New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-11-27
LITERARY NOTES.

A curious feature Of Sc'ibners Mo"'hg Ior
February will be /" The Music OF Niagara rams
composition by a Boston composer, who has caught
the sounds of the great waterfall and recorded them
In musical notation
DR. schiemanns Iliosn will be ready at Har-
per g. Brothers next week Friday. 1t covers the
whole ground of the celebrated authors expora-
tions down to the present time and makes large
and richly illustrated volume.
Alta recent meeting of the Library Association I'd
Edinburgh, it was suggested that free county IL
brsries might Increase their circulation by employ
ing library vans to persmbulate the country anu
deal ont mental food on regular routes.
Purchasers of Christmas cards have learned a les
son of the early bird that catches the worm ana arc
already througng the bookstores. Those VINO "a'
until the last moment will get only what others
have handled and discarded. For three years past
the demand has exceeded the supply.
Mr.. Curtis Guild Of Boston, has been expanding
n one-v volume Life of Franklin into five. by inter
leaving with prints and autograph letters One OF
the letters is from General Lafayette and covers
three pages. The volumes have cost Mr.. Guild
$1,000.
On December 10 Scrbner & Co. will have ready
new portfolio of proof copies of the choicest
recent pictures from ScribHer's DOnthty and
ST. Nicholas. 1t will contain fifty pictures, each
to 1900 copies, onethird being already ordered Tor
England.
Mr.. John B. Cough appears again as author.
His new book, Sunlight and Shadow" "a. ID.
Worthincton & Co.. Hartford gives his experience
as a lecturer for thrty-seven years, and embodies
his personal opinions of the men aud measures be-
fore the country during the same period. TIE last
edition of his autobiography appeared IN 1869.
Mr. Swinburne's new volume, Studies in Song"
will be published in this country by Il. Worthing-
ton IL contains. among Others. Song for the
Centenary of Walter Savage Landor,"" For Por-
trait of Felece Orsini." six Years DID," an ex
ouisite child's poem, 4" BY the North Sea-" and
After Nine Years." poem in memory of Mazzlnl
The December number of Our Little Ones,
edited by Oliver Optic like the first number
appeals strongly to the tastes of little people
What the Rain-Drops Say" are pretty verses by
Nellie NJ Garabrant, and Miss Mary n. Prescott
makes dainty story of The Disowned Chckon.'
The frontspece is contrast of winter scenes North
and South.
Mr. Charles Dudley Warmers hooks of travel are
too fresh, humorous aud accurate to be allowed to
pass out of PRINT. Houghton, Mifin & Co have
ready new and revised editions of Nv Winter on
the Nile" and In the Levant." His " In the
Wilderness" humorous sketch of experience IN
the Adirondack is Tepublisled III the Little Clas
SIC style, ana contain two new chapters
The English edition of Harper's Magazine be-
gins with $4,000 copies, orders for that
number Of the December issue having been
received. The English edition differs from the
American only So resDect 10 the editorial depart
ments which are conducted by Mr.. John Lille
formerly editor of The GALAXY aud treat of subjects
of particular interest to English ,deIs 1t will b..
issued ten days later in England than at home, Il
being the custom of the Eogsh magazines TO ap-
pear only five days ahead OF ,ilne.
Professor Sceley, the English historical writer,
contributes trenehant article on Po'ica! som
nambulism" TO The November Mdcnillan's. lie
thinks Mr.. Carlyle has far more merit as political
preacher than a historian, and that he usually
produces his brilliant effects az the expense Of
truth He believes that Macaulay introduced
period of dccliUo in histor cal literature by set
ting the fashion which assumes tina; genius is shown
in history solely by vivid picturesque language,
and that a historian is a brilliant narrator and not
rather an investigator and discOveIer.
U,le A,cGke, for December, is bright aud CHEEKY
and full of winter fahcies. 1t has u skating
song SET TO muse; merry Christmas masqne, by
Mrs Margaret ]. Preston. called knight Rupert;
Whimsical poem Sa-archin-Koid." winch has the
fiue New England flavor. and with Mr.. Darness
Illustrations fills SIX pages; and among the more
serious articles arc Miss Amanda b. Harriss account
y q
poor women are cared Tor while the mothers are at
work, and Mr.. &. W. S. Beniamins interesting
count of some of the lady ARTISTS Of America.
A useful assistant of the Mercantile Library Mr
Wing has ObtaYed more advantageous place, with
prominent publishing fra. lie will he greatly
missed by class OF readers which is said to be
large--those who read for pastime and never know
inst what book they would like to read. He had
acquired great skill in prescribing for these literary
patients and when a lady asked for something, |
don't know what. but something real interesting"
he wOnid take her mental measure aud invariably
produce book that would send the applicant away
smiling and bring her back believer In his good
judgment.
Among the musty manuscripts preserved in the
National Library III Paris is one dating from the
Middle Ages and containing charitable song
story of the Troubadours. The latter Is Idyl of
love and war, which the artist, Alexandra Bida hes
translated INTO modern French. His version hes
been turned into English and prose by Mr. A
X. MscG0nough. of this city, and is called "The
Lovers OF Provence Mr.. L. G. Stedman con-
tributes poem TO the volume and also an intro
ductoIy note in which he says: The translation
is sensitive rendering Of the grace of the original.
With its quaint turns of thought and dehcacies of
early Romantic feeling" FordS. Howard & Hnlbert
are the publishers.
Mr. Martin +. Upper, who thought 10 be |
nicely tucked away III tine mummy sheets of the |
"ProveTblal Philosophy" has burst upon public |
notice once more with A Call TO my Coun- |
try" His appear in North of England |
newspaper, and are a mctrica moan the fact |
that the dispossessed French Fiiars are allowed |
asylum in England Addressing EnglanG's great |
people" who lever since Alfred nave " stood |
Liberty's tower" he asks " Is 1t thy boast 10 be
harbornc tie stranger, Guilty and gulleful although
bemay be- Careless If thus thine own sous are III |
danger From such masma of fever set free |" lie |