New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-28
LITERARY NOTES.

"My Lady Greensleeves," by the author OF
sComn Thro the Rye" is the title of one OF the ates'
English novels. .
Bret Harte's new story, "The Twins OF
Table Mountain" has been published in London Dy
Messrs. Chatto & wlndus
DR.. SchliemaDn authorizes The AtbenGam 10
state that he has intention Of bringing out he"
book on Troy for several years to come.
MIR. Murray, the London publisher, an
nounces Memoir of Edward and Catherine stanley'
edited by their son, the Dean of Westminster"
The author of Diplomatic Sketches by an
Outsider" has new work in the London oookstaIis Gu
titled Mr. Gladstone and the Greek question
The AthenGum states that Mr.. Darwin has
translated from the German the sketch of the life OF mis-
grandfather. DIR. Erasmus Darwin written by Dr.
Krause. and proposes to prefix preliminary uo'"o
Mr.. Swinburne has just completed for me
GenRemU's NaadsiHe note on the historical play 0,
King Edward H. in which he discusses the question u
SGakespeare's authorship OF that play. -
A new work by George Baden-Powen, which
has appeared in London under the title Protection ana
Bad Times" treats comprehensivey OF the poiuc"i
economy of commercial depressons-
r. WOrthingtOn announces the lmmeulate Is
sne OF White and Black" by Sir George Campbell NJ
p This volume which has had large sale IN Ehgaho'
contains The impressions which the author gained dur
ing an extended tour chiefly in the South ana west
The English scholar, Mr.. E. b. Tylor, has
placed IN the hands OF Messrs Macmillan Co. inc us'
portion OF a work called "an and Civilization on winch
he has been long engaged. II is designed to serve as
textbook Of autbropoogy, and will be printed UNIFORM
with Professor Huxley's " Physography" Professor
Ray Lancaster Undertaken to contribute eh"p'oi9
on the anatomical portion OF the SUBJECT
Considerable curiosity has been manifested
as to whether the article L" Snug Hamlet and Home
town" in Harpers Magazine for August, is tutn' i0
lion or deft combination Of both, and whether Oh o'
"Tne snuggery has local habiJaton and name NO
one who in chdhOOds happy hours waiAeo se1en'oS
times around the Congregational Church as Pui,sn
,oept for stealing Deacon Abernethy's early sweets
or made lonely pilgrimage 20 Judd's Bridge as recon-
pense for hiding huckeberry pie between the shee's o
his hod viii need TO be told that Mr.. +. W. Gums
me ecbCol gent hy Mr. Gum has always been called
The Guuuery," hence 1.-The snuggeiy ana MI
Snug" in Mr. Gibsons breezy article.
Mr.. Gladstone in the course OF recent
lecture on Homer delivered in the library OF Eton
College undertook TO prove thai the Had ana
Odyssey were really the work OF one poet-con-
sucted at the of the Trojan war, and were not inc
composite works several persons compiled at much
later period the Greek history as advanced by MI
Palev and other scholars. Mr.. Gladstone quoted
numerous Passages from the Had and Odyssey
10 show the poetic nature Of Homers composition ana
drew the attention of the students to the spondMc iol
nation OF the rhythm in many Of his lines HAD The
Uomeric poems been constructed at the period OF
Athenian history mentioned by some Athens would
have taken a prominent place in the events recorded
but as II was Athens was a state having the smallest
possible share in the great events of the Ihad MY
cena being the State OF all the states OF Greece
according TO Homer. 1t would be somewhat surprising
10 find that in the fifth century before Christ number
of men sat down TO reproduce events which had &C.
rurred many centuries before 1t was very dlnlcuit
thing TO reproduce the manners and customs OF times
long gone by, aud a rule historians IN such cases
treated of very generally. and not with the sharp
ness depicted the poems of Homer The best instance
Of success in such direction the of Sir Waiter
o1ta 10 hraU
tory II was pure hypothesis that the HomeTc poems
we're COMPLIED In the fifth century before Christ and
man was able to tell them about any one Who had
poems grand for the period OF the my thOogy Oi
the nth century before christ "hen w as % 1 t
debased compared win inst OF the FORMER IN tne
Uomer1c exceptional cases OF cruelty or wee
mans virtues prominently brought forward by the
Minstrel Homer. Mr. Gladstone also remarked on the
furious similarity OF expressions used by Shakespeare
In Hamlets euOgy OF his father and the language OF
Homer when singing of one bis heroes
A translation of a Turkish manuscript writ
ten by sueiman Pacha during his nine months imprs
nnment has recently been published in ConstannOple
its record of the military mistakes Of the The
anthor accuses Reouf Pacha of having given him false
Information with the object of alone gaining the credit
Of eucounterng General GhOurko while he was crossing
the Balkans ana of having by his needless precipitation
caused disasters which sueiman aferward had to re-
trieve AS 10 Osman and Mehemet All, Suleiman says
AT the moment when advanced with my troops from
Yeui-Sagra toward the Schipka Pass lively exchange
of dispatches took place between me and the two Mar
shals Osmau Pacha and Mehemet Ali Pacba had pro-
uosed 10 both that they advance toward Tnova
-Mehemet Ali with the Danubian army from the east
and Osman Pacha through Sevi from the west In this
manner nv way through the Schpka Pass would have
been left free But Mehenet Ali could not make up his
mind TO abandon his positions he even ON the con-
trary withdrew his advanced troops from Osman-Bdzar
and Esd Duma in order TO attack the Russians on the
Lower Io IN the Rustchuk district On the fourth day
of our attack on Schpka the Russians had already OBJ
taned considerable achievements. l recognized the
difficulties OF situation, but still hoped for the sue
cess of the combined movement l had proposed, not
dreaming that the very opposite had been done Thus
the Russians gained time daily they called in reinforce
ments strengthened their positions and crushed my
army in ten days bitter struggles had fifty bataions
making altogether $1,000 men my losses consisted of
5763 wounded and ,064 dead" Suleiman adds that,
inter the repulsc OF the Russians at Pevna, he
advised that Osman Pacha should leave the place and
oin the nanuban army at TirnOva, order TO destroy
the Russians in the Schpka Pass, while Suleimdn
himself would have made attempt 10 force the pas
sage OF the Balkans in Order TO dscngage Osmau This
pan however, iOied by the OOstnacy OF Mustapha
Pacha, the Minister Tor War