New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-08
LITERARY NOTES.

Mr.. Nathan Haskell Dole has completed his
Young Folks History Of Russia" which will be
issued by Estes & Laurat
Mr.. W. NJ Rossetu gives the authentic history Of
fhe origin and development OF the Pre-Raphaelite
Brotherhood, iii The Magazine Of Art for August.
The article which the late Dean Stanley wrote for
ScribRer's Monthly and which has heen returned TO
England 80 be deciphered by familiar with
the authors handwriting treats of the life and w11t-
ings of the Rev. F. w. Robertson.
A complete edition of Walt Whitman's poems,
carefully revised, but without omissions, will he
issued during the autumn by James II. Osgood 81
Co. The earlier editions. the plates of which are
owned by the poet. it is said will be suppressed.
Mr. Thomas S. Baynes, editor of the "Ency lopadia
Britannica" has written open letter TO Mr. j. NJ.
Stoddart. the publisher of an American reprint of
that work. Various alterations have been made in
the reprint and the English editor in consequence
rePudiates all responsibility for them.
1t is reported from ST. Petersburg that new order
has been adopted but not get promulgated. which
exempts all foreign newspapers, periodicals and
books except those printed in German and French
from the foreign press censorship. This will be
a great boon 20 Englishmen in Russia who have
been deprived of many of the London journals and
had much of their mail matter defaced
The London correspondent of The PkiladsIphia
Press, in budget of literary news, says Henry
James, jr., has just returned from Italy where he
has been at work a new novel. Mr. f. A. Abbey
who wiz soon return home is drawing illustrations
for a story by the late James De Mile, which will
appear in RGrPers Magazine. Mr.. Andrew Long who
wrote the Ballads in Blue China" is engaged upon
sketch of Matthew Arnold for Scribaei's Mr. Ed
mund Gosse is preparing the volume ON Gray" for
the English Men of Letters Series.
A new Concordance to the Holy Scriptures pre-
pared by the Rev. j. b. r. Walker is about to be
published by Messrs. James Il. Osgood & Co. 1t
contains 10000 more references and quotations
than are found in Cruden's Unabridged, and three
times many names of persons and places. each
accumulated to show its correct pronunciation The
Apochrypha and the Revised New Testament are
also included in this work-many Biblical words
and references here found which were over
looked by the authors of Crudens Concordance and
Smiths Bible Dictionary.
The Magazine of American History" for August
offers as frontispiece pen and ink sketch of Wash
ington, which is supposed to have been drawn at
Nashington's table by Benjamin H. Latrobe the
architect Of the United States Capitol The original
Is now owned by Dr. Ewell, president of William
and Mary College. The ST. Memin portrait offered
this month is of James McHenry, Military Secretary
OF Washington; it is exceedingly clever and
spirited Two pages of the manuscript of Washing
tons address resgning his commission are repro
duced in fac-simile and view is given of the Miller
House, Washngton's headquarters at White Plains |
MIR. BerthOld Fcrnow contributes the principal |
paper OF the number, describing "Washington's |
Military Family"
A person with taste for drawing comparisons |
contributed the following to The London Times |
1t may not be uninteresting to note in con- |
trast with the prices realized at the sale |
of the manuscripts of Lord BeaconSfeld's |
works yesterday, the prices for which the
manuscripts of some of Sir Walter SCOTS novels
were sold in August 1S31-tis fifty years since-at
Evanss, In Pail Mall The Monastery 500; GUY
Mannering' $137; Old Mortality $165; Anti
quarry 500; Rob Roy $3.50; 'Peverl of the
Peak 500; 'Waverley,' very imperfect, $50;
Abbot $40 'Ivanhoe,' $50; Pirate $50;
Fortunes of Nigel $50; Kenlworth' $50, and
Bride of Lammernoor,' $73, A notice of the
sale and of the prices appears in The Annual
Register for 1891 Chronicle, p 1881, but the names
OF the purchasers not given"