New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-07
LITERARY NOTES.

Professor W. d. Whitney is revising for Ihe cen
,,r, Comronv the recently published edition OF the
" fmperial Dictionary" 1t is SAID tDat ,no
tborouchness Of this revision will almost MAKE .no
work new and original one. Much nc" 'na.
will be added and some of the old VIII DC o'u'''.
and text and illustrations of more vaiue 10 A"oiF
cans Will he substituted 1t will also furnish ne"
system of indicating pronunciation In ,ii' onap
II will presently be published uhoe'
tho title of "The Century Dictionary" Mean
while the company will issue an edition IN It's pres
INT form, bringing it oat in March,
p Warrington announces new edition of Mr..
T,ton,s novel Of Tempest which has been
in some measure rewritten by its author. IL has
been out of print for several years.
Shortly before his death, the late DIR. f. ii.
KNIGHT completed supplementary volume
TO his mechanical Dictionary" giving the
details of the numerous inventions and improve
ments in mechanics and SINCE the publication Oh MS
previous volume.
Mrs. Oliphant is publishing in British newspaper
n SEQUEL to her amusing novel, The Grea'esV
Heiress in England" This sequel is entitled Slr
Tom" o
Three books of particular value and interest VIII
appear soon the volume of correspondence oe-
tween Carlyle and Emerson Mrs. Carlyles Letters
and Memorials: and the Life, Letters ana
Literary Remains" of the late Lord Lytton. Inns
last will be. of course cOpiOus and bulky "oIA'
containing as it IS promised, the novellsts au'o-
biography letters. selections from bis carrier un-
published writings, and his sons narrative OF his
later years
The first volumes of a complete edition OF Mar'in
Luthei's works will be brought out IN Germany
rext November in time to celebrate the four
hundredth anniversary of the Reformers plrth'
Three volumes will be published every year tnere-
after until the edition is completed
The liking for romance pure and simple has not
vet died out in spite of the lofty contempt expressed
for II by the modern analytic" novellsts
writer in The London Daily Ne,cs declares, reason
ably enough that the vice of the contempt
rary novel is rdportdge. " Above the meIo
strnging together of personal tattle ana
of indiscretions," he adds, the majority
of modern novels cannot be SAID 10 SOAR.
Such characters as the hero and heroine oil
. A Modern Instance are as remote from ronahco
as psttiness of character can make them ana Keep
them. The book is a study of the infinitely
little and we see nearly the meahese OF
mortals and circumstances through microscope"
OF course il goes without saying that this writer IS
obliyious of any particular grounds for crti-
oism of the raportdge of the English novel.
The PAIL Mall Gazette is hardly less
severe whe'. IN advising that young people should
read romance, it says that 1T is better that they
should be interested in the sorrows OF
the bride of Lammermoor than In the leal-
ousies of an ill-tempered American woman
whose husband drinks too much beer The ooser-
yatons on American literature which are Just now
enlivening English journals and reviews Will pres
emily 90 far to make the dlsinterested reader believe
that the literary Bnton is afflicted with poor Mar
cia's chief failing.
"In Vain Shadow" is the title OF coming
novel which has been announced in England as
something remarkable.
Persian Wit and Humor " is the title of forth
coming translation into English Of part OF the
"Baharistsn" of Jamf, Persian classic modelled
on the Gulistan OF Sa'df."
A letter to Douglas Jerrold from Leigh Hunt was
recently sold in London. Death was too
cunning to let you in at his door," writes Hunt
therein He thought you would write an article
and show him, up in the life,' which of course
would have been the death of Death;
mt the very least he should have
"'Punch in the Ribs" At the same sale was sold
letter from Dickens in which he says: 81 solemnly
declare to you that drefully against my WILL Ihaye
come to the conclusion that representative govern
ment is a miserable failure amongst us"