New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-06-15
LITERARY NOTES.

Covernor Long. of Massachusetts, has III P'''' ="
new edition of his translation OF virgil
Marshal MacMahon has for many months Dee"
,vr;t,ng History Ny Presidency" with 'he ny
sistance OF one of his former aoju'''n'S
p,ofossor Charles Eliot Norton has written an ar
.,a,o ON tho Greek play at Harvard for the July ~
Ia.t;o which will also contain a poem by Nin'"'i
.nd new story By Miss Sarah o. Jewett
T, tev DAYS Uonchton, Millm & Co. viii issue
s.The Narrative of the Royal Geographical society 3
Fast Central African Expedition. ls's-oo pS ~
seph Thomson, who commanded the eXpedi'on' ~
voume will include a Biographical notice Oh INC ''''
lir Keith Johnston.
The Westcott and Hort revision of the orsihal
Greek New Testament, which has been long eS-
,,octe1 by scholars and which was consulted P,"'-
oblv in tbe proofs by the reViSerS Oh the ~ gu"
.oxt will soon lie published by Harper bioli''9 B.
The same firm will also issue an edition OF 'h''
a,sion with the revised English version pIH'eh oi
opposite pages.
The "rcalincs and rcudcrings preferred by III
American Committee Of Revision nae peeh ih'"i-
noratod into the text of the New ] otameh' ~ ~
Roswell ID. Hitchcock. for Fords' Toward '"',
bert. who will issue IT under the VeheidI '''' "
"Tbe American Version and III 10 III colI'sio''N-
inc 70 the oxford long primer octa'o WIN TWO
Bh. readers viii be strengthened III thei H'Ju'"oo
against the II " version.
Professor Cvr. Thoma-, Of Illinois. according 10
1te Co,b,ydgi. 0bscrrer. has been devotins a great
deal of study tn one of the few Mexican an" N'"''I
h,oricon u,,nu-,ripts preserved since tbe spanish
Cor,u,st II is written in hicToglypmcs inter
.nr.ed with coiorei figures. By comparing IL Win
a facsimile of The TvanO manuscript Whi'h COM
tain, seventy coorcd plates Professor ihoInaS HAS
reached the conclusion that both docum MS are
merely religious calendars from which lac hi'f'
that the inscription on the tablet of the cross al
Palenouc Central America. is also rel g''uS car
endar composed chiefly of dates
The Paris correspondent Of The Publishers noc.y
c,akcs Alphonsc Dandct himself authority i"r '"'
abatement that the popular novelist never V"lli''
my work without talkinglr all overt" MS Il ''''!'
.rccs ".Tbis method makes him familiar with H.
shows him the weak and strong points su4I','
ncas. His wife especially j, his adviser; he talks
D. her ,lout the work in band from morning TIL
,ight She reads. adds To OF h0js the first r"oS'
draft of every PAGE then he rcccpies H. In the
bcdicatjon of Lc Na'ob he confessed all he owed
N his wife She would not consent to It's p""ii' Il
zion so il is to bc found only i'll ten copies OF the
uovel-prcscntation copi 10 friends
The Graduates If the Boston High and LATIN
Schools including those Of the year $50 b"' HOT
earlier. are expected to spend their summer among
books and documents of old colonial history. Tor q
committee of ladies and gentlemen have established
four "Old South Prizes, TWO Of so and two oil
s2j each FIR the hest and Second-hcst essays writ
ten 10y such young persons on these two subjects
l. What was the policy Of the early coioniN'S ol
Massachusetts toward Quakcrs and others whom
they regarded as intrulcr-f Was tbs p"l'y I'D amy
rsrec, Objectionable and, if 20. what excuses can
be- offered for iti .. Why did the American colo
mics separatc from the mother country DI the
early settlers look forward 10 any such separation
and. if not. how and when did the wish for II gro"
nj, What was the difference between the form Of
government winch they finally adopted and mat
under which ,hcy hat before been livin-' Inc
essays must be scnt in between October and De-
ccInbcr /.