New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-04-17
LITERARY NOTES.

William Black has written paper on West
y;ghland FOLK which is TO be printed In Hdrpers
Maga<ine.
Cor;es Of the first and third Shakespeare were
r,rchased Mt a recent London sale by Mr. Quaritch
at prices which clearly show that copies OF the
Fohos will rise IN time TO a fabulous value.
s. Barring -Goulds memoir of Robert Stephen
Uawker the English churchman who distinguished
himself as much by his ccccntricihes as ov ms a',
thorship of the ballad And Shall Trelawney Der
is soon to be brought out by Mr.. Whitaker III
cheap form.
Mrs. Adolphe Smith, the daughter of blanchard
.Jcrrcld and granddaughter of Douglass Jerrold anu
Lamar Blanchard died last month in France Ill INC
prime of life She wrote many delicate sketches Vi
society and scenery for English periodicals. anu wa"
the author of q clever novel, Woman Oh "'''
The current number of The america" Ldw hepre"
contains the first of series OF ar'lcles OH ii"
Rights and Liabilities arising through 'ne iol'o
ton and Formation of Corporation" 1t Is con-
tribution from the pen of Henry o. Taylor and IS
concise. well written and clearly expressed
New and revised editions of Richard Uraht
Whites volumes, Shakespeare Scholar and
"The ;fe and Genius of Shakespeare" will shortly
be published by Houghton. Mifin Il Co. These
will be uniform with Mr. Whites other books puo-
lished by this house.
The title of the series of short stories when
Charles Reade is engaged in writing is a haracter-
sticallv odd one" Mutum i'll Parvo,' thus 1t runs
a series of stories with no waste OF words.
Harpe,'s Weekly will present these stories IN TINS
country and the publication of them Will begin next
month.
Miss Kate Field in her pleasant article under the
Mead of THE Art of Adornment," In last week
Continent ends her service on that paper. lns'eau
of the chatty and suggestive essays which nave HUI
erto filled this department, will now appear prac'
cal reports from the shop and the dressmakers eS-
tablshment-hardly an Improvement, IL must NC
confessed.
Henri Cordler, the authOr of the "Blblotheca
Sinlca7 the most complete catalogue oil the DOORS
published on China has Just begun to issue III fls
new periodical under the title of La herue ne 1T
irene Orient He proposes i'll this review 10 Preseh.
studies of the religions, customs arts. sciences and
literature Of the Far East in the past we'll in the
nrescnt NJ Cordier is distinguished bibhophil-
isl and he is to be assisted by many competent
writer's
The Inscription on the commemorative tablet
lately placed on the house Sir Walter Scott occu-
pied in Rome is this In the year 1892, the last
of his life, in this house dwelt the hlustnonS
British Novelist, Walter Scott, of Edinburgh.
1882 The tablet was unveiled in the presence OF
n large number of British residents. with them
was the venerable Duca di Sermoneta, VINO was
Scott's devoted friend and companion nifty years
ago.
The ANONYMOUS author of democracy" the
novel nublisbed somo time ago by Holt & Co.. has
won much kinder criticisms in England than III
America. Anything which represents American
politics and society as particularly corrupt and
vulgar is still apt to kndle pleasant moral re1iec-
tions in the British mind Especially does it arouse
an unholy gee in The Saturday Rerie, the source OF
light and sweetness which refers to " Democracy
as that admirably witty story Of Washington
life and political society"
Theodore Watts, the English poet, is not
librarian in the British Museum, as has been re-
nortth He is a lawyer, and a busy man i'll his pro-
fession and extraordinarily learned person, and one
Of the leading London critics He lives at The
pinesr Pntney Hill and with him for the last three
or four years has lived Swinburne. Mr.. Watts was
Rossetti's most intimate friend and Rossetts last
book is dedicated TO him. He is q small, compact,
well-fnished man, with the biggest of black eyes.
His knowledge is enormous, and he is wonderfully
interesting talker.
The general catalogue of Princeton Theological
Seminary has gradually been enlarged until 1t now
comprises $50 pages. Ii contains the names Oh
directors, trustees professors, Objects anu s'uuc'S
connected with the institution since Its establish
ment in 1910 The names of students are arranged
under the wears of matrculation and short notices of
birth. college, occupation pastoral charge and hon
orary titles are appended These notices might have
been rendered less complex if more ineligible alb
breviations and symbols had been used but the in
formation respecting the graduates has evidently
been compiled with painstaking care. The Rev.
Dr. W. E. Schenck, of the Presbyterian Board of
Publication Philadelphia, has gathered the bulk OF
this information, and the efficient Librarian of the
institution has carried the work through the press
copy of the catalogue will he posted to anyone
who will send 81 cents in stamps TO the Rev. W. H.
Roberts Princeton, n. j.