New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-03-06
LITERARJ NOTES.

Dean STANLEY will have two religious poems
I'm the s.ngch uunh.r of Noco,iionS NoGrtNc.
Hcnworh Dixon's life aud works viii form
the sui.r; cf am exhaustive article Forthcoming
number 81 the Lcr,,c 2cs DeUr AoH0'S.
Thomas Hughess Manlness of Christ
has sold 50 largely the present elon hat iIouShon,
Oscood & Co. have decided to bring Out cheaper one
IL VIII be ready in au1ht Weeh
The current Academy speaks of " the cnor-
nous progress mace by the Astor Library, which 1t
calls an admirable institution and private enter
prise II Is probably xanpcd in The history OF sim
lar undertaking.
The publishers of the edition de luxe of
Thackeray Is limited TO loo copies have again
raised the price 700 copies having already been sold,
and further Is promised TO take place as soon
tie sale 1, aches 100 selP
The correspondence of Peter tho Great will
oprear IN ST. Petersburg In the Of the present
year. special committee in connection with the Rus
sian Ministry of Eiuca has Occn occupied since 1872
81 arranging IT Tor puilO3'lch
Mr.. Swnburne's forthcoming volume of
poem..-the collection being entirely now oue-wil
he published here, in advance of rs apoeaIance IN Eng
South Of France, his nealth not being good
The Ahcnenn dlsmisses NJ. ZOla's "Nana .
with saying it is a record Of the most repusve SCENES
In the life courtesan into which introduced an
attack the private character OF an English prince, AS
abOInldable " Daudcts onslaught upon the Due do
Morny."
At recent meeting of the new Radicals
Club in London paper drawing parallel between
Panurre and Abu Nawas, the Jester Of Haroun Al
p%srLid was reed Anone ufhCr new members cleo
ton OF Ionsleow. Lowell, Holmes. Victor Hugo and
ALMA Tadcma was ANNOUNCED
An entirely new and thoroughly revised
edition Of "IppncOtts Gazetteer" is nearly ready r
publication. The work OF preparing it has extended
over five years This book, revised 10 the present time
will surely have a welcome from everybody who
learned ia the past 10 know It's great N"e anc use
fulutss.
history of the administration of John De
Witt the Dutch statesman has Just appeared IN Eng
land aud Harper Brothers VIII soon publish it here.
translation has already been made into Dutch, and
The first volume OF II mas LETT the press SPECIAL Eng
sh for the continent has been sent out by the
London publishers
Tookt's "Hstory OF Prices now out of
print and hard 10 get complete sets of volumes,
10 be carefully revised corrected and condensed into
four or five volumes BY Mt Ncwmarch TO whom 1ooke
left all his papers and interviewed copy Of the first
Mr.. New1narch viii add Two or three other volumes
bringing the work down to the present year.
The fiftieth anniversary of Victor Hugo's
"Iernani celebrated no, only by tie performance
ottne play but by publication Of the first Of
n new and complete edition OF the poets WORKS. The
edition Will comprise not only al the authors writings
which have already appeared or may hereafter appear
bat lis unedied works WIN holts, ete:, as well NJ
HurO Will carefully revise tuc text himself.
A new report has started in England i'm
reference 20 the memoirs Of TaiyranJ. They only
will not appear within icw months but TO wait
eight years longer II is said, heforc they are to
the world. When the executor TO whom Talyrand left
the memoirs 1868. he left them 20 tho gen
tlcmen VINO possess them and forbade their pubca
tl0p tn sS the Tor the delay OF ten years he
yond the date fixed By laly"nd being certain Icleren
ces 10 NJ. IEenS
DIR. Alfred Woltmann. whose name is closely
associated with OF Hobein owing to tie life Of ,ha
nrtist which he wrote and he sharp controversy which
followed the first edition Of IT, has just died Mcntonc
Its that he w engaged upona history of Paint
fut rnT n Corn
promised 20 he OF great Nane and thai prI lrations
had been made 81 LONDON and Nev-I1rk 10 BRING out
translation o, It ia Ia ssh cdited by Professor sidney
CnyIn Just how near 10 completion he had carried the
work English papers do nOi say
II is promised that the new edition of Sir
Walter Seats works which Firmn, Ddot 4 Co.. OF
PAN. have already announced will he the most stump
tuous ever issued ana that is saying great deGl for
there are few authors who have been put into hand
somer volumes than The translation is to be
urely new one and each Volume viii have 100 engrav-
~ lie arcl,colo,,y OF inc eto!fss "Ivanho1" whc viii
be me volume Of the set Is ANNOUNCED FOL imnc-
aiate pubhc"ti"n
Mr.. Coventry PatmOre has presented TO the
British Museum Of the entIre work OF st. Thomas
Acq,nas which has interesting history II pin
ted on We Rome in lj7O-7land Is believed 10 be
the most extensive work. far regards the number
OF the volumes, thus printed. the volumes being
fol,os and seventeen number Formerly IL belonged
10 Pope PIus v who - sd 10 nave pre- II 20 Mug
Philip H. OF Spain VINO dcpO lrd!tih the Iscuila!W htic
ucaret II afterwards found s way into the hands of
AN English cergS man who recently died aud by WLOiE II
was mus niilcentiy bound in twcutyOne volumes Tx
cent COPY In the National Library at PARIS other
sci u. tins work on veinm Is known TO exist
The revival of the art Of needcw0rk has
its literature, Ike the other ants which have newly
risen aInoug Macmillan & Co. have jlst added to
their useful little Art al Home Series" volume
called 'Ncetlcwork." by Elizabeth Giaister. IN which
the author remarks upon this worthy revival. From
the earliest time to the beginning o. this century
mad been gradual growth in the art of when many
pecous egacies have been left by good grandmothcrs
Tbnu a truly dark re" came on and It's shadow u
not yet quite cleared bat the last lew years have
brougnts revival which the author hopes may prove
Rrnaissance
Samuel r. Phillips, who died recently in
Philadelphia. wcll-inown and successful harness
manufacturer and dealer who had love for books and
eJllec ed III his time $4,000 volumes. Many Of
Them arc 10 sumTtuous eo1Gitiou and others do
setibod as rarca term, b. the way which is getting
be very vague by most people 1t Is relatively
ploycd so that boob 10 DC called rare whenever