New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-05-23
LITERARY NOTES.


Mr. Edwin P. whipple has been asked 70 prepsic r.
.ketrb of the life and writings OF the late 1aipoS
Fields for The atlantic.
NJ. Renan is preparing an exhaustive nue. ~ 49,
seven volumes of Origines du Chrs'iSn''n''
last one of which is now in type
Carmen sylvia" is the pseudonym OF queen LIZ ,
abotb of Roun.ania, who has just publisned Nor
une ~ Ger3nan TRANSACTIONS of Roumanian poems
Anew edition of the Greek Testament VIII oe
issned next month from the OXFORD Oni'eiev
Press and will afford easy comparison between 'n0
original readings and the new English version
An American Free Library is being formed ~
Stuttgart Special attention will be gwen 10 DooA,
setting forth the life history. natural resources anu
advantages Of the different States OF inc onion'
Miss Sarah Orne Jewett, author OF DeephaVeh
and "Old Friends and New" Is preparing ano'ic'
similar volume of essays, to he called Ooun'ry ny
wav.p which Houghton, Mialin & Co. will publish
in the autu mn.
IN the Parchment Library" of Scribner & Wei
ford may be found as numbers five and six, Eng
Nsb Odcs.n selected by Edmund w. Gosse' anu
" sbakesneares sonnets." with notes and introduc-
ton by Edward Dowden.
BOSTON alone has Contributed 81 900 OF the @9'ooo
being raised ~ build library building for the
Rugbv Colony and the publishers of New-iork'
Boston and Philadelphia have given 5000 volumes
as O nucleus for library.
II is said that Mr. Fronde is preparing a small
volume of notes of conversations with Carlyle, per-
haps.in justification of his course IN printing inc
"Reminiscences" in their original pungcncy' LUIS
book will preccdc his biography OF Carlyle
MIR. Edwin A. Mead of Boston, has written
small volume OH 1.-THE Philosophy of Carlyle"
which IIoughton Mifiin & CO.will have ready early
in June Tho authors purpose is to lead readers
away from the din over the "Reminiscences" to
calm and Just survey of Carlyles powers as
thinker and his methods of thought.
The first chapter Of NJ. Alphouse Daudets new
novel "Numa Rumcstan' has appeared in Paris
and Vienna as o newspaper serial. IL opens win
graphic power at a town fair in Aps-en-Provence III
the south of France (Daudet is eouthronl hu-
mesan the hero is forty three years OF age, eader
Of the Legtimst party in Provence. and great
fayorite of the people The time of the story IS
1878.
Among cheap English educational publications,
Ward & Locks Universal lnstructor" is prom-
mont and has reached the tcnth edition. Its pur
pose ia to promote self-cuturc among the poorer
classes Illustrations and diagrams accompany the
text All branches of knowledge are included i'll its
scope, but the scattered arrangement OF the chap
ters OH any given topic is great disadvantage 10
the student. Each part costs % cents
Vide 4rake for June is notably strong in its pic
lures and It's poetry. Mrs A. NJ. Diaz and the artist
"Boz" present the greatest claim for the gratitude
of young readers in the ballad of Tho Little Bog
germuggers." which, with the quaint and droll IL
Iustrations fills six pages. Mr.. harness portrait OF
Mother Goose reveals the old crOne in all her at
tributes and il yet kindly. Among the poems arc
MARY in the Morning Glories" by Mary Clemmer :;
1.-THE Baby's Prayer" by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps ;
Courtesy" by Mrs. L. c. WintOn; aud :" Out OF
Tune" by Mrs. S. NJ. b. Patt.
James II. Osgood & Co. are employing the best arts
of printer and binder on u small volume OF poems by
Miss Ellen Mackay Hutchinson. which certainly
we'll deserve a refined ard artistic setting. The
poems, between fifty and sixty in number appeared
originally in the Harper and other periodicals. and
though published for the most part anonymously
their fresh ess and spontaneity won for many OF
them a wide circulation. The graceful lines on
Rose Standsh, entitled Her Picture" were printed
in Harpers Ueekiy about FIVE years ago and, it would
seem. appealed strongly to the fancy of George II.
Boughton for his GrOvesnOr Gallery picture of this
year is called " Rose Standish" and has verse OF
the poem for a legend. The book is intended for
October and its title, Songs and Lyrics" will
npty express the character of the contents for unity
of idea aud musical expression always lend to the
authors verse purely lyrical quality.