New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-27
LITERARY NOTES.

Another change has come over The Pen, London
journal of literature, whose brief and creditable
career has been marked hy various vicissitudes.
With change of proprietcr.hip it is now dlscon-
tinued as n monthly but will reappcar on January
/ as a weekly paper.
The first instaiment of Mrs. Durnetts " Fair Bar
harlan will appear in the "Midwintcr Scribncr."
and will be completed in three numbers. This story
has already been published seriilly in magazine
with different circle of readers. The author has
revised it, but made no material change.
Medical Hercscs" philadelphia, Presley Black
,ston) is a series OF essays by DR.. q. C. Smythe, Of
Grcencastle. Indiana. on the origin and develop
ment of sectaran medicine. The secondary object
of the book he says ls to furnish the regular pro-
fpssion with some much-needcd information IN
regard to homeopathy
General Grant has turned author and written an
article for the February North Amrican Rerie'c, in
which he will favor the scheme for "A Nicaragua
shlp-cana He is showing 50 much versatility IN
practising the arts OF peace that the country woud
not be overwhelmed with surprise if some day he
should make flank movement on ParnasSus Itself
bne book of 33G pages and full of dismal facts
about the slave trade has just been issued by the
English Government. 1t makes out England's
of tie inhuman traffic. Account is given of white
girl. aged nineteen. who was released year ago
from black TURK by the British Consul at Malta.
The Turk had instructions to deliver her to pur-
chaser in Tripoli who bad paid Vesuldar Pacba. of
Constantinople, f2O2, Turkish money. for her. The
book throws a good deal Of light on slavery as So
cial institution of the Ottoman Empire.
There could be no better proof of n demand for
oil nj HarlanQ's Com
mon Sense in the Household" than the fact that
Charles Scribners Sons had printed from the Old
plates until they were worn ont and had not been
able to satisfy the public camor for ii with over one
hundred thousand copies. The book was first pub
lished ten years ago. The author VINO has done so
unch through her book to tighten the cares OF
American housekeepers. has made the new edition
as perfect as possible by adding new receipts and
making the whole book square with the newest
development OF the culinary art.
Exile: Dramatic Episode.7 by Lewis J. Block
Isl. Louis G.. l. Jones q Coz IS too suited a per
Torrance for the average poetic taste. This poor
earth Is described in ITS lines as TIC realm Where
souls appulse gaiust souls and the lame act lialts
far behind the Wsh.7 The conversation aud there
is little or no &C ION, is divided among Father"
a Mother' " Stranger" the hero, who would
bestow his wealtl'e large sOycrcignties on Others,
or in other words adopt Ida his daughter, who
saws " catch ycur sense but clings with greater
tgltness 10 her mothers apron string, while her
young lover, Alfred. cxclamS e hate you Sir.
If Won come here again / snail be wfoth, and take
sure means to do You fell harn." The first two
lines of the poem state this proposition Is there
in the dced-world deed. a way, worth doing or
worth following e. and it is much TO be regretted
that il is not satisfactorily answered even at the end
Of 100 pages
Recommending on the fact that EndymiOn is still
wandering about railway boo, stalls in England IN
three volume form. while this country it is selling
for ) cent, copy IN volume ofieghty-four pages,
The PaH Mail GG,ete says Harper & Brothers pro-
duceI thcircIi.io in a lcsureiy manner during two
weeks after the copy had arrived from England.
some calculations have been m.dc rs TO the time
in which it could have been produced, if need were
Setting up the 497,4IS ems which the book con-
lains. would take twenty hours; in twelve hours
more the work wou,d bo eectrotyped and the plates
ready for the press. Fifteen hours would bc con-
suned In printing of the first 10000 copies. Eight
hours more would be required TO get these 10000
copies dried folded. stitched and trimmed. This
gives to,al Of forty-liyc hours TO produce 10000
couies-a feat which could have been performed
without IN any way interfering with the other busl-
ness IN baAd. It is suggested by the collector of
these figures that IN 1850 the author Will improyise
his wor.. through a telephone, the vibrations from
which will set the type. It's a comfort 10 think
that that dire possibility is still 100 years distant
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