New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-01-31
LITERARY NOTES.

Hinder the title "Bye Words" Miss Yonge
has inst published volume OF nine or ten SNORT 'ies
ADAPTED TO youthful readers Some OF them are o ""u
home are entirely new. -,
Eugene Schuyler will receive the agreeaoie
,m Of ss 900 for the right of serial publication I'D
c,,e nj bs work on Peter Great. He reserves al
ina, m rights to issue 1t ia book form after its competitor
10 the magazine. -, r..
Mr.. Justin Winsor, writing In The Literary
World Of bookbuyng thirty years ago, SAYS OF DE-
Cogswen's purchases for the Astor Library 'nat no
brought away with him from Europe 10000 volumes az
cost OF only 500 co., average OF II % per Noi
,me and tins for books proper for reference library
Dr. Cogswe landed in Europe with an Original circuit vi
10000 and the first 10000 volumes That he purchseo
.ost MIN only S27 600 At later time he was asseu ny
h now the Public Library what would cost 10 ony iDs
necessary hooks He replied that iur col.oet'on "
Of SIS 900 wond be necessary provided the books were
bought rs good chances offered themseves o D 600
bought at once cost he said would DC IRON
to Sl50,O00. ,
Mr.. J. r. Green, the historian. assisted by
Alice stopford Green has written geographY Vi "o
British Islands entirely new ana eer",''
striking plan. The plan OF the ordinary eAFoo'" '"'
been completely set aside. Books such as pupils now
use " they can called books ut ALL are Hhpy APP
meals 10 the memory" and In sense handtooks OF
geography No drearer task be set for tho worst OF
criminals than 10 study them, with their chaouc nAss
of tables and names without attempting 10 iufn'sn
every possible detail Of height and area, the present
volume aims TO give the pupil some notion OF what !"
form and surface his fatherand is like" The work sa
thick l6mo with many small maps, and for the most
mart consists OF chapters showing the relations OF me
British Islanderoup to The European continent Iracing
plaius showing how the combination or mountain A'1
plain shapes the river system, ana now .nr un,"
these parts furnishes groundwork on whlch tue VA
tionsl life IN its local forms has necessarily u
moulded itself and by whose character mucn OF 3D. po
jtics and all of its industrial life has as necessarily Dreh
determined" Macmillan Co. have pubiisned the VOL
nme.
The sale of the Grst part OF DR.. Lalng's IL
brary produced over $64.500 and lasted eleven days
The first plan was to sell 1t in Edinburgh but II was al
terward decided hold the sale in London The result
has proved tho wisdom of the decision copy OF the
Hrst edition spensers" Faerie QneeDe broughteooo
oolection of $50 Scotch Broadside Ballads wentfor
k665 and Reyes Doctrnal de sapiensa" In the Cat
alan dialect fetched an even $500 An edition uoo0'
d the Psalms IN metre for the Of the Kirk OF Scot
and sold for S215. anI Psalms by Cotton Mather ~
what edition is not reported-were knocked down for
k8O Two books which once belonged TO royal person
ages brought higher prices than any OF these Dairym-
pies Institutions of the Law OF Scotland the dedics-
ton copy Charles H. and preserved In its royal no'
lug went for the comfortable Of 81 40 ana Bears
Cornerstone della Fede Christiana," given by Mary
Queen of Scots 10 Sir James Melville her ambassador To
Queen Elizabeth, brought $74o The London Ismes SAYS
they Suppressed any that have ever reached for
the copies or similar Ones, ana goes on 10 say
that perhaps the chief cause of this enhanced Value III
the and in fact In all book sales OF recent
years. is that the demand from America Tor rare aug
literature has gone increasing ana appears nkey 10
continue" The principal London and Paris dealers are
stimulated, t by very nlgh ana some
times unlimited commissions Tor certain DOCKS. anu
thus the most enthusiastic private eoeG'oT h nasS y
ish Museum has, IL learns, obtained air pfopotlon'
have generally been beaten by the English, tho Amer
lean. aud other foreign competitors II Is estimated d
that the proceeds oi the sale are nVe ne greaser tna
the total sum paid for the books by Df Lalng.