New-York tribune., 1882-02-18
LITERARY NOTES.

Seven papers on Longfelow are to lie rad at the
Portland meeting of the Maine Historical Society,"
which is to be held in honor of the poets birthday
Ouida's somewhat impetuous novel OF Moths
has been tuned into a play, and Is to he SHORTY
produced AT 50 excellent theatre as the Court III
London. II promises, it Is said, to be success
The neat itte edition f Senator Ho RS eulogy
op Garfield. which has just been published oy
uonoi+o, Ni.gin \ Co.. contains good portrait
NJ tbe dead President and is dedica ed IN to"
toucbire and tasteful woTds to Mrs CARRIED
n nau6et has no regrets in putting has friends
5 ocouai,tonces into his novels. For the story oi
.1ack I" he was he declares indebted to traglcai
ovnerieoce of real life which calnc TO his kho"eoee'
Poor Jack was real person TO whom Ee wa" 'dnu'
and whom he knew we'll
Madame Raeozin. a Russian lady of some eA-
ncrience and capacity rs a writer, has contribute"
10 the Arril Ceafary striking-hteraily Stfl%'hs
article on the Jews IN Russia. She handles mem
xvitbort mercy. taking a view unique III tins liberal
countrv. In the next number of the magazine
Hebrew lady Will reply 10 Madame hae']in
structures.
Divers romantic letters written by Lord Eeacons-
fe1 durnC his early travels in the East nave De'h
found among his papers, and VIII be p"ohSh''-
Neither his letters TO Queen Victoria nor 'no'o
which he received from her will be printed at pres,
emf. There aGe many of both IN existence ana
Lord Rowton has been permitted by the queen 10
examine them
Mr.. CARLYLE gave the lately discovered MS' OF his
Irish diary to friend who is now dead, and who
pre>erved it as kind of secret treasure so carelnI
that its existence was long unknown. lhe style Is
descrbed As racv and il contains many frank OBJ
servotions on such points of national character aS
are of the III ghes interest at the present poiiucal
inncture. Mr. Froude is greatly impressed with us
imnortancc and intends 20 write an introduction 10
IT. 49,,
Bret Harte's portrait in the edition of hls col
lected works the first volume of which housh'o"'
Miln d Co. have Just issued, apparent eSeh'
aWalachian HospOdar of prosperous e, .cSSlon anu
excessively furry tastes. Mr.. Harte Wnsheis nave
disappeared and heavy gray mousiache SiiducS
h;s month mass of nearly white hair falls over
his bright eyes. and furred oyercoat aNoS pictui-
esoueness TO his figure. This volume contains MI.
uar,e,s posns and lis 1.-Two Men of Sandy Bar"
and has an introduction wherein in the third per
SON he gives divers interesting facts concerning the
publication of his early literary efforts.
The most notable part of RIA. Proctors new volume
f Familiar Science Studies is his republlshed es-
gay ON =" A Menacing Comet" In fifteen years, MT
Proctor holds there is considerable chance that the
comet of 1880 NAV return and fall into the sun WIN
all its meieoric appeudages-in which case there
viii certainly be an abrupt arrest OF tenen-
dous momentum, which arrest VIII snow
itself in the form of enormously increased neat
The probable result will be the burning up CT al
g the vegetable and animal life existing Oh the
nlanets of the solar system, and an extremely uh-
pleasant disappearance of this word ana us oc-
lights
Herman c. Mervale has reversed the usual ORDER
of procedure of a writer who makes play
and a novel on the same subject He has Just pup
bsLe.l a novel "Faucit of BllliOl,' which de ais
with the same story used in his play " The Cynlc,
recently brought ont in London; ; ana cul"usiy
enough. the novel was written subsequently to the
nlav Some of the best dialogue of the play reap
near, in the novel which is said TO
have wit, pathos and freshness The
author insists in the novel, even more
than in the play, that there are men now aS III
former days. who love evil purely or all but purely
for evils sake-Mephistophean creatures without
bowels of compassion and without renorse