New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-04-27
LITERARY NOTES.

A handsome reprint Of Raw|insoifs " Ancient
Nonarchies y is announced by Dodd, Mead * W.
3 Victor Hugo il reputed to be very wealthy, 'no
interest la Brussels bank alone ah'ouii'"s "
1890, 1000.
Mr.. George Augustus Sala has in hand seIiai ,o-
nance of modern society entitled " Sar'y ~ M -
Citv, It's intended for Par, and VIII uoup'iesS NC
satire written with acid. -,
D.n;sb preiudjce against German literature is saiu
10 be diving out. Goethe, in particular Is no" Va
tensively read in the little kingdom, and tho oes'
German writers Of the day are slowly gaming auu'-
ence
Mr.. Matthew Arnold, who is rapidly oeco'nlns .-'
chief preface and introduction writer OF 'n0 ,a,5
has written preface for coliec',on y: ,,h;cb
Burke'o Letters and Papers On irisp Ai'""'
Macmillan & Co. will publish at once
The hte Professor James II. Coiin' OF La,a!o't0
co,Iere left a volume of autobiography ana rem
',;..s,os. which will Do published For thirty
years ne occupied the char VI
PHYSICS in Lafayette College.
Mr.E.P. Roes success with Small Fruits
.nn;,, race with his novels for the prze OF pop
MARTY Over go. 900 copies of his movers nave
heer s,ld Int none of them have been transia'eu Ia
Io,orase which has happened to his practicaI Noi
un,c ON small fruits.
tri.monthly periodical devoted to American az
so;rs hos been started in Vienna and IS calieu
Ayerka II is edited in a vigorous manner by ie'i
OTTO Maass. formerly of Philadelphia, and makes l"
bandaome appearance. A portrait OF Washington
after Marshalrs engraving adorns the INST hunoei'
The Hon. Lewis Wingield, brother OF Lord ro"
.aoo,r, md a yiyaci0us contributor 10 seVei"i
Jnn5o, periodicals. has been masqueradius IN
,rno,;c II il said. in several English rna'ihonSeS
,.;,h The view of exposing the evils of mch places
in his forthcoming story, The Haven Oh Unrest
Houphtor. Mifiin & Co. have just issued three
,or vo,nmes of Modern Classics" One contains
T.nnvson's Princess" Maud" and " Locksiey
Hall y: another Carlye's essay on Burns ana ia'o'
a. ro.,. nv Rnrns and Scots and the third Macau-
laws essav ON Byron with favorite poems 10y byron
ard Moore. 49,
Mr. George J. Holyoakcs papers descriptive OF MS
;op,,evinps in America will soon be published III oooh
form in London. They appeared originally In 1"e
Coopero,irc Nems Accordingto The Athene@m tne VOL
ur,o will have double-page illustration OF INC au
thor being interviewed by Frank Leslie Canauiah
and American editions will include MI hoIyoahc
paper i'll The Nineteenth Century entitled Stranger
In America"
In 1880, Auguste de Chatillon was an acuVe mem
her of the circle of young Partisan authors VINO 1o
lowed Victor Hugo's lead. Tie died recently IN oo-
scurity and great poverty. AS young man nc as,
nircd TO be "a universal genius. tie had 1ancliui
skill with the brush talent for sculpture, reao!
command of his pen and marked musical abilties
His efforts did not meet with satisfying praise Ao
the public and finally he threw the muses. OverDoaIu
and took M q solitary life. His volume OF poems
ala Grand Pinte," still has degree OF popularity
II contains a sprightly poem written whue ne was
visiting Ncw-York and addressed to his friend heo
pbile Gautier. 1t is description OF Tn Uras
Chat and opens with praise of Gautier as friend
Of cats
counter current to the Carlyle " reaction is
s.tt,o in. and receives the following impetus from
The PcU Mall Ga,etfe: " Everybody has been read
inc Carlyle's extraordinary and even terrible ac
onnt of the thirteen years of fierce wrestling which
went to the production Of his History of Frederick
<he Great, IL is sad TO find that this tremendous
strnecle has all been thrown away and wasted. 30
=, least declares The Edinburgh Rerer. We are not
of those saws writer in the new number OF that pc
viodical. who believe that he ever attained the
rank of AN historian or that his later works nave
any historical value This is toleraby straightfor
ward but i'm footnote there is q still more fatefui
xroni of doom: In an article on the first volumes
nj his History Of Frederick" we examined with
care his merits as historian. Our opinion OF that
work is unchanged, and we took no further notice
ofit,i So there is an end of that-Carlyle, Frede-
rok and thirteen years of furious industry from the
most original literary genius of his time. We COM
mend 70 these high Sapiencies and Pomposities,
when they are talking of Carlyle saying OF Cardl-
mil Newmans about writing of a certain kind; All
such writing is always open to CRITICISM ana IL ID
aJvays above il. ~