New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-14
LITERARY NOTES.

The manuscript Of Dickenss " Christmas 0ar'' 10
Altered for sale in London for $l.ooo'
.D,.. C,;ftonn Ia the title of new temperance
..,,u he Mrs T. !. Richmond IL 10 published ny
the National Temperance Soc'ety'
"Ionpfellow Birthday Boob" to be handsomely
rrintsd and adorned with portrait of the poe WIZ
he issued by Houahton, Mifnln & CO.. about feoi"-
ary II, Mr.. LonRfelow's birthday.
second edition has Leen printed OF MT oainuo'
a. Buggles's book of tables and maps ilius'rau"s
the agricultural progress Of the nation 'n '"''
ching the food of America and Europe
MIR Nahum Capen's "Reminiscences OF DIR. spur
he;n, and George Combe." contributed to ihs rare
nolooieal Journal during the past year, nave ''0"
prb,ished in book form by Fowler q "~S
Ansv edition Of tho late DR., f, A, W"Shhat"S
" Social Law of Go,ls Is nearly ready az l"cmSS
Whittskers. IL consists " series NJ dSrNarseS On
the pecalorae and Is prr;aecd by u sketch VI 'oe
Aathor's life and works
Electric ISAtus hv lcrsnGcScencc|" hV William
7. Sawyer ,p, Van NN>t|a~G, IL an illustrated book
~ the we'll known clcrlrtAa. II exr'a'"S '"'
pIine;pcs ot electric llssnaG and IFS apn"'",'n "
int,r,or ir...,aa,ieg and describes she new e'eo"
larirsI
The mrs. number ot the new series NJ tn Lordry
.Jssrssl msAet its appearance. looking as neat as
formerly anu SOMEWHAT reuIC<eN III Sse' ~ nV" AN'
ture is list with brief critical notes, Of books
which are recommended to city and town libraries
The historical students Of Paris are gratihed by
Che announcement that the Bureau OF History Is
prsparing new volume of documents in tie possess
sion Of the State which will contain great humble
Of letters by Cardinal Rchelieu. never before pub
lished.
The Edinburgh aud Quarterly reviews for anuary
have made their appearance with Houghton. Milf
film & Co = i'm print and may consider themselves
naturalised Americans from this time on. Zach has
an able review of Lord Beaconsfeld's " EndymiOn,"
and each devotes liberal amount OF space TO BOOKS
on the Irish question. The exhaustive review OF
Lord Campbelps memoirs. in The Quarterly, is onset
by an interesting account of Prince Mettern'chs
memoirs in The Edinburgh.
A sensational story comes from Berlin TO the
effect that the Countess Sophia Hatzfedt who died
recently left memoirs of her acquaintance with
La Sale, and other Social Democrats. The story
goes that daring her last days Ill Wicsoadeh'
she dictated her memoirs to The editor OF the sup
pressed SocaDemocratc paper The Berli" free freSS
and instructed him Immediately upon her death 10
convey her papers to Switzerland ana puohSh tueiu
there so as to prevent the interference of her family
An extended notice of Mr. Ruskin's Arrows Of
the Cbace y hos already appeared in The Tribune
of John Wiley & Sons that it is a handsome book
and contains two or three illustrations, including
a fac-simile of manuscript letter. The book Is
described as collection of scattered letters written
between 1910 and 1881, and for the most part pub
Iished in the daily newspapers. They cover great
variety of subjects, and justify their motto takon
from "Fors Clavigera." 1875: II never wrote let
ter in my life which all the world not welcome
70 read If they will"
After the admission that "many American rare
books are esteemed even in Europe, and that many
American historical works are coveted by English
collectors, The London Ne,cS bewails that people OF
Ia ste in the United States are invading our markets
with their long purses, and treasures are slowly
crossin g the Atlantic, and grazing the bookshelyes
the china closets and the cabinets OF COINS IN the
houses of Boston and New-York Thus at Mondays
sale of some of Lord Clare's books at Messrs.
Sotheby's the Americans secured the cream of the
collection, They allowed TO purchase tine
COPY of the first edition of Shakespeares Poems for
$50. Was there no patriotic Englishman present to
keep our Shakespeares verses III their own native
land ScOtchmen basely allowed the original Ms.
of SCOTS Guy Mannering,p to be purchased at the
cost of $500 for America. We don5t whether tho
French would so lightly have parted with the manu-
script OF one Of their great authors. Horace Wal
poles own copy of his Anecdotes OF Painting"
went to the Hurons" as the author would prob
ALLY have SAID. This, again, seems to be book we
should havekept i'll England. But these possessions
follow the money, and the Continental collectors
find that they need oil their wealth when they COM
pete for rare Eizevirs with Americans and Rus
SLAMS"
THAT REC4vE or CONSUL CAIU&