New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-29
LITERARY NOT Els.

u..,o, walot. the author Of that beautiful little
,torv ..sans Famille" which was crowned oy tne
Academy. has Just published another wnich 10 u
scribed az equally touching and pure I'D 'ohe'
entitled Ia Petite Sour"
Nv Bouton is about to bring ont no."oio
Illustrated work on Bible myths It's oDleoe 10 ~
point ont all the myths dscoverable IN the ou anu
Nav Testaments, to show that they were heiu ~
common with other nations and to trace 'neii
origin and meaning.
A series Of short sermons to boys and girls nave
been prepared by divers well-known oersy" me-
and will shortly be published by Funk q "asnalo,
They will appear under the title OF heioo' 90"
Ho,idavs Talks and Stories about Heroes "u.
Hol;days: OF. Ten Minute Sermons TO BOYS "nu
Girls on the Holidays and on inc
Sunday school Lessons of 1883.
A reading club composed of men ana W. .ha
Patterson n j., have UNANIMOUSLY ,a;no
earlier meetings of the season to careful %" D.
and study of the text Of the N'o''u ,s. 49, 20
TatraIogv y by Wagner. 1t is believed 'ha' 'n'' +,
&c. literary societe IN this country undertake
ing such course. In Londoh 'n0'0 NV
three. and in Germany two Dozen
The late Josiah Quincy. of Boston, left nurnoer
eta iournals of the most interesting character
o,a from their leaves has been gathered Vonunh0
rh;b nnder the title of Figures OF the fast' h"0
,,ore to the press of Roberts Brothers MI Vu'n'y
was ever an engaging story-teler, ana 'niS Pio'n
volume will doubtless contain many 0n aa
,o,,;n,soences Of the noted men and cultivated so-
rietv of Boston in the early years OF this
The LATEST marcel from the musc-publishing mus
so,;,,or D;tson g. Co. contains the Massoi D'
Cac,Iiau 5y Charles Wells; Waldteuleis los
CIochesD: a waltz inscribed to MIS- h"ns'i4
Col Killing; one of Bumenthats Da''";
"Apswersv TO words of Dora GreenweIi uou'0''oD
IN Miss Hope Glenn, of Nine Nilsson ; company ny;
and the ballad "Now was WRONG o -
81 orna NV Nine Nilsson herself; Christmas
N Newcomb: and Christmas song
'tor ,epor solo and quartet, by Howard NJ DO"
and PioOteeS song III Tue oPo'"
"The Silver Line"
Tho nortrait of Dr. John Brown gwen III ,ho .ui
rent Ceut,vv though a fine one in many pu'ioui"-'
80 t 40 frl iust,ce to singularly strong, re-
Ed and heniruant face. The readers OF uo0'
Words will remember the appearance therein SUM
months ago of portrait of the doctor "non w.
not nearly SO good artistically as Inc century plo
- INIT which was better in pose and Ill lts sus-
..a.,;ors If character Probably no portrait Ca.
over show the beauty which all VINO app'o"0no1
him saw in the Scotch physicians face. IL was 'no
visible radiance of q rarely pure, syhpa'n''i0 "-
manly nature. III,
thing more extraordinary IMAM MI. AA ,
,nfo,tunate statement concerning Dchon' ""'
Tbacerav is his protestation that he has oeeh
understand Ii is not a wise plea for an au'noi "
male in relation to an apparently wel-cohsi"oiUu
or;tical article. A professional writer can ha'"i,
advance It safely and Mr. Howei'Ss pes'
sr;ands can only regret his intention TO exp'aiu'
His article was couched in plain English; tnero n'
been no difference among its readers as W i'S
meaning and there has been In Engiaho any,
America a unanimous outburst oil uisapp'of"A ~,
Absent II should be frankly said that MI. ho"ehs
has made n mistake which no one Will resio' i
6eanlv than he when he realizes to what coihpat-
sons he has invited the critics OF MS lutulo "o
His most iudicous admirers Will rejoice II, i''o"
NJ writing an explanatory article he VIII ueFo'o
his admirable talents to the production Oh "no'noi
novel ,,
The conventional men and women OF MODERN iro
ne imaged IN the modern novel can be mahulac'ui0u
The Saturday Reue,o thinks, as easily as lucy soy
,h. C&and Lama of Thibet can manufacture prayers
forbis mons sub,ects. "These annals OF tpe oou-
do;r aud the ,enns-lawn" 1T adds, OF the country
of the narsonage and the parish OF the counViS
hnI.vard and the country ball room all the niue
.,o.a .bo ironense ennui" which makes up Inc
III, ~ ,oodern existence-given pen. INK ano
go. ,cbo cannot furnish them3 But lncldeht, To
,+;o avent and complication, the grand SITUATIONS
(which NJ lola claims the proud pleroga''Vo "
"le roman patnralste"l. they require lmaglha'ion
"a ur ora with all its many and brilliant quali
So :; not nreem,nent in imagination. They require
thon,bt and work; and our age, though IL VII
labor terribly for the things it values, is not '
10 spend oyeI much labor on mere art.