New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-28
LITERARY NOTES.

ebout to be published in weIl-known Roman
Journal.
Mr. Froude's Life of Carlyle is not to DC q co"-
r,ote b;ocraphy. but partial history cohhpeo "
a. first forty wears of his life. The TWO N"i'''''
will appear next SPRING
The Hon. lanes Russell Lowell has given 20 Ine
-, = NOW Doem called "Estrangement." IL Is
.hort-having only three verses-ano Is Co 'o'"P'"
five and retrospective in theme.
pohert Grant the author of The Confessions oil
=. Frivolous Girl" is said to be writing ne" noN''
IN the interval OF his occupations as the private
secretary Of the Mayor of Boston.
Professor Ebers's new novel. the scene Of which is
laid in Holland and which has Just appeared
ohroad has disappointed the lovers OF " Narda' IL
Is criticised as drearv beyond expression Win
heroine who is a souilesS puppet
Mr Jeclv,s pen knows no idlenesS. The third ana
fogrtb volumes Of his History of England N me
T;cbteenth Century" are coming out in The spring
They deal with the fascinating point lace perio" ''
tween 1860 and 1884.
Emile Zola's new novel. Z" Pot Boul'c," takes. Ike
his others it's motive from the sewers OF rams nc
This time he is dealing with the boWgeo''tc ana lit
finds a dreadful pleasure in presenting II as an
assemblage of whited scpuichrcs,
Miss Blanche Willis Howard, the author OF one
sr,,,,er" and OF Aunt serena viii MAKE h'r
first appearance as poet in next months harper
Her poem which is e titled Dream Folk" VIII Ia
a,companicA by an engraving of Andrea del Sar'oS
picture of ST. John
Fdcar Fowcrtt's gentleman of Leisure gets
alan from The Attcpcum which mentions II as Dcing
"written IN the best style of American hngilSh
and which adds that such expressions as non-coih-
INITIAL, considerable male socictv' YOU always
represented of her preferences Ct noe GEMS o'"e
bore or divert the reader according to hs TASTE
Carlyle'sidea of John Mills inquiStive philosophy
was quaintIy expressed TO Caroline Fox one oaI'
Were he to get up to Heaven SAD lh"haS '''
Dvsneptic "he would hardly be content TIL ne
49, ont how il all was Miss Fox's correspond
ence one of the peasancst hooks Of the time is TO
he repubshcd in this country by Lippnco't
The Princess I.ouise has been making for Good
U,rds some pretty drawings illustrating quebec
and its neirhborhood. They viii he publ he'd I'M
,rediatelv with some historical and descriptive
notes and long poem Quebec by the young
ladv,s husband The MarquiS's poetry, 1t Is wei
known. is merely respectable. while his "''cS
sketches. though faulty show great deal OF taste
and delicate Imagination
The long poem which Roberts Brother are about to
rrint. entitled Dorothy: Country story III
Flegiac Verse is understood to be by a. }. Munby.
the author of Doris" pretty little pastoral wen
Known 10 tine lovers of poetry No modern anthol-
ogy lacks this dainty chant of the lover VINO
sat with Doris the shepherd maiden.
Her crook was laden with wrcathed flowers;
sat and wooel her through sunlight wheeling
And shadows stealing for hours and hours
"Dorothv7 has the same atmosphere of sunny
stones of buttercups and honey-bees that gives
such sweetness and grace TO Doris
Dante Gabriel Roseet,i's fortune was made from
bi n,ctures which he has sold at enormous prices.
lie has a beautiful house IN London with garden
in which it has been his delight 10 walk. There ne
now lives in loneliness for the companionship
of his friend, r. Hall Game young poet who has
lust published a volume Of sonnets MI Game mas
lately been editing. from the periodicals OF Inc
,ioS = number of the earliest criticisms on Words
worth. Southey Coerdge, Byron, Leigh Hunt
Shelley and Keats, and proposes TO issue them soon
ina volume bearing the title of Critical Sole
cisms."
Miss Ncotts publication of a much-revSed edl-
,,op Of her early novel Moods" is the occasion OF
eo,ne sharn words from The Boston Post 1T gives
me a pheasant sense of victory" the anthor is quoted
as saving "to ransack the Old trunks and now ana
then fish out and sell a story that has been rejected
over and over again when had not been heard of,
md that goes readily enough now me FOSt says;
1--WE should suppose il would give woman OF Miss
hcott's sense very unpleasant sense OF victory The
nubsher does not take previously stories be-
cause ne sees any merit in them but because ne
knows that the author fame is sufficient 10 make
oven door story with her name at ached TO II, sell
well and salable matter is what he Is after The
publisher makes money and the author hurts her
reputation by the transaction, 1t strikes MS that
the former is the one entitled to the pleasant sense
Of victory"
The first volume Of the Selected Prose-Writiugs
of Bayard TAYLOR translated by Mrs. Taylor, has
since its publication i'll LelpSic last autumn hal Il
notable success This volume, which contains the
Weimar papers and the essays on the chief German
writers and on Tennyson and Thackeray, has been
welcomed with admnng appreciation by the
German critics The Deatsche Rerue concludes an
encomum with the declaration that the essays
ought TO be placed in every library in Germany be
side the classics of her literature. The second
volume of Mrs Taylors translation, containing her
husbands Notes" to both parts of Faust" is |
now in the hands Of the publisher, and will appear
in April. All reading Americans will be pleased
that the work of their brilliant countryman should
be so heartily appreciated III the foreign land he
loved and understood 80 well.
The picturesque and chatty sketches i'll which
Catherine Charlotte, Lady Jackson, has described
The manners and morals of French court life just be-
FIRE and lust after the Revolution will be immedi-
.telv brought out by Scribner Il Wexford The
two volumes are illustrated by several striking pOr
+roits and contain much lively writing. Lady
Jackson gives a pIquant description of Madame
Necker the lady who In her maidcnbood Glib
hons admiration until that cOld-blOOdod English
man considered it prudent to forget her at his papa
command. Suzanne forgot also and became so much
i'm lave with Neckcr that shs wrote her husbands