New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-05-27
LITERARY NOTES.

,ossov On CARLYLE is to be included IN
so,ure contains the proceedings of the Mass
.ohusatts Historical Society with reference I" 'ne
sS..hs of Jonofellow and Emerson and TINS VOL
nme is shortly, to be published by A. "li'ai"' "
Co.
TRANSLATION by John Snodgrass of Heinrich
uo;no,s q Religion and Philosophy in Germany .
has lately been published by Houghton Mnihn ~
r. This it will be remembered, is the critical
ond suggestive fragment which Heinc contributed
20 the Rerue des DeuI MOndes in 1884. Inc Trans
lati on is careful and characteristic.
The third volume in the series OF " America"
Statesmen will be published by Houghton' Mllnn
g. CO. to-day. This. by Dr. II. Won Hoist, mas 'onN
e. Calhoun for its subject. The same INN VII ' i
publish to-day Alexander Charles Ewalds Stoilo'
from the State Papers of England; Uaoriei ~
row. in their new edition of Bret Har'es -
n novel by Julian Sturgs and TWO 'o''
poems, -. .. tho
One Of the most interesting contributors ~ .T,o
.Jnlv' number of Harper Will pe II pap o.
Old Ship-Buildero of New YORK oy w. y" w.,
I.;s 20 no illustrated from drawings ny u A. van
ae-Soof o,d A. II. Wand and from old MINIATURES
,,or,ro,ts etc. Among the portraits viii DC tnoSe
rrsnay;d Brown. Henry Eckford, Jacob A. WeS'er-
Welt George Steefs James X. Steers, Jacoo Deii anu
William ii. Webb.
Tho cot of his own works which was sent lately as
birthday gift to Robert Browning cy lo2 OF h,S d-
,n;rers was bound in olive morocco ara cncioScu " "
handsome oak case carved with browning elnoicAnS
message went with the gift that as tie "oihs Vi :"
oreot modern poet could never be found III MS houso
when need was to refer TO them-lMr' DrO"nins
ALWAYS gives away all the copies OF his DOCKS which
his publisher sends hiIHhis friends Degged MS ac
oo,tonco If q set OF these works, and assured him
flnxrn a IL
attention. Inside the first volume was copied oi'
fro,, letter of Mrs Owen, of Cheltenham. to MI
EI,rnival. of on his seventeen birthday, BrOwh-
inc were allowed to see with inward eyes the Nv
inc helm that ne is in many lives, what grand
birthday present that would be" MI browning
has since written that lie never was so honored'
SO gratifed by any action of a similar nature una'
ever happened to him in the course of his life"
CARLYLE when in his poor and lonely lodging IN
Edinburgh wrote to fellow student IL leiier
wh,ch does not appear in Mr.. Froudcs volumes
"Excepting one or two individuals nave httie
society that value very highly, bat books are a
ready and efectual recourse. May blessings DC
unon the head of Cadmus, the PhGnicians or who
over If was that invented books, | may not detain
con with the praises of art that carries the voice
If man to the extremity of the earth and to the latest
GENERATIONS but it is lawful for the solitary wight
IN expres the love he feels for those companions so
stea1fast and unpresuminc that go or come With
,ut reluctance. and that, when his felOw-anmals
are proud, or stupid, peevish are ever reaoy TO
cheer the languor of his soul and gild the barren
ness OF life with the treasures of bygone times"
Readers of THH Tribune know that the task OF
preparng a suitable biography of the lamented
George Ripley was finally ntIusted TO the Rev. u.
b. Frothing CHAM. Mr.. rockingham mas Oeen en-
gagged on this cOngenal work throughout the past
autumn and winter II is now passing through the
press of HougbtOn, Mifllin IL Co., and may he ex-
pected among their early summer publications. 1t
will make a handsome duodecimo volume OF 4OO OF
800 pages Mir. Rpley's remarkable career natu-
rally divides itself into three paTts-hls life as
Unitarian preacher in Boston, his life as the presl-
dent of Brook Farm, and his life in New-York as
Literary Editor of THE TRIBUNE. With eachlof these
Mr.. rockingham had much in sympathy, and IN
many ways lie had peculiar advantages Tor aScer-
tanning. as well as for expressing, the truth The
friends of Mr.. Ripley confidently look for a biog-
raphy at once trustworthy, attractive and endur-
tnn