New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-11-22
LITERARY NOTES.

Mr.. Justin McCarthy's pet adjective is
streuuous" He uses it most literally In pannng tue
uor,raits of Lord Palmcrston and Thomas CARVE
The retail price of Scribner's Monh'y IN
England has been advanced ron is t'oo"' -
cents, 10 Is and Ad.. which approxmates cose' W wv
home price. ~. -. Al =
Tn n recent Welsh essay advocating that the
Cvmr, language be maintained means OF strenetn
cn,, the welsh nationality. 1t was said: The "eiSn
isundergoing changes which Englishmen can hotoe
while listening 20 Welsh speeches and sermous' o".
therc are Welsh preachers who incorporate so niue VI
en- alien tongue into their language that no one WHO
not ACQUIRED thoro ugh knowledge OF WeIsh can UNIV"
stand what they are speaking about
A famous Greek novel called " Louki
Iaras will soon be open book 10 Eneiish Io"
NJ Gennadius, late Greek Charge dAnaires ID hO"Iu
,sm,lne The translation and It already been pun
hshea IN the principal Continental LANGUAGES i ~
OF the story during the Greek War OF
and il takcs the form of "reminiscences OF seote ne
chant. So popular is The story IN Sres sao,s s"
as a class book III the higher Greek s'i"o'''
Miss Clarkson, of Baltimore has made sew
oral bright holiday books children and while shc IN
principay known as an artist she has sometimes mus
trated her own verse This season she mas al'enp'eu
something more ambtous-a folio GIT hohuay pooA
called . Indian Summer" (E. p. Dutton Coz II con-
tains ,umn poems selected from the American poets
60 several OF her own ana sixteen chroDo-hOgraph
pla es OF autumnal leaves ana nOWeis ator h'i Wv"
oesgDs.
roundy abused supposed neglect OF the stand
ard English essayi,ts and the aesthetic branch of DO
lite literature OF bygone DAYS The fact that the Mer
camille Library has eight ten copies OF Burke
Treatise on the Sublime aud the Beautiful" ana tha'
ey,ry COPY is cut" and in good deinaud Wouo speaA
well for the taste readers in general, II u were nv
also fact taat artists and art students OF the ci'Y
give rest TO every important o'ok roi"'luT " "i "
the public libraries. -,
MIR. Laurence Oliphant's new book The
Lani of Gilcad" is ready in London 1he Jeos"
Chronicle SAYS 1t VIII advocate beginning OF the re-
n,tra,jo, Of the Jews by the settlement, under the
auspices OF land company of considerable number OF
Jews from Eastern Europe and ASIA III an agricultural
colony situated in the territory which formerly belonged
TO the tribes Of Reuben and Cad. Mr.. Ohphant mad
travelled in Turkey IN 1888, 1850 and 1so2; out last
year he let England in February for SYRIA with the
special object OF acquiring the local knowledge which MS
previous experience in colonization showed him 10 be
necessary result of these recent travels tnat
nc give IN :" Tne l. IA II lead" hundted 10
families have offered to settle IN FaieSt.ne, o
they are TIC poor pay than bali The expen e,
and wish TO borrow tn" other haf
The subscription volumes OF " The Com
pete Works OF Rembrandt" with description and notes
by the famous French writer Charles Blanc. have Just
received by ]. W Bouron. 1t is one Of the most
important art publications made. 1t includes 800
reproductions facsmile, by process, OF all the
known etchngs Of Rembrandt. being the first and only
complete collection The edition was limited to 800
copies. thesr, 400 copies volumes each, are sold
at $3.50 set so copies volumes each. are sold AT
$500 a set and 20 copies volumes each. letter press
on ttmau PAPER and three SETS Of plates on Holland
japanese and WhatmIn PAPER. are s0d AT SOOo a se'
Thc subscrption list obtained by Mr. BoutOn Ia ms
country aggregated $4,000 Charles Blanc. In speak
ing the process by which The plates werr Reproduced
saws: We have compared these facsIDlles VITA tbe
originals anC can atirm that they Reproduce inc
original plates IN absolute perfection"
Mr.. Wendell Phillips has started another re-
form movement and bezns Dy convicung American
scholars and editors as prnepais) of great error or
as he puts it, insulting foreign tongue His remon
str,uce appears in the Editors Easy CAar OF Harpers
Msgazlne " for December In part IL is as follows:
Alexis &c Tocageyle, or Monsieur de TOCQuevile IS
the name OF the great writer AMI statesman But the
rules Of the French language require that when we
omit the Alexis the Monsieur, and give only the
family name, it should be simply Tocquevie. There
are in French few exceptions tins rule. For IN
stance names Of syllable, like De Thou. retain The
de I; and names beginning with vowel. TocQuevine
Is not one OF these exceptions. But all American
editors irsist on the de. / do not know
an American publication, journal. daily,
weekly monthly, that does not reve in this awkward
ness: though years ago. did chance to one
your weekly Journals which astonshed me by Its
rectnass this particular. But the next time
number IL had apsed the besetting sim H. in speak
Ing you adhere 10 the Tule, Tocqueville you
the morning TO find that in the report of
your speech the careful and udciou editor has inserted
the inevitable De- and made you, spite Of yourself
French ignOramus"