New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-09

Mrs. Cowden Clarke is preparing and re-
sised edition of her Concordance TO Shakespeare.
st. Petersburg is to have a new review called the
Nouretste dc PEtraAge, devoted to foreign politics
Ind literature.
portrait of the Rev. Robert Coyer and g crit
ica and biographical notice of him will appear i'll
POfteTs american Monthly for August.
e. The lessons of Mr.. Surgeons "John Plough
mans Pictures will soon be open to German read
srs through a translation published at Nordcn, in
Prussia.
J. b. Lippincott & Co. have in press Miss Thack-
Brays sketch of Madame dc Scyigne and Dr.
William Knights monograph on the life and writ
ings of Hume
"The New Testament" for penny, is said to
have found already quarter of a million purchaS-
in England. The publisher intends to issue q
French edition for sou. for circulation in France.
A rare American book was found in a collection
recently sold in London It was a copy of the Com
mon Prayer translated into the Mohawk language
for the use of the Indians and published at New
York in l7l5. Few copies of this edition survived
the eXpatriation of the Mohawk tribes to Canada
for aiding the British in the War of independence
The treatise by Copernicus on the motion of the
heavenly bodies, De Hypothesibus Motuum Coz
lestium," has been discovered at the Stockholm Oh
servatory in shape more perfect than any other
Revolutionibus Orbium CGlcstum," which once
belonged TO the Dantsic astronomer Hevelius
Keats is supposed to have borrowed the idea of his
Grecian Urn " from two engravings in Piranesi's
work, published in 1880. One is the picture of a
large marble urn then owned by Lord Holland and
the other of an urn in the Borghese Gallery. Since
only one side of each urn portrayed the poet
combined the two to complete his mental picture.
Mr. George HOughton. author of "ThGN4egend of
KIrif fipr
founded upon his studies in Iceandic literature
Six Flights of the Dragons will bd the title, and
the story will embrace the legends which describe
the discovery and occupancy Of theINcw-Eng
coast by the Mortimer several centl cs before the
voyage of Columbus.
1talias>wliters have done little toy<ard providing
national n~rature for children Nho have been en-
tertained for tia most part VIII TRANSACTIONS from
English, German Mud FRENCH writer's. A weekly H.
Illustrated journal for the Young, entitled II Giorrale
per- BombjR is being started in Rome, and many
noted Italian writer's including several ladies, have
promised to contribute to it.
Ckalterbor for July the English periodical for
children, published in this country with supple
ment by Estes & Lauriat), besides pictures, anec-
does and short STORIES contains three chapters of
" The Tour Round the World" an excellent de
scrptiOn of travel in foreign countries The present
number contains fullpage sketches of scenes in
Egypt, Nuba and AbySsinia, which are effective.
The Spanish Epoca, in commenting on the Caldc-
ron Centenary, takes the following gloomy view of
literature a profession: " In Spain there never
have been, nor arc there now, any prizes to which
the man of letters may aspire. No man can here
make decent livelihood out of literature scarcely
even can he procure the whcrewithal Of meeting the
most pressing necessities Of life. Before the writer
OF the journalist there is prospect but that of
miserable and penurious old age"
In 1910 Goethe wrote a story in the manner of La
Fontaine which he did not publish for the reason.
as he said to Eckemann, that his compatrots could
not understand joke. 1t was published however,
for the first time at Vienna in 1870, and his com
patriots, being unable still to understand that kind
of joke, the authorities confscated the edition.
One copy fell into the hands of Strasburg French
man, who translated it into French verse and pub
Gshed, under the title. " Goethe Mon Journal
POO copies, which soon disappeared from the book
stalls
Among the attractions of Harpc's Maga-iae for
August will be paper Of retrospective character.
entitled Them" written by James T. Fields during
his last illness The "reminiscences are general
rather than individual, and are such as
will bring to the minds Of Mr. Flelds's
contemporaries many a familiar scene of
thirty years ago. The paper closes with the fol-
lowing paragraph: "Then the summer mornings
were full of sinGIng-birds, always waiting outside
our windows to help us begin the day with happi-
Then flowers were born. as il to accompany
the birds in their benevolent mission. Then all our
dreams were pleasant imaginings, Arabian Nights
Entertainments frolic visions of untroubled low
Then June was the longest and ovelest month in
the calendar. Then we were never depressed by bad
weather Then headache had 40 Judgment nearer
than our neighbours brain. Then personal rheuma-
tism was unknown to Then insomnia had not
been invented, and were not obliged to draw
upon the apothecary for walls of sleep. Then we
could walk twenty miles dav without fatigue.
Then all was gold that clustered. Than zee uere
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