New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-14
LITERARY NOTES.

Roberts Brothers will soon publish Hector"
novel by Miss Shaw the author of Castle Biair'
Mr. Swinburne is the author of the Walter Savage
Lander article IN The Encyclopedia Britannica
Miss Dudu Fletcher, the author of "Kismet" ana
"The Head of Medusa," has translated the soiin0''
of the Venetian lady, Gaspara Stampa'
The third volume of the Comte de PARIS MS
tory of the Civil War in America winch Is no''ii'
ready describes the Virginia campaigns.
The uooaziue of American History for September
contains spirited account Of the Massacre al OIL
Criswold," by Charles Burr Todd. and a SKETCH 10
"Tbe Ledyard Family" by the Editor, John Austin
Stevens
Another volume of the exhaustive Bible Com
mentaryv edited by Canon Cook of Exeter, has been
;ssued by Charles Scribner's Sons 1t is the third
volume devoted to the New Testament and includes
Romans to Philemon.
ION a Raft and Through the Desert" Mr. Iris
tram j. Elliss illustrated narrative of an artists
Journey by the Tigris to Mosu and Bagdad, and OF
return journey the desert has been received
by Scribner & Wexford.
An entirely new edition of the poems of Oliver
Wendell Holmes is in preparation at Houghton,
Mifin & Co.'s. 1t will be handy volume edi-
ton containing his new poems; the old poems have
been revised and rearranged by the author.
Thackeray's ballad, THE Chronicle of the Drum"
lends itself easily to pr0fuse aud spirited llustra-
ton, as Charles Serbner's Sons are proving in a
auarto edition of the ballad, which they have had
in preparation for several months, and which will
be their chief holiday book. Several of the leading
artists and engravers Of the country have contrib
u, ed to the work
"Chatterbox Junior" is O pictorial holiday book
that r. Worthington publishes at this early date
because 1t has qualities that will wear" through
the entire season. Young people, who are, a mat
ter of course, fond of pictures will have hard work
to exhaust its pictorial interest. The reading mat
ter is partly selected with the aim of amusing and
instructing, and much of it is original with the ed
itors Edward Willett, Joshua Kendall Miss Pollard
and 9th rs.
The Catholic World is the third American magazine
to invade Great Britain and Ireland with regular
transatlantic edition. 1t will begin this new VEN
ture by extra edition of five thousand copies of
the ctrber number, which, among other interest
ing features, will contain q tribute by Cardinal
Manning to the memory of the late Lady Blanche
Murphy and sharp review of ii. HIS "A Century
of Dishonor" by person who is said to have had
great experience among the Indians.
1t good news for the readers of st. Nicholas that
fits editor, Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge, has written a
serial story for the magazine to be called Donald
and Dorothy" which is said to be novel in plot and
full of action This is the first long story Mrs.
Dodge has written since her Hans Brinker, or the
Silver Skates" gave young Americans glimpse of
the life of boys and girls in Holland. The story was
translated INTO Dutch and French The Rev. Ed
ward Eggeston, whose "Hoosler Schoomaser'
made his reputation as a novelist, has written a
story called THE Hoosier School-Boy" for the st.
Nicholas boys.
Apropos of a recent poem by Mr.. Swinburne in
The Atheneum, The Ueekly Register publishes three
unpleasant paragraphs concerning the late Captain
Trelawny. When man is Just dead it seems pity
TO rake up stories which tell against him even if
like the story of the mcOvering of Byrons corpse
they happen to be true but it is something more
than pity to peTpetuate them when they de-
monstrably false Dickens" says The Weekly Regis
ter, used to tell dreadful story. which, if rcnem
Der right he had from Leigh Hunt to the effect that
when the heart lof Shelley was found unconsumed
Trelawny and Byron played at football with it, by
way of Wanting their disrespect for fe death and
humanity" The IaU MoI Gazette does not care
much for third-hand hearsay biography, even when
its details less revolving than this and it thinks
little respect for death and humanity" would
have suggested the suppression of this paragraph.
The detailed accounts of the cremation of Shelley
given by both Hunt and Treawny himself leave no
doubt that this is dreadful story" only in the
Juvenile sense of the latter word. 1t was the hand
of Treawny, says TheGd;ete that snatchcd from the
flame the cordiam which now lies at Boscombe,
and to suppose that he would the heart of his
friend only to treat it with nhuman outrage is in
credible, quite apart from the abundant evidence
which proves it to be false.