New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-17
LITERARY NOTES.

LEcho is the title of a new Par'siah h'oi'i'
journal edited by NJ Henri GARNER
The Charles Dickens Birthday Book. con, az,
ING illustrations by the nOvelists daughter IN
Perngini will be published in this country OS o.
Lippincot q Co.
II is stated that the memoirs which the Ei"lnoo'
Eugene has been preparing at her oT,o' iii
Arencnberg, with the assistance OF NJ horlis''
be published in Edinburgh during NoVeiii"'i'
Tho ,nnortant announcement comes from Eng
land that Mr.. John Richard Green, the il9''''"r'
will issue a new work during the autumn 'uiUue"
Macmillan g. Co. Its title is The Making ol Ehs-
land"
Only few weeks ago it was said that tho
life of Mr. Deane, late Editor of 1he LONDON I"'es'
had been indefinitely pos poned, but Macmillan q
Co. have induced DIR. Dasent to finish the work az
once the present expectation being that IL VIII '0
ready for publication in December.
A useful book for scientific students is the first
rart of n "Handbook of Vertebrate Dissection"
inst issued by Macmillan & Co. This part when
gives directions for dissecting chelohiall, Is "S
Professor II. Newell Martin, of the johns hopAins
University, and Dr. William A. Moaie'
Cheap editions of popular books of living authors
seem TO be growing in favor with English puonSh-
ers A peoples edition" of Sir Theodore NiaI'I'
Iife of the Prince Consort in five volumes to be
sold for twelve cents each, is In preparation anu
CHEAP edition of Canon FarraTs Lie OF ChrlSV
is announced.
The value of literary property in Russia is lndl-
Gated by the fact that thirty years ago 81 refers
burg pubisher purchased the sole right to pubhSh
the works Of the poet Pushkin OF his hers lor "n"o'
$4,000. The copyright has only six more years 10
nm vet the heirs of the publisher. above" have SOFA
their right in the works to a Moscow publisher loi
about 81 900.
The London publishing firm of Sampson Low
Marton Searlc q Rivington has lost an ac'N"
member by the death Of William Henry Low 'u'
third son of Mr. Sampson Low, the venerable pun
Usher who retired from business lew years lS''
Only one of the attorS eight sons Is now nNhs' MI
Matthew Low, who has resided IN TINS cOnn'ry loI
several wears. and is connected with Harper x
Brothers.
Ancient manuscripts of tho complete Hebrew
Bible are row owned by the British Museum. TWO
parts OF the Hebrew Scriptures have long been IN
the possession of the Museum. The photographic
exbib,tiur n reccnsion of the Hebrew text. when
makes the set complete found among h'eeh
manuscripts of portions of these scriptures recently
purchased in Southern Arabia. Two OF these manu-
scrpts are said to be the oldest that have yet come
to light.
Less than a year ago the total number OF pcriodi-
cal publications in France was 29GS, or niue
more than One-iOurth the nhlnhtI pi'''Nl ''' viz
limited States Nearly as many of these are pub
lshed in Paris as in the prOvnces OF the lOS p"ht-
ical newspapers published in Paris 10 appear daily
Three ncwspapers are supposed to promote maiTl-
u,ony Four with curious tides are LAbSi'the Win
the motto USez mGiS n'dbHSez pas La Ir'qae the
cudgeD; lie Menu Hush6; Ii F"nisic ISnoke-doctorl'
The Englsh-spealing world has long been amuse
by the inability of most French critics to aliudc 10
an English work or author without making some
ridiculous bunder. French critic Is now cIcdied
with learned review Of Buckles History IN "l"ch
he expressed hope that he might receive additional
volumes of the work. II is also recalled that at the
Literary Mems Congress- held at Paris in 1873 the
secretary formally regretted that Thacheray and
Dickens had made sign regarding the invitations
sent them.
THE Pan Mall Gazette is savage toward Mr. w II.
MaIloek and in commenting on an American
book which pays him an indirect compliment,
saws: "If American curiosity is excited respecting
the attitude of men toward young gentleman
who has proved himself to be a sprightiy parodsi
and an Indifferent ha d at pOrnographic novels tie
intellectual condition of the United States must
indeed be remarkable" Mr.. Mallock has written
preface for a new English edition of "A Romance
of the Nineteenth Century in which lie replies to
the criticisms on that novel.
Sir George W. Coxs Introduction to Compare
Holt & Co.'S THIS a much shorter and more pop
Mar work than the same authors Mythology of
the Aryan Nations and has attracted favorable no.
tice in England The author takes the ground that
tbe popular traditions of no one Aryan people can
he understood except in their relation to those OF
other nations of the family. Sir George
adopts the Greek X for initial in proper names
of Greek and Roman origin and even the name OF
the Egyptian Queen appears as Kleopatra
hin ha
scriptiye of "Tilghman's Ride from Yorktown to
Philadelphia,"by Mr.. Howard Pyle who illustrates
his own verses The second paper on Journalistic
London is devoted principally TO The London Tines,
and contains several fine portraits, including W. II.
Russell, Henry Labouchere, and NJ Blowitz, the
Paris correspondent of The London Times. whose
portrait does not belle his reputation for confidence
in THE Thunderer," and in NJ. Blowtz as ITS
European prophet A paper by John A. Dillon on
"Tehuantepec and the Eads Ship Railway" has
illustrations which fully picture the features of that
gigantic project
Two japanese students, who pupils Of Pro-
fessor Max Miller at Oxford have made curious
discovery of Sanscrit manuscripts in their native
country. The work is the text of the celebrated
Diamond Knife forming part of the Sacred Canon,
or Bible of the Buddhists, but hitherto known only
through Thbetian and Mongolian TRANSACTIONS, tho
original being supposed to be Irrecoyerably lost.
Owing to the very early practice among the Chinese
BuddhiSss of making pigrimages to the holy places
of their worship in India and taking back with them
Sanscrt manuscripts, Professor Max Muller has al
ways thought that relics of these manuscripts might
be found in China but such discovery in Japan is
wholly unexpected.