National Republican., 1882-01-14
LITERARY NOTES.

White, Smith & Co., of Boston, have just pub
lished very fine edition of MendelSs9hn's songs,
without words, taken from the Edition Peters,"
which for excellence of typography, paper, and
general appearance is superior TO the original.
The North american RcricW will present in its
February number, to be published on the 18th of
the present month"; Part Ill OF its series of articles
on "The Christian Religion" twill be from the
pen of George p. Fisher the eminent professor of
ecclesiastical history in the Yale Divinity school,
us thorough u scholar and MS able defender of
the Christian faith MS this country affords. pow
eriul presentation of the claims Of Christianity Is
expected
II is understood that Messrs Metzler & Co., of
Great Marlborough street. London, are, by COM
mHnd Sf aSr Majesty IoT
Sacred and Secular of H. Il. II. Prince Consort,"
the whole being produced under the able super
vision of Mr.. w. G. Cusins, Her Mnlcstys Master
OF Musicke,r This Is scarcely the time AT which to
offer any criticism on the Prince Consorts musical
abilities but the high estimation in which Men
delssohn held His Royal HighnesS' musical at
lninmens, combined with the great appreciation
that is everywhere felt for his high personal quail
esting memento of the departed Prince will nee
GSSarly become an object of eager acquisition to
all who admire sterling worth and revere hon
esty of purpose.
The first number of Our Continent will appear in
few weeks. 1t will be an illustrated literary
weekly, neither political nor seciarian, and con.
aneied Ry ADloh w. l9Hfgee M GGr HIir;o 3r f9U @
Robert s. Davis, of New York who are well known
both as successful authors and publishers, IL Is
lIlt VI HNJtStolo Vtl ''t'Hf'tt
make II in every respect equal to the best issues Of
the English or American press. The foremost
writer's Of the day in each department of
| lteuture have been secured, and the artistic
establishment of the periodical will be
by designers and engravers who stand al the
R@ong its fn % be Louis fSny
Donald q. Mitchell T. TX Marvel }, Helen Camp
bell Kate Field, Mrs Louise Chandler Moulton'
The fiction of the midwinter February) number
of The CcHtulB will embrace the continuation Of
"a Modern Instance, by Mr. iowells, in which
the author humOrs still further the hcros iOndness
for hirtation another chapter Of Mrs Burnetts
Through One Administration" containing a
pquant "morning.call" " conversation between
! lrcdcnnis and Bertha; racy story by Frank H.
| Stockton, entitled "Euphema Among the peli-
! cans" which introduces two or three familiar
! characters of the "Iluddcr Grange" series, and
the play of " Esmeraldn," by Mrs Burnett and W
! ii. Gillette, which is having II long and successful
career at the Madison Square Theatre. The play
will be read with peculiar interest by those who
remember Mrs. Burnett's short story Of E,mcr
aida" that appeared in the mOgnzinc for May
1877, Readers who are familiar with Mrs. Bur
| netts novels muy also look for traces of. ," Louis
| ana in the drama.
The London Times, in an article on American
literature for children, pays the following tribuu
to the best publication for the young that has eve
been offered "Therc is an old song which sing
how certain venerable man delighted to pass IN
evening of his days in initiating his grandGhild II
the exhiarating game Of draughls, and how, "
well did the lad profit by his instruction, that
last the old man was beaten by the boy II
over tllc TWO 'ot' NtcHDtlo Ol'
song has come back to us. Certainly the producer
of such literature for our own boys and girls mus
look TO their laurels, Both In the letterprcss AM
the engravings these two volumes seem to
(though the admission touch our vanity or on
patriotism call IL by which name we WILL some
thing clos clyl above anything we produce in tn
same line The letterpress, while containing quit
as large power of attraction for young iancles,
SO much more dead, so much less commonplace
altogethcI of higher literary style than the aver
age production of our annuHls of the same elias
And the pictures are often works Of real art, nc
only as engrayings, but as compositions of origno
design"
The first publication of G. p. Putnams Sons 70
1882 will include several volumes postponed troI
of Knowledge" by Professor Frederick Guthrie,
volume planned TO give in clear and Comprehen
sive shape the first information that is required b
children concerning the nature and use of th
common objects about them "SuiCde: Studle
on Its Philosophy, Causes, and Prevention" by ID
and China" by DR.. W. ii. Kane 4 careful stud
of the prevalence aud spread of the vice, and {
its immediate and remote eheCts-mOral, physO
logical, and hnRncial-upOn the individual an
nation. "Pen Pictures of Authors by Willlgr
Shepard, author of Authors and Authorship.
morocco aud Its People, by Edmond
de Amicis octave, illustrated, uniform wit
! "Spain and " Holland" Two new novels In III
Transatlantic Series the first by Katharine
MaCquoid, author of" Patty" Sc, entitled Esa
Runswick;" the second, by II newawriter entitle
The Dingy House NJ Kensington," new now
Noble, author Of "unClc Jacks Executors" er
titled Eunlce Lathrop, Spinstcr' THE Geolog
. cal and MinCrulOgcal Resources of the Jam,
! River Valley of Virginia. with maps and geOlOg
cal sections, by j. l.. Campbell Ill, D, "a Hist0l
J ofthc Naval War of 1872 by Theodore Roosevelt