New-York tribune., 1882-04-08
LITERARY NOTES.

prlDg out inc "oVh'
Maurice Thompson the Indiana writer who has
contributed poctry and articles on archery to the
popuar magazines, is said TO be the author of the
new Round Robin novel, "A Tallahassee Girl"
"rbe Heavenly side of the War" is the extraor-
,linary title of book which Mary A. Livermore
rrcposes to bestow upon the world. She will give
in il details of her work in conncctiOnwh the San
itary Commission.
Miss L. I. Poynter complains that her Pheasant
novel of "My Little Lady" has been lately re-
priuted in a cheap American edition with the name
Of another writer, Theo. Gift attached TO II; anu
she adds that il is lone more illustration OF the
somewhat reckless fashion in which English authors
are dealt with by American publishers.
MIR. Robert Buchanans new volume of BALLADS
which has lust been published in London, does not
favorably impress the critic of The spectator lie
says that the book contains five or SIX hhe poems
not all of them very carefully finished ana theIe
are few graceful pieces of inferior power Inc
ballads of grim passion or humor are the best OF all
"All Aboard for Sunrise Lands is a second
edition of a profuSely illustrated volume for boys
written by Edward A. Rand and published py ~
Lothrop & Co. 1t relates the adventures III ule
East of party of inquistive boys, ana is appal-
rutly made up from other books ana WIN lie ds-
sistance of friendly travellers 1t ls cramnea Win
t>''@,N'S'
AN English Daisy Miller" is the curious title OF
a new story winch Virginia W. johnson, the clever
young author of 1.-The Neptune Vase" is about TO
publish through Estes n Lauriat Miss johnson
work is always conscientious, and "The Neptune
Vase showed so great an improvement upon her
former books that il Is not unreasonable TO antci
pate in tins new story something much better thah
she has yet given to her readers.
Theophie Gautier used often TO deliver himself OF
q phrase which will be appreciated by all literary
men who are wont TO weary of the PEN lie had
many friends but wrote comparatively few letters,
saving in regard TO correspondence: You must
not ask a carpenter to plane planks to amuSe nm
sclfn What letters he did wnte were full of inter
est. These are to be gathered together saws me
American Bookseljy, and VIII soon be published ID
Paris.
INA Family Flight through France Germany
Norway and Switzerland %. Lothrop n Co. the
Rev E. L. Hale am Miss Susan Hale have pub
lshed n book of travel well suited to juvenile
tastes There is enough personal interest to give
the book the effect of story and the descriptions Oh
places are usually careful. The young readers OF
the volume will probably not realize tic fact that
the many illustrations have previously appeared III
other publications.
"If there be a cap which, fits anyone and. he
sion about it. that is his fault not mine. 1t Is Win
sentences like this that Dinah Muloch Craik intro
uces the series of practical essays which under the
title of " Plain Speaking" the Hlrpers have pub
Ished in their Franklin Square Library. Some, II
not all of these essays have already appeared IN
another form. They touch upon some social Iollles
with genial wisdom, and If they show little OF the
talent which created &" John Halifax" nowhere fan
in good sense.
Mrs. Fawcctt the studious wife of the blind Eng
lish statesman has come TO high honor Her Poht-
jcal Economy for Beginners Is being translated
into two of the native languages of India, Canaree
and Marathi Her Tales in Political Economy
is also being translated into the latter language and
into Swedish Probably to Mrs. Fawcett this is no
more surprsing than was to Harriet Martineau the
republication in America of her little primer stories
ON the same subject Those who turn over IN these
DAYS the dusty books in grandmotherly garrett are
apt to come upon these primers, their covers plnK'
their pages yellow with age.
The first number of The Magazine Of american
History under the editorial management of B. +.
de Costa and II. T. Johnston has appeared AMI pre-
sents an entertaining variety of subjects. Those
who have been interested in the growth this period
ical under the conduct of John Austin Stevens have
reason be grateful that the enterprise has fallen
into such competent hands. In addition to much
trait of Major Benjamin Tallmadge, Washington's
Chief of Secret Service, engraved from the pencil
sketch by Colonel Trumbull, and some other en-
cravings.
MI. |. Hearn. in translatng from the French of
Theophe Gautier One OF CleOpatra's Nights" and
other Fantastic Romances Or. Worthington), has
accomplished a work which might better have been
left nndone He has retained as far possible the
craces of Gautiers style but that is saying little
for its rch melodious charm is one that cannot be
transferred to another language. Gautier was
master of poetcal prose in his own tongue and that
sumptuous melody is important an element OF hls
romances that there can be good reason for pre-
senting them in English They are acknowledged
10 approach perfection in their peculiar way, but 1t
ia way which is not to the taste of Englsh-speak-
ing peoples. Gautier and Zola are not TO be taken
lightly ;uto pure and refined homes
The map of a portion of Northern New-Jerscy
recently published by the Geological Survey of
that State is worthy of special comnendation 1t
is not geological map, but IN It's most noteworthy
feature Typographical for in addition to the define
alton of the ordinary political boundaries streams
and roads, it has contour level lines showing
accurately the elevation and slope of the entire
area The map is plotted on a scale of one mile to
the inch and the contour lines, beginning at mean
tide are on levels ten feet apart except i'll the more
hilly sections, where they are twenty feet apart.
The territory represented is that lying north of the
Raritan and east of a line running southward from
Green Pond one of the beautiful lakes in the llig h.
land range. This of about thirty miles square
embraces besides the section OF New-JeIsey, Man
haitian Island. the part Of Long Island including
Brooklyn and Coney Island, and Staten Island. The
part Of New-JerscY represented Is less than one
tenth of the area Of the State but it contains more
.Io.., fbo o,it,
of Newark Jersey City, Paterson. Elizabeth, New
Brunswick Orange, and numerous smaller towns