New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-09-15
LITERARY NOTES.

Tho valuable library Of Bowdoin College Is
.rferinc from neglect The rooms 1t oeenleS J" N'NS
1bao-l are said to very damp, and colony OF mouse
rats have acquired taste for the mn'lnEs Oh h"''
quar,cs.
The pcint of view has much to do Win
,frenccs IN literary ciit;cism Tic Boston courier
records this higoted opinion Of boy al t"eiNe ."
Co,ner's novels: Cooper fixes bis books up pretty
well; he doesn't have much girl IN them as Seo"
does IN his.
Uarper & Brothers will issue the Americas
,a,,on Of Dr. solIiemann's =" HOS" Thev have pub
,ishrd a summary @! the history ~ the hep"o"'.'
party and the onti-slavery victory entitled ie,"p,'
ran or Democrat Retrospect" II Is designed 10 ~
"a Republican campaign t,XtO'Ih
Mrs. John i. Sargcnts volume OF sketches
Of the Chestnut street Radical Cub has been somewhat
scovaa hy the abundance material necesSai! 10 oe
sfed BUTT viii appear during Inc autumn, anu WI
contain ex;rac's frow unpub shed letters Vi N"'"'
Sumner, Charlotte Cnshman and DINERS
When the American publishers OF Dickenss
"Modfoe PapeIs" tIeury iiolt & Coz followed the
,ext OF tine uc page Of the English edition 10 we e.
Zoe, that the pauers were NOW first collected theF
were unawsrc that two ont OF tie seven ropcrs Ia"
boeu pub.isned IN Carietoh's cation o. pi'he"s'
A Danish scholar, while browsing among
TIC seven hundred Thousand volumes in the Royal
library at dusty French DOCK o''"
Jvon 1919 aud containing nine forgotten forces OF te
Renaissance pcrlcd which have awakened coDsderspIc
interest Onc - by C.eacat Msrc tho Cnan0 r 'ih "i
fTaucls ].
The Amer Abdurrahman, III converse
sot,an with ala English correspondent SAID oi the teia-
,ure If Afshauisian AS DSuon i. would not be so
,nc 100 far TO say the Afsnans Ncy hierac; lew
bcsles fhr rrie>ts can write their or any other ian
cuage For dis may ohs I've. there Is some explain"
non in the fact Of PusT being for the most $40
ken language coln paravely few books being written ID
II. Tho literature II the Try is FOR the most par III
tae Persian language aud - coufped to tho prcSthoou
ana rho wcai;v classes Tho hooks written il FuSbiU
liz Afghan au CHIEFLY on theology, p''ucdl TO
manccs and on aistory hut the number 81 au'h"s H
and thc copies oi ibcI 7OIks are cohuno" ~ VIZ
limited circulation
On Friday last Judge y. w. Touigee had
written the as, sheet copy for Bricks without
Straw" The printers kept pace with him. and ms pup
hshers Fords, Howard Hubert, expect to begn 10
Issue next week the first youmcs of first edition OF
10000 copies. The an.hor has applied himself win
remarkable en- rgy to his tasS lie began the book IN
Denver hut tho writing mood deserted nm then nc
went 10 luada in search o. sccusOn aud the adVah-
rages OF Engsh copyright. The latter he gained but
literary stimulus SIN failed lim. When he arrived 'h
Nec-York Oh August J. ana secluded himself IN Eleventh
ST ONLY SIX CHAPTERS If tic hook mad en fully written
IN contains siXty-twO chapters Judge Ionreee mas
lsen eager to The DOCK OF lis hands, ana 10 enter c
canvas on Saturday last he started Tor Indianapolis
AMI viii so yls., General Garfield az Mentor.