New-York tribune., 1882-04-12
LITERARY NOTES.

The next volumes in Henry Holt & Co. g series OF
sLiyes of American Worthless" are H. ). butoe'.ss
sWilliam Penn" G. Z. Lannicans Andrew JACK
son. and John liabbertons George Washington.
Only 1000 copies of Mrs. Amory's Life OF
Copleys were printed, aud as 1t promises 10 oe-
SOHO a rare book the price has already advanced
from three to four dollars
Perhaps it is not generally remembered that not
an,v WAS "Evangeline" published in England III
the same year as Tennysons Princess" but OF tho
two the American poem the most read ana
talked about there
The late Nathan Clifford, Justice of the Supreme
Court spent many hours in relating {, LIS son lhc'
dents in his life. These incidents with other ma
terial the younger Clifford is now using IN the prep
aration of biography of his father
The next novel in the 4" Round Robin series IS
story of Philadelphia at the Centennial celebration
time and is called Dorothea." The most success
fu, volume in this series is said TO have Deeh
Nameless NObleman
Iongfellow was once asked whether Paul Fleming
IN Hyperion was a character drawn i1om nc he
paused full half minute then ans Hered: " lie was
what I thought l might have been; bat
never He shaded his face with one hand
and did not complete the sentence.
The eminent British advocate SERGEANT Balian-
tine. has just published in London an interesting
volume of his personal and professional reminis-
cences of the past fifty years 1t is full OF anec-
dotes and sparkling with clever personal descrlp-
lion. The book will be brought out immediately in
this country by the Hohs. under the title of some
Experiences of a Barrister's Life"
second and still more decorai ed edition of Miss
Pollard's Decorative Sisters" has been brought
ont by A. II. T. Randolph & Co. The sheets and the
covers are pierced admit strands of red SILK which
are tied in neat bows at the back-a device Which
sneaks more loudly of feminine work-basket than
of a sober publishing house The same iirm has Just
published a pretty little collection OF the iatc
Frances Ridley Havergals papers on modern hymns
and hymn writers.
new edition in five volumes of Sir william
Naper's " Peninsuar War" has lately been pnp-
lished by 4. c. Armstrong & Son. who are laudaoy
enoared in bringing series OF standard works
within the limits of sM all pnrses. Napers history
is uniform with their editions Of Hailam, Lamb,
Milman and Disraeli and is printed from the
authors last revised edition. 1t has all the maps,
plans. portraits and index. and is well bound IN
cloth
A good cheap edition of Ruskins "Nodern
Painters has been issued by John Wiley ~ sons.
The tinted paper on which it is printed Is ra'her
thin but the type clear and reasonably large, ana
though there are plates, all the wood engr&Vihgs
are given The cloth binding is plain and neat
and altogether these volumes at dollar each are
not dscreditaLle addition to a modest library.
They will be followed by the i" Stones of Venice
and the Seven Lamps of Architecture IN UNIFORM
style.
Among the books in the press of G. ?. Putnam's
Sons is a History of English Fiction" from the
time Of Sir Edward Mallory to that of George Lilot.
Its author Is Mr.. Bayard Tuckerman Another vol
ume--by Eben 6. Scott-has for subject the De
yeiopment of Constitutional Liberty in the English
Colonies of America" Leslie Stephens Science Of
Ethics the Rev. S. Kettewelrs copious biography
of Thomas Kempis, and Mr.. Theodore Rooseyelts
history of the naval war OF 1Sl2-l4 Will be issued
almost Immediately by the Putnams.