New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-17
LITERARY NOTES.

Homosele +" is the title of the next Round Robin
novel. which will be ready August 81.
Anovel of German society. called the Story of a
fortionless Girl by Miss Mary A. II. Allies, will be
published serial in The Catholic Hord, begin
nng with October.
The amnesty for press offences permits the
return to Paris of NJ. Felix Pyat. who intends to
add one to the swarm of cheap revolutionary
journals of the French capital.
Mrs. Martha J. Lamb. the historian of New-York
City, has engaged to write the Young Folks
History of New-York for the d" Great Cities of the
World Series of Estes * Lauriat.
The author OF Ono Sunmcr." Miss Blanche
willis Howard is on her way home from Europe
with the manuscript of novel. which James
r. Osgood 4 Co. will issue in October.
1t is reported that the next AHantic will have q
humorous poem by DR. Holmes the Phi Beta
Kappa oratons of Wendell Phillips Also paper
by Mr. T.. l.. Godkin the shooting of President
Garfield.
Mr.. NJ. d. Conway says that Mr.. O. Il. Frothing
ham will hereafter make literature his profession
and will Immediately enter upon it by undertaking
biography of the late literary critic of IRE TRIBUNE
George Ripley.
Professor w. S. Scarborough. graduate of
Oberlin College, now holding the chair of Latin
and Greek at Wilberiorce University, has been
engaged during the past six years in the preparation
of First Lessons in Creek" designed as an ele-
mentary drill book on the infections and syntax of
the Greek language. The book is now ready ct A.
S. Barnes * Co.'S.
President Bascom's well known textbook
hsthetcs, or the Science of Beauty" has been
revised and improved for a edition which G.
j. Putnam's Sons have in press. The same firm has
made preparations to publish Lectures on the
Origin and Growth of Religion" by Il. w. Rhys
Davids, but Charles Scrlbners Sons have similar
plans. and the matter awaits alnicabe adjustment
The North american Rerer for September will
contain the history of the Monroe Declaration" by
the Hon. John A. Kasson late Minister to Austria.
who gives the credit for formulating that doctrine
to John Quincy Adams. The Rev. Edward Everett
Hale writes of the taxation of church property, and
takes the view that all churches should be taxed
Sin FORM but that " in practice those churches
should be exempt which by their charitable work
help to tighten the public burdens"
"A singular story" says The Boston Courier is
told in connection with Mr.. Howelss Dr. Breen's
Practice now being published serally, in The
atlantic. 1t seems that q lady of this city con-
tributed to the magazine, after DIR. Breen's
Practice was in type. short story that so much
resembed that of Mr.. Howels that he felt it neces-
sary to call upon the lady and explain the situation
of affairs In order that charge of plagiarism
might be preferred against him. He showed her
the proofsheets OF his story. and perfectly satisfied
her that the similarity between her work and his
was one of those strange condolences which have
from time 10 time occurred in the literary world"
"Cape Cod Folks q summer novel of consider
able merit, published anonymously by A. Williams
d Co.. has awakened a great deal of interest in
regard to the authorship. The Hartford Post gives
the following information about the author: The
Cape Cod people have been guessing on the writer's
identity ever since the story appeared and have
finally discovered who she is. The best part of the
secret Is that the entertaining novelist is Hartford
County lady. her home being at Simsbury, few
miles out on the Connecticut Western Road. The
young ladys name is Sarah Mclean. of Simsbury
daughter of Justice Mclean. of Simsbury, a lead
ing citizen of the town, and q welto-do farmer
there Miss Mclean is handsome blonde about
medium height. She is not past twenty-five years
OF age, and spent one year at Mt. Holyoke Semi
nary, but completed her course at Madison Wis She
has the old Now-England blood in her veins and is
the descendant of a clerical race. The first edition
OF her novel has been exhausted at the publishers
and 1T will be several days before q new one can be
issued. The writing of the novel was a secret from
everyone at her home until the proof-sbeets were
sent to her. The way she came to drift toward
Cape Cod and the delightful anchorage there for a
season or two was in the profession of a teacher
The novel was one of the happest results of her
experience"