New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-09
LITERARY NOTES.

rorace =. Sender has been reading 10 DOS
-, olnh n paper on Childhood In Literature" AS
.ba autbor of so many delightful books for young
.+ar. Mr. scudder has natural nght W trea' 'nis
subject
ur scudder has been selected Dy houghVon'
Nif1in g. Co. as the editor OF their proposed hs'oi
cal series on American Commonwealths! lneSo
monographs will deal with those States when nave
Nd q distinct and powerful influence upon the
."~elonment of the nation. Both new and old
Etates will be treated under this pan The rst vol
me of the series will be Virginia: History OF
the People," by John Esten Cooke
Tho next novel of the "No Name" seues is to be
.torv of French court life entitled "The Princess
Amelie."
Roberts Brothers are about bring out an edition
M 7, stevenson's AN Island Voyage" 1t
60 lively sketch of journey by water in Southern
France.
Mfr Henry James read before the Saturday Morn
ing Club. of Boston, last week, graphic narrative
Of a tourney through Central France. The rooms
were crowded by people of taste and fashion 10
wbom Mr. James was introduced by the president
,,f the Climb as the "Thackeray of America" Inc
English "er-er-er" marred the nOvelsts utterance
Mt first and he is said TO have read IN soinoWn"
,nonotonous manner but his matter more 'n"n
made amends. lie was amused al the couoi u''0H "
the reading by the presentation OF po"9"0U
oonionsly illustrating the name OF his NIUE heIoin''
"Daisv Miller" 1t was formed OF "hlte u",s'es
md surrounded by leaves OF the graylSh green i"'
Known "a dusty miller" " see nave nunule"0
Of Daisy Millers here" said the pleased author
"Recreations in Astronomy" written by IL. W.
Warren and published by the Harpers, has had an
extraordinary success Nearly ten thousdhu copio'
have been sold in the past three months
The sentiment with which divers enthusiastic
vonnp writers regard The atlantic may be conJec-
tnred from the fact that one OF them VINO con-
trlbuted poem to its pages has carefully tramea
and suspended upon his wall the cheek winch he
received for It,
Mrs. Milicent Garrett Fawcett, the wife OF the
blind English statesman, has written the chapter
on the woman suffrage movement in England for
the hook ON the woman Question IN Europe "
which is soon to be published by the Putnans.
Mr.. John Ingram will have an illustrated paper
on 81 batterton and His Associates" in the July
number of Harper Charles Reade will contribute
+o the same number short story entitled Born to
Good Luck"
Mr.. Osgood's little Pocket Guide" to Europe
pem of comprehensveness, cOmpactness and good
taste is the invention of Mr.. Edmund I. Stedman'
who has been its chief editor While travelling
abroad few years ago Mr. Stedman telt' as many
others have felt the urgent need of guide when
sboud contain more than all the information of the
existing manuals, and which, unlike them should
be small enough 10 be conveniently carried IN the
rocket Upon his return he undertook 10 supply
The needed volume and with his assistants has pre-
pared guide nmitable i'll its way. MT EDWARD
King now living in Paris, is the resident European
editor who sees that every edition is vigorously
brought M to date Mr. SweetzeT is his American
associate. Each edition undergOes careful super
vision from Mr.. Stedman.
The biographical volume entitled Twelve
Americans which is soon to be brought out by the
Harpers. deals with Alexander II. Stephens
Horatio Seymour Peter Cooper, Charles Francis
Adams Joseph Jefferson, John Gilbert, Hannibal
Hamlin, and other more or less modern Americans
George Washington ~ excluded from this particular
group.
The English edition of Mr.. w. Clark Russelpi
"sea Queen is to be printed from duplicate plates
furnished by the Harpers
The trim and prettly bound little series in fiction
which the Scribners about to inaugurate by tho
publication of two volumes OF Mr. cables ShoI'
stories, will presently include Mrs. Julie scherer
"Tigcr Lily and other tales.
Mr.. Brownings historical tragedy of Stafford
is 10 be edited and annotated for use IN Englsh
schools.
Mr. Lawrence 0liphant has written new novel
"Altiora Peto," which will be published in foul
monthly parts by the BlackwoOds. The work VII
y be illustrated
Mr. Austin Dobson's latest contribution to cur
rent literature is the following bit OF verse called
"To an Unseaworthy Ship:
Ship to the roadstead rolled,
What dOst thou 10 once more
Regain the port. Behold
Thy sides are bare OF oar,
Thy tall mast wounded sore
OF Africus, and see
What shall thy spars restore =
Tempt not the tyrant sea!
What cable now will hold
When all drag out from shore
What God canst thou, too oOld,
In time of need lmplOre!
Look for thy sails flap DER,
Thy stiff shrOuds part and flee,
Fast-fast thy seams outpour,-
Tempt not the tyrant sea
What though thy ribs of old
The pines OF Pontus bore
Not now to stern of gold
Men trust, or painted prore
Thou or thou cOun'st 1t store
toy of winds TO be,
Shun thou the Cycads roar
Tempt not the tyTant sea
ENVOY.
Ship of the State, before
care and now TO me
A hone I'D nv hearts core
Tempt not the tyrant sea!
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie, whose book An Amer
can Fonr-in- Hand in Britain " is coming on Satu
day from the press of the Scrlbners, holds pecu
har position. Although he was born in America an
has lived and earned his great wealth here. he IS
subject of Queen Victoria and is shortly going int
Parliament. His book is the record of journe
taken among the scenes traversed by Mr.. Black
"Phaeton,D aud is reprinted from privately circ'
lated edition.