New-York tribune., 1879-05-21
LITERARY NOTES.

Tennyson since 1880 has had dozen dlt-
fereut publishers.
1t is said that $4,000 copies of Mrs.
Brasseys "voyage Round the World in the Yacht sun
beam have been sold in England France and America
William Black is writing a story for Corn
hilI entitled "wmte wings, Yachting Romance,
which will be illustrated and - the he, first p%rt OF Is
A daughter of the late Theophile Gautler,
Madame Judith Gautier who had already published
two books lie Dragon Imperial" and "Le lAVre de
Jade" and is said TO be gifted, has just pubhsneu a
third volume as companion TO the Others lS 'i'i0 Is
" Les Peuples Eranges"
The volumes of Napoleon autographs por-
traits etc. which were sold in London few months
oco for So nave come said into the posses
sion OF the Empress Eugene, who intends them ior
surprise present the Prince Imperial when he comes
home from the war in south Africa Inc cohec''on 70
believed TO be unrlvallcd.
William Black thinks Mr. Longfellow would
laugh II he saw some of the editions of his works that
pass in England for complete editions In ieuer 10
George Haven Putnam, Mr. Black says as REGARDS MIN
self for complaint against Tue S CI
always dealt very hberal'y with me (hlml'
Charles Dickens's Dictionary of London
Is described by The Saturday Rericw as "a most ren"r
able feat""a really wonderful compilation ana
triumph Of enterprise" The work is 1t remarks poo
aby the best practical guidebook to London which mas
vnt anneared In London Mr. Dickens his own pub
fisher. In New-York Macmillan 4 Co. have brought OUT
his book
A secondhand bookseller recently offered
for sale in London a copy Dickenss Old Curiosity
sbop" printed in raised letters for the Of the nlud
and comprising three large and thick volumes In impe-
rial Guar,o On the titlepage is the inscription IRE
scented by the author to the blind. and printed at Per
kius's Institution for the Blind, Boston. Mas lS69 '
Mir Forster in his Life OF Dickens seems 10 nave DoeH
unaware that such work ever punished
TennysOn was not the first person to select
The Relief OF Lucknow" as theme for poetlcai treat
ment. Robert Lowell, brother OF James Russell Lowell
and now professor in Union College, chose the same
theme and used the title nearly twenty years ago
In poem which he contributed TO The Atlantic Monthh
and Mr. Emerson whom addressing lyceums in different
parts Of the country has his admiration for by
reading It TO his audiences many times Mr Lowers
months ago s the only volume that has appeared from
Bay Is a popular novel Of the long ago.
In the library Of the late George S. Hillard
was found a copy OF Moeys almost forgotten Merry
mount on the Gy-lcaf Of which were written a few
lines addressed to Motley, and believed to have been
written by Mr. Hilard himself when he heard that his
old friend was dead The first six lines of the poem are
as follows:
from the night winds whisper DER oceans GINNING
As from the wild pine forest chanting its ceaseless
SO from he murmurne pages of this forgotten scroll
A sound OF vanished voices breathes TO my very SOUL
trust, -, -.
The true the wse the beautiful sleeping in the dust
The new volume in Green's " History Of the
English People," brings the narrative down to the year
1Gss Itis nearly ready at Harper Brothers. The
Academy remarks that after all is said against the
authors work that can be said his assalants may be
CHALLENGED TO produce any other history which conveys
so living an impression Of all that England is and has
been He has what few have, the gift Of historical
3maciuation." volume OF Readings from English
History - selected and edited by r Green from Hume,
Freeman, Macaulay, Halam, Walpole and Others,
will be brought out by the firm in single volume,
with three parts headed respectively, ltengst 70
Cressy" Cressy 10 Cromwell" Cromwell TO Baa-
1laya."
The London Quarterly RerieU is of opinion
that Mr. symonds not justified in claiming Michael
Angelo as the prophet Of the Renaissance or In
other words, Of what is known the Humansm OF the
sixteenth century It fluids 1t difficult 10 understand
how the stern SOUL pous and pure and self
devoted that he be "ranked with the crowd
of guttOnous pedants who were the apostles OF
Humanism with the foul tyrants and dssoute un-
believing preates who its nursing fathers or with
the shameless women who its HAS and Egerias'
There is one sense however, aud only one In which II
thinks Mr.. symOndss phrase has true moaning. MI
chael Angelo the prophet Of the Humanisc Renas
sance Rs Jonah the prophet of Nneyeh or Lot that
of sOdom. His career was "a rebuke to Humauism,"
and TO his own age the witness and interpreter
Of better thugs" He II, moreover, 1.-The witness and
interpreter of the true character of his age light
shining IN dark place the last lumnary OF art and
freedom IN Italy, before their sacred flame goes out
aud universal darkness covers ALL"