New-York tribune., 1880-06-13
LITERARY NOTES.

Mr.. Ruskin, in bringing out the new edition
OF his Seven Lamps OF Architecture" departs lrOm
the custom he observed In late years OF printing his
works IN 12mOs and l6mos., instead OF Svos ana VIII
issue IL IN It's original size with fourteen plates
they appear IN the second edition. Tho very natural
trep.daiion which this reprint has given TO owners OF
the hest cdtOus of Ruskns three great works aud for
which they paid perhaps 5000 Is tonf% %t a'vI & ny, n.y.
Stones Venice Will not he reproduced
The first Ruskin letter noticed in The
Contemporary article Mr.. RuskIns public letters !"
dated in ls43. aud relates to the genius OF Turner
Much tnat II contains eff CT the Leading idra lht
predomnatcd rome OF the early chapters 0t the
q Modern PanteIs" Nj Ruskm insists anew that the
ideal so far frtm being opposed To the true Is ns
matter OF fact the perie 'tion Of It, The Apollo. he
says 'Is not false representation OF man, but the
most perfect representations all that Is constant and
essential in man. free from the accidents and evils
which corrupt the truth OF hS nature lie quotes as-
gages from different poets Suggesting some analogy
though necessarily Incomplete one, between them
aud the works OF certain English painters. Landseer
s Iikensd 10 Burns Martin 10 Milton, Wklc To Burns,
E,stlake 10 ByrOn and Stan0eli 10 Campbell. Turner
Is likened to Shelley aud the passage below PRONE
thcus Unbound y, is the which Ruskin quote':
"Thc point OF one white star Is qmveriug still.
Dcen IN the orange light Of widening dawn,
On wind Ivided INST the darker lake
Reflects 1t. now 1t fades: It CLEANS ug tin.
As the waves fail. ana as Tie burning threads
OF woven cloud unrhvel ~ pale ar
'IIs lost ana tLrOugh y"u peaks OF cloudIke snow
The rOseate sunlight quIyers"
nOuncements.-Chares Scribner's Sons
will publish iu the Autumn the second aud lma portion
Of tie Memoirs OF Prince Meltcrnlch" Thc volume
now out brings work down to and including the year
| 1915 those to como in the Fall Will carry II on to
1913 and pertain the internal affairs OF the Austrian
Empire, the Congresses which followed the overthrow
Of NanoleOn the Italian revolution the death the En-
ueroT Fraucis, AMI an anOblographca chapter relating
TO the retirement the Prldco public fc.... The
| sI,. NATL
| Works will be the Traveller" which is promised for
ucxt week r. Swain GinOtd has ctchela fryntispirce
| foru Following this will come the "Alhambra" with
frontlsiece etching by Mr.. ColemanwhO II understood
TO have portfolio full sketches mnde IN this historic
| recess Alexander JohnstOn's Handbook Of Amcrl-
can Politics" QIenry Holt Coz, which the pubic
raw was u very excellent work OH topic which hOd
not been properly covered before already In Its fourth
edition. aud promises during the campaign to reacn
| another Six jolly FellOwships," story which ~
bright III the memory OF the youthful readers OfaAichO
las, Will be made into volume IN the Fnll by Charles
ScrDnprs Sons. Allan Cnnnlnghams Lives OF thc
| most Eminent British Palnters,' annotated and con
| tnued By Mrs. Cuarles Heaton has been added to
| Bohns Standard Library tScrDncr WelfOril. The ac-
are contained IN the last volume, and comprise the
period from stOhnrd and Turner " Landseer and Ma
elise.
Mile. Suzanne CurcbOd. the Lausanne lady
TO whom GibOon, the historian, engE gcd aud
| who afterwards married NJ. Necker, tho celebrated
| French 1nancicr, aud by him became the mother OF
Madame de stael made pen portrait Of GbbOn she
| knew him when under twenty years OF age IL wsf
found in the archives OF the Chateau de COppet among
those other papers recently brought TO light In France
| OF which some notice made in this paper few
months ago in an article Gibbons First Love-
Mile Curchods portrait is the more interesting in thai
IL gives an altogether different notion OF the future his
oraus face than the one derived from the portraits
| usually seen OF him, which neither handsome MOI
distinguished aud in fOct decidedly priggish. She
says: He has beautiful hair, pretty hand and the
air Of man OF rank His oountcnancc is so intellectual
and remarkable that know nobody who resembles HIM
constant change Of expression Is forever making some
new revelation His gestures appropriate that
they add great deal to what he says In word his IL
one of those extraordinary cOuntonances that
never weary OF studying describing and Initiating. He
knows the respect 10 women. His pOtenesa s easy
without being too familiar He dances moderately welt
In a word recognize In him few OF the qualities thai
20 70 make fop His versatility Of genius s asonsh
ing" Portraits OF GlbbOn In his early life seldom
| seen There is one, however, made when IN his hrs
man mood which mp not nlrrquenty In the ITln
shops, that answers this description OF MIN we'll Tut
Salon OF Madame Neoker," the article In which ihOs'
letters appear has been translated and published IN TIN
Standard Series.