New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-28
LITERARY NOTES.


now edition of Jacob Abbotts RoIo BOOKS"
will be brought out in the spring by 8 T. 0assino'
Mrs Augusta Webster has written ana Will
.hortIv pubhsh new drama entitled " In Day.
nodd Mead & Co. intend to PRINT handsome
.diton ON large paper Of BelPs Songs from tho
Dramatists"
petition for the abolition of the duty on foreign
hooks has beeu sent for signature to all the Ameri-
can universities and colleges.
The authenticity Of the new Hawthorne romance
Is now conceded. The Century. by the way VIII
shortly publish two of the first drafts or plans whch
Hawthorne made of the story.
A history of the City of Providence from its SET
Element to the present time has been taken ID manu-
BY the Rev. +. VI. Stone. who has for many years
been engaged in collecting material for IT,
IA volume entitled Francis Bacon's Promus oi
Formulares and Elegances," being private NOTES
In Ms. ciroa 1924. hitherto unpuDiisheu' 10 an
nounced by LonGmans, Green " 20
F. de Amicis's Sketches of Military Lie
In Italy" and Lady Bloomleld's "Reminiscences oil
Court and Diplomatic Life" are IN the press OF IT,
!, putram's Sons aud will shortly be published.
II would be interesting to know if the study of
Maria Edgeworth which has been prepared by
Mrs Oliver of Boston, owes anythlngt to Miss Edge
worth's privately p iDted memCir 1t is pity that
The memoir itself cannot be given to the publc--it
is full OF womanly graces.
Boston is to have q new monthly magazine which
promises TO be partly original and partly eclectic
A. H. Rolfe & Co. are 10 be the publishers, and the
magazine which is TO be called The Periodical World
will devote much OF its space TO facts news and
comments upon current periodical literature
TIE fourth series of Mr.. Froude's Shorts Studies
Oh Great Subjects are now in the press. The vol
uIpe will contain the following papers: "Life and
Tunes of Thomas Beckett "reminiscences of the
High Church Revival. Six Letters 10 Friend"
"Oreen aud CELSIUS" C8gllostro of the Second
Century" CheneyS and the House OF Russell" A
Siding at a Railway Station"
The third volume of George Sands correspondence
lust published in Paris, contains letters addressed
blythe nov st to many famols politicians. In one
written in 80 to Prince Jerome Napoleon she eX-
presses her convection that hls character has not
been changed by temporal grandeur, and adds; 81
love and believe in you, Monseigneur though you
be-"
Some one has discovered in a number Of The Le'p-
ria Gazette published in 1872 the following an
nouucement: A certain person named Mozart
has had the impudence to misuse my drama Bel
mont and Constance as librettO. herewith pro-
test most eolemnly against this invasion or my
rights and reserve for the present any action on my
part Christopher Frederick Brezner, author OF
"A Little Debauch'" In literature Bretzner is
known Is the author of novels dramas and comedies
which have long since been consigned to well-de-
served oblivion.
An English writer and friend Of Mr.. Alma. TadeHa
has prepared for Our Continent neat biographical
article on that distinguished artist. 1t will be IL
Illustrated with striking portrait OF Mr. Alma Ia
dcma beautifully engraved By 7. johnson from
~, oil hiUrAn i n
cravings from several of his pictures will accom-
nany this portrait The Bath" which is one oil
his favorItes lie particularly wished should be en-
eraved for this article. ORr Continent Is taxing
SPECIAL pans with It's engravngs OF portraits :
there is a characteristic of Mr.. Alcott III TINS
weeks nun ber-a II Ost venerable head
Iogowgg's lfqqqsino the new English publication
which makes it's first appearance in America 10
dav hears "a strong likness to Macmillan and to BET
maria. There is the same coordination OF setlal
novel scientific article short story sketch and pO-
etry which we have been used to find IN the elder
magazines The freshest feature. perhaps. is the
nubhcatlon of An article by an American author.
MIR HowelPs sketch of Lexington" is pleasant,
and will doubtless interest the English readers to
whom life in an American village is strange lnoeed'
The one poem of the number-by Mrs. Muloch
Craik-is poor: but Professor Iyndalls article on
"Atoms. Molecules and Ether Waves ;" and Mr..
Freeman notes on American speech are eAce4iohU
reading.
Mr. Whittier sadly declares that his verses read
at the recent celebration Of the landing Of william
Penn were the work OF a country farmerboy lust
entering on his sixteenth year" and " were not in
tended tor publication being the sort OF thing
which should be hnshed mp among friends" But
Us they uTe printed. he thinks that it might at
least have been done correctly. Z" To do JUSTICE
be says, to the POOR boy who painfully connected
them one or two errors light he corrected The last
line OF the second verse should read
And oado The dreadful war dance cease
and the second line of the fifth verse should be-
That unrelentng COrez led
The second and fifth verses, with the above cor
Tections. would read:
Founder of Pennsylvania thou
Didst feel it, when thy words ofpeace
Fmoothed the stern Chieftain's swarthy brow,
And babe the dreadful wardance cease.
How all unlike the bloody band
That unTelebtng C1rjez led
To prncely MOnteZumas land.
And ruin round his pathway shed.
Mem 31nhirdilriI6