New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-02-11
LITERARY NOTES.
Mrs. Ole Bull is now hard at work upon her
volume concerning her husband.


memorial volume concerning her husband.
Ar rroude,s biography of Carlyle will be
brought ont in this country by Charles sciioher
Sons sometime within the next two months rai' "a
the copy is now in the hands at the printer
The hero Of William Blacks new novel, "shandon
Ro,lsp;s a shy Int clever Young lrshnan' Il writer
who nj the opcning Of the story ia about I" heoome
The editor Of new London journal. The cipltans'
who nroyidcs the money for this Undertaking Is "
he sketched with good deal of force.
Mary Cowden Clarke's recollections of Leigh unit
u;r FIJI several pages of the Forthcoming CeR'ars'
The article is illustrated by portrait of Hunt after
n sketch taken immediately upon his release
from prison. and contains several oi ms iet'eis anu
notes. The latter are especially crisp neat anu
witty. Mrs. Clarke devoteS particular care to the
portrayal of Hunts personal traits, showing MN u
be as mild as a dove and sweet as honey.
Two poets will celebrate their birthdays on me
9th of this month-ProfcsSor Longfellow and A.
Mary +. Robinson, the English author of " Hand
fulof Honeysuckle' and The Crowned Hypolitus.'
Miss Robinson is what is supposed to he an anomaly
in Ife-a beautiful young woman and an excellent
Greek scholar: and the guild of poets III England
are very proud of their associate who has already
won so high "A rank. 1t is her twenty-slxth oir'h-
day which Miss Robinson is approaching
Ouida', new novel, " In Marcmma," is in the press
Off b. Lippincott & Co. Hen next book is 10 DC
o,cction of stories which she has written for the
bright little Crown Prince of Italy. She has maze
her own illustrations, and will publish the Voiue
IN AuIi Nile de Ia Rame IS IN weak heal'h ths
winter. and unable TO go TO Rome where she has
been accustomed 20 spend the season, as those VINO
have seen her strong but not agreeable face Oh the
P;ncian will remember.
A treasure TO autograph hunters is now III
f1a aha
of the late Chief-Justce Duva of Quebec. IL
contains the autographs of the rulers of France from
Francis l. 10 Bonaparte with their Premiers; all OF
Napolcon's Marshals heads of departments ETC.
Mos, OF these autographs are letters OF signatures 10
official documents The collection is held at 900
The MARQUIS of Lorne is spoken OF as a probable
purchaser but il is pity that the collection couiu
not be brought into an American public library
General Abner poubleday's description of the
campaiQns of Charlottesville and Gettysburg
volume VI. of the Campaigns Of the Civil war -
Will be issued from the press of Charles Scroher
Sons next Wednesday. This monograph has
even more frankness and picturesqueness than DIS
iingushed the previous volumes. and the prominent
mart which its author took in the battles he de-
scribes. especially in that of Gettysburg has en-
abed him to give much intensity TO his narrative.
The diagrams and maps illustrating this book are
particularly clear.
William Morris in his volume of addresses on
ART inst printed by Roberts Brothers, has some hard
words for poor handicraft 81 do not" he says,
"bame either class or another IN TINS matter
blame all 70 ret aside own class OF handcra1tS
men of whose shortcomings you and ! know so
much that we need talk more about IT, know mat
The puhlic in general are set having things cheap
1o;nc ~ ignorant that they do not know when they
net them nasty also so ignorant that they neither
know nor care whether they give man his due.
know that the manufacturers 80 called are SO SET
on carrying out competition TO IFS utmost conpe-
,ition of chcapucss not Of excellence, that they
meet the bargain hunters half way, and cheer1uIy
furnish them with nasty wares AT the cheap rate
1bov are asked for by means of what he called
by no prcttcr name that fraud. England has OF
late been too much busted with the contingencies
and not enough with the workshop; with the re-
suit that the countng-house at the present moment
is rather barren Of orders"
BRIGHT il the decade which provides two such
novels of the sea as The Wreck of the Grosvenor'
and a Sailors Sweetheart" They are ful oil
whistling gales and the wash of salt waves, ana
the strange adventures they naIraie the author
claims. are absolutely true. Mr.. Russell went TO
fea at thirteen and half years Of age and saw
eight wears service in The mercantile marine III the
waters about China, India and Australia. Then at
twenty-threc he married the niece of London Lord
Mayor and settled down ashore to turn his rovngs
into literature. The last number of Hdrpers BGedr
publishes sketch and Characteristic portrait OF Mr.
Russell which shows the race of the novelist 10 be
sYrited and intelligent Ills chm is energetic, his
nose straight, his eyes are dark and brilliant and
rhort-cropped moustacho shades firm mouth. MI
Russell is an American by birth, having made his
first appearance on the worlds stage IN
New-York hotel in 1s44 His father, the
composer of those famous old songs,
a Life on the Ocean Wave" "Woodman,
Spare that Tree" Man the Life Boat" etc, was
then on professional visit TO this country with his