New-York tribune., 1879-05-19
LITERARY NOTES.

Nine volumes have now been published IN
The English Men OF Letters Series they johnson
GibSon,"" Scott" " Goldsmith" -" Shelley, huie' '
"De Foe"" spenser' and Burns" TIE next WI" u.
"Thaekeray," by Anthony Trollope, whlch halper
Brothers expect to have ready this week. IL WIN oo
followed by Burke" which John Morley the ecloI u
the series and apparently of the hardest worhhg
men in all England will contribute This for the pres
ent season win the last volume of the series ones
viii follow IN the Autumn. The writer's VINO 8,I; nsNe
already written for II Professor tluN.eY, ~
SlocS 7 A. symonds Leslie stephen. ". Minto ~
Morrison, r. II. Hutton, Principal sharp anu ~ w.
Church, the Dean Of ST. Paurs London
The tenth volume of NJ Rayaissons AT
,,ives de Ia BastlIep has been in Paris and
brings tho history OF that fortress and prison
down only 10 the year 1902. The volume curiously
enough, does contain scrap of information ABOUT
the celebrated Man in the Iron Mask" whose identity
attn remains one OF the unsoved mysteries OF history
The author explains that he had determined In prepar
ing his work TO publish document which had already
been in print aud he found in this case that ever! e
of information concerning il had been paced oeioie ~
public long ago NJ Ravaisson has his own opinoh'
however and gives It, He believes the prisoner was
French naval officer sent 10 Gambia by the Gtau hih
In order 10 negotiate exchange OF the Duke de Dea
fort. whom Louis XlVhad intrusted Win tne oon""N
OF an expedition against the lurAs'
Michelet's &" lie Banquet" just published Dy
his widow Is the sketch of book planned py nun III
1s5354 at Nerv Italy, where he had gone to rene" his
health after the fatigue incident to writing MS ms
tory of the French Revolution" Fragment that IL is,
,he work is said TO possess certain unity and to abound
fn beauties Of high order and in great ideas In his VIII
hchelet declared that he left work whatever for
publication after his DEATH and 1t is inferred that oy
this he meant that he left finished book Or unpuo-
lished papers he lef considerable quantity consisting
of notes for his lectures. his journals of travel an &C
count OF his childhood written III Isl ;, anu In & rf
of private aud personal nature covering large paI
of his life From these remains material VIII DC ucINSu
by his widow for several volumes which promise 10 nave
deep photographed interest
Won Ranke the brilliant historian of the
Popes, now living at the age OF eightyour' mas COZ
lected into volume three essays on the KepuOnc VI
Venice thus completing the tory-sscond volume OF MS
entire works. The first essay gives general vie" OF
4he condition OF Venice the close of the sixteenth ana
the beginning of seventeenth centuries The second
relates to the conspiracy of the Spanish Ambassador
Bedmar against the Republic In 1918 In the thHu es
say the author of the conquest administration
andhnal loss OF the Morea by the Venetian State 1t
was the Bedmar conspiracy which gave to the poet
Otway the plot of his Venice Preserved" and the now
light which Won Ranke has thrown upon that subj
not, IL Is said conducive 10 ne dranae lntyleit OI %
story since IL sho that the cOuspTdtOrs had haloy
formed any fixed plan Of operations when tle dscoyep
made The conspiracy was not even even oI5 m 80;
though an effort to organize one possible eAs'eu VIII
out doubt.
DR.. LightfoOt, who has just become Bishop
of Durham, published years ago through Macmillan
& Co. work on the Epstlcs Of ST. Pau to the Philip
plans" and fourth edition of It has just been printed
His Epises OF St. Paul 70 the Colossians and Pmle-
mon is SO ready in third edition, and in style uni
form with the first work. Dean Stanley recently sad
ofDr Lghfoot that he the "most learned OF all the
living bishops England" An essay attached to the
philippians" proves, Dean Stanley said, beyond dis
pute that the early constitution OF the Apostolic
Churches OF the rst century mot that OF single
bishop but Of body Of pastors indiherentiy styled
bishops or presbyers and that 1t was not till the very
end OF the apostolic age that the office which we now
call Episcopacy gradually aud slowly made its way in
AaaaN f1af BraGI " or
later growth out of Episcopacy, but that EpscOpscy
was later growth out OF Presbytery that the ofce
which the APOSTLES instituted kind OF rule, not OF
tishops presbyters and that even down to the
third century prcsbyers well as bishops possessed
the power OF nominating and confirming bishops"
Tennysons brother Charles. who recently
died in England was the Joint author with him OF the
"Poems by Two Brothers," published in 1920, when
they were boys at a grammar school In Lincolnshire
At tho recent TcnnysOn sale In London 1ve copies OF
this book were sold although has been considered
very rare One of them was presentation copy from
Charles Tennyson and fetched $50 Three Of the others
went for S45, Sal 25 and $40 25. The boys wentto
Cambridge together and in 1880 Alfred published his
t.Poems Chiefly Lyrical" and Charles a small volume
OF sonnets. From that time until more than thirty
years later Charles silent so far as the public knoW
edge Of hm goes 1t was not until 1864 that he ap-
peared again Another volume OF sonnets then came
out and 1868 IL followed by third volume also
sonnets with the title " Small Tableaux" In 1873 he
published his last book, being sOnnets, Lyrics and
rapslations" None OF these books has been published
tu this country In September 1879 The International
Peeie,r "a S. Barnes Coz published long notice OF
the books, written by Andrew symingon OF Glasgow
I'm which liberal extracts were made from them More
recently Charles IenuysOn has written several soheIs
Tor this magazine having been printed in January.
May September, 1876 respectively and another IN
March, 1877 The brothers married sisters soon aiter
1885 Charles changed his name TO Turner In cOnse-
0uenee OF his succeeding, by his grandta hers DEATH TO
property which had come into the family th[OuGh MS
GRANDMOTHER. Mr.. symingtOn's article has been re-
printed In No Q OF A. ;. Barnes IL CO.'S Atlas seres'
being the volume in which also articles on Poe Bry
ant Longfellow, Motley. HamertOn aud Macaulay.