New-York tribune., 1881-09-10
LITERARY NOTES.

Mr.. George w. Cable is writing history of New
Orleans.
A sermon by George Macdonald the novelist will
appear IN the September Unitarian Reriew
Mr. Austin Dobson is writing an article on tne
artist Angelica Kauffmanu for the "Encyciopedia
Britannica"
There will be four instead of eight volumes OF the
memoirs of Barras the publication Oh "hioh mas
been postponed for the present
In binding and Typography the Oxford University
Press octave edition pica demyl of tue revised New
Testament is hardly to be surpassed.
A collection of poems expressing parental affection
has been made by Mrs. Levetta b. Conner which
will be called The Parent-Heart in Song"
A second volume of Mr.. w. S. Gilberes Original
Playsn has been published by Chatto g. Wndus.
Patience" the aesthetic opera. is not included.
Mr. Richard Herne Shepherd has in press a new
and enlarged edition of his Bibliography of Rus
kim" which will be limited to $50 numbered copies.
A paper dealing with the earlier of Dean
Stanley by his cousin, Mr.. Augustus j. c. Hare.
will appear in the next number of M0cmilans Mdga-
sine
Professor Winchell. of Michigan University, the
author of Pre- -Adamites" has nearly ready at s.
c. Gnggs g. Co.'s volume called Sparks from
Biologists Hammer"
The Browning Society begins its labors by count
ing the lines of Its masters poems. They number
about 81 900 which is fourth less than the number
of lines ascribed to Shakespeare.
Herr Won Fackes beautifully illustrated work on
the life and art of Greece and Rome" has been
translated into English and will be published 81
Henry Holt d Co. for the holidays.
Miss Mary l.. Booth, Editor of Harpers Basor, by
special arrangement with the South Kensington
Museum has obtained exclusive use for that journal
of he efeqip oft tha Kansi rt
There has been a controversy in Paris over the
authorship of the passage in Lamartine's
"LHistOire dc la Restauration" which gives
a graphic portrait of Louis XVIII. NJ. de
Saint-VictOr the accomplished dramatic critic,
who died recently the secretary of La
MARITIME when the above history written. A
few days after the death of SaintVictor the clam
put forth that he drew the portrait in question.
The internal evidence of style is the side of La
martiue.
"1he Campaigns of the Civil War" is the compre-
hensve title of n series of histories which Charles
Scribners Sons have had in preparation for
time and which they are now able to announce
will be begun IN October. The aim has been to pro-
duce a history OF the rebellion, which shall be
trustworthy in statement, thorough in treatment.
and popular in style, by having the story of each
great campaign of the told separately by
competent eyewitness specialist in handy vol
ume of about 25O pages. These volumes will ap-
pear far possible in the chronological order of
the campaigns of which they treat and preliminary
and concluding chapters in each will carry the gen.
eral theme over FROM volume to another. Two
volumes will be issued in October. These will be
The Outbreak of Rebellion" by Mr.. John G. Nico-
lay the private secretary of President Lincoln which
describes the opening of the and ends with the
first battle OF Bull Run sand From Fort Henry to
Corlnth," by General NJ. +. Force, who commanded
the Goth Ohio at Shiloh afterward the First Division
of the Seventeenth Corps, and now Justice of the
Superior Court, Cincinnati. Other volumes which
will follow at short intervals 3l " The Penin-
sula," by General Alexander S. Webb, who will
give the history of McClellans Peninsula Cam
paign, ending with the Seven Days Fight; ~ The
Army under Pope" by John c. Ropes member of
the Military Society of Massachusetts, (5 " Antie-
tam and fredericksburg" by General Francis Win
throp Palfrey t6) Gettysburg" by General Abner
Doubleday; t7) The Army of the Cumberland" by
General Henry NJ. Cist; ~ The Mississippi" "author
not yet announced; t9) The Campaign of Atlanta"
by Ex-Governor Jacob d. Cox, of Ohio; (1O) The
March to the Sea-Frankn and Nashville" by ex-
Governor Cox (1D 1.-THE Campaigns of Grant in
Virginia" by General Andrew A. Humphreys; and
one more volume to conclude the series. Each vol
ume will contain several maps.
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