New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-10-22
LITERARY NOTES.

Thomas Hardy's new novel has the title
. The Trumpet Major" Henry Holt & Co. annonn-c y
as in press
Mrs. T. w. Hgginson's juvenile story
Room for One More" is Just ready at Lee shepa'u
and the frm announces another book for children oy
Ceorre NJ Towle being an account Of the voyages OF
Magellan. the Portuguese navigator =,
A new edition of Keble's christian Year
A. announced by A. d. F. Randolph n Co. Three ne"
volumes OF religious poems compiled by the hnior Oh
"The Changed Cross" are also ready. II Is an op'n
secret that this Editor is Mr.. Randolph himself.
Alexander Smiths edition of Burns VIII
soon be brought out by Macmillan Co. In Nv" mana
some octave volumes. and Matthew Arnolds ediu'n
Of Wordsworth recently added 20 The Golden treasury
Series. will be issued in large paper FORM LOT ose WI"
delight in rare and choice prints
A.C.Amstrong & Son will bring out IN Deem
Der an edition OF George Smiths Lie OF AeN"""'i
DUFF" 1t Will comprise two volumes and have por'ii'S
aud other ILLUSTRATIONS The same nrn cDTie the
Hunter" being tale OF Luiuland.
The new story on which f. =. Roe is en-
gagged will be called without Home Athout" no'
vet In press certain % see the llGh' cary !" |
Winter. Mr. Roc's novels are among the hest seinnS
hooks IN This country The total sales Will approach
1-o 900 COMES Of" 4 Face Illumiued' Dodd' Mcau
4 Co have soIa 90 900 copies within less than year.
Two volumes of Mr.. Swectsors Artst
Biographies in the new illustrated edition, were puo
hsbed on saturday last and three Others. winch VIII
complete the set will he ont the end of the present
week Each Of volumes contains the lives OF three
artists and fifteen hcotvpe reproductions oi w"rAS
OF thc masters Tue repr"ev, ''v go ~. r rodneed
examples OF hchOtypc WORK tha' nave "oVn i''.N
Bavard Taylor's pOetical works IN the new
edition uniform with the wol-Snown Household I"e's'
Will be ready Saturday at Houghon' ossoou ~.
It's complete edition OF Nh Taylors poems an" DC
sides all that included in his book known 's
Poems" It comprises the Poems OF the ORIENT
Poems Of Home and Travel Inc rot Jo1 eI
Inc Picture OF - John" The Mosque oi ne CO.'S
and Iviics," aud " Prince Deukahon"
Two wears will he necessary to complete In
sccbner Eugene schuycrs work on the reign OF Peter
III. Great The fr-t iustalmcnt Of 10 viii appear IN an
eaily number but Just when Is not said The @NoVen-
Der number Of Scci'ar Will be ready 10
dav For issue during the coming year series OF pa
pcrs with tn title sauntenpgs with Dickens are an
bounced They will relate 10 the most noted places
watch associated with plckenss WRITINGS Aii.u
Hummer Of Chester. ENGLAND. viii contribute them Au
artist has n,cn conn ssiouod 20 make drawings for IL
lustrations when VIII 90 with tha articles.
Froulc's Caesar published on May II last
Ia. been sent to press for lie eighth time ard sells
rs vel as ever on SATURDAY., CHARLES scroners Sons
Will issue Professor Raird's Story Of the Hugue-
no;s" which VIII be two volume work. and an in por-
tant one OF plates has already been sold FOR
English edition The same house will have ready on
SATURDAY, NJ lHnNhi,' l"rhl' ,h, avu' 'n ~
migration winch Professor Wells Williams oi lae Col
,eg. read before the Social science Association al S"-
toga last sumner
At sale of books in Clinton Hall to-day
some rare curious manuscripts Will be disposed o.
One il the org nal manuscript IF St Gregory Nkaiay-
err work the martyrs, and contains over 200 u
minated pages in the Armenian language 1t j. more
than 500 wears old aud found in scilan monastery
nsty years ago. aud carried thence to Coustannope
Eventually IL passed INTO the hands Of the Hon C. o.
cauyan this country as the Consul-Generai
Of thr Ottoman Empire. Another in Arabic, and con
ssts selections from the Koran three foo volumes
II i ON veilum paIer, h-a1tuiy illuminated, ana Is
said To he 400 or 300 years Oh a thiId MANUSCRIPT,
also ancient. work 10y Amr Ihn lnrahiu an author
wors hv nm which known To 10 in tins country.
henry j. Andcrs II, all Of which IL to he sold.
There has been of late years growing de-
maud ia TIN, country tor useful books on ART subjects.
ard - best indications Of II l. The sale of MI
Clarence COoKs edition of Ldbkcs" History Of Art -
Two Of the most costly volumes which an American pub
fisher ha- recently attempted. II has been out con-
siderably less than two years. and Dodd, Mead Co.
report that already IN its fourth EDITION. " The
r'nn r,iut y1f man additions of rare work on
the subject by Maberly Mir, Robert Hoe ir one of TIE
editor of the book. II will he ready In Mover Der.
or Gautier's long essay on Balzac, which
forms part Of the work on Famous French Authors
recently published 10y T. Worthngton. an interesting
story told Bizsc hciug once asked 10 contribute an
article - certain book he promised 10 do SO on con-
dition that hook should contain study on himself
written by Gauter. TIE condition was accepted Bal
FAC hasten once 10 see Gautier aud promised To
nav nina 500 francs T. would write the article. This
he agreed do. aud ia due tm' delivered IT [" The
publisher. From natural umidi,v, ne did not AK for
in. paw A week and then fortnight passed ieior'
Eszac appeared " do not know" he then said how
10 thank Won vonr study j. MASTERPIECES As think
you NAV he want of money nave brought YOU IN"
sum agreed upon. Ihereupou he Lard down 700 francs
ns cad 500 Gau'ier reminded him that lac mad saia
500 francs addiug be might AZ the same time have
misunderstood hnn. MI the least III the world re-
nned Bllzac dill tell you 500 But consider e
moment II / had not existed, you could never have
lid al the good OF me- when you have SAID that IL
cl,tr. Then had there article OF Yours there
would hav, bon no money. take the hair ot the sun
As the subject treated, and give Won the rest as lhe
aufhor treat NJ. Is not that Just 7" To which the
nodes G. .ut'irr r Piled A. : llomou himself"