing paper Story Of Stone" by Professor d. g J"
dan al H." has an illustrated little poem, "Ihe
Shining Little House" Susan Coolidge contributes the
first two chapers Of "Eycbreht and Julian Hawthorne
The fourth aud firth chapters OF &" Rumpty-Dudgcts
Tower" Augusta Larncd has poem " tielinhMl'
There was au Old Man OF the Nue. BCS'eS'" tha
RlinOccros" "Abuut NIolmN.'" The sad Story OF lht
DANDY Cat" TcGdys Heroes" The Nest on Nhcc.IS'
other features will delight all boys and girls
The frontisDiece of ScribpeT'S WOntHy for
February will be a portrait OF Emerson, by Eaton ana
Cole after the style of the Bryant and other portraits
The article accompany 1t Will be called Ihe Homes
and Haunts Emerson and will nave several iSra-
tons The leading paper OF the number will he " The
Tile Club At PLAY" with tWeUtyciPh illustrations, Nv
r. g. Clifford Eeimhart, and others the great popularity
OF The Tile Club at Work." printed in the January
number having induced the Editor to give the place OF
honor TO this the second paper in the series. r. H.
Stoddards Bryant memorial poem, The DEAD Mas'er'
Is printed in this number and Mr.. Glider contributes
ftf1g W. Moi
Crowded Way" Edward Egglcston writes " I" the
Clergy -; there is Symposium ON the Chinese Qdts
hon agd an usTaeH npf On TI aMois and Pre-
lessor Boyescns "Flconberg" are the story features
suggestive change i'll the cover, adapting IL TO the MD
winter number, VIII DC nOtcd.
"a Masoue of Poets" recently pub
Ished IN Boston by Roberts Brothers, and no
tced these columns. has given rise to several curious
errors Of Judgment with regard TO the authorship OF an
ferent poems We learn from unquestonable authority
that the lines entitled Question and No Answer uni
yersaly ascribed to Dr. o. W. Holmes, were in fact
written by Lord HoughtOn; that " One Hundred and
Ore" which mas been set down the production OF x.
w Emerson was written by Miss H. ". Preston; that
T. c. stcdman is the author OF "PrOyenca Lovers, and
not Mr.. Stoddard Miss Preston ms stated by the
newspapers. II may also he mentioned that IranshG-
uration was written by Miss AlcOt; Pilgrims by
The late H. d. Thoreau Red Tape ;, and My Heart,
Cannot Still It," by James Russell Lowell; and " a
Lovers Tests " by Bayard Taylor. Mr. 6. H. Bokeris
the author OF Song Before Singing which has also
been fathercd upon Tennyson and LOngfclow the bal
lad OF Husband and WIFE " Is by Miss Rossetu; and
Horizon" and a Woman's Death Wound" by
H. II. W. T. Claiming writes the "Children's
Song" VIM. Allngham writes Amy Marsa-
ret" Aubrey dc We're is the author OF " LId,'
A. T. Alcott OF "Eumenides," and Mrs Annie
Fields OF "TheOcritus," which has been claimed
as n matter OF course for Mr.. sedman
'IThe Unseen Preacher" is by Miss r. :.
Phelps. October Sunday" by John Weiss, "Bene
dicoin Domino" 10y susan Coolidge, attributed also ny
X BOwkcr Through window Pane" by j. J: Platt
''Awakenng 10y Mrs. Celia ThaXter, and The Marshes
of Glynn" by Sidney Lauicr The volume is certainly
graccd with contributions from many favOrite poets
and will be less heartily enjoyed by the reader DC
cause he is not Obliged TO tread on eggs.