New-York tribune., 1882-02-22
LITERARY NOTES.

C.r,r,s,s i" Tour in Ireland" is to be puhlished IN
London in June.
Mr.. Aldrich is now engaged upon his oiograpny VI
10 yy;u;s for the American Men of Letters
Series. ,
William Hazlitt that Prince Charming OF criucai
writer's is the subject of biography when Is ho"
being written by Louis Stevenson the essaSis''
oTb;rlmorev is the title of sequel to Ills
n,o;oo,v Nvselfv which w. NJ Baker is wrl'inR
Cor O,r Continent Thirlmore was the cme1 hgufo
=; Mr. Raker,s clerical novel, and occupies the same
position in its sequel
The April atlantic will present crlticai paper Oh
Ar Munby,s Dorothy" by Philip Bourke Marston.
Mr. Marston therein protests against Doro'ny
% departure from that worship of the beautiful
which he believes to be the religion of poetry.
Miss Dickens, the daughter of the novelist has
spcnt the past year in compiling Charies Dichen'
birthday Book" Her sister Kate, Mrs feruglhi'
hos furnished for il several illustrations which
have. by the way, no association with her 1a'herS
work.
EW. Gosse has nearly completed his biography
of Thomas Gray the poet. Mr.. Gosse Is Trying 10
trace several unpublished jeGr Fespnt OF Gray
which are known to be in existence One OF these'
a"Satire upon Heads was sold at auction IN Loh-
don in 1854.
Mr. Acott's new book, which is to appear next
month. bears the suggestive title of OctogehaIlan
Poems-Scnnets and Canzones." This Volhihe' Z"
will he remembered, is Mr. Alcotts poetical auto
biography Ii will contain sonnets 10 MS "iio' 10
his daughters and to many of his lifelong trends
The coming anonymous novels are feminine III
tite. The next Round Robin is to present to the
world "a Tallahassee Girl y; while new No
Name is to he called Her Picture" This last
voume has an aristocratic origin being the work
of AN actual 1--we Countess Tho scene is laid chiefly
in France.
The appearancc of Robert Buchanan's volume oi
noems will be Immediately followed by that OF a
long romance "Thc Martyrdom of Madeline" his
latest novel "God and the Man." was study oi
the vanity and folly of individual hate the forth
coming story deals with the social conspiracy
against womankind.'
The posscssors of the neat little series of Modern
Classics will he able shortly to complete their col
lection. Two new volumes are ready->hake-
sDeare's Sonnets and Songs" with Leigh Hunt
Favorite Poems: and "Favorite Poems of Dry
den. Collins Marvel, Herbert and HeTick. lhere
are now only three more volumes OF the series 10
James Pawn the novelist and essayist. says that
he once heard two popular story-tellers A. VINO
writes seldom, but with much ingenuity OF cohsruc-
tion and r. who is very prolific in pictures of every
ityn said A, astounds inc; can't think where you
get vour plots FROM y" Plos9" replied b." OH don't
tronble myself about them. TO tell you the truth
generally take hit of one OF yours, when is
amply sufficient for my purpose.
r. II. Stoddard is preparing a Mrs. Browning
Birthday Book after fashion which promises
unusual tastcfulness and daintiness. 1T Is to con-
tain not only passages from Mrs browning
noems bnt extracts from her articles on the Greek
apH from
MS letters The volume-which is TO be published
hr lanes Nller-will contain an illustration of the
room in Casa Cuidi last occupied by the poet-a
room IN which many a strong and pure piece of
verse has had its birth.
Mr. Longfelow has written 10 the London puO-
fishers Cassel Peter, Gapin q Co, who sent to him
a COPY of their cdiiiOH de lurcof "Eyangeline " III
isavery handsome book and the paper and print re-
mind me of the publications Of Bodoni the famous
printer of Parma who gloried in his art The Illus
trations by Mr.. Dckscc very beautiful; partic-
plarv the face of Evangclinc characteristic and
EXPRESSIVE plcascs and touches me. beg you to
convey TO him my thanks and my congratulations
ON his successful work"
An explanation of the terrOrs of Dean StanIeys
handwriting has lately been given by his friend,
Max Muller. In one of the last talks which he mad
with the Dean Muller complained about difficulty
he felt in writing which some doctors called
schreibekrampf Others rheumatism, etc. " An, don't
you know" Stanley broke in, " that | have had
something of the same kind all my lifeY L cannot
control my fingers, and that is why my handwriting
has alwavs been so wretched." The Dean himself
delighted in telling anecdotes about msunderstand-
ines arising from his illcgble letters.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. are distributing without
money and without price a neat biographical sketch
of Mr. Longfellow to schools which are preparing
to celebrate the poets birthday. This firm has be-
gun it's series of American Classics for Schools
with volume of selections from Longfellows
works The book contains such OF his poems as will
naturally interest children, and is prettily bound
md Illustrated. The frontspiece is an excellent
portrait of the poet This will be followed by other
volumes for supplementary reading, giving soec-
+ions from the writings of Hawthorne Lowell
Holmes Whittier and others
Four of the Cape Cod people have formally en-
tered libel suits at Plymouth against the publishers
of Miss Salhc McLean's novel of Cape Cod Folks"
each claiming damages 10 the amount of 5000
This performance and that of NJ ZOla's agTieved
friend. is not without precedent. For example, Al
exandrc Dumas in of his novels, alluded to one
of the favorites of the Court of Henri ILL Before
doing so he had carefully assured himself that no
person bearing the or title of his hero was
alive His surprise great when he received
letter from the lawyer of the Count dc X, call
ing on him to change the name at once. Alexandra
Dumas refused. the suit was proceeded with and the
author was able TO prove that the plaintiff had no
right to tho rame and title that he bore, and that
the bar sinister prevented him from raising any le-
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