New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-06-10
LITERARY NOTES.

The public taste for the zola literature 10
have lately cooled in France.
The lady who writes under the name Vi
Tvtlerr is really Mrs. Henrietta kcouie'
One of the most attractive articles IN tue io''
coming Horpev is Miss Ameia b. Edwardss Lying
On State in Cairo va werd and picturesque account
80 ,he RIVAL muumies discovered last year. Inc
article is finely illustrated
II has lately been revealed that the brilliant Eng
lishmap. Lawrence Ohphant, IL the an'hor VI '"e
.Moral Reflections by Japanese Traveller I'd
+r;ca, and reflective article which made some SUIT
upon ITS first appearance in The North America"
Reriew
Anew monthly magazine which is horalded as 'ne
hest of it's class and one which Is to cast All ""
into the shade, is to appear i'll England III -. ana
tnmn. Loucman g. Co. are to be the pubi's''oi ""n
Professor Tyndall. Mr.. Huxley and Mr' 'a'1''
are among the contributors already soo"i'O
n Cberbuhez the French novelist VINO has ]uS'
bcen received into the Academy OF inc ini'i'''
"a n man of middle height. still active a"u
IN spte of bis fifty-two years, whiie HIS s'"y
,acbe and imperial give him mili'sS p"s
rouv He is the son Of professor of Geneva anu
-.'n. horn IN Switzerland. He did not enter the
,,tarorv profession until his thirteth year tie once
,;,,oa ,,d tauybt il is reported. in this country
A nor,rait of Emerson-an engraving OF MI
rroncb. Inst of the philosophers to form the
frontispiece of the next Century III wiz "o az
,non;od Nv an article on Emerson's PERSONAL
;tv ubv Miss Emma Lazarus. paper by MT Jonh
Rnrronobs ON Thoreau has for a heading the last
nortrait ever taken Of that delightful writer III Is
q contemplative yet somewhat Keen Iace' Win
,uore than one touch of New-England rusticlty ID
it.
That the circulating library is fatal to literature
- The opnion of The London Times. IL ENCOURAGES
sk,mm,ne on the part of the reader ana scanpi',s
ON the mart of the writer. The trade dcinahus
+bree-volumed novels, and the author must Always
write 70 the orthodox length though he may nave
a,rirr 20 GOV .While books" adds The Times.
are as monstrousy dear as they are III Ehgiai'u
,eonle will not buy; they will borrow. The dear
hook and the circulating library are the TWO cray
feet ON which the Colossus of the Englsn DOCK
trade supports itself. Till they are replaced ny
something stronger the Colossus VIII not s'ahu
firm"
Tho voluable French manuscript which has re-
ceptlv been found in England Is poem giving lho
detailed history of William Marshall, Earl OF rem
broke who in his old age was Regent OF Eneiahu
during the first three years of the boy Ming henry
TIT The poem covers the time from the early years
of Stephen-John Marshall married his second VIE,
Svbil. mother of William, about ll4l-tilI the third
wear of Henry I'LL, 1919. The first 700 lines give
some account of the family of John Marshall ana
thrownew light upon the siege of the Bishops palace
in Winchester by the Empress Maude, IN ll4l'
showing what was hitherto unknown, the lInpor-
tant assistance then rendered to her by John Mar
shall In the siege of Newbury, IN 49, by
Stephen. John Marshall holding 1t Tor tue EN-
press his young son William first appears as hos'
age given to obtain truce. and the circumstances
surrounding this event-the prattilng innocence
which touched Stephens heart. aud saved the HE
~ the fnture hero IN spite of his fathers obduracy
Arc given with vivaciOus detail.