New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-03
LITERARY NOTES.

Mr.. Z dward p. Vining attempts to solve the old
problem of The Mystery of Hamlet" in volume
which j. B. Lppincott & Co. have in press.
1t is reported in London that tho manuscript of
DIR. Knnss harmony of the Bible and science, to be
called Moses and Geology" is nearly ready for the
printer.
edition of tho first part of DIR. Eur
Bruckc's German without Grammar or Detion-
aryr has been printed from new plates by 5. &.
Briggs X Co.
A translation by Mr.. George D. Cox of "The
Exles" realistic story of Russian life, by the
French authors Victor Tissot and Constant AmerO,
has been published by +. Il. Peterson Il Brothers.
The Pail MAI Gazette learns that NM. Pasteur.
Sully -Prudhvmmo and Francois Coppee, the young
poet are among the candidates for the chair in the
Academic Franchise left vacant by the death of NJ.
Littre.
copy of one of the earliest and rarcst of Charles
Dickens's writings entitled " Three Ways of Spend
ing Sunday, by Timothy Sparks" was purchased by
% Manchester bookseller for threepence, resuld for
$3l, and sold by the second purchaser for $42.
ST. Nicholas for August shows cover slightly
modified in the lettering, to indicate the recent
changes in the company that owns and publishes
both it and Sc,ibners Monthly. These changes on
the show that 81. Nicholas is longer Serb
ners Illustrated Magazine for Girls and Bows" pub
lished by "Scribner g. Co." bat that hereafter it
win be An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks"
published by The Century Co." The letter
ing gives the cover neater appearance and that is
all the revolution amounts to, so far as its young
readers concerned Editors aud publishers are
the same as before, and between the will be
found the same fine pictures, bright stories and
pretty poems. The story in verse of the Chinese
Prince "Cham," by Eva l.. Ogden, fills four pages
and has been fancifully illustrated by Alfred Bren
nan. Young eyes will dwell long upon this quaint
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pick the W ords out of the queer and difficult print
Two articles that will help young folks in their va
cation amusements are description of the game of
Camps" adapted by 6. b. Bartlett, and short
treatise Flat Boating for Boys" by Daniel G.
Beard, with the details of iatboat building set
FORTH The frontispece is clever illustration of
poem by Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge, who reveals the
mental processes of little girl i'll Brown Study
The addresses and sermons which the late Dean
Stanley delivered in this country during his visit of
two years ago have been collected and published
in small volume, with portrait, by Macmillan a.
Co.
Reviewing Mr. John BURROUGHS Pepacton /" in
The academy Mr.. Grant Allen paints this country
i'll dismal colors, and reminds one forcbly of the
discrimination with which the girl of the period,
recently described, applies her two adiectves
"lovcy" and horrd." Mr.. Grant Allen observes
at the outset that Pepacton" :" is delightful
book, of a sort whereof the Americans almost
to have The monopoly 1t is rcdolent throughout of
the fresh air and the woodlands; and yet it is as
full withal of culture as an egg is full of meat"
But the remainder of the article declares in effect.
that Pepacton' is lovely because its existence
gives Mr.. Grant Allen the opportunity of saying
that American life and American scenery are. in
general unspeakably horrd. The title to the book
is lovely because most cultivated Americans turn
instinctively to the old Indian words as the sole
escape from the harsh and jcune nomenclature of
modern Aryanized American" And American life
of the present day is horrid because the only ro-
to be found i'll the States hinges either upon
the forgotten aboriginal race, upon the old
French and Dutch and Puritan colony days." That
little vein of romance is lovely, however, because
I" the rccoil from the vulgarized world of Long
Branch and Saratoga throws men of taste naturally
back upon the red man of the old colonial times and
the Puritan settlers of Salem and Plymouth
American rural scenery is hOrrid because, as the
roads themselves mostly bounded by walls or
by snake-fences overlooking square deserts of
poughed fields the European visitor is apt to think
at first that in America there is great deal of land,
but no country But. finally. there is after all
much native wild scenery of sort in America
that is lovely, because this wild scenery is the
saving of America from the point of view of culture
and the picturesque" Americans have one conso-
lation in their vulgar life and mean scenery: the
horrid the country appears, the more willing
ence. and without such recognition American life
would be "jejune" indeed.