New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-29
LITERARY NOTES.

Mrs Fanny Kembles "Records OF Later h"o
has already gone iuto the secoh" oui'''"
The articles on Keats and Landor IN 'ho ior'"-
coming volume Of the Encyclo p@dia Bri'ahh''"
orc by Mr.. Swinburne
Miss Frances Power Cobbe has just published
nav hook under the curious but suggestive '''io VI
"Tbe Peak In Darien. aud Other Inquiries lou'n'"-
Concerns OF the Soul and Body
Madame Judith Gauticr who is perhaps the mos
thoroughly literary of all the female French VIM
now living has just published volume Oh s'0''''
under the title Of lsolne."
"A Fair Philosopher is to be the first No."'y ~ u
r w Harlan & Cos new KaaterskilI series %
novels 1t is the work of Georgia" '"N'
has already made other essays IN hctioh'
Mrs LYNN Linton, who has recovered ironi ~,
recent dangerous illness, has Amos. -
new novel; the scene OF when Is la'" p"''-i "a
England and partly at Palermo 10
lone"
ar Uowells's Modern Instance Is "io"''''7
more newspaper discussion than any o'nci S'i'"I
,rHoh hos anneared in a long time The characters
y. M,rc;o and hartley and the final disposition OF
their lives are written ABOUT VIII dc 'N
est as il they were actualltles
,Cnstove Droz. the author of two charming NOVELS
RalO nj a
,rsface for translation into French OF MISS hnou"
Rrorcbtop,s Cometh up as a Flower. Nouein
T,clisb fiction is gradually becoming KNOW" "
che French A translation of one of MIS- Ai0A""-
der's novels is nearly ready for the press
A connlete edition OF Charles Reades noVeS
beautifully illustrated by distinguished draugI''S-
men has lust been brought ont by Cha'to ~ VIM
dns Of London Du MaurIcr has drawn inc ueSis"'
for aFoul PLAY" while Fildes has taken reg
Uonipoton - aad William Small "CTistle John-
stonep Anew volume Readiana: Comments on
Current Events" with portrait OF the hoNeH9''
is in press.
Lord Beaconsfelds poetry, which was ever rather
fat and sentimental, las won the honors OF royal
anproyal. Two of his poems The Bue-eYeu
Maiden" and " The Green Cavalier" have lateV
been set to music by the accomplished young I'M
cess Beatrice who, if she continues III her pIesen'
habits OF industry, will shortly have pretty ihcoino
OF her own.
Comics Of the original editions OF Diekenss WORKS
are constantly going up in price in England. bO'h
"Naster Humphreys Clock and" Nicholas Nchlc-
bvn were not long ago quoted at about Tlo;
aDombey a. Son at about So; and Inc etolT
Of Little Dombey" first and only edition. at some
thing lass than %6. handsomely bound copy OF
this last book has been sold at little over SlOO
sorr,wful writer in The Dublin Rerelc in consid-
erng the vices of agnoSIlc poetry quotes some ex-
traordiuary lines. 1t is lively Imagination that
can sing about solemn rollers that curl leonihe
months like a giant impossible column and have
name that shakes unsearchable hands; and can plo-
duce stuf like this, But her feet are as ivory
shining like stars through the lanes OF the night
The Hon. Edward McPhersons Handbook OF
Politics for 1850 will be ready about August IL
The record will be closed Immediately upon the adj
iournment of Congress- and will cover all the votes
in Congress and the action of the President upon
the Chinese the Mormon and the Geneva award
Questions; upon Tariff and Internal Revenue Tax
alton; uuon every phase of the Banking Question;
the principal Decisions of the United states
Supreme Court of that period upon Apporton-
ment: the Liouor Traffic; Women's Rights as Citi-
zens; Education; the Electoral Coun t; Inter slate
Commerce. etc. etc; with tables showing voting
population. and population in each State, the con-
dition of Public Debt, National Banks Revenues
Expenditures, etc.