New-York tribune., 1882-02-20
LITERARY NOTES.


volume Of Wendell Phillips's later speeches Is 10
appear in Boston in few months
Monsieur Zola is said 10 have been so determines
70 make hi, picture of great Partisan shop ieai'S-
tic that he got employment under fcigncd name
In one Of the largest and remained there ior
weeks.
The first volume Of Mr.. Froudc's blog'aphy "'
CARLYLE deals with tho first forty years OF tile
Soo.oL,oor,s l,fo ending with the year 1885. 1t
vii, copAain two portraits and four other iiustfa-
tions etched on steel.
Charles Ia,nb's dramatic essays are to form the
novt volume of the pretty little Parchment
Iibrary series now being published in London
The preface on Lamb as a dramatlst and as critic
of the drama is by j. b. Matthews
Henry Watterson Editor of The Coar'@-Joar"dt
@. Louisville. will have article on Southern man
ners and characteristics in the April number of inc
Century. II is full Of yivacity and humor, and is
called oddities OF Southern Life"
Mr. browning has written six of the idyils which
are N annear in the third series of his Dramatic
Idvlls.p promised for the spring. Two of these are
long tIe others short The new volume is to be
larger than the previous ones. Critical interest III
nv Browning's work is unabatcd in England.
Sehiler's letters 30 his doctor, Pryy Councillor
Stark are not to be printed after ALL They are
owned by Professor Martin, of Lepsic, who has tho
sense and the feeling to say that good taste ana
pety" alike prevent him from giving to the worid
these confidential communications from patient To
his physician.
NJ. Emile de Laveeye has received from
the Belgian Government the prize for the
most valuable work in political and moral
ecience produced In Belgium during
The past five years This work comprises his " Let
tres sur rItalic," his "DAgriculture Beige" and
the new edition of his La PrOprietc ct ses Forlncs
Primtives"
The weight of some of the books lately published
IN Englaud Is subject of complaint there. They are
so heavy that they cannot he read with any COM
fort withoat a desk. Rawlinson's "Ancient
Egypt weighs two and three-fOurths pounds; the
'Memoirs of Count Mot de Mclito," three pounds;
and the Journals of Caroline Fox is a source ot
many aches TO hands and arms.
Mr.. Longfellow who has ever been generous and
modest long ago wrote 10 Mr. Bryant a cordial note
which Is published in the new Century. Let me
saw, he wrote "what staunch friend and adj
u,irer of yours have been from the beginning and
acknowledge how much owe to you, not only OF
delight hut Of culture. When look back upon my
earlier verses | cannot Int smile TO SEQ how much
IL them is really yours 1t was an involuntary imi-
tation which most readily confess, and say, as
Dante says 20 Virgil:
'Tu Sc 10 mio maestro, 7 mic autore"
Alex sander Dumas the younger has lately written
a letter concerning his father which is unintcn
fionally funny. He declares that the author OF
"Tbe Three Guardsmcn" not only the first
dramatic author but the first dramatic
poet of his day. Taking Shakespeare "a 1.-THE cu-
minating" Dumas the elder most nearly approaches
him. and the distance between Shakespeare and
Dumas is probably less than that between Dumas
aud his contemporaries. 10 sum up my opinion
of this extraordinary man." says his son, 81 will
say that he rs little known lie is illusriouS."
One of the most entertaining articles in the March
Century is that presenting Mary COwden Clarke's
recollections of Leigh Hunt Mrs Clarke says of the
sensitive author that he delicate as
woman in conduct, in words, in ways
of thinking. Il have heard him." she says. "uso
paraphrase IN speaking of things that the gene
raitv of men are accustomed TO mention plainly, as
n matter of course; and though he could-on occa-
sion-use very straig ghtforward terms in treating
pcctical subject warmly, in reprobating vice
sternly. and employ very playful terms when treat
ing n humorous subject wittily. never heard him
utter coarse light word in the many times have
heard him converse with freedom among intimate
friends. Airy elegance sportIve fancy, marked his
lively talk levity, never. But though Leigh Hunt
was almost wOmanly in his scrupulous delicacy, he
had not the very least touch of e1cminacy in hiD
composition