New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-19
LITERARY NOTES.

London. 1t is reported. is to have a rival to INC
ce .turv in the shape of a revised and improved
Issue of 1he BvrliHgtoa-a magazine which Is
aow dreary and dry TO the last degree.
Mr.. John II. Ingram, the bographer of Poe. is 10
10 the editor of q new and promising series Oh
monographs on the English Women of Letters-a
series which will give opportunities for mu'n
delightful writing.
Miss Nobe's Reverend Idol" is said 10 be so great
asuccess that the publishers can scarceiy hoeP
pace with the demands of inpatient purchasers
Miss Noble, it is rumored, contemplaes the "i'''"s
OF other novels.
A fine phototype portrait of Lonefellow nom
heaatiys taken from life has been puonsne" ny -
Cutekunst OF Philadelphia. II is an exce'leh' hNo'
.ess and has strength and sofness unl'eu ra'e III
q work of this SORT
Tho English publishers of the Encyclopedia
britannica" are instituting proceedings LOT pre-
venting the reproduction by American publishers
of the articles written for the work by American
writers.
Mr. swlnburnes new volume, "TristIam OF Lyon
besse is dedicated in a ouching sonnet 10 ineo"o,
Watts the critic. 1t written ON the thiru ann
yersary of the day when the two went 10 i've 10
ecther at Putney.
w. r. Plum, Of Chicago, lawyer who was
member OF the Telegraph Corps during the ClVh
War, has written two bulky volumes on the '"iu-
able services rendered by the military Telegraph
10 the Northern Army The publishers are 'aii''i'
McClurg ~ Co.
II is not at this late day that travellers nave
beeun to appreciate A Chance Acquaintance anu
.Their Wedding Journey" as guide DOCKS Du' ~
Is not until this summer that they have been iori-
ally established as such by the Publication ol 'heih
in paper covers and at small price,
A book which promises TO be one 1uil OIL PIC.
tnresoue interest is Social Life in the helgn OF
Oneen Anne" by John Ashton. 1t is taken IRON
original sources and is to be handsomely Illus
trated. it is now going through the press III
London.
Mr.. Frank Cushing the adopted Zuni. Will ex
hibit his literary metal in the September Audn'c III
n paper on a Saddle Trip TO the Country u INC
nayasupair Another article in the same number
on American History on the Stage ough' W oo
an interesting and suggestive one.
"Harpers Christmas" the holiday publication
(which is TO be brought out this year by the famous
old firm is TO have page double the SIZE Oh tna' Oh
tbeit Weekly. 1t will be filled with characteristic
illustrations made by the members OF the lie
Club and is to give contributions from the most
DISTINGUISHED writer's English and American
At an extra meeting of the Browning Society,
held in London the other day, the entertanme1
consisted of recitatons, readings and music. the
words of the songs executed being of COURSE those OF
the author of Sordello" Mr. Stanfords settings Of
the @Cavaer Tunes" are said TO have been the
most successful.
Professor Lounsberys "COcper" will possibly be
the next volume in the American Men Of Letters
l.. Wit
Gilmore Simms, Mr. Aldrich is dealing with n. T.
Willis and Colonel Higginson has Benjamin
Franklin on his hands. Sir. LOwells Nathaniel
Hawthorne will certainly not be the least notable
of the series.
Mr. Henry Adams, one OF the most brilliant OF
the younger American writer's is preparing the
volume on John Randolph for tho American States
man series. Professor w. G. Sumner is at work
upon Andrew Jackson while S. ii. Gay has taken
James Madison President Gilman. James Monroe;
and Mr.. Carl Schurz, Henry Clay. Albert Gallatln
has fallen to the lot of Mr.. J. A. Stevens, and
Daniel Webster to Mr.. Henry Cabot Lodge.
s.Mr J. w. Bouton receives subscriptions in this
cor ptry for an important artistic aud hstori cal
work on the Basca of st. Marx in Venice. IL IS
TO be richly illustrated. architectural and decora-
tive details being reproduced in profusion Only
n limited edition will be issued Sgnor +.
Ougania is the editor, and the work, which has
been in course of publication since 1878, VIII be
finished in 1884. The text is in Italian and French.
A book under the title of The Estbetic Move
rnent in England" Is about to be published in
London. 1t will contain chapters on "Ihe IRE
Raphaelites and the Germ" John Rusk'n ana the
Critics" "The Grosvenor Gallery and A1sthetc
Culture @RobeIt Buchanan and tho tleshly
school of POETRY" Patience" The Colonel" Mr..
md n
~What the AIsthetIc Movement has achieved III
Art Poetry Music and Decoration"
Mrs. Fanny Kemble. in her Records OF Later
ifen-which is to be reprinted here by Henry Holt
a. Co.-tells an amusing story of lady who was
given to consulting the almost forgotten Plan
chette" and who gravely said to Mrs. Kenble that
she should give up doing on account OF the Ian
cnace il used: the language IL usesP elacu-
lated Yes she pursued with increasing solemnity,
sthe language it Is reprehensibe that II VIII
be quite impossible for TO consult or to have any
thing further to do with it, Really, said lhardy
able to utter for suppressed laughter and may ask
may / inquire what language 1t does use 7
why returned Mrs. -, with some decorous hesl-
tation and reluctance to utter the words that fol-
lowed the last time we consulted it it told us we
were all pack of damned fools 'Oh! exploded
l. Il believe in Planchette-I believe in Plan
chette.D
Mr.. Bret Bartc gives pleasant glimpse of Long
fellow as he seemed 10 him twelve years ago.. The
venerable poets deep, soft baritone flowed on with
skindly criticism, gentle philosophy, picturesque
illustration and anecdote. AS was the stranger
he hafearnestly, half jestingy kept up the role OF
guide, philosopher and friend. and began an ami
able review of the company we had just LETT AS 1t
had comprised a few Names the greatest IN Amer-
can literature science and philosophy. was struck
with that generous contemporaneous appreciation
which distinguished this Round Table of whom no
knight WAS more courtly and loving than my COM
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