New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-01
LITERARY, NOTES.

The sum realized by the 0lney Library
sale was S7o4e &c. There were 976 titles ID tno cH'~
iogue. -
The June Wide AwGkc will have long
story nv Sarah O. Jewell author of "DeephaVen an"
,Play Days"
Whom n uubIie man in England year or
more axD used the expression Perish lolS' .nese
great among the Tories but somebody
has found that staunch old Dr. johnson, who py VIC
xvay was 90 much Tory that it warped ms hVern3
Judgment even when he wrote of Milton ana Grayoco
made use of it. In Boswell" Volume III page 10, 1i0l
Is this: To gentleman who limited that TIE poeS y.
,he Rrittsh Government might be necessary TO suppo
tine authority Of the English Government ne H91nsSb
reulied Dy saying Let the authority OF ths Ia,
Saveru@ent perish rather than DC "ai'''a'"e" ~
tRiqEttg -" Inn,
Several fine specimens of early pr1nnnS
have been sold at Bangs q Co.'s during the prs
spt week About q dozen belonged 70 'no i'I' ~.
century and as many more TO the htsO qu'A'eA - Wv
,ixteenth Many volumes were ruDr1cateu' 0,a~
us,, Venetian print was dated 14S1-tWeiVe years di'e
yros introduced into that city, where 1t was
soened an soon TO produce Of the nooese specF
nars of the art ever The most OF these S9
od for IS eaS and TGtSSe tSpss in relation
tie invention pri: ng is the astonishing e~oeiS
WbIch was reached III tftS wears.
A martial explanation of the alleged plagla-
,,sn,io the Ann 81 Nicholas, in the article Napoeoh
,,t Che Yorre Z ,yptians" nv Colonel T. A. podge'
10 offered BIZ Herbert Il. Curtis, the publisher OF tne
Arabian Days entertainments" volume Oh S.oieo
Transmitted from the German and from WHICH IL was
tarced that CGl0lJ Dodge had taken MS cohtrpu.'o
NJ Cuytis saya 10 letter 10 The Hon" tnat INC o. -
p1s s:ory may easiiY have been fresh "anS'"'.u"'
n,f vor l,y>ely in ignorance OF the existence OF MS
lint taken nevertheless from tho same German autnOr
rn vp,h,l identity OF ore or two short sentences with
Z oorresp onjug III his version does no, urn MI
[ru,s belief That this may the anu while he
thinks Colonel Dodge has not improved upon the oFiE"
ttory,)y his alterations and curta ments nc IL %luE
lo neuit MN OF pCachng unlawfOy on MS preserves
Fhs o, coutse relieves hlm from me ehhySo vi uSS
.ra ot as trt ms alton from the German, hlL as AN
anal urOductlOn, ana there Was notnlnS ~ 'e u
,IscrIpt TO indicate that IL ssAnpy IIaDSlGtOn'
e One never knows where he may lind rare
,,ua Ara recent auction sale Of books in this city
rIowtborpe,s Fanshawo" turned mp package OF
sventv.ix odd and indifferent books which were eata-
,ooued as one lot and tied with stout cord HawthOne
a,shed this work in 1923, after leaving college,
and seems to have done bis best TO anihiae the whoe
ea,tion It appeared anonymously, and until quite
oecpt years no one was able identity II SUCCESSFULLY
Indeed the exact date was not knoWn' All DuV us5
cvcopedlas ass its publication to 1897 lstea
OF 1928 They describe it simply rs ah ahony NOUS
,omoncer Mr. Lathrop in his "study of Hawthorne" "
IL Il so scarce not half dozen copies are
Known TO exist Henry James, IT., never saw copy.
On the title page it has these prophetic verbs from
souhey: "Wil:d thou go on with me y winch ale MOI
given in the reprint that appeared IN Boston rev years
MO At the end there is short list Of eIrata winch
are nrrceded by this neat Introduction; lIe aUluOi
,e0uesta the readers favorable CONSIDERATION OF SEVERN
S-Sors chIcfy OF autobiography aud punctuation WHEN
have eScautl the press. The following ahrt tue
sense"