New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-04-16
LITERARY NOTES.

C.P. Putnam's Sons will soon issue the poems OF
Mr.. Hugh +. McDermott, which have found consd-
cradle favor with many readers.
Macmillan e. Co. have published cheap ediuon
of wards English Poets at a dollar voluine'
and thus placed most excellent work WITHIN inc
wcans of students.
The International Literary Association VIII hoiu
this wears visit at Vienna, probably in September
N. Emile Angler, the dramatic author, is al tne
head of the Committee on Organization.
In addition to the novelette,, "A Fearful Respon-
ability the scene Of which is laid in Venice ME-
Howells il writing long serial for Ser1o"@'
Monthly Dr. Holland has a new story IN contem
olation.
J.B. Lippincott G. Co. have imported an edition
~ the Rlackwood edition Of George Elots complete
xvorks In twenty volumes IL is said to be the Dest
edition published is in large clear type and printed
on fine paper.
Tho Rev. William r. Alger. author of life OF
Edwin Forrest and late pastor of the Church OF the
Messiah In this city, has written new BOOK caieu
"Tbe School of Life" which Roberts Brothers nave
In press 1t is of religious philosophical character
Dr Henry NJ. Fields travels Around the
World Is still in lively demand, and the eleVeh'h
EDITION Ia now ready at Charles Scribners sons
The same house has published new edition OF MI
Froudes narrative of &" The English In Ireland.
"Otto,s German Grammar" which has a familiar
.,a ,,erhons unnleasant sound to students but has
found great favor with teachers, has been reViScu
for a new edition by Professor William COOK, Vi
Harvard. and will soon be issued by Henry hoit
Co.
Tho illinois, article in the twelfth volume OF the
sEncvclopadia Britannica" is credited 10 y. W.
Gbeahan and Joseph Medill. The articleson ldaho
hU
md Indian Territory" were written oS ii'"'y
Gannett. The Indiana is by A. {. Harris, ana
the paper on The American Indians was "l'''o"
IVA. II. Keane and Henry Gannett.
Like everything from her facile, spirited pen
Ar. Olnbant,s little volume on "Cervantes," in
the Foreign Classics for English Readers ID. b. LIP
ni,cott a. CO... is exceedingly entertaining. Nearly
holt Of the hook ia devoted to Don Quixote."
Mrs Obpbant makes thrilling chapter OF the ex-
uerience of Cervantes among the Algerian pirates
Afe,y comics of the fac-simile edition of 1.-The Boke
~ CT AIbansv have been secured by j. w. Bouton
The original book is so scarce that single copies are
worth about S. 600 The fac-simile copies are worth
S15 each. A great deal of time has been spent III
reproducing the copy in the British Museum oy
means of photography and printing from metal
blocks ON rough hand made paper in exact imta-
ton of the original. 1t is bound in vellun
"Tbe Gospel History" by James r. Gilmore I'D
,rund Kirkel and the Rev. Lyman Abbott FOrds
uowar, g. Hulbertl is a harmony of the FouI Cos
pels designed for popular use. 1t is provided with
interesting notes aud commentaries drown from
credited sources part of the notes a. designed
Ia give information concerning the manners and
customs of Palestine i'll the first century and as MI
Abbott saws. "are wholly free from all sham and
shallow scholarship
Uarncrs " Cvclopnda of British and American
1...;.., Itnix. he last
done by the late Epcs Sargent, will he published
next Friday. Poets from Chaucer to the present
time are represented and the book, which contains
a Thousand pages has several noteworthy features
The poets are introduced 10y brief notices both
critical and anecdotal and there is much new lnfor
nation regarding poets Of the nineteenth century
Many poetical waits are attributed 10 the night au-
thors and the single poem" writer's arc well rep
resented
Tho ANONYMOUS book called Rabbi Joshua"
which Henry Holt & Co. will have ready next week
has made n sensation in religious circles in Eng
land Ii is lively sketch of life in Palestine IN the
time of Jesus, who is portrayed in realistic way
and strippod of supernatural attributes. The son
of n high church digntary of England writes to
friend in this city that the book is by popular
author who knows every inch of the ground he de-
scribes and adds forcibly: 1t is great pity the
author cannot give his name, but it would simply
blow him sky-hgh to do so.'
The termination of the political campaign does
NOT seem to have ended the interest in Judge Tour
gees historical novels The sales for the first quar-
fer of this year. usually consided the least favorable
season for booksclling reported as aggregating
$4,000 copies of the three books. A Fools Enand
Figs and Thistles' and Bricks Without Straw"
When book on a special topic has in a few months
reached circulation of over 100000 copies, book
sellers not unreasouably expect lull in the demand
for it but the call for these works Of the doughty
carpet-bagger steadily continues. \ quarter OF a
million of the three books have been distributed
since Sentember. 1879. when the first Of them was
published.