New-York tribune., 1881-09-12
LITERARY NOTES.

Miss Blanche Howard is revising the manuscript
of her pew novel at Wlscasset. Mass.
Mr.. William II. Gibson's beautiful book Pastoral
Days" is out of print at Harper & Brothers, VINO
ale at work upon a edition which VIII Do reaoy
IN five or six weeks
Jansen McClurg & Co.. ofChicago' have receiVeu
into their firm MIR. Edward Cook. who ior 'ho p"e'
thirteen years has been the general western aeen'
ef lvison, Brakeman, Taylor ~ 90.
George Naedonald's new story, Warlock o. Glen
warlock.v which has been appearing as a monthly
suppement to Vide A,ccke, is now issued In cloth
Inv ID Lothrop & Co. Also, Harrer e. Brothers
publish it in the Franklin Square Library.
The new series of readers published by j. b. Lip
pincott e. Co.. and compiled by Mr.. Marcus Wilson,
are on a novel plan. thread of story runs through
the higher books of the Desirable selections
from standard authors are interviewer with the
story.
Colonel T. w. Higginson, who is q chivalrous
advocate of Woman Suffrage, has a book
in the press of Lee & Shepard entitled Common
Sense About Women" A part of the matter is new
and part has been selected from his published
ticles on the subject.
The american Art Reuiec for August Estes &
Lauriat) contains several admirable wood engrav-
ings in particular John p. Daviss engraving of
Walter Shirlaw's " Eager for the Fray 4" and a fine
etching, "A Burro Train. New-Mexico. by Peter
Moran. The article on Walter Shrlaw, by T. III.
Bartlett is concluded in this number.
Parts 13. Ii and Is of Professor Georg Ebers's
Egypt: Descriptive, Historical and Picturesque -
tCassell, Peter. Galpin d Co.. ready, and are
embelshed with great variety of fine wOodcuts.
The subjects treated are Cairo in its Decadenco
and THE Regeneration of Egypt" and the chapter
on "The Resurrection of the Antiquities" is begun.
Mr.. Edmund o Donovan. the pucky correspond
ent of The London Daily Neos, who was recently a
HE nnI Ixxint tx-r,tn
q book about the Turcomans 1t is said the leading
London publishers are bidding heavily against each
other for the book and that for it has already
been offered than Mr. Stanley received for " How
Found Livingstone"
NJ Zola has made original discovery i'll the
ethics of literature, which he reveals in his last
Figaro essay. He is profoundly convinced that
REALISM purifes thr heart, and that what is sup
posed to be characteristic evil of French society
be traced directly to the baneful influence of
ideal romances like George Sands Indiana" and
Octave Feuillet's Romance of a Poor Young Man."
Miss Sanborn Is preparing a volume to aid stu
dents of literature which will be called Kate San
born's Round Table" She has also invented the
plan of small work, entitled Purple and Gold, :"
which James X. Osgood & Co. are publishing. 1t
will be a collection of poems on golden rod and as
ter, printed on heavy cream paper with marginal
designs by Miss Rosina Emmett. Several of the
poems Will be new, including one by Miss Edna
Dean Proctor to lead the collection.
Mr. p. b. Watsons photography of the Pre-
Columbian Discoveries of America makes nearly
eighteen pages of The Library Journal for August
and is a work of great research and corresponding
value There nine claims discovery before
Columbus, resting upon documentary evidence
which roughly stated are: ~ by the Chinese in
499; t2l Northmen, 1OOO-1347; (3) Arabs, about
1925; az Welsh, 1170; (5l Venetians. 1880; (6)
Portuguese, 1863; (7l Poles, 1476; (sl Martin Be
hahn. 1883; (9) Cousin of Dieppe, 1888.
Mr.. Lawrence Barretts book on Edwin Forres
being the first volume of the " American Actor
Series" announced by Messrs. J. r. Osgood & Co.,
of Boston, will be published this month. "The
Jeffersons" by William Winter, will appear in
October; 1.-THE Elder and the Younger Booth" by
Mrs. Asia Booth Clarke. will be ready in November
and the volume Charlotte Cushman by Mrs.
Clara Erskine Clement is promised for December
Other volumes of this series have been written OF
are i'll preparation. by Mr.. Joseph n. Ireland Mr.
Thomas j. McKee, Miss Kate Field, Mr. Augustin
DAILY, Mr.. Laurence Hutton, and other authors
The October number will complete the first series
of Scribnes Monthy, which thereafter will be known
"a The Century Magazine. Before the first number
of this second series appears The Century Company
will be settled in its spacious quarters i'll the
handsome new building on the north side of Union
Square. With the change in the title the publishers
anu editors are endeaVor1ng TO usher IN improve
mens in the literary art and mechanical features of
the magazine. The page will be somewhat longer
and wider, admitting pictures of larger size and
increasing the reading matter Some of the leading
features of The Century for the first year will be
American novel by Mr.. Howells dealing with
types of character to this authors books, and
describing scenes of the East aud West Mrs. Fran
ces HOdgson Burnett will contribute a story of
Washington life entitled Through One Admin
istration." Mr.. George w Cables history of New
Orleans of which there has already been gossip
proves to be series of Studies of the Louisiana
Creoles" which Will be printed in the magazine. A
Life of Bewick," the engraver, by Austin Dobson
will be a contribution of Importance and interest.
In brief series of paers Mrs. Mary Hallock Foote
will describe, by words and her own drawings her
recent " Diligence Journey in Mexico" Mr.. z. c..
Stedman will continue his admirable papers on
Poetry and Poets in America" Turgeneff, the
novelist. is relied upon for paper Russia of to-
day. Papers by w. II. Rideing, describing the
"rcenes of Thackeray's Novels" will follow the
series on the of Dckens's novels series
on Representative English Men and Women will be
begun III the November number by Mr.. Frederick
Myers's paper on George Eliot, which will be Illus
trated by ali engraving of etched portrait by
Rajon.