New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-05
LITERARY NOTES.

Is now rendered complete by the issue OF the ioon
volume.
A French Shakespeare Society is talked of among
parisian writers who are acquainted with Ens1s'
literature.
Frederick kuckert the German poet who died IN
,eee left drama called Herod the Great" whlch
b;s daughter has sent to the Court Theatre al
Munich where it will shortly be produced.
Mr.. B.P. shillater (Nrs. Partingt0n) has written
third volume on Ike and his Friends, to be called,
"Tbe Double Runner Club. or the Lively Boys OF
Rivertwon." Lee & Shepard will publish 1t.
The first two volumes Of the "Memoirs of Lucien
Ronaparte.D which were beQueathed to France by
the Princess Luclen will appear in Pans aoon. lne
end of November Prince Lucien died III looo'
There will be third volume.
The new edition of Cape Cod Folks" is ready
In it fictitious names have supplanted the real names
of the first edition. and the author hopes that the
inoensed Cape CD people who have threatened la"
suits will allow their wrath TO subsie
A book entitled "The Modern Seven Wonders OF
The World" will be published by George Routleoge
g. Sons. The seven wonders about which anecdo'eS
and descriptions will he given are the steam engine
the electric telegraph, the sewing machine the pho-
toeraph, the spectroscope, the electric ght anu III"
telephone.
Charles ScrlDnerS Sons lSsuCu yesterday
Rogers" the clever story for boys, by Mr. Ross ter
johnson. which has appeared serally in st. Nicho-
las: also handsome new editions of Mr. FRANK NJ
Stockton's "Tales out Of School" aud " Rounda-
bout Rambes" They have also published cheap
edition of Michael Strogoh"
A correspondent of The Atheneam has picked up
tie following piece of folklore in Swiss village;
"When anyone is passing a barn where the threSh-
ers are at work, he may know how many persons
are handling the fail by attending closely 10 inc
RHYTHM OF III threshing. If two are employed 'ne
fails seem to say 'BarthOl, BartholF II three
threshers are at work. the sound is 'Barthoio bar
thoIo!' if four, 'BartholOma, Bartholoma! Ii
five 'Barthooinaus, Bartholomaus! This Is the
reason We are gravely Informed, why the Apostle
Bartholomew obtained the honor of being the patron
saint of threshers."
On Saturday next Charles Scribners Sons VIII Is
sue an important work called East of the Jordan
which describes the inhabitants, the natural fea-
lures and the ancient ruins of the countries of MOAB
Gllead and Bashan The author is Dr. Selah Mer'
rill of Andover who in 1874 wa appoine ed arena
oogist of the American Palestine Exploration Socie
tv. During ls75-'77 he made four expeditions IL
the country described, which is Inhabited by the
Bedaween and has not for that reason been q sale
fed for scientific exploration. Dr. Merrill Inade
very thorough study of the monuments ana ruins oi
the re gion and his book is enriched by great many
illustrations copied from photographs taken on his
jourpeys The Rev. DR.. Roswell ID. Hitchcock has
Implied an introduction,
With refreshing candor, The London Daily Ne1oS
discusses the copyright question and remarks tnat
"The controversy is VIGOROUSLY bitter in two par
hcalar quarters of the field in rspec to copyrlghl
between America and England and in respect TO
the famois adaptation of French dramas by Engllsh
playwrghts. The remarks OF frenchmen ABOUT
Enelishmen form a singularly wholesome corrective
after the perusal of the remarks of Engllshmen
abont Americans. To look at yourself in somebody
elses glass after looking at somebody else IN your
nwp is an excellent tonic. Also let it be said that
the spontaneorr payments of American publishers,
often made for the works of quite obscure English
authors are things OF which we hear rather 700
little in the somewhat embittered four-handed as
cussion which goes on between American publish
ers American authors, English authors, and English
publishers"
The Afbepqum pillories Captain G. S. Clarke, of
the ROYAL Engineers for plaqalziDg Lieutenant r
v Greenes excellent work on the Russian Army.
Captain Clarke has contributed paper on the de-
fence of Pievna to Volume V. of the Professional
Papers of the Corps of Royal Engineers" In his
preface he allows himself the expression of self-sat
isfacton at having produced the first complete
history of the defence of Plevna, in English or
any other language But The AtheR0am takes the
following less fattering view of his work: Gap
tain Clarke explains how he undertook the arduous
preparation of this important paper, ana mentions
the names of the officers who have assisted MIN De
sides he gives list showing the sources OF iniorma
tion drawn upon by him for his material. lhir-
teenth on this list, and not especially nentloned' Is
the well-known book of Lieutenant Greene, oil the
limited States Engineers, The Russian Army and
rlxf aUO
is with great surprise then, that we find this org-
nal paper, purporting to be study and mono
graph of the Plevna operations, to consist mainly OF
Lieutenant Greenes work condensed and paraphraSed
with a few unimportant interpretations In these
days when English authors and publishers are so
bitterly complaining of the absence OF proper copy
right treaties with America and OF the so-calied
piracy of English works by transatlantic pup
fishers 1t is humiliating to find that the only pro-
fessiona account of the most important defence OF
feldworks in modern times on the grandest scale
imaginable, as yet published in England should DC
derived altogether from American source with
out due acknowledgment"
Nearly all of the rare books which Mr. j. W. Bon
Ton brought home with him from England France
and Holland are now TO be seen at No. 7O6 Broad
way 1t is the richest purchase he has ever made al
one time and only frequent visitors to ms secluded
second-story rooms can be aware OF the extent 10
which the book rarties and bound treasures OF the
Old World are finding new homes in America. Some
of the more noteworthy books among his latest i'm
variations are the engraved works of Hogarth in
three volumes, atlas folio, made-up work rich IN
the minor carcatures aud portraits of that wonder
full genius and containing all of his principal works;
Sir Joshua Reynods's copy of the Strawberry Hill
edition of Horace Walpole's Painting III England"
several volumes with marginal notes in the hand
writing of Sir Joshua; Brandts "Ship Of Fools"
first edition 1897 the second copy which has come
into Mr.. Bouton's hands of Baron Taylors magniii'
cent work in twenty-eight large folio volumes,