New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-15
LITERARY NOTES.


tiers series will be Mr. f. W. II. Myerss L'ie Oh
Wordsworth" Harper & Brothers will issue IL as
sooo as the spin OF holiday publication is over.
Anew e,rit.on of Shakespeare is in preparation in
Eoclsnd. the novelty of which will BE- Illustrations
nv Gustave ID re- Ii is a question whether shake
snearc's xonlsite and sane fancy isJust the N"''-
nal for the great art necromanccr to Work upon
The proceedings Of the LAT reunion Of the Army
of the Potomac held in Burlington, Vermont iaS'
June. are rri ted IN a handsome pamphlet Vo'u n''
which may be had of the recording secretary 81 tue
Society, Colonel Horatio Z. King. 10 6r""d"aV
Mr. Archibald Forbes has engaged to wri'e ire
story OF ms personal adventures o. the D"''Ie-"o'
Of Europe and Africa for the young 'uoscro'is "
Tie YOUTHS Companion. Mr.. William acK VIII
contrlbat serial story to tine same toTtuha'epHPei'
II now anpsars that the confsca;ion OF He'nes
poems in b, rliu was limited TO "new, popular an"
,omplete edition " containing obnoxious poems
which had been omitted from previous editions
Pablo decency well as political censorship was
outraged.
Mrs f. DE Y. Southworth. says The Ncc-OT'eaRs
PioagRne stands char ged with having written
forty-two novels. They are to be published IN a
new aud uniform edition. Put up in dry goods
boxes they vii make beautiful present Tor some
man cas- away on some lonely island
''Endymioa in circulation two days after It was
tublisned Lord Beacoasfeld In appfopratib9 'hc
ttle of Keat IS poem for his novel did not give eN-
tieDce for the first time of his taste IN selecting from
Others. HIS Job Thornberry may be found IN
Colmau's comedy Of John Ball"
MrJ W. Bauton has received VI. Arsene Hons
saves beautiful quarto lives of "Molere, his WIFE
and his Daughter" The vcllum cover Is embe-
lshed with etched portrait and fine etch'nss are
spriukled literally through the pages. II IS SUI
peTb work. The CdIiiOn Is limited to 900 copies
which in Paris range in price from 1900 to 100
francs.
Houchton. Mii,lln & Co. will publish on Satur-
day d volume Of essays by Mr.. Theodore I. Mum
ger. OF North Adams, Mass, entitled ION the
Threshold" ii consists OF talks TO young people Oh
PURPOSE thrift. seli-reiiance, the choice of COM
papions and other practical subjects. They will
also publish new editions of Mr.. James t. Fieldss
Ballads and Other Verses" and Mir. Scudders
"DTeam Children"
The London Ntirs chronicles Mr.. Walt Whitman's
purpose TO publish new book called Cedar
Pluu,s Like and adds: " At one time Walt Whit
man was far better known, and locked upon as
much NOR important. in England than in America
md our kinsnen III the States were occasionally
q lttc amused at the way IN which we went on
about the great American poet. OF late, however
without that Of America rising"
Mr.. Kong Ki Cain hiss been applying himself, at
the Chinese educational headquarters in Hartford
TO the writing of book Of 900 pages, ia which
Jpriisb idi0matic phrases aud slang are compared
with English TRANSACTIONS OF the Chinese way OF eN-
pressin. the same ideas The volume VIII also
eomprise Ii fe of Contuclus. Chinese dioms and
axoms. ard a chronological list Of emperOrs from
the foundation of the first Chinese dynasty to the
presen; tne rs well some account OF the customs
and legends of China. President Porter, OF Yale,
LIS seen proof sheets Of the book and commends II
highly.
A correspondent sends to The LoH9oa Uorld the
following conversation with CARLYLE about the
us ript Of The French Revolution" TO correct the
Statement that Mr Carlyle had SAID the second
draft # the book was better than the frst
.'Slttinr one evening in the drawInr-rOom Of The
house ia Great Cheyne-row, Chelsea, self and Car
Isle were III conversation upon general subjects,
when / remarked / have heard that the manu-
fcrpt Of " The French Revolution was destroyed
before going 10 the printers. Was that SOP Car
lyle; 'Ay ay. IL YVES So Myself: What did }Ou dO
nnder the ci1oumstauc-sp Carlyle For three
DAYS and nights could neither eat nor sleep, but
was like a DAFT man. Myself: Bat what did you
doat last z Carlyle; Well, just went away into
the county and here he burst out into fiji of
loud laughter and then said, / did nothing for
three months but read Marryats novels :; and atter
serious pause he remarked, set to and wrote it
nil over ag an but IN melancholy tone concluded,
Il linna tnink it's the same no, dlnna think IT'S
tie same"
DR.. Schlienaun's great work " Ilios: The City
and t,e Country osthe TrOans" QIaIpcr Il Brothers.,
has appeared and If the public welcome has not
been a. enthus astio IN England aud America As its
merits deserve, this is probably due to "a feeling
Lo,ty he hutIt If f,rn
The Old one publshed FIVE years under the utle
Troy and It's Remains" 1t must be- said that the
re,y book AIDES little of great value to the first ac
conDt OF the authors researches. But the two books
are different ID plan, and the new one brings
rev matter and tue opinions of scholars TO
bear upon the subject. HOS viii never
suppiant Troy" among scholars, for TO
them both volumes will be Indispensable
The first book is a diary Of the work Of excavation
of Hl.sarik during 1871, 70 aud '73-years in
which the greatest treasure was found. llios "
contains nearly three times a. much reading matter
although the two years work in 1873 and 1879
brought c0mparat lively little new material to the
surface d.. SchiienaDn's general views underwent
little change IN the meantime. But IN the second
book Re departs from the diary method OF the FIRST
and attempts 10 igcst the whOe subject b. discuss
ing the ruins Of each city separately, beginning
with the first lowest aud deyoting chapter TO
each Of The seven, the burnt city" OF Homer being
accounted the third from the bottom. The number
of illustrations has been more than doubled in the
new book and important views and plans of the
excavations have been added. The long preface by
Professor Virchow and the numerous appendices by
weil-known scholars make the work more Of
storehonse Of learning but distract the attention Of
TIE reader, who has enough 10 do to Keep his Dehr-
ipgs through DR. SchlicmauD's beaped-up details,
for the author cannot claim great excellence as a
literary workman. The egoIsD that IntrUdes itself