New-York tribune., 1880-02-14
LITERARY NOTES.

MoliAre Society has been estaolsned III
Vienna. ii,
Victor Hugo, says an English report WI,
aeon publish two volumes one OF 'neiu W po '"
.Toute Ia Ivre and another Religions ct RehRion.
Mr. Howells's Undiscovered Country" Will
,ananv he completed IN the April Atlantic. and about
the tne that number is out 1t Will appear III oo"A 0
The author of "Ginx's Baby" has new
work in the press which he calls "Ben changes 'ne
Head
Mr.. Arnold's Light of Asa" has been said
To be In its fifth London edition Thsis mistake ony
the second edition has been reached In LONDON wh"o
tho American reprint published by Roberts Bohers'
has already gone to nlntn.
pubisber in Paris has decided TO collect
the fugitive sketches that the late earicaturst C"S
into a volume which he calls "Donze Annees COmlques
There are Ia all about 1000 drawings
Mr.. Froude's lectures on South Africa nave
already been translated Dutch The people OF hof
lard II Is said heartily svmpathze with Mr. Froudes
and have much more interest III tne Drsn
ings In the Transvaa than In the Eastern question:.
Mr.. Lewis Morris, the author of "'Ihe Epic
=, Hades and who is no relation to William Morris. the
author of The Earthly Paradise" has in press new
poem entitled Ode of Life" which is subdlvidea
into about twelve odes on Infancy, Chlohooo iou'n'
Manhood, Womanhood, etc.
The undertaking to establish London puo-
,.h,ne compapy ON the business Chapman Hall has
and one of books that the new house
will publish is Life of late Mr.. DeIane. Editor OF
The Times of London which mas peen Pgepnreu popcsd ~
contain interesting letters from Loro fameTeVon'
II is affirmed that the new circulating
library about to established in London, near the eros
yenor Gallery. will givcSto authors chance which
Smiths and Mudes do not Of getting their works INTO
circulation AS circulating libraries are now ordered IN
London there is little likelihood that an obscure author
will get to be much known through ther insuuinen'
tality.
Macmillan for February will have the novel
feature of an account the in Zuuand by his Maj
.stv Cetvwayo together with history of the country,
which has been preserved only In the memories OF sue
ceeding kings and ndunas. The narrative was taken
down from the lips of Cetywayo by the ocer VINO took
him from Zululand TO Cape Town and VINO mas hin no"
in charge.
The passage in Henry James's Hawthorne"
In which he speaks he never had seen Fanshawe
is as follows: 1t was issued anonymously, but he so
repented OF his venture that he annhiated the edition.
of which, according 10 Mr.. Lathrop, not half dozen
copies are known to be extant' have seen none OF
these rare volumes, and know nothing OF Banshawe
but what the writer just quoted relates An account
is then given OF the story with extract, all of which,
including the extract is taken from Mr.. Lathrops
Study Of Hawthorne" The American editions OF Haw.
thorne's works all include Fanshawe ana the "orh
is well known 10 American readers
OF William r. Ayers History of the Doc
tr,ne of Future Life" which has become the
property of Messrs. Roberts Brothers, ten edl'
tions have been published. The author, who
has given ten years OF his life TO the work.
found 1t difficult first to obtain publisher but at
last secured one Mr. George W Chds, who on being
applied to at once the Importance OF work Which
has since become standard authority on the subject
throughout the world The author has recently added
several chapters bringing the work down to the present
time and Mr. Abbotts exhaustive catalogue OF the NJ
erature doctrine of future ie containing tEe
titles Of more than 5000 works, with 1t as sup
plement to the new edition