New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-17
LITERARY NOTES.

ss...s IL nearly ready at Houghton, Mtfhin q Co.'S
.The Comet of Season" Is the peculiar title OF
~, Justin McCarthy's story which is giving Iresn-
Gees to The Gsmtlemams Aagas'"e'
Professor Holden has written biography OF the
meat astronomer, Sir William Herschel' winch
Charles Scribner's Sons are publishing.
"a FOOLS Errand " is still selling by the thousand
comics. the number already sold being something
C,.r Ino 600. The sale OF Bricks Without Straw
has reached 10000.
Copies of the illustrated catalogue OF the brnsseIS
Art Exhibition have been received by J. W. Bouton;
1t is like the new catalogue OF the Paris Saon' anu
tie first Of the kind for Brussels.
The fragment of novelette,. BY Salnte- Gu
titled lie Clou dor" recently published in faris'
IL said to be unworthy OF Tue Rfea' '''''o
heroine was real person.
Father Hecker in the February Cathoac norta
discusses the subject Of Catholics and Protestants
.nrse;no an the School Question" aud controverts
especially DIR. J. G. Hollands views, expressed IN
che January Scribner
Arnold Ruge is dead. He was once the leader OF
the German Hegclians, but after the defeat OF the
revolutionary movement of 1S4S was forced to take
rof,oe IN Enpland. where he lived until his death.
Among the English books translated by MIN was
Ruckle,s Introduction to the History OF Civlliza-
tion."
Nfss r Rates. who was one of the quartet OF
Tbeosophsts that left New-Yerk for Bombay two
wears AGO. has separated from the companionshp OF
Madame Blavatsky aid undertaken at Bombay the
publication of monthly magazine called Inc OT'e"''
II NEEDLES neither with theology nor politics. ih-
dulecs in entertaining literature and has corner
Tor the housekeepers OF India.
King Louis of Portugal has Translated Snakes
peare's Richard ILL.," into Portuguese and given the
cartwright TO a charitable association OF LisDon
This was done to be beforehand with Pratcai
publ,sher in Rio JaneirO, who struck Oil cheap eoi
t;ou of the Kings Hamlet" which was printed
privately by the King and made handsome thing
by selling it in the Brazilian capital.
young lady of fifteen summers, who mas eeen
allowed full indulgence in her taste for good novels
made a precocious estimate of the comparative
depth of insight into character OF Dickens ana
George Eliot. willie the family were discussing the
all-prevang theme. when you read Dickens"
she said, "you say How like somebody you don't
know very well - but when you read George Elio'
you say: How like me-"
new edition of that superb work on the "Ker-
annie Art of Japan" by George A. Andsley and Jones
l.. Bowes is IN preparation by Henry Sotheran q
Co.. of London, the American agent being j. w.
ItOutOn. Copies OF tHe OIu tultlou o"iu w W
worth 1925 The new book will cost $18. The size
is reduced to royal octave of $50 pages, and the
colored plates reduced Onehrd in size,wll be pub
l,shed by Frmn- Didot, of Paris. who made the old
plates.
A London writer says Lord Beacons6eld's fond
ness for rings and fashy jewelry is not more
strongly reflected in the pages of "Endymon than
his love of eating in Lothair" and the fact is re-
called that his hotel bill at Berlin $4,000 "In
'Lothair'" he says, "there is the same display of
Hashy jewelry, tue same blaze of unhealthy. some
what solidifed by constant eating. The Chief per-
sopares, who move about as if too good for this
world, are always ready for good luncheon or a
substantial dinner. Though unreal enough in most
respects, they are solid enough in their appetites"
Mr.. Mellen Chamberlain, who writes in The Ii
trary Journal on the relation of public Libraries to
public schools, estimates that tbree-fourths OF the
900 600 volumes circulated last year by the Pub
lie Library of Boston were read by young people,
most of whom attend the public schools. The ex-
rseriment was tried of lending the Wells Grammar
School twenty five copies of suitable novel for an in
definite time. Once week the class of girls that for
the time was reading them, used the book as class
reader and was questioned the construction of
the story including the naturalness and sequence of
incidents, the qualities of the characters and the
copgruity of their sayings and the sentiments and
style of the author
NJ. Alfred Mcssner has dispelled the doubt
whether Heine ever wrote the Memoirs" SAID to
have been sold to the Austrian Government by his
brother In August, 1850, Messner read to the
poet an article about him in Bohemian newspaper.
{" Heine" 1t was said, 4" is nearly always occupied
with the composition OF poems" mo" he inter-
supted, occupied not with the composition of
poems. but with the composition of bis Memoirs y;
and the passage was corrected by Heine himself.
Afterward Messner saw part of the work, which
had been written in pencil on large folio sheets.
Pointing to what be had finished, Heine asked his
friend how many volumes it would make. In 1854
he had completed what would have filled three vol
Nmes.
The December number of The Magazine of Ameri-
can History CONTAINS paper by General j. Watts
do Peyster on 1.-THE Affair at Kings Mountain "
South Carolina, October z, 1880. which rOvel
view of that engagement Is presented with consid-
cradle force aud the British commander. Colonel
Ferguson is ably defended from charges with which
American historians have been accustomed to con-
meet his name. General de Peyster's paper is the
result of careful investigation and will repay study.
Mr.. Stevens proposes as feature in future num-
bers of the Magazine republication, from the orig
inal plates of such Of the numerous portraits ex-
ecuted on copper by the French artist, st. Memin,
as can be recovered. Many of these interesting
plates are known to exist in this country, and i'm
pressions from two being the portraits of Governor
George Clinton and his wife, given III the pres
ent number as the beginning of the series.
writer in The London World is deeply versed in
Tue geography of the mill on the Floss" and Jane
Eyre: 1.-The scenes of George Elofs earlier stories
are laid. for the most part IN Warwickshlre and
Derbyshire. The "Mill on the Floss" however. is
an exception. 1t is not, believe, generally known
hat the town called st. Ogg's in this novel, and
where most of the action takes place, is Gainesbor