New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-08-19
LITERARY NOTES.

NJ zola,s new novel, lie Bonheur des Daines' 10
20 nave a heroine of the sanity type.
Among the poems to be published this autumn arc
.ho.o ~ Mary Clemmer and Margaret r.. Sangster'
They will he brought out by j. h Osgood N CO.
Tho town Of Boulogne, which recently erected
.tatue 20 the Orientahst Marietta Bey, has honored
onotber of its citizens, Jules Lecomte by naming
,t,est after him. NJ Lecomte was for long time
the editor-in-chief Of the independence Beige. MS
principal work. Letros sur les GERMANS fra"oo'S'
which he published under the name of Van Engel-
gom, contains some bright pen portraits OF fren'n
men of letters of his day. such as Balzac Alphouse
Karr Alfred de Musset Victor Hugo. Aexandre
Dumas, Edgar Quinet and others inns oooN'
which is now very rare earned its author the ooi,
dial dislike of the men whose folOles he n"N
sketched with an uusparing hand
While the Ervptian complications are keeping
the nalace of the Sultan in COnsantlnople IN con-
slant turmoil. the Commander OF the fAtinul mus
,,me IN encourage so far as his empty eonerS VIII
allow. an undertaking the contamination OIL "hich
historians and OricntalSts Will hail with dehgh''
For some time Osman Bey, the second chamDer
lain of the Padshah has been engaged in founding
in Constantinople a model printing establishment
which, by reason of the excellent material ana
talent at its command shall make IL poSSpe W
offer 10 the public IN faultcss form the most lhpoi
taut religious, historical ana sCIch'iHO w"
Nussnlrnan writers. Osman BE V has already oegun
the series by the publication of an edition OF 'ne
Koran at an unusually low price when pu's II
within reach of the poorest classes. The next step
contcrp ated is said to be the publication OF tue
works of the most prominent AraOlc ana luIA.'
historians which have never appeared ID prnlt oo
fore Correct editions of the works OF the AIaoio
historian Ebu-Kadun or the Turkish writer hodga
EfendI now existing in manuscript only "ouu oo
eagerly welcomed by students OF Orental history
and would also serve 20 throw additional iusue
nnon one of the most brilliant eras OF MahOmel'h
civilization
A correspondent of The London Times writes:
copy of a work printed by CaXton' beng inc EhH-
lsh version OF the celebrated French medlieVal 10
nance of the Four Sons of Aymon has been 'or
some time known by minute CaXtonlan scholars 10
lie in existence in Earl Spencer's library at AthoTp
In defouIt of the rrnters name. the place, OF the
date the period of A. -. 1890 has been assigned 10
# as an approximation. No other copy Is known
10 be extant and il, scarcity may be estimated by
tbe fact that no mention of it occurs III the pages
either of AmcFs Typographical Antiquities OF OF
Dibdin's Bibiographcal Decamcron.' Under these
circumstances Vt rarity, the most TagIneh'ary
occurrence of the -Four Sons of Aymon Is an event
calculated to the whole world OF piohog-
raphy. Three leaves, or SIX pages OF TINS "oiN
have inst come under observation, when nave
owed their preservation to having been used as parV
OF the binding OF volume bearing later dale III 'ie
fifteenth century than the -Four Sons OF Aymon
itself The seeming contemporane"us contempt %
what the nineteenth century agrees to consicer as
precious is tracoabe the fact that CaXtcns worhs
became prematurely antiquated, and so reiega'eu
to comparatively vulgar purposes IN consequences
not only of the change OF language winch Tie lu'Fo
ducton of printing accelerated or initiated Out OF
tAe change which took place soon after CaXton
1,e from blsck-let,er to the ordinary Typography
of modern times"