New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-21
LITERARY NOTES.

Dir. James 70 SS'"o
biography. :, =,
Professor Green's "Prolegomena 10 E'h'cs WI"
he rubshed early in January
MIR. Tennysou'snew rural drama in three ac's IS
,vri,ton in rrosc-and that is nearly all that Is
known about it as yet.
Mr. N. swift's story of Cupid, NJ. D." is said
20 pietnre in striking way the struggle Oh an
onium-eater with the habit that enslaves NM
The whole of the first edition Of Canon Farrar 5
"Early DAYS of Christianity" was sold imued'-
atev. ana new edition has already been pre-
pared.
The first volume of President Gaffields Worhs
will be published before the holidays Dy D. H.
O., g. 10 Tho sccoud Will follow in January
OF February.
,o,,cs uoqq's domestic Manners and Private
Iifo Of Sir Walter Scott" has!ong been ont OF PRINT
on1 o new edition is about to be published by VIII
Jam Brown, OF edinburgh.
Miss Braddon's new Christmas novel Flower
o,d WeedD marks new departure in English
book-making 1t is to be profuselS illustrated ana
handsomely printed, aud viii be sold Tor only 20
cents.
EyGser's Voqasipe which has just expired. main
famed Its varied career for exactly hfty-two years
ma ten months. Not one Of the famous writes On
il. original staff survives Its vOumeS contain C1+
numbers.
eProlessor D. b. King. of Lafayette College IS the
author Of the volume on the Irish question Wh'ch
will soon be published by Charles ScribncTS sons
Professor King has udIed his subject eNhausuFfH
in ireland during the pas two summers
The longest poem ever written Is said 10 be tle
"Shah Nmeh,' Of FirduSl-an epic n-rTatinS tn'
mythical history Of Persia. Miss hcien HiuiherA'
i.naon writer has translated a collection Of tales
oil Cnan OtIIli ~
title of the e pc of Kings" NJ GoSSe has written
a poe,n ON "Frdusi III Exile winch will be pre-
fixed 10 the collection and Mr.. Alma-Tadema has
contributed two ctchings.
The late Charles Darwin, Professor Blacke, DE-
Carpenter and Me,srs L. \. Freeman, Anthony
Trollopc, Nlke Collins, etc, have ali written I"'
ters J.. Response to a series OF questions tOuchhg
their practice ID the matter OF alcohol and tobacco"
They are shortly to he published in a small volume
under the title OF study aud StlmuiantS." 1t VII
doubtless be exceedingly interesting reading To
men of letters and science
The striking novel "All Sorts and Conditions OF
Men," which has just been published by tie Har-
pers il the work of Walter Besan5, uuassisted by
his valued colaborer, James Rice For many
months before his death Mr. Rice was too Ill 10 Wriie
md though the titlc-page bears both names the
story is unde stood to little or nothing to him.
II is so original in design that Mr. BcsaHts friends
declared tnat 1t was impossDle and ne has III dei-
erence to this opinion added the subtitle, An In
possible story" The Academy says that Judging
IRON internal evidence only, 1t would seem likely
that Mr. RIce's share III the works which owned nm
rs one OF their two parents was III the mann, con-
fined 10 suggestion and to the collection OF mate
rias for bOtn in conception OF character ana Incl
dent. and in the mere details of literary crhtSlnau-
ship, it would require a cntlc of snguiary keen
Vision to DISCERN any apprecable difference between
the present work and is numerous predecessors"
A biography OF Hans Christian Andersen, lately
published in Copenhagen, contains num-
Der of letters hom the Danish writer
which curousy portray his excessively
nervous temperament. In every letter lie
alludes to his escape from some danger real or
imaginary For instance, when only fifteen he
wrote an account OF his fist journey by carriage
across the island of Zealand, which ne adds, was
not wi hout danger, for (he road went up and down
hill several times" And throughout his letters he
Is forever abiding 10 dangers OF equal magnitude.
Although of a healthy If not robust physique, An
der,eu never d.spat ched a letter without abiding
10 some aiiment from which he was suffering. until
ii passed into quite joke amongst his friends but
the most amusing feature which this nervousness
ploduced ia Hans Andersen was perpetual fear OF
beinp buried alive SO that when he went TO bed at
night he always placed by his bedside piece OF
p,per ON which was written, " am only apparently
dead"