New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-19
LITERARY NOTES.

g. The works of Augustus J. c. Hare nave
reached the following editions respectively mc'no
,,a,a NJ ouiet Life" thirteen; Walks in Rome' I'VE
.wsnderDgs in Spain" three Nile t Oh Inc 'SiO"0''
BunseD," three; days Near ho'"e, WV .,,
Kosanth. in a reference to the war between
A,a and Italy In 1850 and the part which the Hun
ar,an refugees took in It, details conversation ne had
with the Emperor NAPOLEON ILL.,. IN which the question
of the unity of Germany being brought up Napo'eUn
sad with quiet smile: THAT would never DO we
can get on with two Germanys, oui uuI'e" "''-'"'
would not answer our purpose ut ALL"
One of the rarest of all the early specimens
Of English printing a book from the press OF 'ne
monastery of st. Adams These works are pe'eNeu "
number in all only haifdozen copy OF one " 'ii1'
the Chronicle Of St. Alban" 433 was sold III honuon
recently 70 bookseller al Caxtou but the purchase
found, after he had bought II. mat the DOM WI" ~
rarer than O specimen OF CaxtOn's press.
An MS. fragment OF the OLD Latih Vc'Sio',
Pentateuch which father Of the present Loro
hshburnhann uurchascd 1847 having been SHOWN "
have been stolen the Library at Lyons oV u"0
later than 1894 Lord Ashburnhan mas aereen ~ I"u
over the document to the Lyons Library ana me Pa rs
him for thus parting with valuable helroou''
Victor Hueo's new volume, "ReligiOn ct Re
,,ronsn $50 pages short preface has tneSc
words: This book begun In 1870; II is nIsneo !"
1880 The year 1870 gave infalbiliiy 10 inc FaVaVS
and Sedan TO tho Empire What will 1850 dof a COT
tain massage in the poem il described by one OF tue a
thor's wOrshippers as the most sublime inV"G"'0"
the ideal that ever sIranR out OF u hu"a" Oi"'A
The library of Richard Bull, the friend OF
Horace walpOle which comprised $50 lots was SOFA III
london a fortnight ago for total of $2O,3OO Among
the hooks were many inlaid and splendid WORKS, Tue
collection being hle example OF inc cNten' l" "h'O
the book mania been carried In Enclhl' SOP' VI
WnlpoIes Anecdotes Of Painting aud Engraving III
laid IN fourteen imperial folio volumes, ana luSta'eu
with drawings and engraving, fetched ~ ooo' "apoe
"Deseriptiou of Strawberry HILL" one Volune' royu
fol,o inIad and Illustrated, brought $500 Boyaeus
shakespenre in eighteen foS VoHn f6 9G2 10 An
Illustrated copy of RObertsons works. Ia tWel'e w.
umes, went for S4OO.
A ten-yolume dictionary of the ancient Ian
gnage of France on which the compiler has Oeeu enl
poyed for thirty years past has recently pecn SEM
nress In Paris and tho first volume is just out II con-
Trims only words which are now OOSOiet' OF nave Ide
into dsuse or have changed their mcannG SO ha' INC
words in It are chiefly those found III the literature :"
the eleventh. twelfth and thirteenth centuries It's pun
icatlOn has been fastened by fears that long oelS
might induce the Germans to publish WORK "i 'Hc
same kind first 81 congratulate myself NJ. h''io ~
whom the work is dedicated writes TO 'ae colhpt'''
that YOU will be beforehand with tie Germans IoT Inc
study Of old French Is beng sedalod>y cirleu U" "
MANY German professors. and had your WORK not oe'n
ready tbey would certainly have robbed us OF the houor
of preparin0 such dictionary" The entire WORK. Is
estimated, will cost $4,000 OF WHICH, tue tioyeruc'
button among tine pubic libraries ana cOi'"E's"' rr'"V'
Goodwin Smith ranks Cowper as " the most
important English poet of the period between Pope ahd
the illustrious group headed by Wordsworth byron ana
Shelley" and mcnes TO accept southey =" MN
rs the first Of English leteT-wrters tue hrst place Is
shared with him by any it is Ivy Byron rather ha"
by Gray whose letters pieces OF flu" writing or o
Horace WaIpoe who memoirs In the form oi ici-
ters aud like Gray manifestly wrote them ior ruonc"
ton But the letters Of CowIer have the tue ep's'o-
lary charm and here is strongest proof that they
were not intended for publication IN common VITA
many others. FIR Smith regrets tho decay OF letter
writing as species OF literature. Tcegrns ana postal
cards have almost killed it now, he says. He has mace
free use of southcy's biography of The poet, which, ih
The bog-aph cal parts OF CowpcI5 poetry, FURNISHES
the mateIials sketch OF his life. Southey Il, nos"
ever he thnES. too ulOX. Had us author Quay n'nt
fer CoWper what he did NclSOn! Harper Brothers
will publish Mr.. Smiths book early next week