New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-19
LITERARY NOTES.

Barbou's Life Of Victor Hugo work winch
4. aa;a has received the stamp of authenticity Hom
the noes himself win soon be issued in translation
By G. q. Grigss & CO.
Mr,. Alma Tsdema wife If the celebrated artist is
AZ work upon eight designs for q new Christmas
book nv Mrs Humphry Ward which will be caheu
A Holiday Among the Mountains"
The late Sir George Cooley was not much given 70
writipg for publication. but the article Army "a
sixty pages In the now edition OF Inc Enesc'oP"a's
Britaanica shows that be could employ ms pen WIZ
excellent results.
2 Critics ara ne ant as doctors 10 disagree. 1he
Spectator says the recent memoir OF Governor Ah-
drew. by Mr. Chandler s too short and 1he SGtareas
Rsriee says "it has the merit OF moderate ieng'n'
which is 80 rare in American memoirs.
IAN Carlyle's judgments of his contemporaries
are readable" says The ST. JdnIess Gazette out
considerable proportion of them are interesting
mainly because they enable us to trace with toer-
able precision the limitations Of his critical faculty.
Turpenpf7s humor and pathos have reappeared.
Il is SAID with old-time effect in the " heminis'
cencesn he is contributing to q new Russian LiDerai
iourpaL They are of nature which makes IL GER
tain that they will be translated into German
French and English.
Mrs. Holman Hunt handles both pen and brush
with great cleverness. During her residence IN
Palestine with her husband, the artist she mas oeen
writing a little book on Jerusalem for children
which is said to be excellent IN style and matter.
The frontispece is her own design.
Kwong XII Chin, the literary Chinaman OF Hart
ford made rapid trip to Montreal this week 80 as
TO DE on English soil when his Dictionary OF Eng
ligh Phrases was published IN England, si'nuiVa-
neously with it's appearance through A. g. barnes O.
Co.. in New York. He hopes thus TO secure the ad
vantages of copyright in both countries
The Talleyrand papers. soon to be published II
Paris journal is right, are no part OF the speciai
memoirs of the celebrated diplomat. They are the
letters exchanged between him and the old KING
Ious XVIII during the Congress of Vienna, and
were discovered in the archives of the French
Foreign Office by NJ. Pallain officer in the Minis
try of Finance
CARLYLE literature is beginning to sprout in Eng
land with a rapidity and profuson OF growth that
suqgests the forcing process 1t is said that Mr..
GARDENERS coming study of the life and writings OF
CARLYLE will contain document thought to be the
earliest specimen of "Carlylese" and at any rate
valuable as throwing light on the formation OF his
style.
Professor Simon Newcomh of the Naval Observa-
tory at Washington has done the youth Of the coun-
try an inestimabe service by putting the elemen-
tary principles of algebra and geometry into new
and simph6ed forms. Mathematiclans may look TOT
something new in the treatment Of angles. Henry
Holt g. Co. have both books in press and the Geome-
try in particular has an unusual number OF dia-
grams.
Lady Hardy is turning her American expert ences
to literary account by publishing volume OF her
recoections of this country with the title Through
Cities and Prairie which will be issued soon in
London. Americans go lover" prairie instead OF
through" unless they are travelling in Iowa and
get into a deceptive prairie slough Her new novel,
"Beryl Fortescue" is said Dy The academy to be the
work Of novel writer keenly set against q hack
neyed plot.
No volume in the English Men of Letters Series
has been awaited with more interest than Mr..
George Saintsbury's Dryden" Harper g. Brothers
have it IN press and will issue it the coming week.
Tie time is ripe for a new life of Dryden and Mr.
6aintsbury who is admirably equipped for the task
must also have found the subject congenial and in
sp,riting. HIS primer of French literature, which
Harper a. Brothers have republished, is little
masterpiece.