New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-25
LITERARY NOTES.

Mica ouisa ~ Alcott is said TO be writing ncN'i
with the suggestive title Of The SupeFnuOuS
Woman .u.y
william, Rocl,'s new novel. ''shandon BoliS
onens chormincly with bctrothal scene oeS'u'
,nusical Irish waters 1t will make It's r9'
aace in the May number of Harper
..sarob Drooks"-who is understood to be inc
H. d,rclter of Sir Fitz James stephen
written an excellent little volume OF fre"om ms
,or, tor FpoiSh Children The larpers VIII III g."
low d.vs rubNsh this book, which mas ocen l"o-
,orod for the American market by few uniihpo'-
faint verbal alterations.
wR. Bqlch's little book. "Garfeld's WORDS mas
boen thoroughly successful publication Ioin"P'
The plcasantest message which its cohpHer n"' "
caivrd is one from Mr. Tennyson. Il owe you NY
tbonl, - ne writes. "for these glimpses oil hopio
life. and for your kindly words ABOUT lily ''A'
Yours. very faithfully, Tennyson.'
rh. article -, George Eliot which Miss Elizabeth
S,,o,+ pbclps has written for the next humoeI Va
Uarucys Magazine contains several eAu"o'S
tho English woman's letters to the American ~,
.-osno,, 1c,cc becan AZ the time that Miss Pheips
lecturca in Boston George Ehot an" .,at
mil tlc death Of the latter The letters are mus
kindly. gracious and sympathetic anu 'o"'"
and there upon the work of the writer
Princess Bcatnccs birthday book has sold rcinarN,
ably well in Ncw-Yorll, Ncssrs. ScrioleI t.,,.
'"y 5;,,,o.o1 of some $50 copies. With the book
,rrcbosers receive 4 portrait III artotypo' VI '''
p,5,case rcprolnced from the latest London Pno''-
,,ronb II rcprcscnts a handsome young "oI"""
I'll tbo heavy outlines and somewhat du'i eA.
s,,o,, which the wee wee Sharnan lalI"'0
e. bronrht 70 the English throne from his haho-
verian cabbage garden
There y not = worl Of truth III the widely copiou
statement that Roswell Smith and j. Ii. OS'o'u III
tend to start q new illustrated weekly p1pcr ~ D'
co., rrdor the editorshp of Mr.. lloweils MT OSsooN
,yr,tos 10 thc New-York publisher with inc mon
innuiry "When We gong 4" start ID anu 80
- th lille ?, and Mr. Smith declares that he has no
intention of starting a new periodical I'll any
Uc odds that if h. had any such intention no
1youldn't 90 out Of this city and the century ooi
many todo it-so loyal New Yorker Is me-
Warrington viii Immediately bring ont
,be American edition Of Richard \. Proctors h
,n;l;or Science Studies" Another promised puDlca.
.i ,f tina bouse - n translation by l.. liearh oi
Its ,,o.r,s of Thcoplile Gautier's, including MS
.,Xnit de Cleopatre" To translate Gautler is Il
,osL ronuirinp the greatest tact ana TASTE I"i'
blended with rich beauty Of fancy are quall''''
which irresisibly reca,. GauticrS yonthiui saying
oman is superior to the brute creation III only tn'eo
things-be strikes fire with flint, he drinks "n"m
beis not thirsty. and makes love all the year ro"nu
A handsome new edition of Heneagc jesse
George Sclw-vn and his Con ernporarlcs mas JuS'
been brought ont by Scribncr Il "eIiord. Inns cor
rs,opdeuce has been one of the ScarccSt Of m"dfii
hooks and stray copies have OF late years pe'n S''u
at auction at very high prices, lhS new e'i''""
cvactlv rcproducos the original save that Its typo
,ra,bicol execution Is better TIE edition Is mn
tied and will. no doubt be quickly exhausted, for
ro mans library is complete without these iascl-
,at,rg mixtures Of the brilliant, witty, intriguing
and extravagaut society of the England OF George
Ill.
Charles Readcs sketch of Sir Robert Lush winch
anpeors in the number of Harpers UeetU 10 DC pup
Hshod to-day. is a Enthusiastically manly celcDrd-
1Ion iof the virtue of perseverance. Robert LUSH
starting IN hfe as the son Of poverty-stncNeh
widow and as a country solicitors oihce-Ooy'
fought his way up TO legal cminence by dlnt OF IN
domitahle discrimination. You who have youth
and health" writes Charles Eeade, never YOU
or,u NJ those twin jaers of the daring heaT',
law birth and iron fortuneY Sec what becomes OF
tbose two bngbears when the stout champion Hlh
ole Heart and the giant Perseverance take ileh Oy
The throat This number of the H@@Y mas al
amusing illustration in the shape OF weli-ireSSeu
monkey gazing pcusiycly al SmIoWeI; 1t Is the
work of W. II. Beard