New-York tribune., 1880-02-28
LITERARY NOTES.


A volume of miscellaneous writings oy
Thcophile Gauier. bearing the title "kusans CT hauA
Fortes" has just appeared IN PARIS
AT Weeks. in England, quantity OF original
aocumcuts numbering upward of q thousand. some OF
which date back TO the thirteenth century, mas oeen
found in an oakcn deposited In the aimsnomse
Many OF the seals are III an exteieht sIa'e Vi pioS
ton
In the Vatican library at Rome there IS
book Of accounts which records the fact that betwee
1885 AID 1880 Pope sxtus " expended 5'3S9 scudi
tabout Ss3500 TO have norton of the Baths 9i IL 20 DO
cciian DESTROYED to their foundations and th ~ 80 @
than three wears J6o 600 cubic ieet OF masonry were
broken In pieces
Mr. Froude has written q preface for work
on Russia and England: 1876 1880" Just Fuoiis"eo
IN London from the pen of Russian lazy N which ne
beds that there just for enmiy mt~een 'ho
two countres that far from looking at each otner
with dstrus they ought to be friends, IN %Ig" i" tber
tion the position o each would De STRONGER "ni'O '"0
power for doing good would be much Increased
j. II. Ingram has completed the Work Old
Edgar Allan Pee which is known to have long engageo
ls attention and English publisher already mas II "
the press II will be an exhaustive WORK I'D TWO Nolun
with new portrait and acsn'iles and Will nave lor S
title Edgar Allan Poe his Life. Letters ana Opinions
Mr. Ingram said to have had much valuable assist
auee from the late Mrs. Whitman, from the Poes oi
Baltimore and from many other persons Eng"sn
papers announce that his work promises TO cGcTt"
large amount of biographical material not hLt,n." 1
fresh Information about Poes parenage hiS early lfr
IN England and America, his school days h &
ana West Point career his adventures III Europe Gnu
ian explanation OF the cause wheh diove hilh u SUM
uauts."
When Buckles "History" was reprinted
IN tins country the publishers dd not send him anything
for the first volume although tine book had large CIR
culafion More than this the publishers cndeaVoredt 10
get through hts friend Cape the NECESSARY materials or
q predatory memo r. and that they should take inns w
direct means OF dong so incensed him greatly. Had
70 N az
snxious he SAYS 10 meet them in fair aud hDeIai
spirit. He predicted that when the American volume
came out IL woud "swarm with biundeIs' uni'sS
supervised by him. which case he should Tor MS OWE
reputation disav0w IL by public advertisements wen
the second volume came out in this country pub
fishers sent him $780, but this Is the only instance
which Mr. HUH mentions OF any fehune .'T" ,,
ev9I IN eoned5 d HIM 50 SD for new ccion Of 1000
COMES of the fst volume, Buckle having plhce tSc
iinn M Parker took on commission and Buckle rc-
ceIyed over $1,000 Tor H. When The second Vounr C''e
ont ne uged to sell Mr. Parker ne hrs eauon non ior
So 600 more Thus ont Of the $500 which us Ia
nous book brought into its authors nocke alter ocn
came from his Eoglish publishers.
In the final volume of his " Life of Miltoa,"
Professor Mason brings together all toe known tac's h
the history OF samuel Smmons's famous agreement
with the poc-the agreement TO pay him the muniicent
sum Of IS when be should have sold the onIire hFsl
edition Of the Paradise Lost" Fifteen years after tne
agreement was made. the house Of TOnsOns had ac-
nured copyright IN the poem and the paper passeu
into their hands as evidence OF the original sale Eighy
years later by The death OF Jacob, the Tonson 4ny as
nubsher longer to exist and he papers OF ING
house always carecssy kept, got asrdy IN the h'us
Of oIerk who took them relics For hfy years the
whereabouts Of the agreement were not knOwn' Inc
arst subsequent knowledge OF WIS in 1874 when II
turned up IN the hands of London tailor, who sad |
that with other papers had bee1 left In ms possession
by lodger who had gone OF in arrears for his rent lhe
tailor sold it with the others-whch comprised Ionson
papers relating Dryden Addison and steele-ior the
,um Of e2J to London bookseller Who was then max
ing an edition of Paradise Lost" Ten years after
wards this bookseller sold tho papers at auction Inc
Miltonsimmons agreement fetched si3 3', being
bought by Mr. Pickering who sold II afterward to SIT
Thomas Lawrence for $50 II remained in SIR Thomhss
until hs death III $50, when Pickering again
ncauired IT, and in the following year found SECOND
purchaser in Samuel Rogers, who gave lm lOO gulnts
FOR H. Rogers, 1892, presented the dOoureu 10 thc
British Museum where II now Is. Professor Mason
holds that the signature Is certainly not NitonS own,
although Rogers and many others have pelleveu quite
otherwise. The signature was 'rtten for Milton ne
saws by else and cert led by his family scar
aud the touch OF his fingers 1t Is not at all Ike any
known signature of MitOn's. When II was WrItch nc
had been fifteen years blind, and MiltOns pen could not
have led by another person, since tho wrluug Is
80 too neat and regular Tor thai.