New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-03-25
LITERARY NOTES.

cou,t Leo Tols.oy. the distinguished Russian
,rriter. is at work OF commentary to the Nc"
Testament.
new edition of Caroline Fox's Memories oil Ola
Friends has just been issued in London L. COZ
fains fourteen fresh letters of John stuart MILL III
regard to the fact that Miss Fox gives no eAp'eo,
record of the death OF John Sterling II is explained
that she was engaged TO marry Mr.. Sterhng
There has lust been sold in London copy of the
erst edition OF The Boke of st. Adams" printed IN
14s6 There are only six copies In existence anu %
these only two are quite perfect. With one excep-
lion this is the only copy of the book that mas pee
sold during the present century.
The lovers OF the genial essays which Dr' Jonn
Brown of Edinburgh, has given to the wofid VIII
echo the question of lhe Pail Vail Gazette: "Wny.
instead Of these perpetual sketches has Ut. BROW,
never seriously attempted novel of Scottish life
The author of ''Rab and his Friends" and of Pet
Marjorie" has shown cleverly enough his power 10
comprehend and delineate character.
Berthold Auerbach left a fragment of projected
autobiopraphy the only completed portion
Of which is that relating TO his ancestors. With o
relative DR. Auerbach of Frankfort, he kept M
for many wears an uninterrupted correspondence
which will probably furnish good material for
memoir of the novelist. social romance IN
MS found among his papers and called Der
Meister und Seine Gessellen" TO be suppressed In
accordance with the authors directions.
The late Mr. Speeding the defender of Bacon. was
ever thoroughgoing admrer and loyal champion
of the writers he liked. He once maintained that
Miss Austen had never made mistake. and when
he was reminded that Emma ate Strawberries In MT
Knchtey's garden under apple trees in blossom, he
took much trouble to ascertain whether some apple
blossoms are not very late and some Strawberries
l.. l. l,.,l ~ dor - aIVO
Miss Austcn's perfect fidelity to nature hai pceh Ill
single instance Interrupted
Victor Hugo's capacity for persistent daily work
IL unlrlpaired He gets up before Six every morn
ing. and every day adds to the number of his IN
published verses. :" / have more TO do than have
DONE he said TO a friend not long ago. " 1t might
be thought that age weakens the intelect my IN
tellect on the contrary. seems TO grow stronger
and does not rest. 1t seems to me that as al
vance my horizon grows wider and SO Shad pass
away without having finished nv task should
REQUIRE several lives still to write ali that my mind
conceives | shall never finish ! ar resigned on
that point"
George prandes. the Danish critic, who is some
times described as the Matthew Arnold of North
Europe says that he reminded John Stuart Mil OF
their having one day watched the fashionable world
of Paris streaming into church, and asked Mil II
he still held the opinion expressed IN Dissertations
and Discussions" that so far as tie upper classes
are concerned, France might as well be called
Buddhist as a Catholic country. Mill said: ." II
was more correct formerly than it is now in these
DAYS a new reaction has taken place the possibility
of which / could not imagine did not believe IN
y,outh that humanity could 60 back from better 10
worse but now / know it," He attributed the re-
action partially 10 the philosophy taught in the
French universities. lie spoke of Cousin aud his
school with small respect. He concluded by say
ing: Notwithstanding all this still adhere to my
old conviction the history Of France i'll these times
is the history of Europe" Mill believed that the
French had no literary originality except in style
that they adopted Spanish ideas in the seventeenth
century English III the eighteenth and German in
the nineteenth.