New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-22
LITERARY NOTES.

.ho roaI name of the young Englishman
,].a1,, ruhlished the successful story vice
vsrsa under the pseudon, IN OF =" f. Ans'ey'
,.,sexnected that Tennyson's new drama, Inc
promise of May" will shortly be published III BOOK
form.
The Fpvptian War gave employment 10 many
Mans At least thirty works dealing in one why OF
another with Egyptian affairs have been prouen'
out in England during the past three months
Iockhart,s Life of Burns has been revised ana
corrected ly w. Scott Douglas, who has ADDED
generous notes and appendices entirely suppiHine
the defects of Lockhart's matter while the exoeeh
cies of his manner remain untouched.
Mr.. Irving Browne, Editor of The Albany Lac ne,
,ie,r has in press a volume entitled Law anu
LAWYERS m literature" Mr.. Browne is DOOR coi
lector OF long experience and man oil eoou
taste. His book ought to be readable oho'
Tho io,v and conversational architectural papers
n;r,oI IN O,, Continent under the title of The
uouso that il Butt After Jacks had Proved
Eo,1urap are about to be republished in book form
nv Forls Howard Il Iulbert. The same hrm nave
in nress also THE Problem of the POOR oy leleh
Campbell This little volume will tell many
nathetic stories. and will discuss the best methous
of helping the poor.
An English novelist bitterly complains that no
British publisher and proprietor OF clrculalhE
library will publish buy or endeavor to clroui"'e
novel which falls short OF the regulation lnIo0 WI
uroes unless 1t be the work OF writet VI es'"'
lished reputation, or something very eAcep''Uh"A
indeed in the way of merit. All the minor NOV
must perforce dilute their pretty or eAclunE sOO,'
10 the length required by the modern Laur" NJ"
tldas
Rossetti instead Of seeking health and cohsoia'loh
in travel in company. aud in exercise hlVVl "'S
vifo,s death. shut himself up alone amid medieval
relics in large gloomy house. lie sought rellei
from, grief and sleeplessness in choral and as me
Joydog Drily Ners declares tins drug at last be-
came his familiar fend and distorted his ideas ana
bissentimcn,s even about his friends Some magazine
criticisms which healthy man would have tuned
at and foroo,feu led him to the belief hat he was
1he victim of a conspiracy, and that way lhadneSs
lies" lils bodily health could NOT support inc
stress of his intellect and the result wasin literary
sense. disastrous The lesson OF h0sSettls me-
sovs The Nacs is one that Scott, WORDSWORTH
Byron and Shelley knew untaught-ihe lesson that
pcets should 1--we in the open AIR, on hoIseOacK' on
the rivers on the sea. Genius becomes m"rolo
when It is cooped MP indoors as Rossetl was coopeu
up partly by his profession Of painting partly Oy
Incidence
La Militia della Via is the title OF an I'M
happy little book published IaleIy III NUM- -"
author is SAID to have bces leader III the move
ment which resulted IN the accomplishment OF
Italian unity During the last years OF his lie ne
suffered from ill-heath and he died lately al val
lonbrosa and was buried under tree DeSde
which be used often to sit for hours in silent med
;tation. His book is made up of series OF sad re-
Elections on human destiny. The general tone OF
the author resembles that of Schogenhduer ana
Jeonardi and hscstimate OF the value of existence
ia summed up in the closing sentences of bis book
"Ibave studied man." he says " have examined
nature. | have passed whole nights Observing 'he
starry heavens Aud what is the result Oh these
long Investigations Simply this, that the lie OF
man is nothing; that man himself is nothlng' 'hat
he villueyer penetrate the mystery which SURROUNDS
the universe, With this comiortlc's conviction
descend INTO the grave ard console myself only
with the thought of speedy annihilauOn."