New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-08-05
LITERARY NOTES.

Karl blind has been writing out for frd'ers NAG
o,;ue his personal rccollectons oil "arloaui' hwy
RANCE over about twenty years
,sio S,ephens "Swlft and H. ID. lrailrs
.s,erneY are the forthcoming volumes III INC
"FncGsh Men of Letters" series.
memorial tablet in recognition of the late
Colonel Chester's services editor and anno'ator
of the Westminster Abbey Register" IS 10 oe
placed in the Abbey immediately
Tho Hon John Bigclow has contributed the ar
tcle on LAFAYETTE to the new volume OF the En'y-
clopnda Britannica" That on Abraham L'no'i"
is the work of Colonel J. G. Nicolay.
The Early-Engish Text Society will probably IS
sne this wear the fifteenth century Enghsh poems
owned by the Duke Of Orleans. Ihey are oe'ns IL
.lited from the Ms. by DR.. Hanskerecht
" Renon,s recent Treatise on the " Fcclesiastes
has been placed nv the authorities OF the Roman
Church on the Index Lbrorum Prohbtorum
the list of books which no good Catholic Is permit
ted TO open.
The last number of the SGgrdntschuy VicStnik the
leading literary magazine Of Russia, has an ar,'c
by Mr. John Swinton on The Philosophy oil American
Literature This is believed :" he the first con'r-
bution ever made by an American writer TO the nus
San literary press.
collection of Roumanian fairy tales under INC
title Poresial Pclesuln' Tales OF feiesh mas Jus'
been published in Bucharest The author is var
men Sylvs." otherwise Queen Elizabeth OF ho"-
mania The handsome and clever sovereign LAS
lately been elected member of the Roumahian
Academy of Sciences She intends to read the usuai
essay on the occasion of the Official reception
significant note on the recently published col
lection of Dckens's PLAYS and poems comes rom an
acouaintance who once asked the noVeilsV "
were possible to get q copy of The NlIlase 20,
ouettcs." which was out OF print, ana IL he ndo
n conv. "lfD said Dickens, Il thought there was
a copy of it in my house, and could not destroy ].
I'm any other wav would burn down that part OF
my house which contained it,
In the July number of Uestermapns hon0ts-Hq'e'
K. Biedermann draws attention to some hltheIlo
imprinted MSS OF the philosopher LelDhl'Z' Inc
writer asserts moreover that there are seNci"i
boxes in the ROYAL Library at Hanover containing
the correspondence of Lpibnitz with the great men
Of his times, and other interesting documents As
these are now the property of the German Govern
ment. he hopes for result to the world
The maker of an etching from Mrs. Ahngham's
nortrait of CARLYLE assumed add pictorial com
,nent ON the margin as exhibited in the Royal
Academy Thi, comment the figure OF a
norcupine with two books beside ia character
istic sugges ion enough of the gina Scolclhhdn
Mrs Alllugham has published letter prociaiIn'hg
her vexation and adding: During the SIX years
md more in which had the honor Of knowing Mt.
CARLYLE. I never found him for moment other
than KIND gentle and most friendly"
The Constitutional History and Political De
~eloomepts of the United States" is a volume by
Mr. Simon Sternc, which will shortly be issued ny
Cassell Peter Galpin & Co. The same MN VIII
bring out in October The United States Art III
rectory and Year Book" "a guide for artists, art
.,aan.o .nd travellers II Will contain inforna
ton concerning the art schools, art museums and
other nuhl;c collections of works OF art. art clubs
and art societies throughout the United States !;
list of the exhibitions to be held during the COM
ing season: notices of American artists deceased
during the past year, list of art publications Issued
during the same periOd addresses OF all the recos-
nized artists of the United States, together with
variety of other facts interesting to those who are
in any way connected with the fine arts
Mr.. Longfellow is quoted by Professor Boyesen as
saving IN regard to the heXameter: "Ihe news
paper critics who insist that hexaneer Is not verse
1nerely.advertse their ignorance or theli I'm
perfect perception of meter No claSslcally framed
man who has been taught to scan Homer and Virgil
in his youth will have the slightest difficulty III
scanning the same meter in English. number OF
Lam meters such as the sapphic and the elegiac
verse have been perfectly domesucated in German,
md there is no valid reason why they should mol
he in English The objection SO frequently urged
that the English is too abrupt and monosylaDc lol
1he flowing Latin meters. is not, to my mnd' an III
superable one. If we depended entirely upon the
Saxon element of the language our hexame'eri
wonld probably not be euphonl0us; but the La'li
element of the language supplies the stately poly
sylabic flow which the hexameter requires ana Tue
mixture of the two elements has often a very nh'
Rhythmic effect"