New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-10
LITERARY NOTES.

F.. vo.,, pso,ye NJ October IL will contain
ar ,,or,roits If Miss Mollie Garfield and her two
brothers. together with the story OF the late rIee
dents boyhood told by Mr.. George Cary Ees'o''o..
ME- p Poe's new story. Without nome
modd Mead g. Co. is nearly ready. IL uea,'
measure with the life of the poor IN new
touches upon several modern ana very 49,,
prob,ems. The rnorpha or opium haoi'' 'nu We.
uent- bonse question, and other phases VI "'' ~
which Mr.. Roe ha. studied during tne 'nieo
which he has devoted TO the preparation Oh Io OooA
ere wrought into the plot
Mr. HILBERT II. Bancroft, of San Francisco has just
coopeted fire-proof library building Tor MS pr'-
vate library of Pacific Coast books. wmch no"
numbers 80 900 volumes, and has become specially
rich in original manuscript material Tor history
The publication of the history OF the Pac'hc Sta'eS.
ON which Mr. Bancroft has been engaged for the past
twelve years, will be begun next year. Inc series
will include histories of Central America, Mexico,
New.Mexico and Arizona, California, Utah and
Nevada, Oregon, Washington, ldaho anu Nion'"""'
British Columbia and Alaska
"A Friendly Warning to European Emigrants
mo, IN Come 10 America is the benevolent title OF
a hook in Spanish by Llanos y Alcaraz, writer
who was bani shed from Mexico and has found an
asvlum in this city, Mexican gentleman, whose
.d;orotion seems to be aroused describes the book
nc brozen libel perfect amalgam OF sophlstry
and ecotisp strongly smacking OF Qulxotisih ana
ingratitude to the country of his adoption Among
the assertions of this amiable exile may De louhu
the statement that "the Presidents of the United
States are dicators without any constitutional re-
straint whatsoever"
twas lucky moment III the posthumons career
of Captain John Smith when Mr.. Charles Dudley
Warmer resolved TO write the story of his eventfu
o,x1 xuin N
Uenrv Holt g. Co. in few days. 1t is said that MI
Warner first approached the subject III shsh'ly II
reverent spirit. At a distance Captain John and the
fa;r Pocohontas seemed to offer splendid target tor
tho onant ANALYSIS and fresh, descriptive hulnor OF
the antbor of "My Summer in Garden anu
"Rack .op Studies" But the nearer he came ai'eI
many weeks of research, to the authentic recoiuS Vi
Smiths career, the stronger grew an awakened ue-
sire 70 see how Captain John Smith would look
,+r;nned of romance aud fable and reduced to fact
The work is therefore serious history, but it will be
strange if a great deal of dry humor has not mXeu
itself ND with Mr.. Warmers version OF the uhVar-
nished facts
The ayoirdupois quality of German humor must
be well exemplifed in Berlin COLLECTION Oh JOKES
conscious and unconscious perpetrated IN tne uer-
man Parliament in the last fifteen years 10 Juuse
NV the following samples: DR.. Schwartz observed
tjves of this proposal, though unknown TO him.
were vet fully in accordance with his VIEWS" herr
von Vincke expressed his agreement with pre-
y;ous sneaker: 81 think just as he does In TINS
matter. am exactly in the position In whlch L
am Dr Fllissen once remarked, The proposal
of the honorable member has either no meaning OF
II has meaning" II have supported" SAID herr
Scbraps "Dr Reineke's proposal, and will vote Tor
II. but shall be very much pleased, nevertheless
the House rejects it," Herr Redecker discussing
nroposal for the complete isolation OF cholera pa-
tients. doubted whether it would not be surer
preventive to kill off the first cholera patients AT
once : but we have hardly come to that yet. Dr'
scbveitzer: 1--WE live in a country where the police
are ALWAYS with us, before us, and behind us, and
in our midst"
correspondent who had heard that the incidents
and anecdotes of Turgeneirs novels were, to a
great extent, founded upon facts inquired OF me
Idterorv WorM if the following alluson 10 Mrs.
stowe in "Smoken was based upon something more
snhstantisl than the imagination of the Russian
outhor. al have a still better story, though, to
toll von about Tenteleef. lie always has been a
terrible tyrant you know, though he calls himself
tie friend of emancipation. One day he was In a
drayinp-room in Paris when Mrs Beecher Stowe
the author of Uncle Toms Cabin you know. en-
tered. Being exceedingly vain, Tenteleef asked the
host to present him to Mrs. Stowe As soon as she
heard his name she rebuked him with these words {:
How dare you present yourself before the author
of "Unce Tolnw Leave at once! and she gave him
slap in the face" To this the Editor OF The Liter
orv World replied: This whole story is sheer fab
ricatlon We are authorized to say that Mrs. stowe
never saw the individual named, never even heard
of him. Nothing like the incident ever occurred
nothing out of which such story could be con-
strncted 1t is sufficient to say that nobody who
knows the author of Uncle Toms Cabin personal
" vould for a moment entertain the anecdote as
having a vestige of truth"