New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-26
LITERARY NOTES.

,o,,o oor, a;rps the poems of the late Rich
Ard Realf and q biographical sketch oil MIN Is I'D
preparation.
rex series of MI Harriss lever " Uncle Remus"
.tnries are about to appear in The Century.
rhors l. q report that Mrs. Alexander Carlyle the
.;,. ,iece of the author is going 10 write some
.hino .hont her uncle This lady is the wife OF Tie
hnad of q boarti ny school near Wimbledon. and has
,wo SONS one named after her uncle ana the o'her
after her uncles favorite hero, Oliver CromWelI'
An English friend of the late George Henry
Iewes quotes lin saying In regard TO the way III
which his wife began 10 write novels " We were
1i71ne at Richmond. | had more than once asheu
ITO try if She could write fiction bat she always
said she did not think she had power to 90 IT, Ohc
aav went TO town early. When came nome III
the evening she read 10 me the beginning OF AuloS
Barton the tea party. VOL, said that Is very
good but | always knew You had hUihor 10
nathos az well. and You will make fortune. She
sald she was AFRAID pathOs was not IN her power
told her II was pity. because the one gift required
4be nresence of the other But believed she had he
novel. Not long afterwards had to dlne IN town.
When WAS starting she said to NE, DO not hurry
home: do not want to be disturbed TINS eVch'H-'
When I came home late a. night she read 10 ne
Mllyc death / was delighted. sald' lou b" 10
now"
Mr. Browninc's admirng countrymen, the mem
bers OF the seven Browning societies, gave hh 'n-
veara birthday present of beautiful drawing VI
Andrea del Sarto's picture representing hlmSeH as
pead,np with his wife The original IS the picture
which inspired Mr. Brownings poem of Andrea del
Sarto.
Mr.. w. c. Russell's forthcoming story IS TO he
called Jacks COurtshlp."
Giovanni Sforza man of letters of some note IN
italy, has recently brought to light highly inter
esting correspondence between Monslgnor Lorenzo
ProSpcro Bottini, ambassador OF the hepuOilc OF
Iucca at the Papal Court, and Pietro CaIandrim'
the chancellor Of his native country when covers
the period from 1889 to 1892. The letters ASIDE
from the fact that thoy furnish lively and truth
full picture OF contemporary lie ana manners III
Rome. ale valuable in many other ways. They re-
mort very minutcly the arrest, trial, cOnNlelIon
and death of that arch-Quack "Caghostro'
The end of this adyenIurcr has hitherto been more
Df less shrOuded in mystery. The accounts gwen
by the anbassa lor show thai he died OF apOpIeNy
in the fortress If san Leo on the 26th OF August
1875. and that he was buried by the warden OF the
castle In n woodshed which had been visited nightly
bv thieves ID the hope that the corpse OF TINS much
feared maa might frghten away the marauders
A collection of poems by hitherto comparatively
unknown German writer, Moriz Carriee. Is very IA
yorably spoken of by the literary newspapers Of Ger
many Great praise is bestowed upon poem en-
titled The Last lght Of the Girondists.' As Ia
well known these brave men discussed in their last
hours the Immortality OF the soul. Their thoughts
and reflections POLITICALLY treated, form the sub
tance of the poem in question and ITS author is said
to have hee Il singularly successful in his work.