New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-07
LITERARY NOTES.

Tyde- duake enlarged and provided win new
dress has been we'll received. apparently for second
editions of the January and February numbers are
now in press.
Scrbner's Monthly has renewed its prizes in wood
engraving for amateur engravers for the coming
year Those who competed last year will be offered
Q special prize
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has written an article on
London Society, as illustrated by Endymion," Tor
the next number of The Critic which will also con
tain poem bv h. H.
Honsekeepers will be curious to see TOT tnehse'es
If Mrs Harriet Prescott Spoford has solved even
few of the difficulties of "The Servant Glri Vues-
ton in the Little Classic" volume. nearly ready
at Houghton. Mfflm & Co.'S
Disturbed Ireland " is thr title OF new book on
tho IRISH difficulty. which Macmillan q GO. Will
have ready to.:.ay. II consists of letters written
during lsSO-'S1 by Bernard II. Becker. the special
commissioner of The London Daily Ners
The next volume IN the Golden Treasury Series of
Macmillan s; Co. will be devoted to selections
from Byron. .ir. Matthew Arnold is the editor.
srd he has also written an Introduction. ASIDE
from tie care with which these little books are edited
they ere noteworthy as handsome specimens OF
bookmaking.
Miss Poor's "Sanskrlt and its Kindred Literatures"
C. Kegan Paul d Co., one of the most enterprising
Of the London publishing firms. MIR. Paul is him
self nan of letters and his partner, Mr. Trench,
who visited this country during tue past year, is
,on of Archbishop Trench.
The March number of The International Rfric'c will
have two timely articles on the Irish question Mr'
Justin Mccarthy. who has become Mr.. Parnels
good genius and seems ready to follow the leader,
will write upon The Irish Land Question" Mr.
Leonard Courtney gives the conclusion to his
January paper on /" Ireland"
An lmportant addition will be made. this month
20 the excellent and cheap reprints of A. c. Arm
strong & Son. they have nearly ready new et-
ton OF Mohaud's History of the Crusades." 1t is
the standard work on the subject and III Its now
dress will have preface aud supplementary chap
ter by Mr.. Hamilton W. Mabe.
The tenth volume of "Ie Costume HiDtorique
has been received by J. w. Bouton. The numbers
come along with fair regularity, but the work
would be nearly finished now if NJ. Racnets health
bad allowed him to supply the letterpress In time.
Tho 500 Firmin- Ddot plates are in the hands of
the publishers. Ten parts are yet to come.
The October bulletin of the Institut G6ograph-
iaue International" of Barne Switzerland, contains
q splendid map of the South Pole regions, colOIed
aud printed on cloth. 1t shows the routes taken by
the twelve prominent navigators from Cook, in
1872, to Mares in 1874 in their efforts to penetrate
the icy seas Of the Southern hemisphere.
Lady Florence Dixies account Of her ride "Across
Patagonia last summer will lie ready at K. Worth
ipetOns during this week. Her style is said to be spr
ted and for young and comely lady she iscertainly
a venturesome explorer. One of the numerous illus
tratious shows that she adopts mans fashion of
riding horseback, at least for Patagonian travel
Three charming volumes of the Modern Classics
(IIoueh;on, Miffln s. Co.. viii be ready next week. |
Two of them are led by Carlyles essays on Goethe |
and Schiller respectively, aud contain story aud |
poems from each poet The third volume embraces |
Edmund Clarence Stedman's essay on Elizabeth |
Barrett Browning, Mrs. Brownines Lady Geral- |
dimes Courtship." and tavOrte poems by Robert |
Browning.
wealthy merchant of st. Petersburg NJ. ellis,
offers prize of 1000 florns for the best popular
exposition of the philosopher Rants views on The
ldeallty of Time and Space" He promises also 10
publish the successful work at his expense and
give the profits to the author. Rants hypothesis
is still held by to be the true and only
able explanation of the planetary system. La
places hypothesis promulgated about the same
tine.