New-York tribune., 1882-08-16
LITERARY NOTES.

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,nmber of The North AaIcricaa Rerieo critical
uticie on New-York Architecture.
Tho fir. two volumes Of Professor Knights ammo
utea edition of Wordsworth have just appeared IN
.oudon They contain some charmingetchngs
volume from the pcn Of tn, tate J. T. Fields.
.Notcs on Men and their Books will appear dur
nc the autumn. 1t has been edited by his widow
Victor Hugo nearly forty years ago wrote a play
With Mazar;n for its hero. This play, under the
htle of Les Jumeaux.' he is now revising Tor 'ho
,ress.
Mr.. W. NJ. Rossetti quotes Tgelawncy as saying
concerning Whitman's Leaves of Grass" that he
,ound in il the materials of poetry but not Poe"9
aself
Mr.. Samuel Lonqfellow will begin Work upo" MS
,;o.r,nbx of his famous brother about the ISL OF
october. He intends TO write the oooK aV Yam
bridge.
Some of the originals of George CruikshanEs
aa,,inos for the illustration of Ainswortlrs BOOKS
viii be sold at the coming auction IN London OF
The uovelist's library.
Thomas Whitaker will print next month the con-
.er.nces of the French priest Pcre Didou, on
sscience without God" translated into EnghSh Dy
GoSa Conder.
Professor Mouier Williasns's Religious Thought
Ind ife in India and Sir Alfred [. Lyaus ASH
de- stuaies. Religious and Social" Will shortly be
snblished by John Murray
The q Letters of LYDIA Maria Child" with oio-
oronhioal Introduction 10y Mr.. Whittier and an ap-
.endix by Wendell Phillips, will be brought ou' ~
the same time by Hougbton. Bliiiiin " Co.
Miss Warner, the amable author OF Inc "loe
Wide World" has written new story WIN 'ne e.
enhar title of Nobody" 1t VIII shortly oo pun
hshed by Robert Carter Bros.
Mr. Anthony Trolopc's biography of PalmerSton
Is said to he dry fc has barely alluded 10 the
famous Prcmiers personal appearance ana private
manners: and has scrupulously excluded his many
feiciious sayings.
"Helcn of Troy Mr.. Andrew Lang's new poem
is long one. 1t consists of SIX books OF almost 4oo
lines each. Ii Will be published in London in Octo-
Der and viii he brought out in this country oy
Charles Scrlbners Sons.
MIR. Aldrich who has gone to the Novgorod falr-
n festival which he intends to describe in print
will have the pleasure Of being greeted on his re-
1nrn by a complete collected edition OF his poems.
ornamented by thirty charming illustrations de
signed and engraved by the Boston Paint and Clay
Club. Houghton Mliliu & Co. arc the publishers
The Forthcoming new edition OF DR.. Holiness
Works which Ilodghton, Miiin & Co. are preparing
will be distinguished chiefly by the authors ammo
1ations and additions to The Autocrat OF the
Breakfast Table" The same firm are about to
lrinr ont a handsome new edition of Hawthorne's
writings. with a photographed introduction to
each novel by Mr. George F. Lathrop.
Mr.. George II. Boughton has made for Ha,per's
Christmas beautiful full-page drawing of a scene
in New-Y0rk III the days of Peter Stuyvesant
The quaint Dutch Governor himself appears III the
design The drawing mas no accompanying text
Mr. Edmund c. Stedman's Stuyvesant poem having
FILL 1l,,.tr I'D Inv Mr. 4
Abbey.
Miss Constance FenimOre WoOlsCn. who has now
oe recovered from an almost fatal Illness has fin
ished her new novel and the first chapters will be
priuted in the November number of HGrPers naga
zine 1t is called For the Major" and is altogether
an American story. Another pleasant announce
ment made by the Editor o. the magazine Is that OF
a series of short stories which Charles Reade is
writing expressly for its pages.
There ia a touching bit OF autobiography in
Thomas Hughes's memoir of Macmillan, the pub
Usher which has Just appeared In London. Az
twenty years old Macmillan arrived i'll London In
search of employment. The poor young Scotchman
was utterly desOlatc and friendleSs. Describing
the incidents of the second day after his arrival he
wrote: "All the way from StatiOners' Court TO
Goswel Road was sprinkled with tears These were
arelief TO me-thcse and prayers-such half-articu-
bour the passers-by could not notice me- certainly
did not notice them, except when | was stopped and
spoken TO by the poor and unfortunate. These |
could have taken and pressed to my heart All me!
what world we live in But he was more for
tunate than he expected. Mr.. johnson, bookseller
in Cambridge invited him to become his shopman
Mt e3O a wear and his board and this post he ac-
cepted. retaining it for more than three years.
IT has not been forgotten that Mr.. John Ruskin
has expressed his unalterabe resolution not to re-
publish Modern Painters" in England, on the
grounds that some parts of 1t have been rendered
unnecessary By the established fame of Turner,
while others have always been useless IN their
prajsc Of excellence which the public Will never
Give the labor necessary to discern. 1t is in con
seouence of this determination that a stray copy of
the book is occasionally sod at from Sl25 to 500
Ee is as regards prices the dearest of English liv
ing authorS Whoever wishes to obtain set OF
the works which Ruskin cOndescends to offer to
the public must pay for them 500. This is the
cheapest form in which they can be obtained in
England, the volumes being in paper boards and
the pamphlets unbound. If the purchaser wants
the books bound in roam calf for comfortable use
be must expend $2j $50 more. " Fors
Clayigera" is the greatest curiosity OF all.
As everyone knows this is the title of a series OF
letters to the laborers and workmen of England.
They are published in numbers at IA or 20 cents
each but if any laborer workman wishes TO
read all the advice which Mr. Ruskin offers TO his
class he must expend about SIG on Gig htynine un-
bound pamphlets.