New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-11-24
LITERARY NOTES.

The london Echo expresses the hope that wnen M
Walt Whitman gives his estimate OF the leaoihg
English poets to London magazine ne VIII give
1t in prose-
We notice. saws The London Bookseller, that some
booksellers have lost all their customer anu now
have only clients" We suppose they tinh
"clentp sounds better than " customer ~; JUST as
arrangement" sounds more genteel than bank
ruptcyp The thoughts are akin.
DR. Robinson's Spiritual Songs for the Sunday
school ,Scribner q Coz is having large SAFE
The first edition of 10000 has been succeeded oy
one of 10000 copies. Fifty thousand copies nave
been published of the new series OF spifi'ua'
Songs for the Church and Choir"
An important discovery has just been made IN 'n0
archives of the French Ministry of Foreign Anais'
Ii is the memoirs of Lucien Bonapar'e' an " ~
own handwriting They are said to contain curious
details of the 18th Brumaire, the day NSpo'eo"
overthrow the Directory after his sudden return
fiom Egypt.
A Vienna paper prints o new anecdote of Helm
rich IIeine. During the years when ne was laying
the foundations of his poetic fame he was frequently
in want Of money. Once when he was poverty
stricken he wrote TO a friend for help saving: If
Won don't send me fifty thalers at once shall SarVe
10 death and have it charged to your expense.
The Putnams have secured for this country Mr.
W. H. Mallock's novel. :" A Romance of The Nine
teenth Century" and will 1t early in the new
year. As will readily be expected OF the author OK
as Life Worth Living" and The New Paul and Vlr-
gniaD Mr.. Malock has adopted the novel method
only as vehicle for social and philosophical discus
sion.
Helena Won Rackowitza. whose Memoirs threw
considerable light on the life of the great German
Socialist Lasaile, and attracted wide notice IN
Europe. has been living in this city Tor several
years is now the wife of Prussian, Journalist,
and is said to be writing novel; now nearly READY
for publication. She is a woman OF commanding
appearance and of the blonde type OF beauty tnat
is so much celebrated in the songs of the Niebelun-
gen.
Mr. Justin Mccarthy draws striking If rather
empircal contrast between Dickens and Thackeray.
Dickens he says. set the literary theory That
III life everything is better than IL looks; Ihack-
cray with the impression that IT is worse. They
had not only different ideas about art. but abso-
lutely contrasting principles of art Dickens worked
from the externals inward; Thackeray realized
the unseen aud left the exernals TO grow OF them
selves
Tie Library Magazine, published by the American
Book Exchange, which has heretofore been re-
print of foreign periodical literature is to be en-
larged in its scope to include IN its future
issues Il number of American articles. The next
volume will con tain among other articles OF AmerI-
can authorship an address on college education by
James A. Garfield. delivered at Hiram College some
years ago. but never before printed for general cir
cuiatiOn.
There has Just appeared in London The Congre-
catIopalism of the Last Three Hundred Years as
Seen III its Literature" by the Rev. Dr. Henry
Martyr Dexter An extended notice of the book IN
The Manchester Examiner includes this paragraph:
"The Americans snare with us a common ancestry
I'm these noble sufferers for sake. They
have an additional aud intense interest in the Phi
grim Fathers and those especially who landed at
Plymouth Rock. No English C0ngregationast can
see this memorial of endurance for the truth. nor
can he worship in the old South Chapel at Boston,
for the first time, without emotion. We are heartily
glad that DR.. Dexter has brought together such a
mass of information which will be of permanent IN
terest to our New-England cousins well as to
ourselves"
Henry Holt g. Co. have one book. particular
when embodes the element most conducive to the
success of a holiday book. Ii is IA volume which
parents may buy Osensibly for their children, Yet
derive as much pleasure and profit from it as the
Younger people. " The Young Folks Cyclop2da
OF Persons and Places" by John d. Champlin, Is q
treasury of biography, story AMI descriptive gcog-
raphy or travel. 1t tells briefly, III clear and PIC
turesquu language. the story of every prominent
man of ancient aud modern times, and IN IA compact
and handy volume of 800 pages covers the entire
ground 1t is profuscy. illustrated and will be as
useful 10 adults for handy reference profitable TO
youths for leisure reading and study. 1t is fur
pished with an index and under the general head
of story will be found references 10 articles ex-
plalping all the characters of mythology and folk
lore The volume is uniform with the same authors
Cyclopedia OF Common Things" and forms with
itacomlIete young folks library. The publishers
are making an effort TO get the book out by De-
cember To- but ii may come closely on Christmas
Not long ago alttle girl of a literary turn of mind,
residing in a large Western city, sent ssOrt story to
n prominent child's publication. Unlike most first
efforts of young novelists Its chief fault was bold
originality. The plot of the story follows
certain little boy was exceedingly fond OF a GER
tam little GIRL and as soon they could get their
troublesome schOol-bOo ont of the way and see
the great world fairly before them, they were made
man and wife in the most orthodox fashion. But 1t
happened that the parents of the young husband
moved away from that city and settled further
West. and they took hm along with them. The
little wife too young to leave her mother. and
remained behind However, after three years had
elapsed the faithful husband shook off the tyranny
of the parental home and returned 10 his eXpectant
bride The first meeting was very affecting. "Sec,'
said he Gin token OF my love, bring yOu five fine
boys" And She with equal PRIDE, exclaimed: II
too have not been idle; have small chill
tren ~ This work of fiction is significant, 1t
reveals tendency on the part of the rising school
of imaginative authors TO break away from the
tranmels OF realism and science aud to seek after
truly ediiying optimism.