New-York tribune., 1879-05-05
LITERARY MOTIFS.

Ii Edinburgh recently were soid aulceraph
etisrs Burns, Schiller. Scott. lamb, hrL shesy'
Burke Washington, Franklin, and oIher 'eeh anu "o
Of fsmv.
The private library of the late George b.
Hilard will be sold In Boston Thursday and FRIDAY
OF this week The catalogue comprises nearly l'4oo
titles and is said TO contain the best editions OF stand
ard books and presentation copies OF DOCKS from
contemporary writers whom he knew
G. p. Putnam's Sons will soon bring ont a
now edition. called The Cedarcroft Edition" OF B1yard
Taylor's novels. Hannah Thurstou," John Godireys
Fortunes" Joseph and His Ff1cnd." d" The story Of
Kcnnett" and Beauty aud the Beast" They will bind
t,em in tinted boards and have reduced the price 70
81 % volume.
A. C. Armstrong & Son already have IN
preparation new and improved editions OF hichaudS :
History OF the Crusndcs" Napiers History OF 'he
Pennsuar War" Eiwards's History and Poetry OIL
FjnrerRinrs " pcran's " Complete Works" Anderson :
Ladies' OF the Covenant" and Sydney smlths VIZ
and Wisdom"
Stebbins's GenealOgy,n one of the rarest
of American books, to he reprinted in fac-siie ny
the Ncw-England Historic Genealogical Society OF Dos
ton Very few copies of tnis book are known 10 eA''
and It has special interest from beng the hIst "ork
on goneaogy that printed In the British Coioos u
North America copy sold at the Brney sale lor F'y'
the Historical Society OF Pennsylvania beng tne puI
chaser. Thc reprint Will he out next mohtu, puV ~ ."
private book ia an edition LIMITED to 100 copies
LES Livres DGfcndus is the title OF Il new
French book in which is given list OF WORKS tha' Tue
censor never permitted to the light Only DOCKS DC
longing TO the present century gwen and OF these
alouc there are titles enough to fill volume OF 900
pages IL was formerly the custom To burn al CON
depped books IN the presence of recorder at the i0o
of the great stairway of the Paais de Justice hut 'he
custom was abolished at the beginning Of the century
Paper mills now the purpose OF executloner an"
all such books are carried TO pasteboard manuactoy
.4..TF.. .TaI In, hlrra 4
Paris correspondent of The American Bookseller relates
the details OF the process that follows On their arrival
the books and periodicals thrown into an immense
tank filed with water and chemical ingredients. IN
which large wheel that can be turned at WILL ana
lid l. let down over thc tank by means on chains anu
then sealed After certain number of hours TIE DC
composition OF the paper being complete tne Wheei Is
turned and the contents OF Tue yess are th9ho1gsy M
mixed and when, In the presence OF 0cials, the III H
at length removed, nothing but homogeneous paste
remains, that Is destined to be trans mo paste
board.
No one can foretel what good or bad luck
may befa an untiquary when he goes into an auction
sale Tom TAYLOR III his Life and Times of Sir Joshua
Reynolds gave Inaccurate account Of the last sale
but one OF Sir Joshuas stters char and has just pub
lished a very interesting letter in correction from the
gentleman who purchased the chair at that sale for Sir
Thomas Lawrence. The catalogue gave no information
about the char except describing 1t as an Easy arm
chair" and the brokers had put II in for only few shll-
lngs Besides this buyer Mr.. Hoearth, there was In
the room other person who knew the secret THESE
two the char up to 90 shlngs, when tho brokers'
began to look 0rised; but the bidders went on An
attempt was made To unscrew the legs, arms and Dack
as If TO see wherein lay the value of IT, and when ten
euineas had been bid an appeal made by Mr. lic-
garh against rongh usage of the chair. Ii was finally
knocked down for a few shilings beyond el3, and Il
stormy commOIOn was raised while the chair was car
red out The lot offered was described rs ditto"
One of the most excited O the crowd slapped MI. no
same money for that ~ IL replied that he would give
no thsn hall-a-crown for It, second lot, Hover
stand was added To char aud the two were then
suddenly knocked down TO MI licgdrth, MS uh"lilnE
md having been accepted. Ii was not until yeai or
two later that he learned ne was tue happ! ""her Vi
Sir Isaac NewtOn's char.
Tennyson's "Lover's Tale" a copy of which
sold In London recently for $2OJ contains about eleven
hundred lines sixty pages, divided into two parts
and has never been reprinted The five years between
the composition and the original printing cf 1t embraced
precisely the period OF Tenuysons friendship with
Arthur Halam. ls2s-1533. The poem is monoiosue
and the over who the speaker, relates to his friends
the traca ory Of his life Ex racts from the poem
given IN a small volume called "Tennysoniana" which
Scrbner Wexford have received from the London pub
fishers. One of the best is the folOwing
Even as the all-enduring camel, driven
Far from the diam und fountain by the palms,
Tois onward thro' the middle mo9niit nights,
Shadowd and crimsOn'd with the drifting dust;
Or when the white heats OF the binding moons
Beat from the cOncave sand; yet III him keeps
A dFaught OF tndt sweet FOUNTAIN tnat nc loves,
70 stay ms feet from falling, and his spirit
From bitterness of DEATH"
The author OF Tcnnysoniana remarks that this pocm
with az its blcmishes arising rom imma.urity. is work
OF udub!taDle genius aud promise" He notes a fur
ther interesting fact that copy OF TennysoH's poems
the edition OF s33. the South Kensngton Museum
contains On the Gy-leaf in pencil poeical fragment
which he reprints in large type; whether it is by 1enny
son or not but at any rate the poem de-
served 10 see the light for the line that suggests
"Piuafore" TO say nothing of serious Here
ID Il:
Therefore your halls, your ancient colleges,
Your portals statucd with old kings and queens,
Your bridges aud your busted libraries,
NaI-li.hted chapcls ana Iich carved screens,
Your doctors and your prOcors ana your deans,
Shall not avail YOu whom TIE day-beam sports
Erw-risen Der awakend AlbiOn-no.
Nor yet your solemn Organ-pip that blow
Ne olOIs thuuders through your vacant cOuIts
At morn and even; for your manner sorts
Not with this age, nor with thoughts that
Because the lqs uflittle children preach
Against you've thar did profess 10 teach
And have taught nothing. feeding not the soul