New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-04-26
LITERARY NOTES.

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Miss Surague's San Earnest Triher" stu
has . large sale eiaGle Western hooSe foV0"''
vxassea at Gro time 4b0 copies OF IT,
3 s,1sha Gale of Zela's Mana" in Russia ls said
N bn uroa,cous" Two newspapers at se feersOute
and seyers, provincial journals nave a'rea0S H.
M Ernest Daudet, brother OF the better
known Alphonee has Just published In Paris volume
q r so dc e he paIieS
People who remember the signal success
many years ago OF the novel called "RutledSe" OF
,vs,e a. w. Carleton Co. report sale of over 10000
espses Will DO interested IN knowing that the same
anonymous American author has written anoeher novel
called Missy" and that 1t was published Dy 'he
Messrs. Carleton Saturday.
Tbera ia an increasing demand for the
new Pocket Volume Edition Of Dekens's work. iIr
rashcd in hts country by scriener Wexford ana duf
snu me Summer months a large silc ls expected IL
eopurtses thirty small volumes ana Is solo a. nearly on
cents volume strong square case contains them.
making possible 70 uaOvc tue set %,taou' T~N '0
voinmes OF raceiGg ihem OUT Of snape
Mr. A. Judd NOrtaruD. well-known Saw
yer Of has made many vacation 1p 10 'ne
Aatraadacks has Just published comHly little BOOK
a,sut that region. which much interesting personal
exy1cncc is freshly narrated In thirty Odd ebapters
10 these chapters he he's added thee others on grayhR
Hahing In Northern Michigan aud the whole forms
y shss prsses 20 apds les way hn'a many aSnas
$eAeon CaInps ana 1Tamps 10 t me hhars Tor
fe ana BAKER t'"'' CT ~ "'S VIC pD'''' ~
The new edition of Ruskin's most celebrated
three warSs the Modern Painters" the " Stones OF
YcnsaaD and the "seYen Lamps of Architecture" Tor
,pc zinc An press OF John Wiley Sons thus Tar hae
t<nr = very srcosssfal yeature, indeed handsome
s,ea Of Rus n at price somewhat below the ayeraGe
fran'a haf-Scariy income was SURE 70 DC. AZ Ilo
81 Tie "stopes Sf Venice has Deei out few days
ss volume H. viii follow before the month cngTa
ustfaons these volumes have been copied rom tne
ssara PansTs fTon yho old pGies
ing the Illustrations has Just been paoiished.
Ia reply TO Edwin Arnold's recent letter 10
J. <. Funk Co., saying You must p'ease MOI ulu
sts,d the note which recently addressed to you ne
u,torizng any OF book which would interfere
,tsl, te fair interests or Roberts Brothers,, that hrh
onr f;ay have never claimed or intimaed lIat LdeS
ksA teceyed sueh rzstoD and that all they eVes
laid diaim that Mr.. Arnold had written ie'er
thauking them for having published his poem IN their
&, STANDARD seies. The reply which tho Mcssrs' Funk
asa 10 the crcisms on their business methods i that
they aim at eroweihe out OF families nT S1S S ye
ssnre at the prces aud that they do no! DeheV
fhe OF works IN their series VIII JuFc 'no s0 "
, xne aigherpricej ed'tlOns'
8 while recognizing the difficulties under
q xt,ep Dr. Brewer abored in compiling his Readers
handbook" writer in The Ah<nG"m points out sew
err curious omissions IN IT, anu several errors in'o
which he has fallen. No mention uader Their names
ss made OF Lessng's Nathan tho WISE" FlcdlE%s
q nshap or the "AmahG" OF ThacBoray. Instead OF
Il Aleofrbas being "the name by which Rabeais wIS
tiit after out OF the princes NOUN, IL If lie
NAME be himself took when he wrote his Wotk Whie
.,AcofrDaS Master is the aDaSram of Francois Raoe
iai and as such affixed to the early Cdiions OF IN"
tssi two books Dr.. Brewer does not say Of Gargau
X sns that the familiar in Table before RaOe
iais employed If. Under the head "Chii0n" he saws
fhe seisoner's Francesca di Bonnivs ana
shas Lord Byron makes him OF six brothers, three
& SAm burned at the stake and three cast lno
rsscn at Chillon. Downward was Genevcse patriot,
md ne Athe1GHm writer is ut loss TO know why Dr.
Brewer makes ms name Italian while byron. ne Taas;
q = - One IN fire a d two In field
g-gtf Their belief with blood have Seaedi
$3.50 Dying their father died.
~ 10 For the God their foes denied;
sss9s1s Three were in q dungeon cast,
tfsF OF whom this wreck Is left tue last
n is little of Turner's art that people can
Doess without paying handsomely for 1t; but all who
A1shire hts arf-and who does noti-wih soon have
sAsuce this country to buy his Rivers OF France
No moderate sum. The London Printing and Publish
g Company have obtained possession OF the original
mates and Nj. Alfred VI. Citizens of No. IL Parkpacc,
tscir representative iu tGis country Will soon issue
B&vesome edition of THE work for tins market he
roafes two square volumes Of IT, The plates are
,nennted muslin hinges. and the text Is printed Oh
rapcr fine qualify aud is heavy The engraving, as
Ss vel known, sixty In number. Ruskn's ntrOduc-
s1n Is gwen ard the descriptive matter prepared by
Issh RItce the companion OF Tnruer during his tour
1hfcpgh Frarce follows the plates u systematic order
DlOgrap bical sketch of Turner by A. A. Watts, aud
shstext OF Turner's celebrated will also printed.
me Rivers Of France" mark interesting period
sa6 Use and deoliue of Turner'S They begun
On 1888, year winch he exhibited his rst picture
Venloe-a picture IN did MT paint that CITY
- c,ouds aud visions. HIS imagination altered many
scenery OF France but that he caught
~ spirit many writers have agreed Ruskin indeed,
srape. 1he "Rivers OF France" were completed Ill
1852 four ye rs years previous TO the public exhibition
<elt by subseruion, bat he coutemplates Offering this
work 10 the public through the trade.
There are books which always have fixed
va5ie jus. gold has, and though a keep them
srnty years reasonably Of getting his money
back whenever he cares sell them; meanwhile the
use OF them him good interest At Clinton
Hall some books this class will be sold next Wednes
day aud Thursdny evening, executors sale OF the Ii
brary OF the late Colonel Stephen oney Providence
It coutans for instance the second folio and the HALL
well folio shakegpeares; the best edition OF Bayle's
Dictionary" % yOls folio, I734'36, portraO COM
plete set OF tie Aldiue poets BentleS's dVevoiume
s1Cheserheid"; beautiful collection OF COlerfdge's
works. Moxon Pickering and Murray prints; suInptr-
Gus editions Thackeray ana Dickens set Of the
Hareian Miscellany :" large paper; the Pickering
.Johnson large paper copies Of the Riverside Bacon.
Iamtp and Disraeli' Cotton Msther's =" Magaalia"
tl1ordoa 17o2). wanting the celebrated Errats
most eepies do a fne set Of Rabelae" on large paper
a yols London 1907)--and famous author, by the
way is harder get in good English editions than Rab
elas white bad editions do abound. One OF the choc
est things in the collection set OF Rusn's Modern
PainIers vols III ~ and " being the nfst ealons
editions a being those most souRLt alter Two and
Eah m the catalogue are gwen 10 WALTON ana
and whine The catalogue IS not only handsome one,
hat Ii has qualities which every catalogue has motif
describes the books exactly ana with lntegencc anu
& gives the information one needs
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