New-York tribune., 1882-04-22
LITERARY NOTES.

aro,v edition Of Henry Giles's Human bhe III
choLosnearep with new introduction nv J"hh
Rovle OReilly is in the press of Lee " 0ueP"'''
Ar Giles is now an invalid whose duties anu en-
ployments are necessarily sadly restricted
r,isto Ne hopcd that the literary taste OF tins
.ountrv is not 10 be gauged by the fact that MIS-
NIavburn's Twins" book in which Mr. hahber'on
has served up Helcn's Babies hashed aud re-
warmed. has gone into n sixth edition
A volume entitled "Henry Wadsworth Long
fellow 4 Medley in Prose and Verse" by h,na,o
Henry StoddaTd, is about 10 be issued eS w. W.
Harlan & Co. II Is TO be collection OF remin'S-
ccnce criticism and regret by well-known "I'''iS'
Miss Edith Simcox's book, Episodes in the Lives
Of Men. Women and Lovers" isto he repuhilSheu III
this country by J. r. Osgood q co. Miss SincoA Is
sometimes sroken of i'm England the mh"rito1 oi
the mantle that dropped from George EhotS S"o"i-
ders.
Teachers and pupils in literature may soon 'ooN
for a "Ronnd Robin Literary Series oi car"s con-
tanning pertncnt facts concerning emneh' ""'n"is
and their works specially prepared ior th'r peno"'
nv Miss Kate 4. Sanborn. }. Il. OSgo'd ~ 20 "Io
the publishers.
Six hundred and forty-fvc DEGREES and letters oi
Frederick the Great have just been gwen 10 'le
world in the eleventh volume of the series OF pnpH-
cations containing the Royal Prnssian Archives
Some Of the letters contain pIthy 'pS''i''''''''
poetscripts in the Kings own hand.
Mr.. W. J. Linton has published an eoutloh OF 20
COPIES of an exquisite collection OF tnglSh lyrics
and madrig,ls many of them rescued from forgot
fen byways of literature. Mr.. Linton himself SCI
M and nut to press the beautiful volume. which IS
moreover illustrated by his own pencil and gTaVer'
Tie hook is gem both in printing and illustration
The children of literary people are not always
themselves lovers of the pen. One eNcephon n may
be ouoted in tn. person OF the only child OF Bayard
Tavlor. This Young lady has much literary apI4iy'
and has shown both skin and taste III her trans
lations OF Germany poetry into English. Inc Io-
mort that she has received Thousand doliAr7 from
Mr. Booth for translating some Of his plays INTO
German is now said 10 have been mistake.
rcport comes by way of Washington that
Colonel John Hay aud Mr. Nicolay have hmsAed
two of the six volumes of their Life OF Abraham
Lincoln" Each volume is about the SIZE oi
volume Of Bancrofi's History" II is understood
that the work will bc not only biography Dut an
emtome of the strange event!ui time III which us
snbect moved. The authors are making haste
slowly, carefully dee-;ing by the way the ms'oncai
documents which The Government Is no" engaged
in publishing.
Mr. Swinburne has been asked to contribute TO
the Encyclopedia DlltdHih'A "''o'"
article on Mary Queen OF Scots. To tmS task he
will addres, himself sooa as he has finished his
narrative poem ia nine cantos, " Irlstram OF
Ivonnessc' He is now engaged upon the iaSt can'o
His next volume viii shortly appear. AMI viii In
clude with this long poem about fifty lyrics nearly
all of which are short The larger part of them are
s'uiics of childhood or songs about children.
Besides these there will be presented several odcs
and sonnets on literary historical and political sub
;ects-among them twenty-ohe sonnets on the
English dramatic poets from 1890 to 1000.
Serieant Ballantines opinion of Thackeidy, as
stated in his volume of "reminiscences, goes 10 prove
the shallowuess of the worthy lawyers Judgment
a. never" lie says. thought him an agreeable
companion lie was very cgotistical, greedy Of fiat
tcry and sensitive Of criticism 10 a ridiculous eX-
tent. He may have possessed great powers of con-
yersaton, but did not exhibit them upon the
occasions when had an oppOrtu nifty OF Judging.
The last time saw him was about three weeks
before his death. lie was sitting alone at a table
al Evans's, poTing over obscure Irish Journal in
which some derOgatCry remarks about himself were
published. He attributed them TO an individual
whom need not name, and was intensely angry,
which confess thought at the time was elm
inently absurd"