New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-22
LITERARY NOTES.

of gorpc,,s Maqaaine will be sent to England
sir Thomas Brownies Religio Medicl" edneu NY
n Nv A. Greenhlll, ia to be issued In the "oo'"
Treasury Series Of Macmillan Il CO.
;ho Griffin l,arus that Mr. Robert Browning WIS
ma, copsuItei in the foundation OF the bfo"niis
souetv in London aud thai it does not h'oo' WIN
his approval. III
.noro,bv - n country story in eleCac verse; when
ouoi,od warm rrais from the poet Brow'lh9' ana
t,s ,tt acted the at en,ion English literary cir
els 3 ascrlbeA TO MIR. Arthur J. Munby.
students of the Russian language are multiply
,r, in Germany and IA, pi v, serirso LnWnh aiei
r.prnts of the masterpieces of Russian p, etry anu
tetion is now being printed in Leipsic.
Professor Colvu, who wrote the admirable lie Vi
"Landor" III the English Men OF Letters ser es' Is
making selections IN LandOT's writings Tor V'i-
une in Nlaamillan's COLLEEN 1r aSnry Seue'' winch
will prove most fitting association.
Veteran authors enter tn lis wi The splrl' ah"
success of the younger in the connect ION ..r '','
nuhHc literary prizes in France. NJ. D6Sire Nlsard'
of the French Academy, who won TINS year 'ne
biennial pr,ze of ii 600 for his His Dry OF french
Literature" mas Just celebrated his golden dd'h@'
lie Fraacajs tn journal in French which NJ Jules
lew IL publisblug once a month in CAMBRIDGE i'll
tb4 iut.resr OF stud nts of the French lamgu ge'
makes its appearance again after summer
vacation. Among it's varied auC excel ent contents
are good examp of the lest Partisan criticism Oh
the day. ucluding spirited discussion on questions
OF Recommendation between Mile Sarah Ber'hardt
and NJ Fianc,sque Sarcev, reported IN the d'Stin-
guisbed crltlcs earnest yer vivacious manner
NJ Tbeopnile Ca llenx, desert ell by GdtGndn' as
"a Belgian savant,' has written book I" prove
that Homer was born in Bel ium at a time w"eh
Greek WIS spoken on the shores Of tie Atlantic,
~. LAM ~ rad N.
He locates Troy nepr CaInhr ge, England; Ithaca
the birthplace OF Ulys eS Cadiz. Spain and he
tutuuh found in Belgium pass in his fertile nagnl-
tim for the graves of the of Homer Another
discovery credited to NJ. Call ux is that Moses was
Belgian.
Ii is doubtful if the manuscript memoirs OF Prince
Lncen Bonaparte, recently dscovere III the fren'
Ministry of Foreign AlFlirs oy Coiole YuiS wih
prove to he very different in substance iron the
me noirs publ sled by the Prince about torty-hve
years aao The journal dcs Debafs has s'own that
the published mem, en'er very fully into the
details of the coup detd of the 18h Brumalre. and
of.r matter, to Napoleon. the top cs which
Colonel Yulg says are Interestingly treated i'll the
uianuscips
Mr. Thorval6 Solberg writes TO The Library Journal
that he hopes to publish his i5hogrdnhy
of the Pre-ColumbIau Discovery o. Amer
lea by the Nors men," during the coming winter.
He has been Collecting his list for ten years past ana
has titles OF books and articles in twelve languages
Nh Wa sons general autobiography ofpre-C oumhlah
discovery recent, printed, offered rather remark
able lis, slr ibcrg SAYS his list relating TO the
Morse d scovery alone, contains twice as many
titles as Mr.. Wa sons. He sought to Ian forces
with the latter but it too late, since NJ Wat
sons biblioraph, was already III the press.
"rhe Shakespeare Phrase Book" little, Brown
& Col by MIR. John Bartlett, author OF the we'll
known dictionary of Familiar Quota IONS" differs
from the standar concordance III Icing an INDEX
to phrases rather tn words, its pi beng TO
take every sentence" from Shakesprares ramatlc
WORKS (which confirms an important thought with
so much of the context preserves the SelSe. ana
10 put each sentence under its principal WORKS, ar
ranged in alphabetical ORDER" BY this means the
book gives the complete as far az requisite Tor
quotation, and yet it fills but fragment of the
space necessary for a concordance The volume Is
compact, handy, neat and legible.
A Register in Alphabetical Order of the Early
Settlers OF Kings Comfy. New-York" is a'worG 10
which the late Teunis G. Bergen devoted the
closing labors OF bis industrious HE IL WAS
in press at the time of his death lat April and Is
now printed under the care of his son and sold by
the librarian OF the Long Island Historical Society
Works of this sort involve vast and patient re
search among private family records and III o'h'r
-the-Way pisl OneS OF knowledge ahd brilp
the compiler no reward commensurate with their
cost or their value. Ii is fortunate that we have
antiquaries Ike Mr.. Bergen with the zeal and perse
yerance to execute them. This interesting luine
is something more than roll of names for IL EN-
braces great deal of biographical and genealogical
matter ais q.
"The photographer" is the descriptive title of a
\ new monthly periodical which will appear in Lon
don on De, uber and will he sold in this country
through sir. Benton. According 10 the prospectus
ii will be lasteluily printed on antique paper, and
what is of more mpor.an will aim 10 mtuse life
and useful purpose into the pursuit of bblograph-
zeal science If there is such science and ornament
the varied fields of bOOk-lOre ] s aims may be
traced in the list of subjects to be treated, nclud-
ing articles on the pubhc AMI private Libraries OF
the world; lives of celebrated col ectors; e,ro-
spective review Iare. curious aud important
books. "reminiscences of hi lOgraDhers booksellers
and printers; papers "n American photography;
the history of catalogues and of libraries; margin
ALA of EN- nent men keys TO the characters in GER
tam famous books aud numerous other topics OF
equal ini rest to lovers of OOOk-OTe.