New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-08-09
LITERARY NOTES.

"a Reverend Idol" has captured the market as
well as the critics. IL has gone into its seventh
edition.
II has lately been suggested that the author of
AN Earnest Trifer" is also the author Of Democ-
racy."
Mr.. Luigi Monti, who will not be forgotten by
the readers of The Wayside Inn," is reported to
be the author of Leone the last novel in the
Round Robin series.
The next volume in the American Actor Series Is
20 be Miss Kate Fields Charles Albert Fechter'
Miss Fields personal "reminiscences Of tho actor as
well as her careful study of his powers promise 10
make this most entertaining volume
General Mcclellan who spent long timein Egypt
several years ago. has written n paper on inc PRES
ent war IN that country for the forthcoming Ce"-
fsrv Ii contains some severe criticisms on 'ne Eng
lsh military methods there.
The proceedings of the first reunion of the Palmer
Family which took place at Stonington' conn., ="
year ago have just been published IN HANDSOME
book form, with many Photographic illustrations
by the Brooklyn Union Argus Company.
II is not difficult TO sympathize with the horror
of a dream which Sidney Smith once had IN illness
and afterward related to Mrs Kemble-he dreamt
that he was chained 20 q rock and being talked 10
death by Harriet Martneau and Macaulay."
A portrait Of the late ID. G. Rossett with sonnet
and a critical sketch by T.. W. Gosse VIII appear III
The September Century. In writing about hossc''i
sketches Mr. Gosse declares that no other man
color viii bear these points of ruby-crimson these
expenses of deep turquoise-bluc' these nasra"'
scarlets and thundcrous puppies"
That the private correspondence of Carlyle ana
Emerson was full of character. philosophy and sub
nity the specimens which have appeared IN HE
TRIBtrNr give ample evidence The whole CORE
spondencc. extending from 1884 TO 1872 ana edlted
by Charles Eliot Norton, will be published oy D. ~
Osgood Il Co. III December
Henry James, the elder. has written an essay to-
ward ascertainiug the role of evil in Divine House
Keeping and has entitled 1t Spiritual Creation
and the Necessary Implication OF Nature III IL.
The volume will be brought out 10y ). H. Osgood ~
Co. IN December. At the same time viii appear W.
+. Poole's Index TO Periodical Literature brought
down to January, 1852.
Mr. William u. IIowcls has varied his labors IN
the field of fiction by the preparation OF two grace
ful biographical sketches for The CettWy one Oh
these concerns Henry James ir, and the other
Mark Twain. For HGrpcrs Christmas Mr.. Howeils
has written dainty little comedy, with the ag-
nfcant title of the Sleepug-Car." II is SAID to
De in the sprightly vein of hls "Parlor-Car." Inc
author IS to spend the coming winter in Italy.
There is pretty little touch OF nature IN one OF
Emerson's letters 20 Carlyle just published i'll Eng
land. IL have a new reason wrote the American,
"why | should not come to England blessed
babe. named Ellen almost three weeks old, little
far soft lump of contcnted humanity, necessarily
sleeping, and with au air of injurious security that
saws she has come to stay. has come to be loved
which baa nothing mean and quite plques me-"
In Mr.. w. p. whipple's delightful if enthusiastic
recoffrefions of Emerson i'll the next number OF
Harpers Magazine he quotes what he calls the most
exquisite statement ever made of the magical sug-
gestiveness of Shakespeare's eXpresslon-the
best prose sentence written on this side OF the
Atlantic" 1t comes from Emersons lecture on
Shakespeare and declares the absolute insujciency
of any actor IN any theatre to fix attention on HIM
self while uttering Shakespeare's words: The
recitation begins; golden word leaps out i'm
mortal from all this painted pedantry, and sweetly
tormcnts with invitations TO its own inaccessi-
bic homes"
The lovers Of literature will receive in November
from the press of j. X. Osgood 81 Co. treasure
winch they have not anticipated. This is an en-
tirely new romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne-one
long overlooked and but recently discovered among
the nOvcst's papers. Ii is entitled Doctor
Grimshawe's Secret" and is of Hawthornes
most powerful and characteristic works. The story
turns upon the claims Of an American to ancestral
estates in England, and the scenes laid on both
sides of the Atlantic. Julian Hawthorne has pre-
pared preface for this latest relic of his fathers
genius. There could hardly be more welcome an
nouncemeut than that of tins precious salvage from
tie toe early grave of Hawthorne.
A book entitled Under the Sceptrc Of Guelph"
beng the memoirs Of a HanOycrian, IS attracting
considerable attention IN Germany just now, 1t
purports to have for its author one BOrchers, and
contains some curious information about King
Georges black cabinet Among other things 1t
tells of the discovery by posi-offce employee of
process by which he was enabled 10 make IN very
short time a fac-simile of any letter-seal. King
George ordered that this discovery should be made
use of in his behalf" And without further ado the
correspondence of such of his subjects might con-
tain desired information was seized, opened, aud,
after having been copied sent to the unsuspccting
persons to whom 1t was addressed. Less could
scarcely have been expected of this royal plferer
whose brutal treatment Of the Gottingen professors
and other mon of letters was the scandal Of his
time
William Black the novelist, says that he never
had any systcmatzed education TO speak of, but
managed to pick up a vast array of smatterings--a
crude and confused tumble of hydraulics Latin
verbs. vegetable psychology, Czcnlys Exercises for
the Piano. and dozen other things The result of
all this was that he found himself engaged at one
and the same time translation of LIvy which
was TO excel in literal accuracy anything the world
had ever seen before the formation of a com
piete collection of British towering plants; and on
tie cOnstructiOn-on paper-of a perpetual motion
machine. But the chIciest of his ambitions he
says was 10 become landscape painter; and
labored away for a year OF two at the Government
School of Art, and presented my friends with the
most horrible denominations In water-coor and oils.
As an artist was a complete failure; and quail
fed myself for becoming in after-lfe, for time, an
aut critic