New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-28
LITERARY NOTES.

r. rn...her of Brown University, 1t is
-. 80 -, ;ss,,s a new book on eiocution. Pro-
49,, po,,sv. of the same institution 10 preparing
manual Of Botany.
~. Hsrrara Lampoon will be revived to-day.
-h,ch 4 rood news for lovers Of college fun anu
s.s;,,csI humor. The new editorial board Is cou''
sosed wholly Of undergraduates.
Mr.. A. J. Weise Is writing history OF Aioans;
He has already done the same service 1or a'oy "
fansinrburq. but IN the "Ouds stadt," as o'u
Albany was sffectionately called. he has SUBJECT
fch in curious customs and manners.
XGems of the Campaign of 1880" is little oook
comniled mainly from last summers speeches. OIL
General Grant and General Garfield ana lssuso Wy
the Lincoln Association of Jersey City. 1t Is hapd-
aome souvenir of an exciting politicai campaign,
and contains speeches that have become part VI
the gospel of the Republican party.
Toru Dutt, the daughter OF native OF Cacu..s'
as twentyone years Of age when she died, In 1871
She was French scholar and left a novel IN french
dealing with life in France, which Is sad W oo ono
Of the curiosities Of literature Two years was w
limit of her European experience anu oniS -
months were spent in France.
Anew series entitled Cssselps Popular LIBRARY
"a in preparation by CasseIl, Peter. Galpin 20
The first volume will appear early IN Marcn. IL 10
n "History Of the Free Trade Movement IN Eng
land,n by Augustus MoDgredien. Volumes 10 ioiiow
o. 1T svas of the Coyenantcrs" Boswell and john
son." " The Life of Wesley" Domestic FOLK LULU
md American Humorists."
The last written yvems of the late Ar.nu,
ryShor,hnessv viii appear shortly 10 London, edited
nv Dr Westland Marston. Mr.. GOsse has correcteu
to,n aafes of his obituary notice OF the poet pun
s,.hed in The Academy Mr.. VShaughnessy was
horn In 1s43 not 1S46. ard was. therefore thirty
one not twenty eight years of age, when MS las'
book was published. He entered the British Museu"
I'm 1891 and was promoted in 1865
One of the saddest additions to the mlsfortnnes
NJ authors is the episode of Xavier Auoryet d
wei-known Paris editor and novelist, VINO oieo re-
Gently. He had spinal disease which aueceeu ni'
nerves and rendered his once plain handwriting D
rrevous scrawl. For several years he 'abored over
the manuscript of what he thought would prove MS
masterpiece He finally became blind ana DIS
manuscript was given to his secretary Tor puoiica-
ton. Neither the secretary nor any OF NJ nehus
were able to read the scrawl and the blina authors
despair shortened his life
One thousand copies it would seem are too rev oS
half to meet the first demand for the edition de t"1e
nf Dickens which Macmillan e. Co. are publishing
Over 700 copies have already been subscribed for and
the publishers nave fonnd it convenient to raise the
ur,cs. The first two of the thirty volumes will be
issnsd I'm April, and one work a month may be ex-
uected thereafter "Pickwick" will Of course take
the lead By the terms of the subscription as each
sheet ia printed the type will be broken up. Ihe
Illustrations will be chosen from the best works OF
the many artists who have illustrated Dickens, and
will number in all over 700 engravngs on steel. cop
per and wood.
The first noticeable thing about =" Pearls OF
Thought - compiled by Maturn VI. Ballou( Fl Oughton
Mifln g. Co.. is that the pearls" are offered IN
Jewell box OF printing and binding The selections
have the merit of being short and sparkling. Inc
arrangement is convenient; the selections are
grouped topically and the topics arc arranged alpha
betically Authors ancient and moaern and OF all
nations are represented. These are few OF the
" pearls grouped under the heading =" Ideas ~;
Our ideas are transformed sensations-Coud'lac; In
these days we fight for ideas, and newspapers are
our fortresses-Heinrich Heiue; Old ideas are pre-
iudces and new ones caprices-Doudan; Ideas are
like boards men do not have them until they grow
up-Voltaire; We live in an age in which superfu-
Gus ideas abound and superfuOus ideas are lacking
JOubert.
The author of 1.-THE Schonberg-Cotta Family" is
lady of wealth, who resides near London, aud de-
votes part of her fortune and her pen to charitable
and missionary work. Her latest book, Sketches
of the Women of Christendom" lDodd, Mead d. Co..
is designed to show what Christianity has done to
bring out the noblest qualities Of womanhood. The
fret third of the book treating of the women OF the
New Testament, is charming in its simplicity. but
necessarily so faithful to the text of the Gospel as
TO limit the scope of the authors descriptive
powers. The remainder of the book is written with
original force. The noble women OF tie early
church of the Middle Ages, of modern times. and
those philanthropic women whom the author APPLY
~ -. tIa 0lrrnu ~ Snrr
are graphically portrayed. One of the best of the
sketches Is that of Prascovia Lopouotf. the young
daughter of Russian officer exiled to Siberia who
travelled alone to St. Petersburg to ask the En-
peror to pardon her parents.
In an editorial on Southern Literature. The allan
IA Constellation says IS Some time ago. Mr.. George
w. Cable a Southern mar, wrote novel, entitled.
The Grandissimes,' purportiug to he picture OF
Creole life in Louisiana at about the period OF the
cession of that State to the United states. Some
one has sent us @ violently trashy little pamphlet
embodying anonymous attack upon Mr.. Cable
for presumiug to put the Creoles in book. Mr..
Cables book may or may not be q genuine picture
of Creole life we know nothing to that; but.
consciously unconsciously, he has photographed
the South as it existed a little while ago. And If
the Northern critics knew much about us as they
pretend this feature of remarkable book would
have been dwelt upon with more or less emphasis.
II the South is ever to make any permanent or i'm
portant contribution to the literature Of the world.
we must get over selfconsciOusness and SO con-
troll our sensitiveness to be able to regard with
indifsercnce-nay, with complacence-the impulse
OF criticism which prompts and spurs every literary
man and woman whose work is genuine. We must
not forget that real literary art is absolutely i'm
partial aud invariably just None other can en-
durcn