New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-25
LITERARY NOTES.


"INcs Thru the Looking-glass' has been drama
>,ed for child-actors by special PERMISSION Oh Mr'
Lewis Carroll.
Mr. Charles E. Turner English Lector in the Uni
xsrstv of ST. Petersburg has Just published IN Lon
don n volume of Studies In Russian Literature.
william Allingham is about to publish not one
hit ,hree new volumes Two-"Evil May Day ana
other Poemsn and "Ashby Manor, Play "-are 10
appear in December.
Mr. Iesle Stephen Is about to relinquish the eo-
;torsbip Of The Cornkil for the purpose OF editing
ON importapt Dictionary of National Biography
which i, to appear in large number OF voiuine'
published quarterly.
Charles Reade says in the preface to his new voi-
ume "Read,ana "a collection Of newspaper letters
that his honest and lasting convictions arc 80
something and will be better learned HUN '
book than discerned from a study OF his movers
Mr. Clark Russelps sea stories are heldby Ihe Acoo-
en, of London 10 be inferior in breadth anu i.eiy
mower. not only TO Cooper's sea-novelsaout ai'o !"
Dana,s famous book In the deineation OF charso-
Ter II adds Mr. Russell must yield by many degrees
20 the Americans.
The third edition of Dr. Poole's index to Peri
odical Literature" brought down to January 100
will he published next month 1t contains All ,ho
matter of the previous edtions-the last OF "hioh
was published in 1S53-and covers the pei'o''0A'
literature of the past thirty years
Madam, Comu's M.moirs which she! ieit 10
Mile Roman to increase that young ladys niariias0
norton. will shortly be published in Paris. AS
stout Bonapartlst and very clever woman sue nau
peeuliar facilities and capacities tor observation
tbo Court Of Napoleon Ill, and has made deeply
interesting book.
Mr. Renpell Rodd the young English poet WHOSE
yors.s we're brought out here in appe-greeh ana
yose-Ied under the enthusiastic auspices OF MI vs.
car Wilde has laltered in his faith. he now "iS
claims any connection with the @slheuc schooi'
md lets il be known that he had nothing 10 40
with the amazing dress in which his verses sppeareu
He intends to publish new volume.
The conclusion of Sir Gavan Duifys " Young ITO,
landD will soon be brought out under the utie Vi
"Four Years of Irish History, 1S45-49." Inc au
thor has used not only his personal Kno"ieuee puV
also unpublished documents and the correspond
ence of those concerned IN the smith " brleh ilsui
r.nt,on and the secession by which the authority OF
OConnell was overthrown
II said that the chief value of Mrs. Fanny Kem-
HES new volume, Notes upon some OF Snakes
peare's PLAYS" lies in their excellent good sense
THE most important part of the book is her intro
ductorv CHAPTER "On the Stage" Of the actors
art she saws that it requires III Its professors INC
imaCuation of the poet the of the musician, the
eve of the painter and sculptor and over ana apoVe
these faculty peculiar to itself lnasinuch as 'He
actor personally ful6ls and embodies his concep-
ton
Professor Edward Henry Palmer, the English
scholar who was lately killed by the Arabs IN
Egypt. had marvellous linguistic attalnments'
Walter Besan. records that when they were walking
out together one day near tho Foreign sailors
Home at Lmchouse. Palmer espied friend Ill
charge of a cart with baskets with whom he ex-
change five minutes of question and greeting IN
'Romany On the steps of the Home were two men
basking in the sun one OF these was a Lascar from
Calcutta. the other burly negro VINO hailed from
fhe Soudan and talked some kind of Arabic. III
the conversation which followed, both men having
a budget Of grievances TO unfold, 1t was evidehtN
little or no effort for Palmer to pass from Arabic 10
HiDdustani and back again. turning from one to the
other while both talked at once.
handsome new edition of The Autocrat of the
breakfast Table" has just been brought out by
Uouphton. Miflin g. Co. The genial author In his
preface saws that he has for the hrHt time LOT
many wears read over these papers. thinking that
they might be improved by various corrections ana
changes. But it is dangerous" he concludes, " to
tamper in cold blood and in after life with what
was written IN the glow of an earlier period Its
wary defects are part of its organic individuality.
IL would spoil any character these records may
have TO attempt tn adjust them TO the present age
of the world or of the author" DR.. Holmes has on
this ground forborne to make changes in his text;
Int he has added to these ever-charinlng papers
number of notes dscursive and anecdotcal.
In Mr. OuaTitchs last catalogue there is q list OIL
the valuable Jameson manuscripts, autographs,
letters drawings and memoranda illustrating MIS-
Jamesop's life and works from 1909 TO 1850. Many
of her manuscripts are adorned with dainty
sketches from her own hand, and portfolio con-
tains a number of drawings made during her jour
nev in TINS country The list of autograph letters
includes many from literary celebrities. One from
Rrowning has poor Sardello" added by him op-
poste his signature. and one from Carlyle declares
that "the hearts of women, dear little creatures
are by nature exaggerative; many Is the
Bristol diamond poor Scotch pebble
that has been taken for true stone OF
pricev There are two amusing notes from Tback-
erav: a long and interesting letter from Oryllle
Dewey on American literary subjects; and some
original verse which Washington Allston addressed
TO Mrs Jameson Oh her Diary of an Ennuyee."
letter from Charlotte Cushman contains sentence
full of spiritual WEAKNESS. If any knew" she
says chow often sink down by the wayside and
ask for my six feet of EARTH they would wonder at
nv spirits" Among the books from Mrs. Jameson
library is a copy of the Butler Kemble Divorce
Libel with Miss Catherine Sedgewick's auto
graph inscription to her English friend.