New-York tribune., 1882-03-13
LITERARY NOTES.

n. poora the neurologist. is engaged in writing
n hook about the Guiteau case. lie VIII 'aAo '"0
ground that the assassin is insane.
Mr.. Tupper has descended from the lofty regions
of proyerbial philosophy into the frivolous a.iiio
snhere of the stage He is about to publish III Lon
don n collection of plays and dramatic scenes lo'
private theatricals.
A new edition of the memoirs OF Wiit,ani ii"I-
lit by his grandson w. c. Hazhtt VIII snoi'S oo
nublished in London. The errors OF the ioriDei
edition have been corrected. and fresh correSpoh'
dence has been added.
ser;es of volumes under the title of 1.-The Clerical
Library is TO be published by A. {. Armstrong :"
Son The first volume. which Will appear III aoou' |"
fortnight will contain 500 outlines OF sermons OH
the New Testament by eminent dlvines' oo'h Eng
lish and American.
The monograph on Henry Fielding, in the Enghsh
Men of Letters Series, is to he written py Austhl
Dobson. The volume on Keats is to be the work oil
Professor Colvn and that on jeremy Taylor VIII
he written by Professor Jowett. The monograph on
Macaulay has just been completed by its author
Frederic Harrison.
Ada Trevanion. the writer of small volume OF
rooms and the daughter of Henry Trevanlon and OF
Rvron,s half-sister Georgiana Augusta Leigh, has
inst died in England. Miss Trevanion was hfty-tWo
wears Old 1t was TO her mother that Byron ad-
dressed those touching lines:
.My sister my sweet sister! II name ,.,
Dearer and purer were, it should De thlhe'
Anew edition of Prescott's works in fifteen vol
umes is shortly to be brought out by ). b. Llpph-
colt q Co. II is to be printed from the Plates OF
the revised edition and will be moderate IN price
The same publishers announce a translation OF The
opbile Gautler's Romance of a Mummy" and a
new novel by Miss Peard the author of that deli
cate little story the Rose Garden"
of, the three last volumes of Modern Classics, inst
issncd nv Houghton. Miflin & Co.. No. 27 contains
favorite poems by Charles Kingsley Owen Meredith
and Edmund C. Stedman; No. % contains Car
lvle,s "Oliver Cromwell and Hawthornes
Virtuoso's Collection and Legends of the Prov
incc House. and No. 80 has some of DR.. Holiness
favorite poems with ]hc Story OF Iris" ana DI'
John Browns charming essay on Health.
Ada Balm and her brother, Frank Ballin, are two
Young English people who have just published an
excellent Hebrew grammar with exercises Inc
par are still in their teens Miss Balm has already
distin Cuished herself at University College as the
winner of the nrize in the senior Hebrew class in
1879. and of the Hoicr Scholarship in Hebrew IN
1850. and also of the Fielding Scholarship
Robert Buchanan. IN his forthcoming novel, "The
Martyrdom of Madeleine" has made his plot, he
saws. Turn upon the fatal mischief done 10y news
paper gossip recklessly and thoughtcssly scat
tered abroad for the qualification OF modern school
for scandal. Now as hitherto / hate the system
not the men who live by it, who have many redeem
ing good qualities, and seem more or less uncon-
scious of the ruin they daily cause to the lives and
reputations of their fellOw-crcatures Mr. Buchanan
has written a new romantic drama called Lucy
Brandon and founded upon Lord Lytton's story OF
paul Clifford" 1t will soon be brought out i'll
London.
The difficulty which a novelist finds in not tread
ing upon the toes of sensitive people in the matter OF
names. is illustrated by an odd story told by Rus
sian journal General Dubelt, in his capacity OF
theatrical censor objected to a name in new piece
by Nicholas PoevO as being possibly the name OF
some living man. Polevoi replied that after many
throes he had evolved that from his own fancy
Dubelt maintained his ground, and the dispute
lasted until the censor and the dramatist were TAX
jnp leave of each other at the foot of the stairs W
tstnitsd). TO prove that great throcs need pre-
cede the birth of name, Dubelt exclaimed, nave
inst invented a new name. Lyestnitsuin. would
bet that no such name really exists" In the hall
there was standing a man who held a petition IN his
hand "Who are your What's yOur name ~ said
the General. as he took the petition from him.
"The retired soldier Lvestnitsuin" replied the man.
General Dubelt looked at PolevOi and shrugged his
shoulders And there the dispute ended.