New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-01
LITERARY NOTES.


NJ. Renan, most indefatigablc of authors mas oe,
gun another ponderous worK-a i"'''''
before the birth of Christ
The Prince of Montenegro has just hnisheu d
drama in three acts in the Ser'ian iaIis"" Va
titled 1.-The Empress of the Balkans
A new volume of poems on various picturesque
End dramatic Suaban themes is shortly 10 DC
brought out by MIR. Theodore Tilton. H. Northihg-
ton is to be the publisher
Int of early American literature was sofa II,
London the other day for $3.50. lhis was suiaii
and rare volume printed at Boston by b. @reen LII
1920, and entitled "Tho Indian Primer, ana MIX
for Babes"
The little book in which Miss Boxer describes her
Summer in the Azores contains the story OF John
Boyle OReiy's escape from Australia, as reit'o'
by the captain OF the ship which carried away 'ia'
daring political prisoner from his captivity
In his preface to the second edition OF MS lrNh
Sketch Book"-a preface suppressed by MS puoi'SH-
ers rs being too outspoken-Thackeray strongly sup
ported not merely the disesablshment Oh 'ne
Established Church. which he says will no more
grow in ireland than palm tree IN 1t. Paui
ehurchyard.v but even the repeal of the Union
The preface. which is really vivacious essay on
the political situation in Ireland, will be published
in The Century.
MIR. Wilke Colilrss new serial story has pur
oose II takes ND the question of vyisectiop, trac-
inc the effect of the habual practice OF cruelty Oh
human character 4 well-kuown French writer
M. Aurplien Scholl. has lately published paihctc
short story on the same subject 1althlul anu
loving dog is the hero and it is impossible 10 reau
of The fate of the ntel gent little creature uhue'
the knife of the lecturer without shudder OF pity
and of horror.
The charm that dwells in that mystical region
"between smile and a tear " Is nowhere slIoneci
than in the work of DR.. John Brown Ollver Wen,
dell Holmes, whose own humor is no less airy ana
gracious once wrote to him l have read, ana re-
read and then insisted reading for the third tlme'
aloud TO my wife, that infinitely fearful and mirthiu,
smilefu and soulful, tender earesslng-where snail
| stop !-Story of Pet Marjorie =; the name anu
the story not at all new to me, yet never ola III us
passing sweetness. II only ]haV Iraenlen. VI
vour writings were saved from the wreck of English
literature, men and women would cry over 1t "S
they cry to-day over the lament of Danae, and your
name would be remembered with That OF Slmonides.
Yes CRY, and smile, and laugh, too"
All Dante Gabriel Rossetti's books are TO be sold
M auction in London next Wednesday. Among
them are many presentation copies from as
diminished poets. One of these Is Mr.. SwlnDurhe
"Atalapta in Calydon," inscribed by the author as
being the first copy issued from the press and there
fore lacking the dedication. The most precious
volume In the collection is the Ms. BOOK SO
frequently mentioned in Gilchris;s Life oil Blake
In Swinburnc's essay on the mystic painter, ana
elsewhere. 1t is a small quarto, containing
large majority of those poems OF Blake winch nave
been first published since his death, such as BRO
ken Love- The Everlasting Gospel" The Mental
Traveller" the epigrams oil Reynolds, Hayley etc.
1t also contains number of important or curious
memoranda, and two prose writings first published
by Gichrist-"The Canterbury Pilgrimage" and
"The Last Judgment" There is, moreover null
titude of designs-portraits of Blake and his wife
sketches for the Gates of Paradise" and several
others not as yet reproduced in any form. As the
various writings in this book are scattered up ana
down its pages in a miscellaneous and often con-
fused manner. Dante Rossetti copied out the verse
and Mr. William Rossetti the prose these trans
cripts the prose now much mutlated) are bound
into the same volume.