New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-04-05
LITERARY NOTES.

amounting to genius
The authorized edition of President GarGclds
Works in two octave vOlun es, carefully edited by
Mr. NIinsdale will be brought out by James X.
Osgood g. Co in November next. The volumes
will contain new portraits of the dead President.
General Henry NJ Cists volume on the Army of
the Cumberland in the series of Campaigns of the
Civil War" will be found of particular interest just
now IN view of the recent excited discussion OF the
campaign with which he deals The Scribners Will
bring out the book in few days
The children who pursued in delightful fear and
trembling the painful adventures of Toby Tyler III
harpers Young People will be glad to know that
that young gentleman has just begun III the Same
periodical happier career as conductor CT an
amateur circus
AD. f. Randolph & Co. have prepared for Easter
gifts several pretty little loose-leaved books OF
religious poems, hand-Dainted and attracuvely
nrinted One of these contains Mr.. Newtons
"a Voice of st. John; another offers Daybreak,"
poem by Mrs. Julia c. r. Dorr; ond third-the
daintcst of al-is collection of verses by the late
Frances Ridley Havergal.
One of the most readable books of the season will
soon be published by the Harpers. This is Alfred
Barbous "Victor Hugo aud HIS Time," translated
by Ellen f. Frewer. The volume is illustrated
not only by great number of drawings in@ae ny
NJ Hugo himself, but also by 100 sketches by the
cleyerest French artists. A mass of picturesque
anecdote enlivcns the book.
The collection of English and Scotch popular
ballads which Professor Francis Child, of Harvard,
is preparing will be brought ont in an edition &c "Tc
in imperial quarto, the edition to he limited to ope
thousand copies. Each copy will be numbered ana
the name Of the purchaser recorded. Each Daiiad
will have preface; and it will be taken from the
best text extant and account given OF Its related
traditions The w rk will be ISSUED i'll eight parts
Mr.. Whittier has written poem commemorative
OF Longfenow and of the love which all children
who knew him felt for him. 1t is described as
slender and exquisite" and is to appear IN the
next number of Hide Aoake Mrs Julia Ward
Howes "reminiscences of the poet. covering period
OF fortv-fye wears will he published in two num-
bers of The Critic, beginning in this weeks ISSUE
The latest number of HdrpcTs Heekig contains a
striking portrait of Mr.. Longiellow, drawn by ).
w. Alexander
The Comparative New Testament lately published
nv Porter & Coates contains several improvements
upon the former edition. Among then are chapter
headings in Roman numerals; running headlines
as in the old version; chronology OF the new
Testament: the readings preferred by tie American
Committee which adopted by the Committee
on Revision, are Incorporated in the text-those
and for convenience of reference are also inserted as
foot-notes to the respective passages and history
of the Revision and an account of the methods tol-
lowed by the Committee on Revision
MIR. Froude's "Iife of Carlyle" will appear
within a week from the press of Charles Scrlbners
Sens The same firm will bring out Immediately
the Hon. John Bigelows short study of long mis-
iudced priest-Molnos the Quietist 1t Is an extra
ordinary coincidence that while this schismatic ana
his story have been forgotten for centuries no
mention of them being found save in divers an
Gent rare and remote volumes in other languages,
two widely separated modern writer's should have
taken up the theme The author OF "John lngle-
SAINT" and Mr.. Bigelow are wholly unknown TO
each other-yet Mr.. Shorthouse in his novel and
Mr. Blgelow in his monograph have simultaneously
recalled the memory of Mollnos.
Mr.. Charles ~ Kurtz has sent us bis Illustrated
Art Notes on the Fifty-seventh Annual Exhibition
of the National Academy of Design" This is the
second year of the publication, and Mr.. kurtz has
done his work very well. The plan of the pamphlet
includes an index of the names of the artists whose
picture; are reproduced in the sketches plan OF
the exhibition floor of the Academy Building, con
tanning an index to the general divisions OF the
pamphlet and a series of diagrams of the different
galleries showing the position on the walls OF
every picture in the exhibition. This plan is car
ried out with great thOroughness, and the result Is
a pamphlet that will be found useful In future as
well as at the present time record of the exhl-
bition The sketches reproduced are larger, as
general thing, than those OF last year. but we do
not find any Improvement in the artistic result
There is difference, however. i'll the quality of the
sketcbes arising not so much from the superiority
of one artist another. from the fact that one
artist knows better than another what can be ac-
complished with the process printing, and W hat
ought not to be attempted.
When in 1884 Victor Hugo first introduced the
word "gamin" into hterature-in his "Claude
Gueux"-the scandal was great. The word, which
means simply an arch. impertinent street boy, was
considered unspeakably vulgar, and was the sub
iect of an anecdoe which Hugo delights in tell ing
The poet accompanied by Nine. D. and other
friends travelling the top of diligence ply
inc between Louviers and ROuen Next to Nine.
D. sat an elderly gentleman, who turned out to
be a member of the Archaeological Society of the
last mentioned city. The conversation between
him and the lady fell upon Victor Hugo. IThs
Victor Hugo" said the Norman Academician, " lie
the ruin OF French literature Where are we tend
ing. Mon Dieuf Look here Madame. he has Just
publlshed a book Claude GueuX! Have you
read itio III Oh! sirw calculated Nine D.
Indignantly. "Yes / understand. Pardon me-
Madame; Of course lady CONNIE IL Jaat cannot
Well, in that book ne mas writton Woru-Oh' no,
I dare not repeat it to You" Really y said the
lady, while pulling her brain to discover what
word there was in Claude Gucux" capable of re-
voting the conscience of the old man. ayes,
Madame. il is a word dare not repeat to you" 81
thank you, sir, and shall not trouble you to repeat
It," But the Archaeological was earning with a
desire to quote the monstrous word. Enfn,
Madame excuse me. will tell ityou after all he has
dared to write the word gamin! To such pass has
French literature come! i have a son. Madame.
.,,a I hn,ro told hin, hat ever onenR hook of