New-York tribune., 1879-08-27
LITERARY NOTES.

There is good authority for the statement
mat Dorothea Alice Shepherd, the author OF how w
Cirls Tried Farming" witch has been added recently 10
=, -, 4 "a = covered Idle Hour SERIES
otbor than Miss Ella Farman. the Editor of wac
.zous novels are apparently increasing
<6nns.. publishers. They sell wen AZ "uy
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rate several ones I1 ,ntas.'
AN almost phenomenal success pub
have just published ono IN 4" a Ntn', Ntn .,. ircly
few DAYS under the title -" lhe lar 'i .i"' IA
make a volume OF 800 PAGES ~
The next volume i'm the Eggleston MAe
lives OF famous American Indians VIII be foo'NWA
Dodd Mead & Co announce il as IN press i'' ear .&
bcation Tue same firm have in preparation an eng a
new edition Of the Gotta books and new eolus
1Ils, Corsops Cooking Maoual." to which has u ~.
added chapter on desserts. They have purchas. "a ~
plates OF Henry Kingsley's novels and oisl lno III d"
style at the reduced price of dollar vouule'
Professor Arnold Guyot, of Princeton Col"V
leco has prepared from personal surveys map OF te
Catskil Mountains which ready at Charles scro
ners sons. This house have In en- advanced s'"'u"
preparation the concluding three volumes ueihs w. W.
and VII OF GladstOnes " Gleanings' NoluneS v an"
NJ religious ara ecc.telaStlV'' 49,
ume VII is on mseellaheous "ng S III I'n.cIl Move
recent magazine article on " lhe i Esiu-' i''' ~
Inent." which attracted very wide atten"ou.
Englishmen are congraludung themselves
v,,b sopo show Of sarcasm on a recent speech by
yiotor Hugo In which lie admits them into the oId OF
Latin nations. To Greece, Italy, SPAN ana France He
proposes to add England and 20 bird together hou'I
ana Shakespeare During hs speech he decIaieu tN''
while the sixteenth century was the century OF pn'S'
tho seventeenth the century Of writer's anaa,aI ana l4S
eighteenth the century Of philosophers the tMene'H
century be tUe century OF apostles ana pIoh''
NJ. Cassagnac, father of the Paris jouTnailst,
Is writing his Souvenirs du Second Empire and II
tho latest psalment OF them he sets ASIDE the geheIa!
accented notion that the public Improvements "uc ~
paris between 1880 anO 1870 were the oSlhai wore" j"
,opt o. design of NJ. Haussmaun. NJ caSsaghac aIlIS
,bat the idea belongs exclusively TO the Iate LPcIo
ntusolf from whom VI. Hsussmann received the plans
already formed he writes that when the emperor pu'
" Ueussmann in the Office of Preect OF the seine he
lad before HIM a map OF Paris on which he had mnsel
drawn. with red pencil the streets eqWIis aHenues
trd hor,valds TO bc opened the trees 10 he panltu
lie fountains 10 De erected, the woods TO be ransorGed
public parks" The total cost Of me transformation
a. -.iI tl have been nearly SjOOOOO,OCo.
James Miller has ready new editions of sew
IRA works IN prose and that have long held
standard place in literature. The "Rasselas'' " on-
dine" Paul and Virginia" and "NatheR'' Wheh
were announced early In the Summer, are bound uni
formlv and furnished set. II was Lord Byron VINO
sad OF Vatlek": This most Eastern and sublime tae
surpgses s European limitations" and that as an East
eru tale even Iisselas must bow before it," MI Mil
Yer has begun series of the modern British poets IN
1Go with binding very like that used IN the recent Bos
Ton editions Of the poets. The first issue Is shelley
which il lust ready three volumes. " scott" VIII FOL
low A. Othcr new books a TINS mousse are large octave
edtou of Mrs BrJWuug- poems, an octave OF Rogers
Ifaly." with the Turner nlusttal ions; StrckahOs
Orecus Of Iuaand," IN brown cloth, with paper lapel
uut lur Wright, jr's trauslaons OF La Foutaine III
ono tines volume.
The Times, of London, in a notice OF Mr.
Did.er's "Liie OF Madame Bonap3rte," premises by
saving that the courage OF the woman WHO batted alone
during more than seventy years for what she believed
60 De her night, cOmpels its admiration MI Dldlers
I.rtrlit. however, las shadows so murky that we
coud almost wish II had never been painted" such
picture 'has rarely been drawn Of reckless ambition
otter sordid objects Of hungry disappointment at con
tcqueuoo 1t required seer to predict OF neglect oil
manifest household duties and rage at the penalties the
offence incurred Of the position Of pretender in Hie
and Of something like miser IN DEATH" Her hu--
hands polroouerv." concludes The Times, in aban-
Couiuc li. ht. tH, uh of prucel tltles is almost
forgotten by reader Cf this slUEug hut dismal vol
uinp I'm sense That the victim OF MS meauneSs had vol
uutarly stakcd her honor uud happiness against tIe
chance of place, however humble, among the Royal
ties of Europe"