New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-05-11
LITERARY NOTES.

The stereotype plates Of DR.. Albert Barnes ;
sNotes on the Bible" have been purchased W ~.
worthington WHO will soon issue new ana ei,e"p',
editions of The Book Of job ISAIAH anu
sDaniel'
DIR. Richard S. Storrs's eloquent Grafton on ne
Recognition of the Supernatural IN Letters anu III
LIFE is TO be published by A. ID. +. randolph
Co II was first delivered before the I'M no'''
Kappa Society Of Harvard and again IN Apfii Dc
fore the New-York Society for the Advancement Vi
ssSeience and Art
asynnove Solbakken is the rugged-lookine ana
smoothly flowing title of tho first volume Oh ,n0
American edition of Biornstierne BJornsohs "o'N0'
which are being translated by Professor andersen
of the Wisconsin University. Cor Houghton' hi'ilh
a. Co. This story appeared in 1891 ana IS INC
cornerstone of the poets fame
scr;hner g. Wexford have received the sixth edi-
t;an NJ . An chronological and Pronouncing DC
tjouary of tho English Language" by the hoN'
James StormoHth. The pronunciation mas Deen re-
visod by the Rev. r. II. Phelps. Also Cutter $
sGrammar of japanese Ornament and Design
which contains sxty-fve plates partly IN coiois anu
gold, and sells for $50.
Tho new edition of " Underbr,lsh," by James l.
Fields itfoughton Miaiin & Co., has been enlarged
by the addition of new matter notceabiy the le,'e,
ITO Leigh Hunt in Elysium," originally puDhsheu
in THE TRIBUNE. The book is of KIND 10 make
reader ou,etly comfortable and cheerful even ON
rainy day and abounds in something that Is as
good as humor, in its way, and that Is shre"u
Yankee sense.
Paris writer saws the comedian COquelin the
Younger has made the new literary invention, lie
Mopoogne' so popular that monologomah'a III
nends @These monologues," he says "have been
practically written for him just as pieces OK music
were formerly composed for leading tenors with
certain reservations. Coquelin cadet is nimitaoie
but there is not another artist in Paris who is moro
initiated or more copied"
Doctor Cof medicine) McCosh, of Edinburgh
has written q poem in ten cantos. called "0raho
Tours in Many Lands" which has the merit oil
foreseeing his power TO harrow the souls OF crucs
for it forgves them in advance. Among other
races he celebrates the Turks and literally taxes
them "by the car as the following characteristic
verse explains:
Turks who have for Turkey bled,
Boys whom Osmau oft has led,
Htanding IA this humble shed,
Though you're marked with many scar
Higher hoist the torch Of war.
on YOU seowls the bloody Gar,
Crossed with hope and fear
The newest thing in French art publications has
INST been received by j. w BOutOn, and has ele-
rnents of popularity. The work Is called Les
A.tistes Modernes" 1t will be divided into three
parts and the first part at least will contain twenty
numbers to be issued weekly, at 2l2 francs each'
or in New-York 70 cents. The first number OF the
first part The Genre Painters" contains biograph-
ieal sketches of Vely and Lobrchon, and photo
gravure plates of their respective popular works
ala Meditation" and 4" lie Baggage do Croquem
tame" and besides, examples of of-hand sketches
by the same artists. The second division of the
work will be devoted TO painters of the nude and of
military subjects and the third part to historical
landscape, animal and portrait painters and sculp-
tors.