New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-02-11
LITERARY NOTES.

The "Life and Letters of Frances Baroness
Bunsen" have for several weeks been out OF print ana
<eor.c Routledce Sons announce as ready ne" lid
prrssODs of both editions
Tho coming Volumes in the New Plutarch
Series of G. r. Putnam's Sons, arc jean OF Arc oy
Janet Inckey: Victor Emmanuel" by Edward Dlcey'
and " Haroun al Raschid." by f. H. Palmer. new
volume Will be added by the same publishers "
the series OF Kniekerbocker Novels It's te 6eins Inc
Heart Of It," and its author W. o. StoddaId'
One of the chief attractions of the forth
coming March number of Harper's Aa0asine VIII De
"A Winter Idyl" written aud illustrated by William H.
Gibson IL ia prose article, concerning the pleasures ana
familiar associations of Winter; and those who remem
Der Mr. Giosons Snug Hamlet and Hometown" in the
ORA wings from Which the Winter Idy Will be Illus
traed, exceedingly beautiful
1t is SAID of Edmond About, that after hav-
ing devoted himself since the Franco-Prussian war 10
politics and public affairs. lie has been induced as
practical protest against the Zola School, 10 return
once more to literature and accordingly has begun
the publication of work which he calls inc Roman
d, nm Brave Homme" One instalment only has yet
appearc but from this Pari, correspondent CT me
Times UnndOn) Judges that his hand has ID no way
lost its cunning"
Mr.. Halliwel- Phillips, the Shakespeare
scholar has published another small pamphlet on the
last signature Shakespeare to his will He says
distinguished scholar has pointed out to him the
obvious fact which curOusly enough has escaped the
notice OF former writers, that the character following
the letter is a contraction for which In snake
.peare's day well known and accepted as such All
Of which If confirmed. 20 10 show mat Tue lohEeI
form of the poets name is the correct one
Some time this month Dodd, Mead a. Co.
expect 20 have ready their larecpaper edition OF lie
Print Collector" edited by Mr.. Robert Hoe. Jr'' "i
which only fifty copies are to be sold several ne"
Illustrations will be added while the Amand-Darand
reproductions and the three etchngs which werr con-
triued 10 the work by Mr. j. L. Sabn, VIII all be re-
tained. The latter have been printed VIII special care
on anc India paper. One of Mr. Sabin's etchingS-the
the River lhiines-ls from an OiSin"i sNS'N"
made by him last Summer
The two addresses which were delivered In
the German language before the Evangelical Alliance
at Basic Ia September last, by delegates from the
American Church. have appeared in English dress in
New-YOrk. The one by the Rev. Dr. Philip schan' on
the stale of the American Church." has been Issued
as document OF the American Branch Of the EVarge-
cal Alliance The address OF the Rcy Or. JOhn T.
Hurst. on Christian Union Necessary for Religious
Progress and Defence has just been issued from the
press of Phillips & Hunt, Of New-YOrk Both papers
now appear In larger form, and supplied with fuller
notes than when originally delivered at the Basic ses-
sion Of the Alliance.
Alexander II. Japp, Seotchman who has
written chiefly under the nom de plume OF H. A.
Page" prepared some years for an English puOhsher
avolume OF stories from Hawthorne, with bograph-
Ical and critical sketch of Hawthorne, to which ohee
ton was taken at the time by members OF HawthOrhes
family. The AhenGuB,, in a recent notice OF Henry
new alluded to this sketch as " Me
moir of Nathaniel Hawthorne" which calls out from MI
Japp card explaining that tue purpose OF his volume
was msreprescuted by change which the publishers
made III its title against his wishes, he writing at me
time that elf fault found the publishers must
bear the blame" Moreover TINT when he heard OF the
affections taken by nwthorue's family, the book hav
ing then only announced he offered to Withdraw u
and surrender what had been paid him for ms LABOR
provided arrangements could be maze wlth lhe pun
hshers.
Professor Dowden finds SOuthey's life, even
for the life OF "a man OF letters extremely uneventful
A dozen events and the names Of the books he pub
lshed furnish the leading facts of it. Had be been
a worse or a weaker man, we might look to hnd mys'
teries picturesque vices engaging foliesi as It Is
everything is plain. straightforward. substantial" II
lie the unity purpose in southeys life that makes 1t
eminent and singular, well its persistent devo
ton to chosen Object its simplicity. purity loyalty
fortiiude kndliness truth" There no man OF his
time who lived completely In ana for literature
Literature was his means OF earning daily bread as
welt as his OF satisfying his highest ambitions
aud desires, and all this as true of him at forty.
fifty and sixty, as 1t had been at twenty-five While
there is not perhaps any siugle work OF Southeys
the loss Of which would be felt by capital mis-
fortune" considers the total of his work lite
mass and Its high excellence the more one must regard
il as memorable, and extraordinary achievement