New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-10
LITERARY NOTES.

A second edition of DR.. Charles Denisons excel |
lent "Guide to the Rocky Mountain Health Resorts
has been issued by Houghton, Mfiin d. Co.
The clever daughter of NJ. Guizot. Madame de
xv;,, has made an abridged and in its language
,nodernized edition of the everpopnar Chronicles
of Froissart
The Forthcoming midwinter Scrbaer has an ar
t;cle by Bjornsterne Biornson on "Norway'S Cons'
tutional Struggle" The poet and orator is the ioro
most opponent of the Scandinavian hing anu MS
reactiOnary government.
Dr. Llewelyu d, Bevan, of the Old Brick Iresoy-
terian Church. has collected his short addresses 10
students into volume, Published by Charies STU
ner's Sons. They relate to the relgious sIuo Va
studies pertaining to general ana speci''i eu''ui
The short poems By $. C.. collected under the t'io
"Waysido Flowers" ID. Is. Lippncoit Cob a''
very uueoual in merit and the best OF thenl' IKE
"Wbat is Death and beyond the Stars" Will
please only persons fond OF gloomy Religious
expressed in conventional language.
Mr. A. J. Dufields new translation Of " Don
ouixoten is mercilessly handled by The ST James
Gazette for being written in style that can be conf
pa,ed only to that of Ancient Pistol, ami aoonhu-
Sug in uncouih epthets. big words of "ecP soun"
md mystic sense and scraps of antique taiN.
M. Taine has returned TO Paris, bringing with HIM
the completed manuscript of the thrd No."'i' y"
the French Revolution. Each volume has part'c-
MAR title and the third is called The Jacobln Con
uuest' The author likens tho seizure oil tue GOV
eminent by the Jacobins to the conquest OF ancient
Gsul by the Franks. The volume viii not DC ready
before March.
Frederick Won Bodenstcdts translation OF inc
Persian poet Omar Khayyam, published SINCE HIS
return to Germany, is highly com'nendeu oS -"
SATURDAY. Rcrier which calls it an advance IN po-
ofx ,;a his )
German meets translation is said to excel III poe'l
cal feeling and fidelity the thought OF Omar kh"y
yam while the English translation OF Mi tl'zg raid
is superior in fOrm
Another London publisher, replying TO M:. Grflns
plea for large editions and cheap prices says i tc
experiment is to be tried the burden must be sharcu
by the author: "On such footingl would Willingly
publish Lord Beaconsfeid's next novel a. - d.
and hand his lordship 100000 out OF the +-=o'ooo
when the book had earned that comior'ahe sum
The whole truth of the matter lies in nutshell Ihe
great novel-reading public infinitely pfeIefS u"
ninety-nne cases out of hundred) borrowing
three-volume novel for Cd. to buving 1t III one VOL
ume for 2s Co.; the lundredth case is EhoS :
mon" heartily wish it we're otherwise; Dut Tue
attempt has frequently been made and mas rs ire
quently failed"
An English Journal of Sunday reading called me
Dan of Rest announces an excellent feature lor Tue
new year. This will be series OF sketches by such
prominent novelists Charles Road" MIS- Oil
plant. William Black, Thomas Hardy, Anthony
Trol,ope and George Macdonald, embodying what,
in the opinion OF each Of them is the highest tyre OF
character in the everyday life Of the present time.
The twelve sketches will not he signed and readers
will have the pleasure Of specializing over the au-
thorship.
In "Sans';ris and its Kindred Lteratures
fRoberts Ero.hers, Mrs Laura Elizabeth Poor has
supnlied an easy and useful introduction TO the
newest discoveries aud theories In comparative my
thology The book has much to do. also. with
comparative phlology. IL is somewhat diJoihted
in arrangement and rather fragmentaly. as might
be expected of a work of some 40 small pages deal
ing with so vast subject. and drawing It's Opinions
In great mart from we'll known scholars and its illus
traions in the form of extracts. from the cratures
il describes The preface says the book is not an
encyclopaedia, which is apparent enough, though 1t
might be described collection of hI,ecn cyclic
ppdje articles bearing upon the leratures OF the
Aryau races and written with the purpose of prov
ing their kinship in idea and imagery lie least
satisfactory chapter is that on the modern poetry OF
Europe and the other leaves the black race out OF
the classification OF the human family IN TIE INTRO
ductory chapter. The common fault OF using
"who," the pronoun applying to persons, for
",hatv the pronoun applying to persons and things
stvle Bnt in the main the book is clearly and
forciLiy written, and deserves q great many
readers.
General Claiborne. Of Louisiana, pays tribute 10
the accuracy of some of Mr. Mays historical re-
yivals in the Earl of Maytield," in the following
letter: -, ...,o,
NEAR NATCIiEZ, Dec. -, 1851
THOMAS p MAY. esq. J., .-. ,,...
MY DF AR SIR: few days since read In me ItrGRFnF
avery attractive review of the Earl OF Maybe one
M the most popular novels Of orr day. ana tlus ri'd
for the first time are It's author Ihc lS"Itoi
of INV lite SINCE the must be my apology for THIS
seven editlons ] read IT when 1t first appeared. and
should have recognized at once your familiar literary
fooDrDts aud certain opinions heard y0n express on
yonr return from Washington. In critical times. when
very uncertain future lay before us all Though 50 tte
canuo, withhold cordial congratulations on his DII
liant success and hope that you Will devote your TAI
ens your knowledge OF politics and politicians, n OF
soety I'm all its phases, this pecullr ana most IN
srlcIiyc liue OF nOyel-wrng VI which DsraeI - the
great master ,.....u.. -
The portrait you have drawn OF Lincoln IL nterdy
photog .Dh from life. have seen IN no Otncf hoUB net
even In The approved biographies any llustiall'n OF
That extraordinary satisfactory and 50 near the
truth al yours Lately had occasion TO stuoy ms
prcudioes, and conclusion IS that. Intellectually u"
WAS one OF the record, Win generous
heart, with little OF this worlds t&lni
shall now read the " Earl OF MRyneld again WIN
additional zest interest, since know that II is oin
tie pen of au old aud valued friend. Very truly Nodrs,