New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-02
LITERARY NOTES.

~ S'llv-Prudhcnme is the Youngest member OF
the French Academy; lie Is less than forty years
old The novelist Chcrhulicz is the first to be adj
United who is not native Frcnchman.
NJ lola receive, iareer sums for his works than
almost any other author in France He has just fin
ished a novel called "rot-Bouile," for which he
was paid Sc, 900 merely for the right of hrSt publ
cation as serial.
The seventh volume Of Mr. Kinglake's History
OF tie Crimean War" Is now preparing Tor INC
press The fifth volume of the "Metternlch
Memoirs has inst made is appearance III England
Mr. Bentley the English publisher. has brought
on a cheap edition of The ingodsby Legends"
and 6O513 copies were subscribed for OH the day
OF publications. fact winch ought TO convi1cc the
reluctau, Bgitou that cheap books will pay" Ii
is sold fer SIxpcaco and illustrated by distinguished
artists.
Among the books which are to be brought out
soon by &. 7. Putnam's Sons is a volume by Profess
sor F. Guthrie called The First Book of knowl-
edge" and planned to present TO children IN a sim
pic manner the information they need concerning
the common objects about hem. This house is also
about to publish the Hilbert Lectures for 1881 and
a volume entitled "Pcn Pictures of Authors, by
MIR shepard author of Authors and Authorship"
he London Spectator tells aspiring novelIss that
irish people never drop their Fs and out of MIR.
BOuClCault pays lNtN never sly SihPO nap
or behave The vowel combinations which they
do mispronounce are and ei. as IN " leave and
"deceIvo;' these they make " lave ana " deSave W;
but &c and &C. as for instance, IN weep and be
leve are never misused. The only English writer
VINO thoroughly and never iorgets these DIS
tinctions is Mr. Ihackcray.
NJ Henri Caileux, a Belgian professor, has pub
lished volumInous work in which he proves to his
own satisfaction that Homer was born at Brussels
oi respectable Beg parents, and that the great
epic poet only wrote his HAD and Odyssey N the
Greek language because he attached greater an
portance to their dissemination among the peoples
of SOuth-r RI EurOne than to achieving mere local
rcpu alton a. q ready rhymester III his own semi
baTbarous country.
An interesting contribution to American history
will be the forthcoming work of the Hon. William
Henry smith on the life and public services OF Ma
ior-Genera Arthur 81. Elalr. once President OF the
Continent CONGRESS al Governor 0fthe Northwest
err Territory The ST. Clair papers are the property
OF thc ONO Assembly. which last winter authorized
their publications. The co yeSp,ndence iuclndeS let
tc:s never before published from Washington, st
Clair. Greene, Ca cs, Paul Jones, Lafayette and
others These cover the period of the Revolution
airy War and the last OF the Colonial days and give
graphic plcturcs of the struggles and suferngs of
the time. Tle wolk, which is to be published in
. TWO volumes. will cont III in addition much fresh
matter from other manuscript collections
1t is no secret that MIR. Tennyson IN his Own per
son is far from possessing ideal tidineSs and po-
enc elgance of taste and men. As lie walks on
summer afternoons through Hyde Park, wondering
are the elanccs which are east by strangers upon
the dishoycled figure. Ihe London WOrd presents
n spectacied and wild locked caricature of the
poet with this verse:
III her ear he Whispers ,ruGly,
Pork for lunch, for dinner trpe;