New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-26
LITERARY NOTES.


Z NJ s,orcure d. Conway has revised and enlarged
his iecturs on Tho Wandering jew" and intehds
10 pubilsh it as monograph.
rts ,,onosraph on Madame Scvigne which Miss
T1acksray has been engaged upon for some time' Is
finished and will soon make its appearance.
Principal Shairps five lectures on Culture ana
Reliejon have been issued in neat and cheap iorm
by T. X. Funk e. Co.. in the Standard Series
The Etchers Society of London will shortly issue
aportfofo of reproductions by etching OF all the
unpublished portraits and sketches Of Carlyle In
the possession Of tho philosophers family.
II is proposed to publish selection from the let
tern of Mrs l.. Maria Child. Any person having
such Ia requested to communicate with Mrs. Maria
Parsons, No. 200 Carrolst., Brooklyn, N \. All
such letters loaned will be carefully returned.
Ravard Tav)or's translation of Faust has been
,.v;.sd for better or worse, by Miss Ella Detz,
whose object has been to provide an acting play.
which she will produce in the country theatres Oh
England, with herself in the part of Marguerite.
The leaders of the Secessionist party of Germany
which favors the withdrawal, principally Oh INC
KINGDOMS of Bavaria and Wurtemburg' from .no
Empire. have started journal in Beriin caiou 4"o
Tribune. 1t begins with spews OF war
TO 100000 Marks or about Slo7'ooo
m
of ENGLAND depends in large measure upon the
.hn;cal education of her artisans, effort is be-
,pg made to awaken public interest in plan LOT
great technical library and museum IN LONDON
which. in its wsy, shall rival the library OF the
British Museum
Russian writer, whose fame is beginning 10
.ound in the English speaking world, NJ. Destoyen-
sky died about three weeks ago In st. PETERSBURG.
Tn bis youth be was sent to Siberia Tor revolution
arv tendencies. The best of his novels, describing
his experience as an exile. has just appeared in Eng
lish translation.
Henry Holt a. Co. have issued this week new
Leisure -four novel entitled " The Leaden Casket,"
which is the bamesake Of the casket chosen by
Bassapo in The Merchant of Venice y; and Pro-
lessor Newelps illustrated work on 1.-The Human
Bvdy,n designed Tor q textbook and for popular
work on physiology and hygiene.
Under the title of Backing His Boots" The Lon
don .Word takes The Quarterly Rerieo to task for
extoing Lord Besconsfield in recent notice OF
"Endymion." Ii calls to MUD that for years Inc
Reriep had rdiculed his writings and his early po-
ltical efforts, cast suspicion upon his motives ana
once denounced him as a TRAITOR.
Mr.. Lecky,n according to The Manchester Guar
dias sis actively engaged at present in preparing
new volume of his History of the Eighteenth Cen
pendence he will make new departure in his esti-
mate Of Washington. and one which will not be par
ticularly pleasing to many American readers"
The new, cheap edition of Gilbert Whites Nat
ural History and Antiquities of Selborne." which
Macmillan & Co. have just issued. contains poem
and letters never before published. The memoir
and notes are by the late Frank auckland. Inc
book is handsomely illustrated and is a classic IN
popular natural history. charming alike foi It's style
and its fine Interpretation of nature.
"a gentleman" says The Boston Courier, Objected
In the presence of lady, who is credited with hav-
ing written one of the No Name Series, TO the ten
teney of many juvenile books. They teach chill
dren so much mischief be said Oh the lady re-
turned that is their greatest merit in my eyes, The
mischief my children think of is 20 much worse than
any they can find in books that I'm always
relieved to see them doing anything so harmless as
trying al the pranks related in their story books
An illustrated supplement devoted to the poet
Longfellow goes with this weeks number OF The
Christian Union. The text is by the Rev. Lyman
Abbott, aud of the poets manner OF composition ne
SAYS: HE writes rapidly. but revises slowly. He
never writes to order never writes till expression
becomes a necessity. or mt least an impulse. But
some of his best poems have the uttcrance OF an In
slant inspiration. Excelsior was written one
evening on the back of n letter received from
Charles Sumner the theme suggested by the word
'cxcelsior' which caught his eye IN an evening
paper"
In Professor Legee's translation of Shu-King and
Sinh. King the last volume of THE Sacred Books
az the East.v the names of I'll" and Shangti."
wherever they occur. are rendered by God" as if
they were intended to represent the true God" as
introduced to the Chinese by the Christian mis-
sionaries. Twenty IF the latter. living In emma.
have addressed a remonstrance to Professor Max
Muller the editor of the series, claiming that the
names should have been rendered Supreme Ruler"
"Supreme Emperor OF 81 Ruler" Professor Max
Muller has written an elaborate reply IN which he
SAYS: Il can well understand why many mission
aries in China should have bestated to identify the
Shang.ti of the Coniucans with the God they come
10 preacb and all can do is to try to explain to You
why, in spite of all objections, i myself agree with
DR.. Legee in accepting Shang-t. when it occurs in
the ancient Scriptures of the Chinese, as name in
tended for the true God"