New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-06-18
LITERARY NOTES.

Zola's az Assommoir has reached In Parls
"a Afty-nfth edition.
Harper's Weekly, published to-day, contains
NE full text OF Tenuyson's &" Lovers Tale"
At Certaldo, in Italy, where Boccaccio was
born. a monument to his memory will soon be put up
The last paper which Mr.. Napier edited for
me Edinburgh Rerieuc was Empson's David Hume.
The proofs IL sent TO jeffrey, who returned
Them with this lively note being the last letter printed
m the volume Of Mr. Napier's correspondence send
you the of these weary proofs Empson is unrea
sonable with endless corrections. 1t will be relief
when we are fairly done with them; for, not only
does his dirty linen require deal OF Wasnng' DuS nc
But, patience, and shuttle the cards.
Macaulay admired Dryden but did not think
him man Of creative mind. " he had grea; ferti
ry" be says in letter Mr. Napier. great command
of language great skill in versihoation but DO not
mink that he had highest of the word any
nrginaltty do not dispute that his works are more
valuable than those Of Bunysn but do not think thai
they show much creative power should say ,L 5nt
pane of Pope as compared Win t re roc; ES bnt
think that De Foe had more originality more hauVe
power Of Imagination than Pope
Henry James's story in the July Harper,
The Diary of Man OF Fifty" is said to be one OF the
very best OF his short sketches, end Edward Everett
ales The Happy Island is understood to be gooo-
natured piece Of satire I'm the form OF story An
amusing "lessOn to faultfnders is given by James
T. Fields in on illustrated poem which ne calls Inc
Owl Critic. Other prominent features Of the number
are Fiity Years of American Art" the first OF series
pf papers by MIR Benjamin Recolectlons OF Chn IT,
Professor Charles Carroll and the third part of Howard
Pyle's Penmsular Canaan There are VI ~ ,Ii T.
Tour Illustrations IN this NUMBER OF H"'Pe'' !" VIII
out Friday.
In Hdrper for July is printed an unpub-
hshed letter from Robert Burns II is addressed 10 MS
brother William He writes of the power OF hapit ana
recommends to his brother &" that valuable aPothegm
Learn taciturnity." Then he adds; what m'scheis
aaily arr Sc from silly garuity and foolish confidence!
There is an excellent Scots saying that mans nina Is
his kingdom IL Is certainly but how few can govern
that kingdom with prOpriety The serious mlscnles III
Business which this Fux Of language occasions 90 no'
come Immediately TO your situatiOD but In another
point of vow-;he dignity Of man-now Is the ume 'h"V
will make or Yours is the time OF life or laying III
habits You can not avoid 1t. though you Will choose
and these habits Will your last sand Al after
periods even at little advance as my ears as tne
nal faings and weaknesses, hut To eradlcale tueIi
Or even mend them, Il quite different natter AeqeG
we're q necessary part of our existence. have hot
time for more. Whatever you reao WhateSer Ou o
~ ~ y'iicatfon Of the doctrine" The letter OBJ
FAMED from the Misses Bogg who live IN small cottage
within two miles the Old Kirk aud are believed TO he
An illustrated article on The Land o. Burns"
The tower of the historic Church of Saint
Roch in Paris has pulled down TO make room Tor
new sNeet Additionally it was not bedutifuli nor
was it very ancent but part OF the Church'o SAINT
Roch II has associations which should have preserved
from destruction by sacriegous street-openers Ihls
church. which is picturesque object in the Rue ST.
Honor6 near the Tuilcres taken possession OF on
October s. 1895. by French pOpulaoe under Lepee
tier as stronghold In their tnsurrecton against the
Uonyentlon-an insurrectiOn which was put down
by young Napoleon Bonapsrte, then " CITIZEN
Bonaparte" and unemployed artillery OF
fcer complaining of his poverty and disposed to O1er
his services to the ltan OF Turkey 1t is this incident
which Carlyle. under the title " The Whit OF Crane
shot has chosen for the concluding chapter OF his story
Of the French Revolution. Here ia massage about II .
). WhereupOn. thou bronze Artilery-Oh i FIRE,
Eay the bronze lips And roar and thunder, roar ana
again roar, continual vOlcanO-ke goes ms great gum
In the Cu-desac DaUDhin against the Church OF haln
Roch; ms great guns on the POni-ROyal; 20 ali hls
great guns blown To air some 200 men, mainly abou
me Cburch OF SaintROchl Lnpelletier cannot stand
srch hOrsc-rlay The firing with sharp
md sharpes shot TO all It plain that here
no sport the rabbits and pinths of SanRoch Church
show splintered by it to this hour And the
thing we specifically call French RerOtufon is blown
Into space by IL and become a thing that was -"