New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-06-19
LITERARY NOTES.

-rvo hundred copies of remarkable DOCK, 10
49, do Marco Polo" have just been printed !"
C,ocLboIm. The original MS.-a rerc Oh 'i'o io"i
..snth century-was taken from the hoiaiS
~,arles v Of France and is valuable account Vi
~" .ro,.Is of the celebrated Venetian. Professor
Nordenskiold has written preface Tor the oooA'
C;r Thomas Brassey is quoted as saying OF MS
-, hool of travel that it chad been translated
;rto most modern languages, had been ROAD py n'i'
lions of persons, and he believes that no Houein
hook had such a vast circulation" Slr lhonias .
cheerful pride in his wife has not, alaS oee'
tempered by that modesty of which the Drl'oh Is
usually so admirable an exemplar.
oshorne H. Olbroyd of Springfield, Ill, is reported
TO be the possessor Of the most complete ana Ni"
oble collection extant of the private and pno,ic
.'o,,,aDirs ot Abraham Lincoln 1t il this gentle
man who has compiled the Lincoln Memoria, Al
nm which ia shortly TO be published-a Voi'iui''
oon,ain;,s napers bv Garfield, Whittier, and many
other noted Americans.
co,v Of the Memorial History OF BOSTON
having ben sent bv the Mayor OF that Guy " ."'
Maror of old Boston, in Lincolnshire the Ehgnsu
oogc,al has returned the thanks OF the corporation
Or the Gift. The very existence OF the iacts' the
Fpolishmen declare, "proves that the daughter
citv has far ecpsed in Importance It's parent l"c
which the parent city is proud TO acknowledge anu
hereby expresses It's sincere ueSiIe 10 cNol i7
an ipdissoluble bond OF relationship, friendship ana
goodwill"
about : 600 decorations have been given to dlS-
tinesbed persons in France during the past twelve
,,oars It is surprising TO find that contemporary
Fronch ncets have had little share in this shower OF
bonors. Only three lyrical poets Francois Coppee'
sullv-Prudhomme and Adre Theuret, have been
decorated. Four dramatic authors have won the
ribbon. and one dramatic poet Emile Anger, mas
received the Grand Cross. Only one of the modern
romance writer's Jules Claretie. has won the dis
t;nctiou and that he owes, it is suspected, to his
popular history of the Revolution of '7O-7l.
Miss Lncretia Noble the author of that successful
novel 1.-THE Reverend IDOL" lives III Wllbraham'
Mass where her father, a retired clergyman set
tied in order to educate bis four children at the
academy Miss Noble began her literary life in her
childhood. writing poems and five long dramas
which were produced in school by her and her COM
pauions The first fruit OF her pen which was ever
published was short poem. Nearly her first prose
was a series of articles published In The
Nation. ScribneT has also printed essays from her
nen. She has generally published ANONYMOUSLY. "A
Reverend Idol is the first work of fiction she has
ever published with the exception OF trihing tale
which appeared in provincial newspaper.
Miss Noble planned her novel 20 justify
her sex against the charge of being
unyeracious by nature. She is herself an
Fpjscopalian and her hero is not Phillips Brooks,
but the Rev Mr.. Ancient, the English clergyman
who saved many sufferers tho wreck of the At
lantic One curious fact III relation to this writer
of successful novel is that she has lived most
ouiet and secluded life-one il-adapted to varied
observation of people and things