New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-10
LITERARY NOTES.

The publication of Mr.. d. G. Rossetti's new vol
unse is postponed till the autumn.
Mr. Furnivall is compiling photography of the
poet Browning for the new Browning Society.
Professor Wmchcll is giving the finishing touches
10 new book entitled Chips from q Biologists
Hammer
Dean Stanley it is stated has left among. his lit
erary remains diary which may. possibly adlnit Oh
publ cation.
Tho Duke Of Manchester and Sir Edward Sullivan
contribute strong protectionist articles to he Mae
tenth Ccnt0y.
Mr.. A. c. swinburne has written a poem called
"rhc Statue of Victor Hugo" and it is about to APP
pear in The GentlemaR's Magazine.
Among the MSS. added to the Bibotheque Nation
ale IN 1880 is a collection of letters of Alfred lie
Musset enclosed ia sealed chest, which is not to
be opened before the year 1910.
1t is announced that Lord Derby will soon issue
the correspondence which passed between his father
aud Lord Beaconsfed; many of the letters of the
latter date back to his early political days
Professor Jowetts new translation of "Thucy-
dides is to be followed at once by edition of
his translation of "The Republic of Plato" which
contains analysis and introduction not less
markable than the features OF the newer work.
The reading public will be glad to learn that Miss
Blanche w. Howard on her return voyage TO
America brings with her the manuscript of new
story, which she will publish with Messrs. James II.
Osgood 81 Co. in October next. Her long silence
will intensity the interest with which the
TO the favorite One Summer" is awaited.
The CkrysdRthemum is the title of n monthly
magazine published at Yokohama, partly in Japa-
nese in Roman type by native writer's, and partly
in English. Its avowed purpose is to encourage
close relations between Japan and the Western
world. The flower from which it takes it's name,
according to a native tradition, contains in its
heart dewy juice which is the real elixir of life.
Professor Bluntochli, of Heidelberg, has just re-
ceived double compliment from the far Orient
which may well touch his pride an auth and
lawyer. 1t in the form of n copy OF the
Chinese edition of his ALgenepes StddtsrCcht, which
was translated at the cost OF the Chinese Govern
ment and translation into Japanese of DGS
node7pe IokStrrech ais Rechtsbch, the latter having
been made by Japanese who has been studying at
heidelberg
The present Lord Lyttop's popular romance in
verse, of Lucille first published in 1860 when he
twenty-nne, and which made his pseudonym
"Owen Meredith" widely known has been con-
verted by James r. Osgood ~ Co. into a beautiful
holiday book for the coming season. In form it is
royal octave of over $50 pages, and great atten-
ton has been paid to the illustrations, 100 in
number, the work of fourteen artists. The volume
will be issued early in September.
The AhenGam states that the fourth Congress of
the International Literary Association will be held
at Vienna, between the Goth and the Goth of
September. Among the topics which will be dis
cussed are The progress made toward the adoption
of the associations principles in recent International
literary conventions the uniformity of legislation
concerning literary property by the several German
States; Russian legislation regards literary prop
erty; copyright conventions between nations
speaking the tongue, such Great Britain
or,1r hs,1 1r,frn toto and
While the Congress is in session the members will
be entertained at banquet by the municipality Of
Vienna.
A Mississippi correspondent of The Springfield
Republican has been investigating the reading habit
of the Southern people, and finds that rs per cent
of the bookstors trade at the South is in school
books; 10 per cent in professional books per
cent in cheaply bound fiction, leaving only 10 per
cent for general literature, such poetry travel,
fiction, history, etc. OF the latter women are the
principal buyers. As n rule when man buys
book it is technical professional book.
Everywhere The FOOLS Errand has had large
sale and 1t is bought yet. SO far asccrtainabe
Jefferson Davis's Rise and Fall of the Confederate
Government has been bought almost exclusively
by professional men, and not as largely as in the
North or even in the West"
Robert Browning has written l CO poems of from
21,116 lines to four lines in length beside his prose
essay Shelley the Poet Objective and Sub
jectve," etc, in 1852. 1t is pretty well known that
Mr.. Browning in 1871. departed from his general
rule, of not publishing any of his pieces in period
calls, for the sake of getting f1OO for the fund for
feeding Paris after the siege. But only close
students of him know of his earlier breangs of his
rule in 1914 aud 1916, when in order to help poor
Hood in the distressing illness which ended in his
deatd, Mr.. Browning let him have, for Hoods Mdga-
zine of July, 1874, Garden Fancies-(1) The
Flowers Name, ~ Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis" !;
for the August number of the same year. Tho Boy
and the Augel" in its first state for the number of
March, 1S45, The Tomb at st. Praxed's y; and for
April, 1916 Hood died on May 81 the first part of
" The Flight of the Duchess"