New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-13
LITERARY NOTES.

A"R;rtbdav Book of American Poets" eu''ou ~ ~
.in,;ra 7 HAYWARD is published by James !"
oscood & Co. There is a blank page 10 every pos
t,,s aud the selections are made In goou '
hook of Sunday reading for the young. prep m
T.. N. Moeaulav and published by A. ~ f. No"
s,,rh g 20 il called "All True" and contains
roonras af adventure by sea and land, accounts VI
missionary enterprisesand descriptions oi 'n' "''
ders OF nature. A.,
Tho chair of Modern French Literature az Tue
Coi,ooa of France is vacant. Ii NJ Assoi"n' 70
o,acted by the pro fessors to srceeed NJ a"i
no will receive about $1,000 year for "oi''''"e
two lectures wcck for part OF the year. .,or,,
N,s Martha J. Lamb has completed hr h','o's
os rho C,tv of Ncw-Yoik" on which enc ""' ,r,
engaged for the greater part OF fourteen S'"'1 49,.
first volume was published year "so "' u .sos G.
n,.cs of the second volume, whieh A. % -
Co have been issuing III lno"'''''
curing the present nIoDtn c,.
monument to Goethe is being eTecteo Ill va" n, -.
"a e. ,,mops vatering-place of Bohemia INC
native Czechs despise German literature d.,
,l &c ,bcv 40 the rule of German Austria Du'
C'.Iha,, In, ccpouer,ng race and luxury have
FACED native prejudice, and the park IN WINCH ','
'.'',,,o,t win staud has long been called the
Goethe Meadow
Mr S,ynlurue writes 70 lilt L ans '''FF
yo,do, Times, making merry over the pane .,
49,, ho,n,, ,ivan in Endyrnion" TO an eXiieu
n1rch whom the reader is expected 10 ADMIRE i'o
.,r,sfs that Lord Beaconsheid forgot WIN "''
w. ,,otbor Int he himself seems 10 iorge' 'D"'
~. oro,dnother was also an Agnppina anu was
beloved by the Romans.
The 81 rim police have been ransacA'nS '"0 ooo
600 If tbe German capital and SEEING every '''
,,,o nj the poet IIene, containing MS
d,cbte.v The rand is probably aimed a' '0 po'' .
O." Soi,lc.s Icp,udc" which SCOTS at IfHs'."n hrt'
IA d.ois unkipdly with Frederick "ilt'n w.
thcrgl This particular monarch dld not '"'"" -
worth while iopopu,dyizs tie poem oy a''oi'p''''s
70 suppress il. n..
qhost,,-, old Frederick William l. odmomshed 'ne
t,ors of Frederick the Great that the crown '','o
n,pst pot be taught the lingo the Greeks anu Nv
,nas spoke their fraction OF sense ana h"hs0n9 ''-
al have heard jadgcs say," he declares '"'' -
-. i,for,or in real worth and gIst TO German
I,,.o-r.,,tnq We have had, if the couGsca'cd pc
al ,o,,l5 b,y. discovered it. At any r'tethey are
d,d luyicd deep these 1000 years ard wen ou'
of,,,r, -ar. and there J. nonsense enough Oh our
o.pl.rt Il, Keep sweeping INTO corners" Oh history
11,er.ed thqt the .iuce Should be taught ancient
istory c.!y S. l;y, but the history OIL 'ie i'S' Low
wears 20 the eXoctest pich.
Admirers of the great work and sturdy ch.Iac'er
of,r Livingstone, and the world Is lnl OIL .uo",'
vii r,t tr,r, the pages of Dr.. William o. b'ak,
"porsoral I,fs Of David Livingstone uiarPer I"
urotbers) with unm.x cd delight. IL some over
.lous cburcbIncn were once inclined to view Win
o. 6i.trust the aims OF a missionary WHO 'Hn'"
explorer it would occur to few persons IN TINS Gay
hat DIR. Iiv1Dcstoncs life as man and Christian
needed any apology. Tie evident purpose OF
ths volume IS to drpel lghoiahce Vi
doubt AS to the strength of his affections. the depth
and purity OF Ills devotion or the intensity OF HIS
aspiratloDs as q Christian missionary The au nor
las had access to unpublished journals and much
itrp,rtant correspondence bat the too lew extracts
fr,n hls letters seem to bear most upon his CHRIS
t,an sentiments and his form of expressing piety IN
words These are good. but one would like more
exiracts throwing Light on the worldly SIDE
Of his character. SD far as he had worldly
side Dr. BiaikiGs purpose Is apparent, III
his keepinr in view 81 the difference between
merely worldly enterprises and missionary uhoer-
t,kircs for the coed of the Void, and his aliusoh
tosooe of the extracts rs of profound interest as
;,dioatino an iportant transition from the ideas OF
. more missionary lab1rcr to those of missionary
oonoral or state>mlu." DR.. Blaikie has had the
ASSISTANCE. in the way of furnishing materials from
members of the explorers family, and the Had
yiscd wishes OF fond relatives are occasionally iet
IN the de1rncnt OF the book-most uOticeaGy IN the
publcation OF four staDZas written by the ex-
p,orers wife as a greeting Or his return from
Africa. Thcy reveal the loving wife but as poetry
il is such as one might print If ones enemy mad
written ii.