New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-10
LITERARY NOTES.

India supplies Central Asia with most OF It's oooRS'
md every year the demand Increases. Inc oooh,
most in favor are those dealing with religion anu
poetry: next in popularity come works Oh n'ouein
history. warfare and educational SUBJECTS
Social and industrial questions wealth, poverty
money, etc. are topics which Professor w., '" -
ner of YALE proposes TO treat IN series Vi "
To he publshe in HdrPer's Heekly Inc series WIN
he entitled Our Social Glasses and what lhey o"o
to Each Other"
ATttla hook for students and conscientious read
.rs is TO be brought ont presently py forus' ho""
O. urIbert II is entitled" Books, and How TO use
Them and is the outcome OF Mt D. I. van DShe
experience in observing the need OF pFacticai
guide to reading among those VINO WISH iloi"iie''
DIR. scherr is a literary German, who mas latey
given TO his countrymen " History OF Ehgiish IL
eratpre - which is a mass of lulicrous inaccuracy
and misinformation. He makes the ASTOUNDING IL
mark about Chaucer: "Decorum in sentiment anu
ovnressio, were unknown at that time. In what
fearful ;ndeccncies did the great Radicals indulge
I,rom which II is inevitable TO suppose that III
scberr thinks Chaucer contemporary OF haoeia's'
He thinks that Macaulays "maSte1ly essay -
the best thing that has been written on Daoo"'
and indeed Macaulay seems to be one OF HIS 0.
literary authorities lie says that from the 'nlle
of Gorboduc blanl; verse was used in England lor
dramatic poetry" He tells US that byron
Mrrrha is mot inferior to any female charao''i
Of Shakespeare's" He prefers to can hca'S d
mystical writer" and gives HIM uo|on i, ~,
only He saws of Mr. Tennyson that inc So-o%''ol
romance of the Idylls of the King mas on' mum W
recommend IT." His sum total OF crluclslh On ii""
tborne is that his remarkable works MI eie'eo"
volumes - while he remarks of Mr.. joaquin NIL CT
,bat his wildly original tales in verse Delohs 10
The rost individual poetical productions that nave
come TO us from beyond the ocean,
"Saint of Sweethearts, Valentine" Is the u'le Oh
collection of Lovers Songs" compiled nv Ahce
L. Williams and published by Beiforu, O'"'Ho
Co Of Chicago. 1t is bound in paper and edged ana
,o 9TH silk in valentine fashion. Paper. printing
and decoration are poor, but The collec'ioH Is
lent. tasteful suggestive and refined
AIR Alcott is now reasonably wcl and though he
writes nothing he reads with satisfaction 10 'on-
verse tires him but he likes to have people talk 10
him, and he enjoys music and poetry ne i
and cheerful.
volume of poems, songs and character SNI'0T-o
on Scottish and American SUBJECTS VIII sHoIU9 ~
brought out 10y James Kennedy.
Mss Eoppors, a clever yong English writer VIII
soon publish novel, the plot OF which is l"'u "ui
ing the American Revolutionary War.
William A,lingham is bringing out his new poems
an London IN a novel fashion. There are to he three
volumes altogether, each in paper cover WIN
prettv design Of its own, and costing only 20 CENTS
of the lnnumerable birthday books published
within a few wears in En- land, those with BIoIcal
+exts seem TO obtain most of the popular favor vi
one of these. 100000 COPIES have been Sold' ana
another published only few months ago mas
already gone through an edition OF 7O'ooo copies