New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-05
LITERARY NOTES.

o.ss,s h;ocrapl,y of his wife, George Eliot, is
.n',,,,,sted and is now being finally revised
story by Thomas Hardy is about to appear III
The Independent
The third volume in the series oil Inc surgeon
Stories will be brought out in Jew daSs o9
Hansen. McClurg & Co. II deals with the nDo'
Of Charles NIL"
Lords is the title of the new magazine winch 10 70
no nublished almost Immediately in London AL i'S
or,;cles II is asserted will be written by members
of the upper classes, and it will be ediicu ny
arv man who sits in the House OF feeIs'
Mr.. Andrew Lang fails in the Baiiade Oh ms
Own Country,n which he has contributed TO the
- ,or ,pmher of Loagmaa's There's hopeless
d;screpancv between the balade form aud the peat
90 galloway. Mr.. Haweis decOrates the pages OF
.h;s MAGAZINE with one of his effemnateiy sehti-
,oental rhapsodes concerning List; there Is a
Indy little sketch of the late Dutton Cook; ana
there is also collection of pleasant anecdotes oy
aAn Old Paris Play-goer" The author OF lheso
"reminiscences quotes Scribe as once saying III Ms
hearing that he began his career as dramatist ny
seeing thirteen of his pieces fail one after announcer
and ON the first night of the fourteenth doomed 10
similar fate felt discouraged that he sara 10 MS
oouaJoratear: g. give it up; and when we nave eo'
through the half dozen more that we nave vi n','i
/ will never write another line Luckily nc "uu'u
atbe fifteenth essay was more successful, ana /
bought fresh packet of pens on the u I've
Since then. this extraordinarily prolific writer mus.
- o,r;obed the French stage with at least eight
or nine hundred productions of more or less meriC
,vLue his son-in-law, Bayard following his eAah-
,le hos contributed no fewer than two hundred ana
thirty.
The riches of the Boston Public Library are daily
;rooSad not bv purcbase but by gifts OF valuable
books and prints The Bulletin /" OF the library IL
n model in its way. l. is full of notes about DOCKS
and helps TO readers. 1t is Illuminating 10 New
that with all her resources and pretensions she mas
M library comparable to this in almost unlimited
usefulness.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe's daughter is quoted as
saving in her forthcoming biography OF her mother
that that accomplished lady has always preserved
her early taste for the German language a Well
worn volume of Kant lies upon her wrltmg-taOle'
and is taken up by her for half an hour every DAY
In the twilight, when her grandchildren gatner
about her at the piano and beg for song 1t Is often
one of the German student songs, learned years ago
from her brother, that she sings for them.
Among much interesting matter in the last num-
her of The photographer is paper on the late John
PAYNE Collier 1t recalls Golfers account OF one OF
those accidents which now and then grieves to the
heart an ardent collector. I" In the winter oil
1s13-14," says Collier, / was in Holland where
purchased several books: one of them was an I'M
perfect copy of Tyndales Gospel of st. Matthew,
10 which the date of 1926 had been assigned and
which seems TO be the very earliest translation INTO
English of any portion of the New Testament.
Many years afterward-l think IN the spring Oh
1891 happened to show 1t to Rodd, the learned
bookseller | was at that time ignorant on the sub
iect and Rodd offered books TO the value OF two
or three pounds for it. | gladly accepted them :;
and ON further inquiry Rodd became confirmed IN
his opinion that my fragment of volume was OF
the greatest historical and photographed import
ance-so much so that 1t has just been reproduced
in fac-simile by Mr.. Arber. Rodd hndlng what a
treasure he had procured. sold it to MI l. Oreh-
Willie. as heard, for ESQ. In Holland it had only
ooot mo a form hut | no more blamed Rodd for
benefting by his superior knowledge. than blamed
myself for giving so little for it to the Rotterdam
bookseller"