New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-04-21
LITERARY NOTES.

Dr. w. NJ. Taylor's recent volame OF SER
mona The Illustrations Of Life" has reached thlrd
eaiticn.
Wilkie Collins viii write for the june num-
Der OF me ntsipatoaE Review an article On the copy
John Morley's " Life of Golden -" will COM
prise two octave volumes and Is expected soon to ap
rear in London
There Is no American author of established
fame whose works 40 seldom IN the auction
room as those Of Hawthorne People who once possess
them seem to keen them for life.
Mr.. Percy Fitzgerald has written volume
on Crokrrs edition of Boswelps Life OF johnson"
which he oaIls Croker, Boswell and Boswelps Studies
In the Life OF Johnson II is said that he considerably
sndnes Macausy in the severity Of his crticisms OF
Croker.
There is now in press at Phillips & Hunts
aIfe of Elizabeth Christine" the wife Of Frederick
the Great by Mrs Catherine f. Hurst 1t will be the
fourth volume of Mrs Hursts series OF women Oh
History" the earlier onts Of which are Anna Lsss
ReBata sf Este," and "Queen Louisa OF PRUSSIA
L In consequence of the rise in the cost OF
paper Houghson sgood Co. have advanced the price
q, those edtlons of Scott and Dickens which are
called the Globe The Dickens" whieb comprises
ntteen Volumes all illustrated has been sold 10 tns CITY
g. Sss e. SS p 90 op S oS@noe a ge
Marion Harland's "L0iterings in Pleasant
Paths win be ready at Charles seribners soDS on Fri
day The day shis house Will also publish waiter
walkers Handbook Of Drawing" an English work
which became standard short time after 1t appeared
xe edition published here Is revised and enlarged from
the original, and will como out simultaneously win s
pearance IN London 1t has more than 200 tlustra
sous Mr. walker has written American preface TOT
H. He saws his guiding principle In preparing me WgEk
has been that all true education consists III inc c
walton OF the Judgment" .
Kate Greenaway's "Under the Window"
has had sale far in excess of what Its welknown pop
tiarity would indicate The London house in single
day has sent out 600 cOpeR Of which 10000 were IN
Rnsspu 10000 in German, and the same number III
French and Spanish. About 10000 copies were ex-
norted for the American market, and everybody knows
now soon they sod with more to be had at any
priee The American edition recently published CON
sisted Of 10000 copies Altogether IL Ia peleNed tnat
100000 copies have been disposed OF during the SIX
months that elapsed since the DOCK urst cae ouI
Plagiarism, in the magazines must now ana
then happen long plagiarsts are permitted 10 Ve
for what editor arguseyed enough always to trip the
upl When novels, stories and sketches do more tnah
simply abound-indeed after they have been rushmV
tuto PRINT for OF yearsthe wonder is that
irpostors succeed 60 seldom There are limits to human
knowledge and even the wide acquaintance WITH period
zeal literature which the Editor OF S. Nicholas Is known
70 cssess has saved that publication from being m
Roar that the story called Napoleon and the Young
Egyptian" which appeared IN ITS April hulnOer Gun 10
found almost word word In book having the utle
Arabian Days Entertainments, and published at bO
Ton twenty odd years age being translation from inc
German by Herbert Pelh1m Curtis.