New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-22
LITERARY NOTES.

Mr. Thomas Hughes's Memoir of Daniel Macmi-
Ian will be published Immediately.
third series of "No Name" novels with new
.tyle of binding is to be ISSUED by Roberts Brothers
Mr.. Whitaker has Just published a cheap Ameri-
can edition of Professor Watts's reply TO Robert
son Smiths lectures on the Old Testament III the
Jewish Church
A new library edition of w. Gilmore smms
works has been prepared by A. G.. Armstrong q TO-
Darlcys Illustrations are retained, and the ed',on,
which is reasonable in price, Is printed OH l"U
tinted paper.
Professor L. H. Palmer, of Cambridge University
who is editing series of simplGed grammarS Oh 'uo
principal Oriental and European languages n"S ~:
published the first-a " Simplilied Grammar VI i''"
dustani, Persian and Arabic"
The new American novel "kinley Hoiio"'
which Henry Holt & Co. are about to puOhsn' was
written bv the late G. H. HOLSTER au'noi VI .
history of Connecticut, and once an AmeIio'" n.y.
resentatiye at one of the minor foreign posts
hook gives some characteristic pictures Oh INC IT,
suits of Calyinsm III New-Engiand.
Mil II. Shorthousc III his introduction to the
fac-simile reprint of George Hcrberts Tempe
nIaces that fastidious scholar and gentleman as
noet below Vaughan and below John keble' Inc
chief characteristics of his subjects poetry are n0
declares, strength of purpose and reaiitV Vi inr
sight combined with carelesshess ana qulhVnoN' u
expression"
SIR Alfred Lyalrs "Asiatic Studies" which are
about to appear in London. consist oil q sci!oS "
ESSAYS on " The Religion of an Indian province
1.-The Origin OF Divine Myths In India, ne Ihi'u-
ence upon Religion of Rise in Morality wien
craft and Mont Christian Religions MisSion"i9
and Non-Missionary Religions" The keia'ions
cha and RELIGION III CDlna lhO
Formation of some Clans and Castles IN thula'
1.-The Baiput States in India" Islam IN lndia'
"Our Religious Policy in India, and 1.-The kehgiouS
Situation i'll India"
Mrs. Fanny Kembles "reminiscences are hotuIns
;fnot frankfurt She is usually kindly too. Inc
faults of the domineering Lady Holland now
ever she never attempts to pallate. she teilS
oueer Story of that coarse tyrants Miniature Land
seer was walking one day by the side OF Lazy hui
lands wheel-char in the grounds OF Holland house'
and stopping at particularly pretty spot, had saiu
"Oh. Lady Holland! This is the part OF your place
of which the Duchess of Bedford has such a charm
ing view from her house on the hill above Is
iti~ said Lady Holland, and Immediately gave Or
ders that the paling fence around that pr' Oh hei
grounds should be raised, so as to cut OH inc
Duchess's view into them.
All except two of The ancient Egyptian romahces
thus far discovered have lately been colecteu auu
published by Professor Maspero under the u'io VI
"Les Contes Populaires de Egypte Anclenne'
He gives in this volume thirteen tales ten OF them
being his own TRANSACTIONS from the original papyr
and two being borrowed from NJ Tolenischeh Inc
most important of these last is from an original
papyrus dating from tue Allth Dynasty ana Is
tale of shipwreck told by sea-captain, who' as inc
only survivor, is cast upon an island aDoundlDe III
delicious fruits and Inhabited by seventy-hVe
amiable and intelligent seTpents The head OF lhlS
interesting family treats his guest with distih-
guished hospitality and conyerses with MIN Ill
beautiful manner "AmOui-AmOuaa is the name
signed at the end of the papyrus, and representing
=. scribe who lived and wrote about a thousand
wears before Abraham iourneyed into Egypt.