New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-02
LITERARY NOTES.

N.
r y.,sor a. Soma agents for the Oxford d.
Al. no,,.s .nrounce that tho new revision OF inc
~, Tssto,rent will be published in NAV. iney aua
tha. An. ,d Testament 10 not finished ana that inc
80. Rihle cannot he issued for TOUR OF n'e
years yet.
IT,. " collage library" of Etop there is also
school library founded by W. NJ Praedl con'a'r0
.mopg many literary treasures Horace waipoiee
.,r,h,isbed supplement to the Historic Douo.s vi
49, ;fe and Reign of Richard ILL., in the autnof
own handwriting.
Alta recent book sale in London copy OF INC
Mozarne edition of the Bible printed IN LaIih
1852 by Gutenberg with the cut metai type "u'on
no had invented few years before, complete Iroin
Cc,esis To the end of the Book Of Maccabees' was
purchased by prominent collector. after oGSk COLL
retitiOn. for about $3oo0.
A ser;es of ANONYMOUS novels will be began DIV
James r. Osgood g. Co. in April. The NO Name
series of Roberts Brothers hourlshed so long us .o
secret of authorship was somewhat euaroeu' Du'
the secret grew harder and harder to keep until ID
the case of Don john" the last voiue Vnc 'e'i''
was out before the book.
Mr.. William D. Howells has tied his future 1or-
times by pleasant bands to Boston. by en'eiius
into business relations with james IL. Vseoou "
20 he secures leisure for writing. which MS recent
EDITORIAL duties seriously curtaled, and the puohsh
ING firm OH its part will have the benefit OF MS inter-
ary ex oerence and Judgment and OF being the pun
fishers of his future books.
Professor R. B. Anderson, of the University OF WIS
eonsin. is writing the biography Of Ole Bull prop
sblv with the assistance, in the way OF materials
and family papers, of the great violinists WIDOW
whose home, it will be remembered is Maoisoh'
Professor Anderson is also preparing an american
edition of the works of Bjornstjerne BJornson'
which Houghton, Mitfn & Co. will print.
Two moro volumes are ready Of MIR. William ..
Rolfe's Shakespeare" They are "The Tanning OF
the Sbrewn and "Alps Well That Ends Well" lhe
illustrations are of great interest. and the notes are
admirable. feature of these little books IS the
,ntroductions which include critical comments OH
the play from the writings OF the best Shakespeare"n
scholars Harper g. Brothers are the publishers
Of oil the minor novelists no one writes purer ana
more wholesome stories than Miss Virginia f.
Townsend. Her moral standards are of the highest,
and the womanly graces of her herones are as pleas
ant to recall as the manly strength OF her heroes
Her last book, "Lennox Dare" Nee & Shepard,
relates the entertaining history of beautiful,
spirited and no5le-h hearted girl, whom sorrow
dsciplipes and happiness exalts. This book is
distinct advance upon Miss Townsends former
ones
Tn his n ew book De Numea en- Europe" Henri
Roebefort gives lively description of his return from
Caledonia and of his travels IN Austraiia. Ills
visits to the deposed native kings were sources OF
amusement Kingh ater that he is he seems to have
taken peculiar delight in greeting the poor exkings
as Your Majesty" His Difference gave them as
much pleasure as the shilling with whlch ne re-
warded dusky pOtentate for dancing pas 8eut'
:" Turanga turanga y Il am king! lam king
was the ecstatic cry with which they took leave OF
him.
eft is said" begins The Boston Courier, THAT
Oscar Wilde, the original of 'Postethwaite' In
Du Maurieps clever caricatures In Punch. being
about to publish volume OF poems in England,
wrote to Boston house proposing that the volume
be issued here at the same time. The house wrote
back that they should be pleased to examine the
work with view to deciding upon Mr.. Wildes pro-
posai but the poet-@Sthete was so disguised with
the impertinent presumption of an American who
dared hint that his poems should be examined, like
the work of ordinary mOrtas, that he broke OIL ne
gotiations at ofce."
A great deal of ink has been shed over the nom
appearance of Mr.. Francis H. Underwood's name.
and the names of other Boston authors In the Feb
ruary Harper. But in the April number Mr.. Under
wood will have considerable space to himself, IN
clever article by him. entitled ' Darwnian Divers
sionsn Mr.. j. T.. Trowbridge, who was also over
Indian Camp" to the same number. Miss Charlotte
Adams gives the public through her eyes picture
of Italian Life in New.York. and Mr.. William ID.
Rideipg finds seasonable subject in " The Green
Maintains in Sugar Time" milwaukee," the
growing metropolis of Wisconsin, has been visited
recently by Mr.. Ernest Ingersol, who found there
great many facts of Importance to the material In
terests of the country.
The international copyright discussion is opening
the eyes of English readers to the exorbitant
prices dem anded for English books in comparison
with the prices charged In America for the works.
not of pirated English authors but of American au-
thors IAN English Reader says IN The Pail Mall
Gazette: 1.-THE real interest which is opposed to the
change Is that of the reading American public. II
that interest could be concillated there would be
little to fear from the publishers. Of that interest
and of their behavior to English authors are &C.
customed to hear very hard things from the days OF
Dickens downward. But have they nothing to say
for themselvesf Is it the case that they simply re-
fuse to pay fair wsges for fair work. or is the state
of the English book market such as to inspire them
with Just fear that if they admit unqualified copy
right they will have to suffer not only from exces-
siye price, but, what is of far more importance.
from the diminished demand and supply which ex-
cessiye price would createi If were American
should feel justified. morally and politically In
declining to place the supply of good literature
within the Unlimited control Of any publisher,
whether English or American. The moral of my
letter is that the Americans have great deal to
say for themselves; that it behooves our authors,
whose real interest lies in the widest possible
ket, to look to their own interests; and that the
preliminary condition to a market for them IN
America is reasonable price at home.0
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