New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-29
LITERARY NOTES.

It ID not often that a true bihliomaniaes
library of rare yalue s brought to the hammer IN ths
city Many years divide such collections as the burton
and the Arnold Then. moreover, oibomama nas never
itself IN this intensely practical country
tt has among older aud baekward-ookinR people
Next week. nt Clinton Hail, collection OF books which
Joseph cabin. with the assistance Of NJ T. Conkln,
has catalogred and that Justly deserves the dis
tinction OF being called the library OF bbliomanac
win be sold at auction. It contains many choice and
beautiful things Mr.. Sabp says nothing has been sofa
sn twenty years--Burtons library, perhaps excepted
that contains cOloetion of books ID early Eng
lsh literature Some OF its features are these: Tue
Baskerville Classics, Virgil Juvena Horace, Terence
Catulus Lucretius and Sallust, the Horace HAVING
0rayeiot's drawings Beaumont and Fletcher. eight
play I'VE OF them first editions one second ana one
third rhe Chiswek Poets. sharpes edition 1922 lOO
volumes in boards uncut; set OF tile Adine editons
of Cceros cOu,plete works large paper sc' W haI9
Dolphin and yariorum classics dso 6 6as a. ,aTss
paper OF Dbdn,s 6ibogrnphIchi %9 , many e
the HE az which was perhaps before got t0gether
In this country ana inc nrs e1soS ~ tb " CSStesn
de suly.
There are few points in the early history OF
Havtborue which students OF him would more gladly
see cleared up all further doubt than the author
ship Of those early notes. written before Dis
college days, which appeared in The Portland
transcript for February IL and April 90 1871
and for June 2I 1879 It Is we'll known that the first
two nstaments Of them reached The Transcript from the
hands Of Mr.. W. Sims, who wrote from Alexandria, Va
and said he had been q companion OF Hawthornes at
RAYMOND Me- in his boyhOOd; ALEC that the last In
salment was sent by friend of Simss who had charge
Of bis papers, Sims himself having died in 1871 at Pen
sacola Fla Further knowledge Of Sims or his friend
The Transcript could not obtain Mr.. Lathrop in his
ssiudy of Hawthorne" Q876l says that the internal
ana circumstantial evidence points In many ways TO
their genuneness although at the same time mystery
Z Eluval lin
the Senior Editor OF The Transcript he was at the
time tine notes appeared, in private response to let
ter addressed him week expresses his belief IN
their authenticity fOlOws Tho three copies OF The
Transcript contain all the extracts from Hawthorne's
Notebook that we ever received from correspond
emit W. SIMS. The story of this early notebook ia told
In Mr. Lathrop's STUDY of Hawthorne as he received
1t from Mr.. Sims was well known by many IN th's
yicnity but his death DESTROYED all chance or geng
possession notebook There can be no doubt OF
tue authenticity OF these extracts Their publication I'D
Old residents of RAYMOND and others who identified the
persons mentioned. aud cOrrobOraed the statements
scattered through back numbers OF The Transcript"
Announcements-Karl Hilebrands History
of German Thought from the Seven Years War to
Goethe's Death being the six lectures recently de
lyered by him before the Royal Institution OF Great
Britain will be added at to Henry Holt e. Co.'s
list OF substantial and useful Zoa
is under contract with the Paris POtare to furnish IL
with another novel which will have the title " Lit Fee
Coauevllle." The July Atlantic will contain an
article on Confederation u Canada" by Frederick G.
Mather Of Tie Ibany Journal who has lived in Canada
and knows much Of the people and institutions OF that
country. Mr.. G. o. Treveyans new work, The
Early History of Charles James Fox has to the
printers hands General c. 3. Norton who has just
published valuable work on Arms and Ordnance"
has in preparation another work entitled The Armies
Of the World their Origin, Rise Progress and Present
Conditions" IL will be illustrated with fifty plates in
color representing the different of the service OF
all nations aud 400 wood engravngs OF the implements
OF from the earliest TO the present Early
In the Autumn ID. Van NOsrand will publish now
work on machine drawing called The Students Illus
trated Guide Practical Draughlng for Engineers,
Naehnists, Mechanics, Apprentices and Students in
Technical INSTITUTED" Tue author ID T. p PembertOn.
..Ip a few days t. B. Peterson & Brothers Will pub
lish new novel by Henry Grevllle, called e" Lucie
Rodey" has been translated by Mary Neal Sherwood
and will be Issued style uniform with DOsia,"
.sonia T." and other works by the same author which
this firm has already published. Miss AlcOtts
rent S. Nicholas story, Jack and Jil.'' has been
praised warmly. One critic ncnes to think 1t the best
she has Wi ten, and is hardly willing to except Little
women," which In certain respects 1t Is said tO re-
BemDle.