New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-12
LITERARY NOTES.

Dr. W. A. p. MARITIME book on ine Vn'hooc ~
nearly ready at Harper e. Brothers Inc author ID
president of the Tungwen College, Pekng' ana from
long residence in China is qualified to write truth
fnl of the education philosophy and letters
of the natives
The Critic is growing. as the third number. issued
TODAY. amply testifes and gives promise of height
and breadth Three Of the attractions OF this num-
her are Mr.. Walt Whitman's thoughts on the dealh
of CARLYLE, Mrs. Julia Ward Howes glance at
"English Society and 'Endymiop'" and verses oy
"H.H"
Professor James Fl. Woman has prepared an ex'
cellent German primer and first reader compiheu'
which A. s. Barnes g. Co. have neatly printed ~
pursues the so-called natural method ana In Iac'
promises to do much toward proving the superiority
of that method The book is dedicated TO the rev.
Dr. J. H. Vincent, in compliment to his active inter-
est in educational progress
The biography Of L" Sister Augustine. an Old Catho-
tic" which Henry Holt & Co. publish next week. In
Produces TO an American audience the superior VI
The Sisters of Charity at the st. Johannis Hospital
Bonn Since her death and the publication Oh her
memoirs her memory has been held in great regard
In Germany Because she protested against the new
Papal dogmas she was dsgraced In the church ana
died an exile.
"A Treasury of English Sonnets" will be ready at
e. Worthington's probably next week. This book Is
edited by Mr. David NJ. Main, and is in no sense a
rival of the forthcoming sonnets by living writer's
I'm fact contains only the sonnets of departed poet
mud the selections have been highly commended Dy
English critics. geographically the American
edition ia exactly like the English, which is q very
handsome volume.
Mr.. James Freeman Clarke and General Lew
Callac. have been working on parallel lines in the
same field. But General Wallaces " Ben Hur' may
claim priority Of publication The former has been
Engaged for several years upon book to De called
hThe Legend of Thomas Didymus." The story-for
1t may properly be called story-clusters around
Hebrew who is q pupl under famous teacher, at
the time of the coming of Christ. He afterward
meets Jesus and becomes one of his followers.
Mr. Charles Barnard. who has made special
study of the subject of cooperation. has in press with
G. p. Putnam's Sons volume entitled Coopera-
ton as Business" He has given much attention
to this growing interest. and besides his magazine
papers the volume will contain much new matter,
the chief topics being Building Associations"
"Productive and Distrbutve Cooperation" {" Life
Insurance for Children" the Scottish plan, " Ger
man Credit Unions" and "Provident DispensaIies."
The aim is to make the work a standard book of
reference ON the subject of associated labor and
capital
The third and fourth volumes of The English
Poets" edited by Thomas Humphrey Ward, has been
received BY Macmillan e. Go. In them the plan is
admirably continued of having the critical introduce
tons written by men having special knowledge Of
@ single poet a class of poets The third volume
ranges from Addison to Blake. w. j. Courthope
writes the criticism on Addison, Crabbe. and John
son; Professor Nichol Swift, Austin Dcbson
very properly OH COngreve, Prior, Green and Gay
Mark Paitison on Pope; Mr.. Swinburue on Collins:
Matthew Arnold on Gray, aud so on. In the fourth
volume the Dean of st. PauPs writes on Words
worth Gold win Smith on Scott; j. A. SymOnds ON
Byron; Matthew Arnold on Keats Lord Houghton
on Lander; Austin Dobson Hood and Praed and
Professor Nichol on Sidney Dobell, who marks the
extreme limit of the work
curious book called."A Talmudc Miscellany"
has been compiled by Herr Hcrshon, a German
scholar. and was recently published in London. The
plan is very peculiar. The author had noticed that
numbers play great part in the Talmud. The
first chapter of his book contains ffty-fOur Sc
lected passages in which the word lone" occurs |
An example is " One paDg of remorse at q mans |
heart is of more avail than many stripes applied to |
him" The book contains a thousand QUOTA
tons, which are grouped in chapters according 10
the order of the numerals up to chapter eleven, |
which contains Talmudic numbers from eleven to |
ninety -nne. The succeeding chapters reach 1000
myriads. Canon Farrar has written the introduc- |
ton. in which he praises the plan as absolutely
to any oreslded representation of the contents of
the Talmud in order to serve purpose"
Mr.. Justin Mccarthy sketches with vigor and
sympathy the relations of tenant and landlord to
"The Irish Land Question:" in the March Iaterna-
foaal Reriew. OF the way landlords frequently have
of adopting slight excuses for raising the rent, he
says: lhave heard of cases, and cases Certainly
true, in which mans putting few flowers in his
Window rare adornment among the Ir1sh peasant |
cass-has brought the agent round to tell him that
as he afford to grow ornamental flowers, he can
afford to pay mis- landlord higher rent have |
heard of q case in which the fact that mans |
daughter went to chapel OH the Sunday with a
string of glass beads--value perhaps few cents
round her neck, brought him visit from the agent
and the assurance that his daughter could put
on ornaments he could well afford to pay rent
TO bis landlord" DIR. William A. Hammond con-
tributes an interesting article 60 The Scientific
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