New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-20
LITERARY NOTES.

The scene Of "Patty's Perversties." the new
Round Robin novel, is laid in Boston and a New
England village.
new periodical for young people will appear IN
Boston September /. The chosen title, Youth ana
Pleasure, doesn't commend itself as the best that
might be selected.
DIR. Schliemann has published an account OF ms
recent journey of exploration through the lroau
aud the Ida Mountains in pamphlet issueo ny
Brockhaus. of Leipsic. He claims 10 nave oisooN-
cred the altar of Zeus.
Mrs Julia Ward Howe, according to The Boston
Courier is engaged upon the lbrctto of an operetta
for which Mr. Adamowski will furnish the music
Mrs. Howe has in her work the assistance OF Mr..
Joseph Bradford, who has a practical knowledge of
stage business.
new life of Losing, in three volumes. has been
announced by Herr Johannes Claasscn, who has
studied the authors life and his works with refer
ence to the teachings of Christianity The first
part of Life of Eva Lessing," the wife of the
author of " Laokoon" has been published by Herr
Richard Thiel.
Herr Edward Talberger. the founder and pub
Usher of the leading German illustrated weekly,
Ueber Land ind Nicer, of Stuttgart, died re-
Gently. leaving an enormous property winch he had
amassed bv his own industry and business sagacity.
lie started in business in 1917, and fifty -nnc
when ne died. lie had his own paper mills, bind
ing and printing establishments. which with the
good will" of his periodicals have been purchased
by three banking houses in Frankfort-on- the Main
and Stuttgart for four million marks, or round
million of dollars. The purchasers pay besides,
$25O,O0O for stock, etc. Hallbcrgcr built dwellings
and dining rooms for his employees, and was in an
unusual degree their bencfactor
Mr.. Kwong Hi CHRIS Dictionary of English
Phrases has sold well that q second edition has
already been called for. T he AhcnGum recently
he iSa
Had the volume been the composition of an Eng
1ish scholar, to whom most, if not all. of the
phrases and expressions here gathered together
as familiar as household words, it would reflect no
little credit on his industry patience and careful
ness. Viewed merely as a collection of lido
matte phrases it would be difficult to overate its
merits but the reflection that it is the work not of
an English but of Chinese scholar, one of a nation
widely differing from our own in every particular,
while it increases their wonder, is surely one to
cause thoughtful men to pause and ponder"
The "Mldsum mer Holiday" Scribner will he
ready to-day. For frontspece it has fine en-
craving of Ulysse Bu;n's Sailors Wife" and an
other full-page engraving of great excellence is
reproduction of Basticn Lepagc's First Com
munich" 1t is hardly a work which will appeal to
the multitude, but those who fully appreciate it
can claim full membership in the movement"
1t is among the illustrations of Miss Mary G.
Lorng's paper " BY the Sea in Normandy, >" meaning
Etretat. There is also most inviting article on
Newport by Susan Coolidge, entitled The Isle of
Peace" An effort to cool August readers through
their imagination is made by publishing at this time
description of Ice Yachting on the Hudson"
MIR. f.. {. Stedman contributes tho first of q series
of papers Poetry III America" well timed
subject in good hands. Three or four pages are
given to the Songs of Nature " of Il new writer of
verse. Mr.. Roger RiOrden, the artist, who is his
own illustrator. Mr.. Boycsens new novelette,
- 10 baru IL tbo , g
in New York society. One of the most noteworthy
articles i'll the number is Robert FultOns Expert
ments in Submarine Gunnerv," printed in word and
letter from the inventors unpublished manuscripts