New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-01-24
LITERARY NOTES.

Fourteen editions of IAN Earnest Trifer ="
have been sold and the demand for the DOCK Is SUN
teive
new volume of sermons by DR.. Marvin
X Vincent TO be called Faih aud Character Is wei
under way in the press of Charles scribners sons
Mary l.. Booths History of New-York'"
published several years ago by subscription has been re-
yIsed and brought to date for new one yoinne
edition which E. =. Dutton & Co. Intend 10 issuo o'''
IN the Spring. . =,
Daudets new novel, "The Kings in Exile"
which has met with great in France Will De
brought out in this country by Leo q Shepa'u WI"
promise II for immediate issue.
DR.. j. Hammond Trumbull finds that IL VIII
be impossible to bring the catalogue of the Brinley
library into three volumes and has decided 10 maze
four Tao second will probably be out IA fortnight
Tbs sale IL likely TO take place IN MiTcn' .
DIR. Schliemann's new volume Is cal'eu
Ihos the Country Of the Troans," and is ALREADY III
the press OF John Murray II contains an account OF
fchljemauus latest researches the Plain OF Troy
-Four hundred plans and illustrations 20 WIN IL
Mrs. Brassey's new book, sunshine anu
Storm In the East" will be ready at Henry hoit w.
in few days. Duplicates OF al the hng'sh
lave been obtained 1t by the NJ ssrs Ho and thiS
has enabled them to make IT in point OF illnsdTaaG,n
superior TO their well-known edi'ion OF MI biS''
"Around the World IL the Yacht Sunbeam
Ex-Minister Washburne, when In Paris, I'M
proved the fine opportunity be had for studying IN Tue
national archives the rcotons OF Thomas Paine to the
French Revelation and the fruit of his Investigations VIII
soon see the light II is said in an elaborate paper Oh
the subject The paper Will be confined exclusively 10
the career o, Paine during the French Revolution ana
Is written in the light of many documents whch nave
peyer made public The conduct OF pane, Air;
washourne n0s TO have beeo. 1t Is SAID III tue mgheso
degree crcdable to his Intelligence, humanity al" p
tl1otsm."
Mr.. George p Philes has completed the
second part of his wclnowu catalogue of the library
OF Mr. Andrew j. Ode, of this city. and In few days
eopes OF Il can be had ut Bangs CoSn Broadway The
sale the dawn for Monday March l5aud lo
lowing days Ia collection comprised some OF the
rarest and most books in all departments OF III
,rature that have been offered to this public in many
years. The part the catalogue has been made
upon the same plan the frs, wlcb when pub sleh
about year ago, was recognized by bbhophies ~ Per
hans the finest sEecneu oi photographed knowledge
aud Of catalogue printing which has Oeeh seen III 'A's
country.
The first edition of the Prince Mettench
Memoirs was exhausted the day Of publication and
second was already under way when the public first
saw the book Charles scrbners Sons expect to have
new supply OF it next week. Mention may here be called
TO the English edition OF the WORK there
is no dex-a which books Of this kind is always
great-and that the American publishers have had one
carefully prepared II, ana have added besides very
convenient chronological table OF events TO which con
reference made by Prince Neternich but %bcn
readers who not proessed hstoraus can carry
long IN their heads in their proper Oruer'
Mr.. Curtis, in writing of the Dickens re-
action Easy Chair of Harper for February, says:
IL is pleasant 10 see man OF great genus IKE
Dickens whose works had made him justly famous ana
rich, erasping for money. and dying OF ex-
element and overwOrk. Might not his own LIE
teach the lesson Of his books is the nat
ural and sorrowu question OF the reluctant reader.
Were all these fine pictures al all this feeling really
uufelti Was he actor onl~, whom be had thought
patrjarch himself such figure ~ All reaction, how
ever, is he says. unjust and extreme, ana whle the
present may readjust Dickenss place. 1t VIII not
DbIteiate it.
The list of persons to whom has been at
trbuted the authorship Of {" A Fools Errand" grows
apaee 1t has been charged already Governor Cham
berain OF South Carolina Judge TOurgec OF North
Carolina to General Ames, OF Misslssippi to Edmund
Kirke (author of Among the Pines - and to Mrs
Stowe herself correspondent suggests that the real
author may be General Abbott. New-Englander, who
was officer through the war. and settled in Whining
ton " c., becoming afterward the representative Of
North Carolina Ia the United States Senate during the
heated Ku Kux times Senator Abbot has always been
a prominent q Southern Republican and thoroughly
tine author does seek to be known but those who
guessed Judge Tourgee can afford to stick TO their
guesses
Mr.. Henry o. Dwight, who has lived long
in Constantlnope aud become thoroughly acquainted
with Turkish language well as the life and man.
ners capital recently returned to this country
and during stay at Morrisve, w. has translated into
English Turkish historical novel entitled " Sulelman
was written by Ahmed Mthad EGend, the official an
naist and hstorographer of the Turkish Empire. and
gives many curious details of the state OF the Moslem
power time OF the Crusades Among other features
IT deals with the organization ana workings OF the
strange known in European histories as the Assas
sins The book full of quaint Eastern philosophy and
phases OF Character and promises 10 DC very III
teresting and instructive.
An illustrated library edition of "Don
Quixotc," to comprise four small $40 volumes aud to
contain thriyseven etchings by NJ Lalauze, Is in
paration by william Paterson the Edinburgh publisher
whose sumptuous edition Of Burnss works has recently
gained bis press increased reputation Motteauxs
translation Will be used, and the notes Of John Gibson
Lockhart in revised form, win be added H. Lalauze In
preparing illustrations visited Spain for the express
purpose Of acQuaintng himself with the scenery archi
lecture and customs of the country The edition will
he offered In three styles-in small, IN royal and
peria octave OF royal octave only 200 copies viii
be made and imperial only fifty, fine paper
and proof OF the illustrations beng given in
the last j. w. Bouon will have the work Ill this coul-
Try.
Henry James, in his Hawthorne " Harper
Brothers. makes a special point OF the influence on
Uaythornes mind of Puritan traditions and ancestors.
His work is rcdoent Of the social sysem in which he
had his bcing.~ He sprang from the primitive New
England stock and the himself deeply rooted
iu the New gland soil. Morally. IN apprecative
DEGREE he was a chip OF the old block HIS grand
father had crossed Atlantic for conscience sake and
IL was of the urgent conscience that haunted
the Imagination Of their socaed degenerate successor
The Puritan strain in his blood clear and there
passages IN his European diaries which might almost
have been written by the grimmest Of the old Salem
worthie" ITO him as to them. the consciousness OF
sin WAS most importuDatc fact OF life" OF" The
scarlet Letter" which he calls Hawthorne's most sub
out OF the very heart OF NewEngland" PuutaDism Is
in It, and none Of his works are so mprcgnated with
that after OF the old Puritan OF me-