New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-12
LITERARY NOTES.

Eugene Schuyler writes from Rome that
weil-known publishers Stockholm aud 81. feIerso"rk
have sent him proposals for publishing his LILO OF
Peter the Great" In the Swedish and Russian languages
It sad that when Mr. Schuyler completes the work ID
lie msgazine form II viii be brought out nmui'aneo'"
IN five different countries .
A translation of the Book of the Kings"
the chief work Of the Persian poet Ferdus VINO Veu III
the tenth ana eleventh centuries has Just been
Italian by Professor PizE OF Parma 1t has ALREADY Oeeh
rendered into German by Setback and into Frencn oy
Mobl and OF it's episodes. the combat OF hSte u
furnished Matthew Arnold with the tneme
of one OF his longest poems
Mr.. Grant Duff, in his preface to the newly
published memoir Of Francis Deak. the Hungarian
statesmnn keus Deak to Rampden. and then says TINS;
It Is good 10 read tue history OF such men al al nee
hut never perhaps, more than now. when sehoo h's
arisen and attained to small measure o. poi'"'ui
power which -poohs the idea that morally mas any
inr 10 do with polItIcs, that there Is ahotheL "a
statcsmansnip than obvious and Immediate success.
The HILBERT Lectures of 1879, delivered Dy
p LIE Pagu Renouf. will be published mere w C""ll0
scribne's Sons, VITO were the publishers ABOUT S'r
aeo OF the hilbert Lectures Of Max Muller KenOWS
course was ON the "OFign and Growth OF KehRioh rs
illustrated by tie Religion of Ancient Egypt MentIou
"a made by him Of the interesting fact that u the hsyp
tan rova list on the tablet Of AbydOs is correct sew
entyx must have reGncd over Egypt Deiofe 1
first books Of the Bible we're written, WINE III tar
and years there have been In England no more VH"n
forty -four eoVerelgns
Mr.. Stoddard's "POems" are published TO-
day by Charles scrbners Sons The preface taxes tne
form OF poem, comprising about tnree pSSes' An0De
tts lines are these that follow:
Ihave been sojourning late
Among the pleasant places OF my IastA
The green and quiet nerhD0rnoOns VI t ro nt
In which wandered In my Wayward YOU'LL
with no companion but the constant Muse,
Who sought me when needed hef-ah Wuen
Did not ueed her, solitary else -,
Thaye lived over my dead life with her,
Aud it hath made me happy for time.
But left me saddened. for saw, too late ,o,
BSsn w sooss of mne. the best that have suGg,
Are not my best, for Gagged within the lines
Silent amid the clamOr OF their mates
A new point in connection with the Edln-
bprph subscription edition Of tue Encyclopedia Britain
mica nthc edition which Charles Sc1bners sons import
for this market and which bears the imprint OF g La
rall-has recently been decided. claim was maue
that the price at which the books were nVoiced 10
Charles Scribuer's Sons below their real muIAe
value In Edinburgh. and that the duty on them was c
cordipgy less than It should be- on this g'ouuu' 'h'
sboets-,n which form the work is impored-Were oe-
tained at the Custom House for reappiaseinen'' "'
Mr. AD.F. Randolph, as publisher was CAFE" 70 e,'
with General Ketchum and make tic reapprai'elheh
rostu,onv was then taken. Among the witnesses was
AZ, aJa BLACK the head Of the Edinburgh house winch
HHurp9se Tie decision reached was that the GooIs
Should rass at the invoice rate as nere3ioIe lr
beTs,s EucycoY ela," few years ago. RAJ da shhaL
question. aud tins decision Is in accordance WIN
me rune then made, and with the uniform custom Oi
the Government
Announcements: Mr.. John Bartlett, to whom
every person fond OF literature owes debt OF
Ibis unrivalled book OF Familiar Quotations. nS
sent TO the press index to Shakespeare WHICH WI" oo
acopcordances work at savin" OF space ana tme'...
acbett OF Paris publishing in parts new editioh
freyjsed to date) Vdpereaus Dcti0nuare des Con-
tcnnorains" ono OF the very best biographical dlc
tionaries ever made. Macmillan IL Co. nave r'aN
"EarIy Man IN Britain aud his place III the tertiary
PERIOD by N. Boyd Dawsins, author OF "CaVe huht
and Cr,e md
ao,tep mn I'm every way....Pdrt H. of Jules Verne
work on the Exploration Of the World, DelnE luz
regular Spring parcel sale OF Ti NV 9 9"T4
began on Monday, at Bangs q co.'s :1ne lur' ~
CoWSer by Goodwin smirh.. When the hMal vol,
ume OF NJ. Renans orgnes du CLr1st3ns, %fn
publish translation Of Eccesiastss; win IL critical
Introduction 1t Is already completed Tor the press
The new volume in Scribner & Weltords
series of biographies of the famous artists . Horace
yernet ard Paul Dearoche," by j. r. Rees Very ht'ie
about either of these artists bas been written even "
French while in English there has been no biosrphy OF
greater pretensiOns than brief notices IN SOHO oI LIZ
magazines it not that the present axe Is lar GNei
IN biographies Of all men who reach any emheHtc' u
perha,s would deserve remark but it Is near twenty
years since Vernet died, and near twCNy-hVc s'@
Dearoche left the world, and the two artists III INC.
own county we're COuht the most TO- uiar INA fIa'
has produced IN many, many decades AnOhE tie Mus
trat,ous iu this volume there IL one, opening IKE ION
man which renrescns tie Hemcyclenot the picture
nv witch Dclarocbe is BEST known, hut believed TO DE-
that which is most certain to preserve his fame Aeon
pauyug it are brief sketches OF those artists OF "Cl
norr,its are given IN the picture itself It s odd, by
The wav considering history location, and p n
condition not the difference OF nance' Lat th
AthcnIau ParthenJn aud the Roman Pantheon Sh1ul -
cftpn he confused. In this work the types maze Ih
autlOr say that Irrus worthy associate CtC II
li,raics in the architecture or the woridI1cu loit
Ic0,," AMI some ago an ecliiOn 0f 1i0htalSnc
publ shed Philadelphia. gave among IT'S hnStfation
ns that was called The Pantheon at Rome, Out thcr
nothine it that suggested the Pantheon IN III