New-York tribune., 1882-08-12
LITERARY NOTES.

Tho iudefatigable Renan ip'chu' '"
.hortlv n translation ot the Psalms
A work on the Lives of lllustrious ohoeni"A'A'
xilrsoon be published in London
new volume by Robert Buchanan, line hepriu
ys,es. Wanderings in the Land OF Lorne anu 'n0
Outer Hebrides," is IN the press.
IesEe Stephen's swift" and H. d. lra''i i,S
"sterner in the English Men of Letters series wiz
he followed by Mr.. J. Cotter Morrisons M"'""
lay"
All the letters of Coleridge Wordsworth "n~
Sontbev addressed to the late Sir John ooi'I.1r
have been consulted by DR.. Brandt during 'uo ,o
aration of his new work on ColenuRe - ora
ters cover nearly the whole OF the poT' from the
bepin with the appeal to buy his disci"i ~ -
army. .u.,orsr
The series of Leaflets from s'ahu"iu and
of which Josephine L. Hodgdon Is tne ooinp"o aI
Uougbton Miflin Il Co. the puohshelS' - oro
lently arranged for the use OF so"o0' ,a;r xerv
or.tr;lv printed and illustrated, and theii .eiS
ahono ;s calculated to please and interest chilulen
,rhn 1otest collection is from Whittier's works
Two now editions of shcllcy's works are about 10
no nublshed in London. One Is revised Ici'Su0
" to fonrrolnme library edition of 1s76I77 con-
tanning a new subject index. Many lresn a 0olla
tions have been made and many OF the CON- CONF,
xersial notes have been modified. The otheI o''i''
is of the text alone and is i'll two VoulineS'
Contains Richard L. Burton and Nerney hoNo.'
C,,,aron have together written new "oih e
lied "To the Gold Coast for Gold: rclson"'
rativeD which is now i'll the press Oh NA"', \,
Windus The same firm is abont 10 oIins v"e n;,'
do Uesse- W9rtege's Golden Land" a oook ueSo!io
ip, his travels in the Southern states ana MeA''o
The first volume of what is intended to be a lih'1
bihorraphy of Voltaire has just been puDhSiieu Al
paris If gives full details of the literary h'stoiN oi
each work, with notification OF the pace "Iie,1
copv NAV be found. The two first volumes VIII "
devoted TO Yoltaire's writings, While lno 'il'iu
and last will describe translatlons ana A'ei"'ui'
connected with Voltairc.
When Thackeray expressed a wlsh tha' no
biography of himself should he published he cou'u
hardly have contemplated the existence Oh l'sei'1
cboul like Mr.. II. Ii. Shepherd. Ihis eAtraoIuil",S
80, whose recent impudent publication OF the
plavs which Dickens wished 70 have forgot'en Is q
fling not 10 be forgiven, is distinguishing himself
till fnrther III the preparation of The Lie Let
tors and Irncollected Writings i'll Prose and verse
ofW Nakepeace Thackeray." The ONLY conSol'hg
reflection possibly is that MIR. Shepherd Is SO pour
literary workman that there Is no chance u lo"N
life for any banthng OF his.
Walter Besant enthusiastically. declares that lnc
Cloister and the Hearth" is Charles Reaoe great
est work-and more than that the greatest hS'oii-
cal novel in the language. Mr. Besant goes 80 l''l
as TO compare the book with fomoia' as Iiea'iHs
of tbesame period and to the disadvantage OF George
Tlot's story. In the mans work" ne says We
find action, life, movement. surprise reah'y. II
the voman's work we find languor tedluin' ana 'lc
talk of nineteenth-century puppets dressed Ill IL
teenth-ceutury clothes. RomOla is woman OF the
nresent day; Tito is a man of the present day; Ihe
scholar belongs to us: Sayonarola is like hystercal
Ritualst preacher; Tessa is modern ltaiian
neasant girl nothing is medieval but the names
and the costumes. Yet believe there may be found
neonle who call 'Romola' a great novel and who
have not even read the story of Gerard and Mar
garet."
The large number of works that have been trans
lated into Hebrew within comparatively recent
period forms one of the most interesting features OF
modern Jewish literature. The last rendering OF
the New Testament by Professor Detzsch' of Lelp'
sic is pronounced by competent judges mooei OF
Hebrew and marvel of accuracy The Koran has
been partly translated The Inferno OF Dante,
parts of Petrarch and Tasso, Racine's " Esther
Goefhe's " Faust and Herman and Dorothea
aud Iessinp', "Nathan der Weise" are among the
Italian. French and German classics which can
now be read in Hebrew. ShaHespeare's Romeo
and Juliet and Othello have also been trans
lated into the language of Shylock by }. ii.
Salkinson, whose translation of " Paradise Lost
is well known among Hebrew scholars Phi
prim's Progress" parts of Addison, Ossian, Gay,
Young Goldsmith and Pope have been made acces-
sible to Hebrews III command of no language other
than their own. 1t is interesting to note that The
discussion scene in 4" Daniel Deronda" has been
published in an almost literal translation IN The
Uamagid and that there exist OF Cod save the
l.. Il, tir