New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-27
LITERARY NOTES.

Houghton, Miflin & Co. are printing an illus
trated holiday edition of Bayard Taylors Home
Ballads
Die Er5schaft Des Blutes, by the German novelist
Rudolf Won Gottschall, appears in September, and
Will contain picture of the commune of 1871.
Among the holiday books of Porter g. Coates will
be an edition from new plates of Mr. Thomas
Hughes's standard story " Tom Brown of Rugby"
At the time of his DEATH the late DIR. John Burton
Hill, of Edinburgh, author of 1.-THE Book Hunter"
was engaged in editing the literary remains of Ed
ward Ellicc.
German writer estimates that "Notre-Dame dc
1Ourdes, " by NJ. Lasserre, has had more readers
than any other book of modern times, it having
reached the 15Oth edition.
TIE English Government has added $275 to the
annual pension of $500 granted in 1879 to Lady
Dufus Hardy in recognition of the historical literary
and public services of the late Sir Thomas Dutfus
Hardy.
Speaking of Leypoldts american Catalogue"
The London Bookseller says that within its ap-
pointed bounds it is, without question the most
perfect specimen of trade photography with which
we are acquainted"
New editions Of Miss Alcotts delightful stories
for young people, and of Jean Ingelow's poems in
Guiding special volume for the latter's domestic
poem" Songs of Seven" to be beautifully illustrated
are In preparation by Roberts Brothers.
Mr. e. A. Freeman is giving his atten ton to the
proof sheets of new book, Sketches from the
Subject and Neighbor Lands of Venice" the result
OF recent visit to the AdIiatic. He stars for this
country in September and lectures in Boston on
October II.
During Dr. Schliemann's triumphant visit TO Ber
lin large pamphlet by DR.. Brentano has appeared
entitled Eur Losung der Trojanischen Frage,D
which expresses the opinion supported by many
arclROlOOstS Of hiatt 1,o o;{o
city Is yet to be found.
In November " Harper's Popular Cyclopmdia of
United States History " will be issued in two VOL
umes with thousand engravings. 1t is the work
OF MIR. Benson j. LOSING, the historian who has in
this last work, surveyed the whole field " from the
aboriginal period TO 1876"
new expounder of tho laws of aesthetics Mr.
Avary w. s-Forbes, whose book "The Sci
ence of Beauty" is published by Trubner in Lon
don, maintains that "evcry piece of SCULPTURE and
every piece of painting should contain a moral or n
lesson In life or conduct" He also thinks that
poetry is beautiful according to its utility and that
. the purpose OF a poem, whatever its subject must
be the incubation of a moral"
London publishing firm made an anonymous at
tack In recent issue of The London Times on an nm
named American house. charging it with purchasing
stereotype plates of work the promise that il
would confne its sales to the United States and |
then attempting to sell part of tho American edi
tion to an Australian firm The card seemed TO have
been printed for the sake of throwing discredt ON
American publishers in general. But the agent of the
Australian firm gave his version of the transaction |
In the next issue of the journal from which il
appeared that the American house was willing to sell
to the Australian firm the condition expressly
made, that the consent of the London publishers
should be obtained For other reasons the nerotia
lions were broken off before the time came for sound
inc the London publishers
The quaintest thing in st. Nicholas for September.
whlch contains great many clever things is Mrs
Mary Mapes Dodges poem of Carlo Jane and
Die, and the illustration by Mr. Shore is humorous
and sympathetic. The number contains several other
bright poems among them the Dragon Fly's Ben
eht by helen X. Spofford, in illustrating which
the artist has recorded his original discovery that
ducks dive like frogs, with their legs stretched out
behind them. Mr.. +. II. Stockton tells How Tom
Wailen Went Abroad" in way that will hold the |
attention OF his readers. "HOw to Make Dolls of
Corn-husks and Flowers" is an excellent article
mat VIII guide girls to great deal of amusement
and try their ingenuity. The story of "Dorothy's
hide OF how little girl of Nantucket rode on the
arms OF windmill. is told by Mrs. c. Z. Cheney
fac-simile of the Gettysburg speech in Abraham
Llncolns handwriting, is an interesting feature of
the number