New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-05-01
LITERARY NOTES.

Judge Tourgee viii hereafter confnc his literary
efforts TO The pages of Our Continent lie VIII
shorty begin in that paper the publication OF
serial story in twelve parts, 10 be called, Hot
Ploughshares"
The Paris National Library is to be enriched by
1he acouisiton of 10 600 volumes of valuable Span
ksb historical collections. The thousands OF dis
patches sent from France TO Russia century ago.
and now in ST. Petersburg, being copied for the
library.
n. Carl Meyer has discovered MS poem of the
end Of the twelfth and the beginning of the thir-
teenth ccntury-the History of Guillaume lie Mar
cchal." soldier and dipomstist of that period
This poem is deemed almost equal to the " Chanson
de Roland"
An imperfect copy of the rare old volume Dame
Juliana Berner's Boke of st. Adams" was soid
lately in London for $1,000. 1t was the
most perfect copy offered for sale during
the present century. OF the three absolutely per
feet comics in existence one is in Earl Spencers
library another is in the Earl of Pembrokes col
lection and the third in the library of the Earl of
Devon.
Though Professor Leopold Ranke is now
in his eightieth year, there is no sign OF failing
strength in the second volume OF his " Universal
History" lately published in Germany. III
none Of his previous writings, it is said, arc his
mastery of historical method, his sure grasp OF
leading ideas and his practsed skill in the arrange
ment of his materials to better advantage.
This volume deals with the history OF the roman
republic.
Mr. Jebb in his monograph on Bentley in the
English Men OF Letters Series lays particular
stress ON the fact that Bentley,
the great classical scholar, the man who
was often charged by his foes with pedantry. is
remarkable as having written the homehest,
unrest English Of any writer of his time. One
of the examples given by the biographer
is this: Commend me TO the man that with
thick hide and solid forehead stand bluff against
PLAIN matter OF fact
Dante Gabriel RoSsett was brilliant talker when
he felt in the mood TO talk and among those
whom he knew and liked; but he had ali Haw-
thorne's objection to the casual and conventional
chat of society, and TO the meeting with strangers
He cared nothing for what is called worldly success
OF for the making of money. His synpathies ID
literature were of the broadcast. He believed Jenny
son to be- after Coleridge and Keats, the great poet
of the century lie not like his brother a very
ardent Shelleyan, though of course admirer.
He recited Browning's "Childe Roland. "Swln-
burnc's" Dolores" and passages from Morris's
Earthly Paradise" with great animation.
The Duke d'Aumale has lately resurrected poet
in the person of NJ. Vatel-not the famous cook who
ran himself through with his sword in despair be-
cause the fish did not arrive i'll time for dinner, but
Vatel hitherto unknown to bIognphers, an
author of sonnets and satires. His Ms consists OF
eighty leaves, illustrated with six drawings
and ornaments carefully executed in sepia, and was
presented with an elegant frontlspiece, III the
midst of which is inscribed the motto, 1m'd ia
snicrd. in Greek characters "DO no; despise little
tbjngsn The work of the noble commentator fills
twenty -one pages large India paper with red
border II is in the writing of the Duke PAnnale
himself reproduced by photography. The Duke
dAumale leaves to more learned confreres the task
of judgng the literary merit of Vate ana the artis-
tic vaue of the manuscript. lie terminate with
these modest lines
"To have revealed vate to you is the only merit Of
your afiectonate colleague, H. DORLEANs
The book must have appeared at the beginning of
1874 "A short time before the death of Charles IL.
1t is dedicated 10 Nicholas de Neuville Seigncur de
Villeroy Secretary and Minister of four French
Kings and the councillor of Catharine de Medici
and Henri Quatre. In this work Natel especially
dilaes on the exploits of the hardy captains OF the
sixteenth century. and particularly on those of Sc
bastien dc Luxembourg, YicoInte dc Martigues and
the Due de Penthievre.
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