New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-06-18
LITERARY NOTES.

a. r., ,r,r;ses fourth and last volume to his
-. - the origins OF contemporary France
vh,cb win d al with Tho Revolutionary oo'cin-
ment.n
II. Critic of TODAY contains portrait OF nav,
-, .s ~, aorount nv Ms. Julia Ward Howe OF
her meeting with the shy novelist, whom s''" saw
on,v t,vice .bouph she lived within lew ihiies u
him for several years
profs.sor Max Muller has been induced Ivy Mac
william & Co to undertake n translation uhe nls'
into Enelsh) 81 the original text OF Rants 'r''iN
der reincn yernunft, in honor of the centenary VI
this work, first published at Riga. III l'oi' iio-
lessor Noire will write an historical in'roduc''o"
and the changes and additions made IN s"oS''iu'"
editions will form supplements.
NJ. Ernest Daudet, brother OF the noVcuS. nae
written an exhaustive work on INC i"H"i
snracies in the south of France during the i'n'"
Revolution {" Iiistore DIES ConsprauohS h"A "i'''''
6n Midi y. He had had access to Il great many uh-
,',,I;sbca documents. and it is said has made a
picturesque and important contribution I" frehch
history The episodes Of which he writes have peeh
treated heretofore with scant attention
A closer view of Victor iIugos new work, - Les
onstre Vents de rEsprt," shows two voiures'
cacb divided into two books, the latter beng en-
titled enic lyric dramatic and satiric. But ihs~ai
nj arranging them in this natural order, he Places
"Ie Iiyre Satirique first. This contains only
few peccs of political import. and most nearly re-
sembles his Chatiments." In the same volume Is
the dramatic book, comprising onc-act comedy anu
n drama in three acts having i'll each Tor one oil inc
leading characters the same person, Gaius, Dnho
of Swahia an eighteenth century roW lie LiNl'
Fn;ouey is n ms.m of fifteen hundred lines on the
French Revelation, the manuscript OF winch pc'i'
the date christmas 1857 at which time Victor tinro
lie. in
heavily worked in this BOOK, and Ill one place
the poet cries:
7 am hated! WHIT Because dc'cud ,
The weak the Nau4uiri,d, the little ones tue chiVn
/ am accumulated. Whyi EecaV~c love
Lpe without venom, hearts without guile
In punch" "a new farcical comedy. says me
Pail Mall Gazette, MIR. III. J. Byron Is SAID tn have
approachcd closer than ual to the master of ms IN
srration. Charles Dickens. The play sounds we'll;
for Mr. Byron has the happy knack OF suggesting an
author of the people without slavlshly initiating
him, How strange il is that Mr.. Robertson III
Caste Ours and countless plays 50 directly
pointed at Thackeray and derived his tone IRON
him. while M. Byron just as obviously sits at the
feet of Charles Dickens George dAlroy is as Thack-
ersyan ia essence a. is Old NidaiewiCk rcplica OF
Dickens. And vet neither Thackrray nor Dickens
ever VIZ, @ , plav" This called forth III" following
correction from corrc~pOudcnt "It Is not quite
correct to say that Mr. rhacheray never wrote a
play. The Wolves AMI the Lamb Is to be- found
among Lii, collected writings in tb' last volume OF
the later editions. When hrSt Written this little
p,ay was offered several of the London Theatres
bit without lcccSs. Years aitcrward, on IN" "cca-
sion of "a sort of 'hou>e-waunng which Mr.. Iha'k-
ersy gave at his house IN Palace Gardcns. the
Evolves AMI the Lamb was acted by an interesting
amateur company, tine author himself speaking
prologue. Subsequently, il was performed at one oil
the London tlicatr,s-l think the O.ympic-bui was
withdrawn after few nights The plot OF the play
is identical with that OF In novel Lovel The N'd-
over aud of his fayoriie subject of mothers
in-law" We may add that the mistake As 70 Dick
ems is moro remarkable. H. wrot, two b"rciiaS
and comic opera which were performed IN
ls3I-37 at tie It. James 5 Til atrc; farce, " The
Lampglter." never acted, rccast as story; and,
with Mark Lemon, a farce called Mr.. NghtinGalcS
Diary" performed at DeyonShire House in lS1l'
and published by J. X. O>good Co. i'll 1877.