New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-02-25
LITERARY NOTES.

Jo,n Biyelow has contributed an article on JEFF
larson 70 the new volume of the Encyclopedia
Britannica.
Ernest Daudet has just published DOCK
chiefly about his more famous brother Alphonsc-
uoder the title of My Brother and l." IL relates
the story of their struggles with fortune anu 'no
successes.
Jonp Langdon Sibey, Harvard's venerable hora-
RAN emeritus is at work upon the thlid VOLUME VI
his Harvard Graduates in spite OF inc nipieas-
ant fact that the two previous volumes dio hov
hiring enough money to pay the actual cost OF
printing.
The Macmil!ans are bringing out an excellent edi-
tion of Charles Kingsleys novels at the extremely
low price of dollar volume. The type Is clear
and the binding in good taste; il is in every re-
spect a creditable specimen of cheap book-making
westward Ho ~ and " Ilypatia are the first vol
umcs 10 appear.
T. Hall Caine, Mr.. Rossetus young friend, has
,ttcmpted 10 prove in his newly published volume,
"Sonnets of Three Centuries" that the English SON
net i, thing purely Indigenous owing naught to
italy. Mr. Game is said TO have failed In this at
tempt. The volume contains many sonucts hitherto
unpublished by famous writer's
Anew edition of Miss c. f. Gordon Cummings
AT Home in Fiji has inst been published by a.
T. Armstrong & Son 1t is one of the most agree
able of descriptive books, not particularly graceful
in STYLE but full of vivid pictures Of the Ellans and
their llfe Their marvelousy rapid change from
cannbalism TO comparative civilization is described
with much force and brightness.
W. F. Poole's Index to the periodical literature OF
the past fifty years is nearly ready for the press OF
j. L. Osgood & Co. The work is so coplous that.
although the printing will he begun this spring, 1t
rannot be issued before the end of the year About
1--WE thousand volumes are indeXed, more than two
hundred reviews ard magazines being included III
The list. The book will take the form of a royal
pctavo of about 200 closely printed pages
In a Just and reasonable review of Jefferson
Daviss " Rise and Fall of the Confederate Govern
ment. - The London Spectator says that the author
'has a strongly pronounced faculty Of seeing things
upside down. The South is always right, and just
and honorable, and admrabe the North is the re-
verse We are satisfied that were he 10 write upon
the multiplication table he could adduce the most
ingenious Recommendations TO prove TO bcnlghted
world that every figure of it is miserably wrong"
The catalogue of Bernard Quaritch, the London
bookseller issued on the 18th ult., contains many
of the treasures secured by him at The sale of the
Comerford Sunderland and Quincy Libraries. The
first portion of the Sunderland sale fetched
s19.373, of which Mr.. Quartch secured for himself
or his customers two! birds in value. viz to the
amount of f12, $50. The present catalogue con-
tans many books so excessively rare that they are
ouite without the reach of purchasers OF moderate
means. Mr. Quartch, for instance, demands fl5Ofor
The second edition Of the " De Civiate Del" OF Au-
justine one of the earliest books printed at Rome;
but he also wants f1 200 for the same work printed
bv Jensen at Venice, 1875. For the rare Bibles
similar high prices charged-e1sOO, for in
stance, for "Bba Sacra Latina" of Fust and
Sch6fer in 1462, being the first dated edition OF
the Bible. But these enormous prices need not dis
courage collectors of moderate means There
are many attractive books in Mr.. QuaritchS
catalogue which are to be had at reason
able prices-for instance, nice Whiting
ham Chiswicks" Qs17'24 at only 10
shillings. So there is quito long list of first
editions OF COeridge's various early writings
There are also a few Americana books uPon
which our collectors are in the habit of bidding
recklessly and furously at the New-York sales
Probably good many Of these rare books Will ult-
mately make their way to this country where MI
Ouaritch has some good customers