New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-11-12
LITERARY NOTES.

,y H.. IN eIaborately illustrated WIN &C
signs by Miss l.. b. Humphrey ana pupiIsH'1
attractive small quarto by Lee ~ Shep'iu'
NJ. p,,,,tti,s poems are having great Sale ~
Iond,D. Filty copies of both volumes VIZ $50 ,
en- one shop in the Strand in one ho' oh '0 N"'
they appeared. ..,,.o.o,+
NJ .. ,,,,,inc-roop table" is to have ITS present
a.Ii,lts ,f albums and vases enhahcco "f no'''
nubbeaticn. which is just about TO appear III Hn9-
land. This Is a small boOA containing lhe-'l%o o"v
lines of the hands of divers celebrated persons II
This succeeds other similar volumes Will be Oiough'
out
In discussing Miss TmckeTs story oil by VIC
1iber" The London academy says that the oooN
should have ended wish the death o. the nero me-
and adds that the attempt to console the reaoef ny
the marriage OF Rosa to the Danish painter Is as III
adequate as a sugar plum after dose Oh p'u''o
acId.
The Cbristrnas numbered G0oi HOyts Ibren'aho'
;eotitled Personal Kecollectons OF Peter SiOnAop
eso y a uersonage whose life appears to nave oc'n
well furnished with interesting lncluehl' p40H'""
has also ready several other foreign ahhu1IS' VIC
latest numbers of the London illustrated papers IA"
lie Chess Monthly
MIR NJ. d. uowels's new serial story which is to
be published III Tie CeatWy IS called A MoOeiA
Instance a title winch, i4e those OF several o. MS
otner works shows the author IOAdheSs Ior oHd@c-
spoare. The scene Is land III Aew-EuSiaAd I"no'l-
ing village, which Is enthusiastically h"moo
Equity" The heroine first falls III IoFo anu P1'0-
ticay brings about the proposal
President GARFIELD. a fortnight after he was
wounded, attempted, al the request oil one oI VIC
devoted friends about him. 10 use a pen. lie "Io'c
these few words On the Dlt of paper given 10 N'''
James A. Garhed. Stranguiatus pro hep"O''c''
Jtis tins Graph which viii De given III iac-S''nlio
IN the next CeutarA wherein Will also appear MI
Coles engraving OF the dead President
Miss Sarah Orne Jewetts new volume Of essays
"Country By-ways," is published By loughtoh'
MiHiu * Company, III the popular Little C'a'S'c
styie Tie ei ght papers which make up the oooN
include some OF the best OF the c,say-Wnuhg OF IAe
day. charming in tone and sentiment, simple III
STYLE tiee from all straiuing after effect, and yet
almost always elective
"The May Blossom; or The Princess and Her
People" is a fascinating book for children, consist
iug of verses by Marion NJ Wingrave and original
illustrations III the quaint fashion OF the oaN' pS
H. H. EmnersOn. The pictures are eNcee"h'ey
pretty and the art OF printing III 60 of' mas Ot'h
applied to them with particularly brilliant an" III
isaed effect The book, which is of English nar"-
facture is published in this country Oy A. Z. ArH-
stroDg Il Son.
AlOlONSe
painstnking of authors sometimes rewriting
chapter thric- before he is satisfied H. inst puts
on paper whatever comes to his handsome head;
then he reyises this with many CONVERSATIONS; and
finally goes over it adding tho exquisite polish OF
STYLE which is to be found, perhaps not 50 much IN
such novels as "SidonIe' and Jack" as III MS
short stories each Of which is a. per.ec. ana as
pure as an intagiio head of Diana. The daint-
ness Of these little tales and sketches Is almost
wholly lost when they are turned into English ana
the dissertation should never be attempted
MIR Robert Browning has ever maintained in re-
gard to the details OF his lie the reserve winch the
world permits TO the gentleman, but rarely to MN
1bo also n celebrity. Mr.. Edmund W. Gosse has
al last persuaded him that a biography viii some
day be written wiuy-nilly, and that IL would he
much wiser for him to give consent and materials
for a sketch The poet has yielded, and The Century
will publish the result in the shape Of az article by
MIR. Gosse accompanied by two portraits OF ITS sub
iect The more recent portrait Is fan length OF
Mr. Browning. who. by the way, with ms stout
sturdy figure his somewhat rugged face and ms
GRAY chin whslers and mustache, worn IN the
American fashion. is OF the least dreamy anu
poetic-lookng Of MINISTRIES.
There are no dry as-dust essays, no iine-Snun dis
ouisitions in THE summer school OF Philosophy
al Mount Desert q book which Henry Holt ~ %.
are preparing for the holidays. From the first
page to the last it Is a revel of fairy fun and mis-
chievous grace tn wisdom taught IS that OF love,
and the Young men aud maldens created by Mr. .. A
Mtcb,lTs humorous Imagination wander through
The book under ingenious. the Saucy, the BENG
naut tuition of the quaintest band OF Cupds VINO
,yr skipped from artists pencil. All the char
ac,ristlcs Of Mount Describe charms OF the sum
mer sea as viewed by Twos, the wills on the piazza,
the bouncing and abundant Ducl-boord-are suiiused
la. Ia Il.r..1