New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-04-28
LITERARY NOTES.

Mrs. Lonsdale's "Sister Dora" has already
reached second edition.
The fourth volume of Green's "HiStOry OF
tho English People," library edition. has gone to press
IN LOndon.
Mrs. Hooper's "Under the TricOlOr" has
reached fourth edition, and 1t is believed that NTH
will be necessary.
The lectures on miracles which the Rev. Dr.
W. NJ Taylor delivered last February at Princeton VIII
be published as book in May by A. D. f. hanaoiph
Another volume of the small octave edition
Of Dr. Ecott's Commentary has just come fram the
press of Cassell. Peter Galpin Its "st Luxe ny
Professor Phmptre.
A volume Of lectures on modern Greecc'
which Professor Jehb recently delivered IN @Iasgo"'
win contain note Lord Byron's share In INC ptono
ton Of Greek Independence.
"Cbristy Carewn has been added to the
Leisure Hour Series, and is just ready In England
has been widely discussed the author Is may L"H'"
WHO wrote Z" The Hon. Miss Fcrrard'
An American whom The Times, OF London,
describes as an exdipIomattst," has written political
satire called The Political Comedy OF Europe wheh
he will shortly publish in Paris, through PloD its pu
pose Is said 10 be 70 condemn excessive ~
while tts humorous ana oioih"'io ioiu' 10 0"f
give IL a great run
Professor Waldo, of Yale College, has made
mathematical table, OF which, should 1t get INTO Reu
eral use II would hard TO say bow much brain lorco
Il Could not rave. us ODlecI is 10 ecou"uA0 NM
vision and mu DUPLICATION, aud he estimates fIat oS
tween 40 ana rs per cent can be saved Johh whey &"
BeDs will publish 1t.
II ia said of Mr.. Stoddard's forthcoming
volume of poems that 1t will surprise people 10 learn
from Il how many excellent things OF his nave from
fine to tins found their into the magazines ana
been swallowed up in the vast CUFFS Of periodical nItH
tnre The volume wi eGinprse Il tne p, Urcscrye
AZ dc pressense, who has been made Secre-
fairy of tie French Legation Washington has written
many books and more than one of them has lOuhd iS
way into this country During the past Wmer n d. T.
Randolph & Co. published his" Contemporary Fo'-
traits" His first book published when lie WAS Oniy
twenty-five years OF age Several religious ana euuCd
tOnnl WORKS have been written Oy ms WIG, WHO "
Swiss lady and. like himself, Protestant
VIII the world ever tire Of editions dc luxe
of Walton 4 Cptton3 Has it not had Pickering s. "uu
Majors, and Bicster's, and HawRinsS' and VINO ko"s
how many more worthy tributes TO the worthy nSher
ppn9 siilI another Is coming from tue press OF Johh
Wiley " sons, who will issue the work rs chteu d! Df
Retl,une in two royal octave volumes, che eitons re-
Ing limited strictly to 100 copies They nave 1uSE re
notes on Iho work ad Will include them III this editlo
They have never yet been pnblheo
In London q few weeks ago Blake's " BooA |
OF Tel" with eight engraved PAGES 1851 was SOU ~
auction for $40 25 CunninghGms " Life Of Blake" IN
Nc fetched s33O and Blakc's Book of Job" $780,
ret of Rushn's Modern Painters" uncut, described III
newspaper The first edition. but whether al
the first is not stated, went for oy
1923 which, If all were first was extremely low; BrS
keIyles edition of vigil proofs brtorc ret'[gs IioG
brought Slo7 80. N,si'S " Mansions VI England" inc |
Tour volumes, sold Tor S3oo
A suit for copyright has been won in Paris |
nv Nj Calmnrn Levy proprietor Of the works Of LOUIS
Blame Elgar A. Poe an Henri Murser, extracts from
which The RcreH newspaper began last January 10 PRINT
without authority and sometimes without even an ne
Acknowledgement. Of The NJ. Levy having protested
against his IN" RcreU offered to pay the uuat price OF
five centincs per line Ter the privilege OF using hem
but he declined pay damages on the ground tha INC
sal. OF me w0ks WCu.d hr helped rather than jhf'd
by the extracts The Court WIS Of another iiad ana
lned the Rc,H Gao francs ana tie costs or the SUIT
The meeting this year OF the international
Literary Congress viii DO the third that has been held
The place Of meeting Lisbon and the time june 10 g,
these having selected response TO an invitation
FROM the King Of Portugal who desired that men OF
letters from ali nations should visit Lisbon during Inc
third centennial anniversary in honor OF the poet
Camoens, which takes place III June. cardinal pfln-
cpe OF the the right of an author TO bis
work IN foreign countries well as in his own and 1t
desires that the Lisbon Congress the American meu
bers shall I've able 10 show what the sentiment Of this
country on the subject Of international copyright
T. ally Is. Tie Congress expects that the leading pub
ehers will al! scr4 their opinIons Some OF thrin It 10
Understood, have are4qV expressed thlr N.cwS u" 'e
nss0rictrn in Paris says: r. H. not too much 10 s2v
tBc time Is rape tor she enactment Oh genera law,
rquuy operative III al countries. Cs'a9 is'lns ne
rsLt OF Tie an'aor everywhere as thoroughly as III Ills
own land"
What Mr. Haliwell-P Phillips will find during
his searches Life of Shakespeare in tat se!cs OF
folio volumes of his which lie Intends 10 heGD, If health
strength and inclination permit, i would I've hard to
conjecture. H. admits that a Life without CORE
81 Ondencc without details OF conversation and without
Guy ful contemporary delneatiOns of character must
nee ssaiiy frameutary" What he can do, he says
Is 10 give details respecting in the
tine of the poet notices OF the members OF his fam
iy," tbs persons with whom he associated" " the
books be used" tho stage which he acted" " the
estates ho purchased" the houses aud towns in which
he resiled" and "the country through which he trav
eled." Mr. BalliwcllPhillipps is not disposed. how
ever 10 permit anything unpleasant about the poet to
the light Though his agency. H." lie says, "
thought that remote cnance OF a
revelation that would EXHIBIT Shak spearc the light
OF one who could in fairness be termed bad man.
my inQuistive researches would not be continued"