New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-28
LITERARY NOTES.

q Orr Favorite Sham" and Is story Vi 'o-u"S'
.o.ioo Of papers on Creation and sEvolution
- heen prepared by Mr.. George Tlcknor CuftS
"a viii probably be published In Inc Moh"'''D''
M Curtis presents these two theorles " " 49,.
adaro os to a Jury, giving the arguments tor anu
AGAINST them as lawyer Wouiu w. anu
~eference to Biblical revelation.
AZ. Arnold's almost forgotten tragedy Oh
..toroneD has lust been republished by the Mac
-.iI,ors II this work of (which Lowell says 'haV
- hos that one fault against which the very gous
40 ora told strive in vain; it is dull, ana the seeu
nc this dulness lies in the system on winch IL %
written"
rbo Macmillans' new and handsome edition OF
,aId,s yvorls i, to be further enriched by the
odditiop of two uniform volumes containing MS
poems.
Ar Cable has been busy in revising his historical
noners ON Louisiana The Scrbners Will .pnonsh
them in book form with the illustrations WHICH
ORIGINALLY embellished them in The Century,
Tho lessons in elocution which Mr.. Gable has been
taking from Mr.. Sargent are said to have slrlhlsiS
,mproyed his hitherto Ineffective platform den'eiS
Mr. Tennvson was paid for the little lyric ne mas
contributed to "The Youths Companion
agreeable sum of $1,000 The paper VIII uouo'-
less find its account in this seeming eAtra'ae"HI'
Miss Sallie McLean's novel of "Cape Goa aUlA'
is to be republished IN Ehgi"nu ~
Farran. .,.o.oh
The late DIR. Marion Sims left sparkling sATtoH
which will appear in the feoIu"iS HH . o,d
s14;tlod aIvdia Mckay and Colonel TarletOn " ana
describes one of the most romantic eplsoues u 'no
Revolution. the rescue of her imprisoned Auso"Hu
by the fair and clever LYDIA.
A singularly undgnifed portrait of Mr.. Matthew
Arnold fronts the title page OF the "bItnuay
RoolD which his daughter has lately pnoHSnou'
II represents the grave poet and crltic aS S'"'cU
holding in his arms and tenderly regarding win
downcost ewes and knitted brows-a httle doe
The attitude and the burden irIesstibly rehihu on0
of the pictures of the elegant poetesSeS Vi 'N0 ''N
fashioned L" Book of Beauty"
Mr.. Goodwin Smiths Bystapda has been tnrneG
;,+o critical literary, independent political
weekly. which will be edited in Toronto by MT. -
n @ Roberts. 1t is to be called The Ueef MI
Tdoar Fawcett is writing for its pages long story
of New York society entitled The Adventures OF
widow The editor is preparing series OF critical
ESSAYS on The Younger American Poets Nhat
sale The Ueek ought to have!
Mr.. Andrew Lang declares that he Is made ua-
comfortable by the very mention of an Engush
Academy of Literature. He has no 1aith III Sn
Henry Taylor's plea that an Academy giving SAID"
r;es "a members should be instituted to save men OF
letters from mcddling with journalism. which, as
that venerable author asserts Injuries the moral
dispositions and debilitates the understanding "
more than most professions. Mr. Lang scouts tl's
idea and coninres up a narrowing picture OF the
,osc;lla ENGLISH Academy. " As DR.. Johnson said
sneokipr of Swift's vision of English Academy,
every one would make it a duty to break lts
DEGREES. Yet, withal every one would pine auu
pant to be of the sacred number and so long as ne
failed. would eat his own heart like Bclerophon, III
anguish and envy. How the Scotch members
Ill, Ia
would stand shoulder to shoulder and heip e"cn
other in How the Kensington members would
make up one set and the Hampstead members an
> other! How doubly edged and doubly venomed
would he the weapon os literary criticism, how rich
+be .nutual tubs of literary butter, how Keen
the tends of literature and science! In clubs OF a
purelv social character it is found, have Deeh
told that when it to an electonl the literary
members have never even heard OF sclentihc geile-
men of European reputation. And the sclehtihc
members remain equally ignorant of the names oil
literary candidates whose fame is i'll all literary
societies, and who are m'chle Vi h'sH' III 'ii0 N'
lating libraries"
Mr.. Ruskin's tartness is always coming mp in I'M
expected places In note at the end of a critical
study of him by of his admirers ne has
written: a would like to add that while admit
thot there is such a thing as mercantile economy,
distinguished from social, have always said also
that neither MILL Fawcett, nor Bastiat knew the
contemplate science they professed to teach.'
Mr.. p. T. Barnum is TO appear i'll blaze OF
Christmas candles Barnnm III Brtlshiand Is
the title of the holiday pamber of Truth Iondonl
wherein are to be described the lively Snowman 5
experiences in search of a successor TO "Junbo,"
with details of his many interviews.
Only three or four copies of Edgar Allan Poe's
first volume, "Tamerlane and other Poems" now
exist From one of these that irrepressiblc rcsur-
,;st bordH Shpuhprd has urpOarp1 a
repsint limited to 100 copies. 1t is to have bib
biographical preface
An eminent man of letters is described as agtat
ing the bosom of his family day last week by
coming In with the sudden exclamation: "Dc
YOU want to know fact! John Hay wrote The
Bread Winners"
Mr.. George W. Julian. in his just-pubshed Pc
ltical Recollections," says that Immediately afte
the battle of Fredericksburg General Burnside told
him that our men did not feel toward the rebels
as they felt toward u.s." He assured me that Thu
was the grand obstacle to our success Gu
soldiers be said, not sufficiently fired by re-
sentiment, and exhorted me, if l could, TO breathe
into our people at home the same spirit toward Gu
enemies which inspired them toward u.s."
Messrs Tribner g. CO. will begin early next yea
the publication of a collection of volumes for thu
general reader illustrating tho literatures of the
principal nations of the East. The volumes will APP
pear under the general title of Eastern Classic
for Western Readers" and it is intended to issu
them at short intervals in three series. The frs
series which will be devoted to Indian literature
will be edited by Professor p. Peterson, of Ephin
stone College, Bombay, and will consist of manual
of o. the Veda (2) the Drama. (3 the Fable Lit
eratnre. az Proverbs, % Lyrics, and Gl Epcs
Should this first series of eastern Classics" NEE
with approval, it will be followed by secon'
Series treating Of Asiatic and Persian, and third