New-York tribune., 1880-02-18
LITERARY NOTES.

Mr. Svinburne saws that from well-nlsh 'i'e
6rst wears he can remember he Eas made the s'"uy
Shakespeare the chief intellectual pnsness f a""
n fhe chief spiritual delight OF his wpoe '''e' .
Correspondence in verse when passeo '"o.
s,mmer between Austin Dobson and f. u Steam"h WIN
...,, O. tho March seriJner and the same number
oftbs magazine will contain four Of the last productohs
OF the late Irwin RUSSELL ~ -,
Mr. Sidney Lanier will soon publish through
Charles scribner's Sons original treatise on nc
Science of English Verse;" which is designed nov o"'
for general readers but for use also as texoooN -
combat certain errors In the prosouy ''us"' ~ Vs.
higher schools and COLLEGES
new and cheaper edition of the complete
works OF Halam has been prepared by A. u Ar"'""N
Son. the ten volumes of the former edition Oe'hg COZ"
densed into six. Two volumes are gwen 10 odo" "
Halam's three works-the " Constutonal Histoiy :" y,
England" the Middle Ages" and the " bte' 'a'"i0 "
Europe"
II is believed that The Presbyterian Rec'eo
will more than satisfactorily fill the place lOr "pcn
WAS intended - to give the American Presoyle'l""
rrrch an adeonate representatiOp periodical itera
ture Although the first number only mas 'nus ir ooo
issued, A. d. F. Randolph Co report that enough suo
scribcrs have already been obtained TO make IL pay iis
way. feature Of II will he ho0k reviews Vi "nio "
intended that there shall be many
Bisbop Huntington, of Central New ork.
has written interesting preface for new ana 'h'u
edition OF the Memorials OF Catharne ana Cra"iuru
TAFT" which has already had large sale III this cou"
The interest OF the Protestant Episcopal Church IN TINS
memoir has far exceeded expectations. and the cdon
with Bishop HuDtngt0n's preface mas neeh pIep3av
with particular reference TO the interest OF shch ea"o
Bangs e. Co. are selling this week large
lot Of old standard English books which were received
direct from London dealer many Of them eighteenth
century editions OF contemporary authors h"E"S"
dealers scem to have been much encouraged oy iorWei
success in marketing stock OF this kind here Cohs'gn
mems are frequently received by Bangs Co., and sec
opd. .hap nd n
present lot comprises nearly 1200 titles The SAFE To-
day is the third and last,
Mr. Wexford, in his letter to the current
oobuver saws OF the Marques of Butes recently pub
hshed translation of The Roman Broviary being the
first translation OF It yet made out OF Latin into English
that every neOf has been written hy the mana o. the
Maraues himself been engaged OH the WORK or
ten years notion of the WORK an M
be gained from the fact that 1t comprises over oUuu
closely printed pages In double column-as nueh ua'ci
as would fill twenty ordinary volumes
The leading article in the March Scr'0ner
will be The Tile Club A1oat" being lively narrative
of the famous voyage OF the NewYork Tile Cinoto Lake
Champlain last Summer In canal-boat. The article
has thirty mine illustrations. and among the twelve ar
fists VINO contributed 10 II Mr.. Renhart j. A. Welr
T. A. Abbey, r. Swain GifordW. NJ. Chase.W H. O'Don-
ovan and N. sarony. Membership In the Tile CuD is Is
limited to mething under twenty. vacancies occur
when member to Europe. Two such now exist exist
but there will lie trouble in filing them the trouole
will be to get In.
r. Worthington has recently purchased from
aNew-YoIk publishing house a large quantity OF It's
retail stock which Will add considerably to his former
former business. From being heretofore so largely
composed of choice English publications. his stocB Dy
this means will have more pronounced American
feature At the same time many OF the new books are
English. There is. for instance superb copy OF the
HailiwcI Shakespeare, bound by Matthews IN reh
Ieyant morocco, aud his window presents the novel
feate OF this the largest edition of Shakespeare sde
nv side with the Pickering 64mos which FORM undoub
slca .lI.af sf1e1 Nv H.
been widely known to the book business OF New-fork
for many years. will 20 into Mr.. Worthington's estao-
lishmenr.
In the new volume of Seniors "Conversa-
tions" Madame Carnu wife OF the artist, and daughter
OF friend Queen HOrtense. and who was brought up
as sister with Louis Napoleon is introduced as saying
of Lons Napoleon that lie was in Germany In his
youth the Germans looked down on him and WOud
scarcely admit that belonged to the gentry calling
him Monsieur BOnaparte. and seeing nobody bnt MS
mother and her She thinks 1t wonderful that MS
long exclusion from society Of the higher classes dd
not spon his manners He had fondness she says for
mere titles and she relates day she told him OF
n proposal from a German court 70 make her dame
dhonneur to which she had replied that she was not
noble when IL was answered that she would be maze
noble n necessary Napoleon heard her and then SAID
"Why did Won not accept You might have afterward
given up Office aud kept your nobility she iound
IL impossible MAKE nm understand her contempt ioi
artificial nobility.