New-York tribune., 1882-03-06
LITERARY NOTES.

The anthor OF that popular and clever, If some
rb,t Cinpant book. "Molly Bawn," is an Enghsh-
woman, Mr.. Arsles by name
~. fl,rcnAon Press has Just issued " King Henry
,bs pSfth in ". Adds Wrigkt's edition Of SHAKE
spearc.
Enuch drafts in the handwriting of Moore OF
"fapa Rookh." the " Life Of Byson'" the E'i-
eur.an.' ETC.. have just been sold IN London
,Tb fficth araiversary Of Goethc's death Is to be
ecmp,cmoratcd at Weimar on March ~ 'ho
hurial vanlt viii he opened and wreathS VIII %
nlaced on the coffin OF the great German
Mr.. pinah Mulock Craik, who is now nearly al
,vavs mcnuoacd as the author Of John tIaiiiaN,
gentleman" has prepared for the press volume OF
sketches under the tiGe os "plain Speaking
"John lnclcsant." tho novel Of which an Aiueri-
can edition has just been brought out by Macnui'
Ian & Co.. has had an extraordinary success IN Eng
land. Nude has rs many as thousand copies IL
circulation.
Still another volume Of sonnets is announced IN
Iondon IL is the coll ction of J. a. Symonds and
Of tbe whole number OF $50 only five have been
previously published. The book Is to be called
'vagabunduli Libellus"
Frckmonn- -Chatrain have published NV novel.
"Le Banni" in which they depict the state OF Al
SAGE under the German administration. The hero
who appeared in a former volume
A nea. and clearly printed edition of Sir John
Iubbock's address given last summer before the
British Association, has been published by Macmii-
Ian & Co. 1t will he remembered that hi' subject
was " Fifty Years of Science"
The series Of articles on the Christian Religion by
Colonel Robert G. Iugcrsol, Judge Jeramiah y Black
and Professor George p. Fisher, which appeared re-
Gently in The North AmericdR Rorir, has been pub
Hshed in pamphlet form.
When BerthoIl Aucrbach set ont for Mentone he
resolved, il is said. never to return 10 his native
country so mortified was he with her int rnal con-
dItion and above all with the treatment accorded to
the Jews IL Is also said that he declared Tat nc
desired il 10 he made known after his death that he
died of sorrow and shame for the present state of
the Fatherland, in the future of which he had lost
sll faith.
Anew edition Of Mrs. L. Maria Chi'd's Life Of
Isaac T. Hopper the militant Quaker, has lately
been published by Dodd, Meat 4 Co. Friend
Hopper manly character, his sturdy support OF
the doctrine Of human rights, and his extraordinary
rescues Of fugitive slaves, make HIM one of the
most notable figures in the history Of tie ant-sla-
very struggle in America. Mrs. Childs simple and
easy narrative will long preserv, the memory
Of his quaint virtues and of his
daring adventures. short preface to this ed dtion
contains pleasant sketch of the many charitable
ard patriotic labors of Friend Hopper's daughter,
Mrs. Abby Hopper Gibbons.
May Probyn is not q de plume but tho real
name Of young poces~, whose vers published for
private circulation only, have found their way into
English and American papers in more or less abbre-
Waited or otherwise distorted form. She is young
girl Of seventeen, daughter Of English parents who
has Just finished her education at Brussels Belgium.
She has been an inmate at Brussels since early
childhood Of the family of T. WcstwOod, the artist,
some of whose poems Mr.. Bryant embodied in bis
volume of English poetry and whose Quest Of the
Sangreall " has been republished in this country.
Mr. Wcstwood is now above seventy and illustrates
in his genial old age of the characteristics of
Hans Christian Andersen in dcvotiug his leisure
hours from painting TO writing for children. His
Gathering in the Cleaning" 1881. and Berries
and Blossoms" 1873, both books for children, for
private circulation have not been reprinted in
America One of the ceverest of these is dedicated
TO May Probyn. Mr.. Westbrook is a childless man,
which may account for Tor puzzle some people as O)
his love of children. His short poems Lutte Bell"
aud THE Proudest Lady" well known TO
American readers.