New-York tribune., 1879-02-01
LITERARY NOIES.

LIIER1RI NOILS.
| OF English authors named Smith there have
been $40 whose full names are KNOWN Thenoxt longest
list of Wilson's who number $50 amt the neXtoi VII
liamses OF whom there have been 32J. The Iayiors
! conc next, and the Whites next after them
EutlcI's Poems in one volume, and
Churcmli's, ParnelTs and Tckelrs in two WILDE the
next additions the Riverside edition Of the British
Poets The Middle States" viii he tho subject Of an
early volume in Mr. Longfellow's "Poems of Places
A new book by Mr.. Charles Francis Adams,
IT, 10 be called Railroad Accidents" Is in preparation
at g. p. Putnam's Sons. They are also preparing a
work 10y Dr. A. NJ. Brukc. Of London, Ontario on
Mans Moral Nature" which viii be published rot
only in NewYorE, but III Toronto, Canada and London
| England.
Mr. Justin Winsor, librarian Of Harvard Col
lege preparing list Of all the editions OF Ptolcmy
Geography" for The purpose OF indicating the value OF
each for the study of the early explorations OF America
circular been issued by HIM requesting assistance
in the collection OF information, which Will be used in
| preparing the paper which he will print
An American student at Heidelberg Uni
versty has written treatise on "The Sphere and Pro
vince of Government according to the Doctrines of Tur-
got Adam Smith and John Stuart MIL, which was pub
cy praised recently the occasion Of the annual ad
dress Of the Rector Of the University It was written o.
| IN s7G and received fellowship
Fanny Kembc's Records Of a GirlhOOd,"
will be ready at Henry Holt & Co.'S next week. It
makes handsome volume OF over GOO pages ana will
be bound in o neat and novel cover. pretty portrait
Of Miss Kemb in her grhOOd will face the titc-pagc
complete index and careful head lines have been pre-
pared. These the English edition does not have. Con
tanning as this book does many recolccions of people
who have become celebrated, tie addition of coplous
| index Will enhance Its value in many ways.
Of the illustrated edition of FaTaI's Life
| OF Christ" published by CasseI, Peter d. Galpin The
PallMaU Ga-ete says Many of them tthc usrations
are extremely beautiful all Of them distinct pur
pose and Canon Farrars ornate and pictorial style
may be said TO derive additional charm from these
abundant memorials Of the Holy Land. Considering the
beauty and number of the illustrations this admirably
printed volume Is likely TO prove one OF the most at
! tractve gfboOks Of the year. 1t - certainly one
OF the cheapest copyright WORKS ever Issued rom the
| press"
Bazacs stormy experience with editors and
booksellers appears in strong light in the collections Of
his letters lust published in London AT one moment
ne breaks with editor who had refused to PRINT his
articles or obliged to shorten them for want OF
At another he denOunces the critics who treated his pro
ductons with structures or who praised his latest novel
at the expense earlier Nor is he wanting In
imprecatOns the public taste, which did not always
treat him with better favor than the reviewers. The
scverest storms of his wrath poured out upon the
publishers who offered him less money or his books than
| be thought lie ought 10 nave.
Colonel II. w. Hgginson has presented the
Harvard College Library with twentyhree bound vol
umcs containing 430 pamphlets on the Slavery ques-
tion many of which presented to Colonel Higgin-
sou by the authors whose autographs they contain In
some respects they duplicate the collection formed by
| Charles Sumner the same subject, and
which are already the property of the library
| There are three other important collec-
| tons OF Slavery pamphlets in this country The
greatest OF them was made by the late Samuel j. May.
OF Syracuse and in the library OF Cornell Uiver-
sitv There arc in 1t between four and five thousand
pamphlets-al catalogued-besidcs 500 bound volumes
Theodore Parkcr's collection is in the Boston Prblc
Library, and about 1000 pamphlets are i'll the Boston
Athen9um collection
| After his school readers the book b. which
the late George g. Hllard pest knownis his Six
Months in Italy," 1t written more thaI twenty-five
years ago. long before Americans had travelled
much in Italy 1t has gone through fifteen
editions and still las a steady sale, at Hough-
ton Osgood & Co.'s. Tho book wes dedicated
to Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Crawford, "wlth recO!lec
tons OF their kindness and hospitality" During his
stay III Rome Crawford engaged upon those OF his
historical wo.ks Whch largely contributed TO his rcpu
ation as a sculptor The last three chapters OF the
book Mr Hillard devoted 10 Travellers IN Italy and
writers upon Italy," fewer than twenty-nine, be-
ginning with Perarch, and reaching to Shelley, Byron
and Rogers being noticed He discusses the old literary
puzzle whether Shakespeare ever visited Italy and con-
cudes that "shakespeares visit TO Italy stands much
upon footing in point Of evidence. as tnat OF
the Mortimer 10 England before Columbus" 1t is GER
tanly poss9e perhaps probable but " It remains TO- be
| ~. IL
shakespeare swimming III ii gondOa."
Seven novels by Henry GrGyille have already
been published by T. j.. Peterson Brothers, within
less than year. and the eighth, PhilOnGne's Mar.
rages," will be ready in few days the rapidty with
| which these books have come from the press would
pronounce the author OF the productive and
extraordinary OF novel writers were II not known that
Of these novels written several years ago
To her new BOOK she has pren1ed note addressed TO
American readers in which account Of herself and
her works Is given. Although the Of nearly all
her previous stories laid in Russia II Is not true
has been frequently sad that she OF Russian birth
| but when the time camo for her TO her own y-
ing she followed her father Russia. II was there
that learned the language and customs of the coun
try she has described The husband whom she after
ward married was Frenchman and their desire TO re-
turn to France finally became strong that they went
to Paris and made 1t their home. Tnis seven years
and it is In Paris that she has written all her works
Except one short novel and two three stories"
PhOm(ue's Marriages" unlike nearly quite all
works by her which the Petersous have published, is
OF French life the being laid in Normandy
and Paris The authors desire bas been she herself
Gays, 20 make you know French people as they are
one meets them the street. at the theatre shops
| their OWL houses" The novels or her countrymen
which most frequently read In other countries paint
tho exceptions OF life, both In regard TO good aud
evil" but she wishes 10 make II known that the French
| are "an honest people, whose sons icspect their
mothers, whose mothers sacrifice themselves for their
children, whose husbands devoted and whose
wves are courageous and loving, exactly they are
| elsewhere"