New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-07
LITERARY NOTES.

"Tbe saltwater Tragedy" viii be conf
~,e,. IN t,e septemb number of The ahGn'se i0''s
and viii ne published in book form about AuSos' 80
"Toute Seule.n is the attractive and ra'i'ei
decertise title of recent French novel ny A. i"e''
II Is pea for divorce. and It's am IL TO snow ~, mar
sity for a law altogether annullng uhS"'a"o A
riages ,,;.h oo-lv
James r. Osgood g. Co. VIII publish cary
next Winter sketch o. TIE art LIE OF 'no ne,
lam R,mmer written by Mr.. T. H. Birue" " 80.
"a cd nv n selection from DIR. Rmmer - fah'
lngs. drawings and sculptures. ,,o,
Mr.. Lawrence OIiplant has been IN Loh''on
three months engaged in writing book o" ''1
beyond the Jordan. the ancient DeeaponS' VIM
amined a year ago with view to possiue oo'o'"'
The book Is nearly ready or TIE Pil"'VIs'
The British Consul at Oporto' MI osw"i"
Crawsurd has made use OF his siecl"i I"ci""e' ~
croduction OF a book - Old ana New Portugal &
hest mart Of TITS book the description OF TIC zion aer
eul;ura, resonrccs or the country, ana lhe pi"'0 "
farming and wiUe-srowinE =,
Miss Sarah Holland Adams, of Boston, WHO
mas lived in Germany fer considerable une ia" "''~'
a translation OF Hermann Grimms lectures on DOo."o
aud his Jimcsv which will be published ny li'''e'
A. Co The transa lion greatly pleased Pi,f S. atr
sHS Is ''''''' % ''' '' ~
II has been so often asserted and so OFTEN
denied that Professor Park OF Andover Las IN MS pos
session manuscripts OF Jonathan Edwards S'"'us "o
lefs radieaily dercut those which the great heo
,o,ian ,s universally supposed 10 have held, tIat
proholy no one but Professor Park himself fees much
certainty In the matter. Ii will he remembered 'ha e
Rev John Miller of Princeton, In letter 10 ilih IND
TINE has called upon Professor Park 10 publish those
manuscripts or al least 10 state positively tha' 10 %
snus crlps in his possession IL has oeeh recently
ssert.d and more recently denied that tney were 10 De
pubished and now The Boston Trdreher reair"is 'no
abatement thus: Professor PARK, OF AhooNer ineo
logical Seminary announces for the Octooer h"i"er u
~, gblio.eea scra series of arlces respecting the
ar4.anE AyV.F
hitherto unpublished essays 10y Edwai'ts himself i0
statement that these essays are likely to chigc 'e c
mate OF his religious opinions rs suggfs!f" ~ sad
Dudley Warner AID ID oyer I'VE wen Sat t forhcom,
Ing MANUSCRIPTS win give very little coinl u '"o PRIV
gresslNes III thtOiO-t' -.
A correspondent writes 70 The London lines:
am In position give mora details concerning 'He
loescs Of literary irea lures the confsgratioh OF
Moumscn's Library OF the unedited inscriptions OF
The Co.pus Inscripti0num Latiaarnm the adienua 10
Vo X Containing Lower Italy. We>) are TO De consul
cred as destroyed Greatly dsmagcd are the 'lnSru
mentun Donestic ana az Vol lX pLower nay hasOn'
SColu,nr9 Miitar.r s:cy and sardina) oil VOL A. 'ne
Index auctoria. OF Vol tx. and X. ana the lnscrP
t,ons Of IIeyeta' OF Vol Kill On the other hand "n
glad TO bc able to say taat Vol WILL containing Aio"
fbegun by wlmauns aud inisrcd by N0lnlnseh) reahs
intact The fur iJcnes Mss. OF tie Libraries ol ne
degerg galatians o., Of which. however coauohS iof
,u,o,elv cxjsu. Berlin Vienna and Bleslau are de-
sroyed The critical text or Jordanes which Mommseh
had prepared for publication il the AUctores AnAquis-
sini OF the Monumental Germane is saved, as also 'he
prefaoe ana account % the Mss. USED ny INC e"itol
Thi. standard edition of rGaues VIII be some consola
lion for the destruction OF tae MSS Not single boOA
Of Mommseu's own library escaped the flames am
tod that his library wasinSured for $4,000 marks only
ITO MSS said TO belong TO the Vatican, nothing Is as
yet certain II would, indeed be the first instance OF
The Vatican authorizes allowing books TO 70 out OF thelr
library There is tae SANE uncertainty respecting the
Cambridge Ms. which am told now belongs to Trinity
COLLEGE More amentabe than all those losses Of books
and Mss is the deg irucon OF MOmmsen's own Coilec
fonca ard works MS among those. 50 Tar as my
information goes Mommscns Ms or the HlslofY OF
The Empire, II which nearly Three Volumes were reN.
Mo,nirs.n on me very morning OF the fatal DAY pte
1oh OF Julyl vas the point OF sending DtcK All TIC
MIS- winch he Hal no longer occasion to use"