New-York tribune., 1880-04-10
LITERARY NOTES.

Robert French Duff, an English resident of
Lisbon. has translated Camotns's Lusiad" into Eng
lsh snd j. B. Lippincots Co. about TO publish
N this country. Mr. Dufs translation 10 the result Of
several years labor He has made 1t in the spenseran
The four volumes of the No Name series
published between September. 1876 and the Spring OF
1877" Mercy Philbrick's Cnoice," Derdre." "Is
That ALI" and Kismet "had reached before The next
volume. "a Modern Mestophles." came out, few
months later. total sale of 25,oe0 copies.
The deluge OF cheap literature led Dodd,
Mead Co. several months ago MAKE cheap edition
OF Crudens Concordance" OF which in expen-
sve s,le they bad long been the publishers IT Is an-
nounced that $4,000 copies of the cheap cd ton have
already been disposed OF.
The striking essay with which Mr.. Glad
stone practically opened b> recent LIBERAL campaign In
T,clard has been re- u1shoi by A. 6. Barnes Co. In
their =" Atlas Series TO embolies arraiSnmeut OF
the B-oonsded Mi, ry and "lli undoubtedly possess
overthrow Of the present Government.
1t is promised that the Chevalier WlkOffs
"Reminiscences OF idler." shortly TO be published
by Fords, Howard Hubert, will have many piquant.
personal and gosspy things in it to interest the reader
Mr. wiko many years frequented the society OF the
chief European capitals. and was especially intimate
in the erclos of diplomacy, journalism and the drama
where he met MANY interesting people, OF whop among
others. he writes In this volume
Miss Greenaway's "Under the Window is
ready in the edition wuch Messrs. Rouedge Son
have prepared expressly for tue American market print
ing IL here fac smile OF the English. Daring The
holiday the price of this work went up surris
ingy high, until copy o. 1t eOu not be had for
love or m1nev Long before the holidays were over
every had disposed Of In the ght OF TINS eX
perIence he present edition has probably been made
la..e enough to suVpy The demand. ready the Mas
sau-st. dealer has gO pile Of copies IN his coorway
and is offering them at 81 apiece.
In the columns of The AthenGum spirited
war OF letters ON the subject OF Mr. Buckles last illness
has been going on for month be Mr.. Huth.
Buckles bOgrapher and j. Stuart Gennie, VINO
published years ago account OF Buckles last
fitness The man point OF II has been whether or not
Mr. Gleune neglected give Buckle tn" care and a.
tenion which in his illness was to be expected, Mr;
HUH having charged that Mr. Gcnnc did so neglect
him Tue current nualber of The AthenRum mas tttr
from Mr. iIuth lch contains these spicy words In
co clusion, Mr. IieBne will pardon VI remark ina
the inte ctu debt he SAYS he owes 10 Buckle ueeu not
b. Uf IesS, and that the finish OF bis etler
Is quite worly Of tue wrItei."
Some letters which Alexander Won Hum
bodt wrote from Paris his brother Wilhelm between
1919 and 1897 tlrty-seven In number, anu almost en-
trey in French been found and Just published III
Germany They are said TO relate chiefly to private |
affairs and III conjunction with the letters OF travel pre-
yiousiy published 10 make very agroeltle little Vo
umc preliminary sketch o Niilelm's He IL its "on-
melon with ACXan Hers gOcs with thcn IL is WEI
known hlt the sGese part of TIE pOhsehc ue-
these ust!icu- frOth rs has b en- IO.I ana no"
great. too, have ben The regrets caused hv me los,
Iner lives lived orally apalt, and a each was
atiached TO Ot.cr u Is believed that es
passed he; dulug the greater part Oi their
scpaiat on.