New-York tribune., 1883-03-12
LITERARY NOTES.

Tho mvsterious novel MY Trivial Life and MIS-
Sortunes which the BlacKwoodt have just put
lshed. IA to be reprinted here by the Putnans'
n, Main has made divers selections from his
q Treasury of English Sonnets' which are soon W
be published in ElzevIr form under the Vto y,
aCCC English Sonnets, the Best in the hans""s''
Miss Helen Mercer Dutch lady, is PaSeinS
through the press at Amsterdam prose 'r"n'ie',o y
into Dutch of Mrs. Brownings Auroi" aois"
The Epolsbyoman's verse did not iena i'Son
readily to Dutch rhythm.
Raising the Pearl is the title OF the pleasant
story which Mr. James Otis, the author VI iooy
Teller has Just begun IN HGrpers Young Feop~'
.sroby TYLER" was at once lively ana moral, anu MI
Ots's new story promises to have the same Vii'ue'
Maurice Kingsley n son of the late Charles Kings
lev has siuherited portion at least oi hs iathel
mautle The striking Mexican story " Inc fasiVo
de Medina recently copied by fHE tribune, was the
Young mans first effort in literature. His SISTER
Miss Rose Kingsley is writer OF refined ana grace
full prose.
"A Castle in Spain is the title Of serial story by
an ANONYMOUS American author, the publication OF
which viii soon be begun in Hdrpers MAGAZINE. The
scene is laid In Spain the characters are American
English and Spanish. and the tale is alternately
humorous and deeply pathetic. 1t has no -" pnr-
pose save to give amusement 10 the reader.
Mr.. j. w. Bouton is now supplying to subscribers
81 beautiful vorl: of art prepared by the modern
French water.colvrists and bearing tho title OF
their society Many OF the artists have executed
specially for this work series OF drawings Ill
water-coloT and the plates, which are gwen III pho
togra,ure are dehcately printed ID Color rem anu
ink sketches are also scattered through the text
which il contributed by some of the most eminent
French critics.
The most important events in English history are
related In a little volume of 400 pages entitled "A
Concise History of England" and Iepnblshed here
by Roberts Brothers. The same firm nave uhuer
taken the publication in this country oil the pro-
DC sea series of biographies OF famous women. Inc
first volume, Miss Blinds memoir OF George EiIo'
will be brought ont IN few days The books oil
this series are 10 be III l6mU, and Will be sou lor
one dollar each.
The paper on Modern Fiction" which MT
Charles Dudley Warner lately read in New Haven
is to appear in the next number OF The Atd"tc
which will contain, moreover, the first act OF Mr.
James's dramatizatiOn Of "Dasy Miller" MI
James has added characters and incidents to his
original sketch rillow Smoothing Authors, with
a Prelude on Nightcaps and Comments on an Old
Writer" is the title of the article contributed by
DIR. Holmes
"a we'll known clergyman" whose name is with
held is announced by the Putnams as the translator,
cooper ana editor of an expurgated edition Of the
Scriptures which they are about 10 publish. lie has
prepared the volume for the practical use ol
clergymen teachers and Others who especially neeu
TO have the practical instructions and suggestions
of the Bible separated FROM the mass OF history.
geuealogy and detail. He has also added to the
volume few selections from the sacred Scriptures
of Persia Egypt China and other ancient nations.
met nui nod N ENGLAND
wherein nearly hundred scholars have given alto
eether 165 uanslations of Tennysou's verse in-
scribed on Sir John Franblin's tomb in Westminster
Abbey:
Not here the white North has thy bones; and thou.
Heroic sailor soul.
Art passing on thine happier voyage now
1owaid no earthly pole
A third of the renderngs are in Greek one is III
Sanskrit; the late Professor Palmer left one in
Arabic: few are in tho modern languages and
the rest are in Latin. This is Mr. Calyerleys
version:
At ossa longe candor opprimit tua
Arctous at tn havlgas
Illustris 8QuOr anlIna fortunatluS,
Nee meta tefrestrls p0lt
Among the articles in the March number of Latino
E s. SUBWAY Potsdam, N.Y. are a relation of the
chief events of February done into Latin the new
schedule of work for Latinlsts in which especially
noticeable are the proposed comparisons by means
of Latin questions of Virgil with Horace Livy
with Tacitus, the letters of Cicero with those of
Pll1y, and Cicero's d" Dream OF Scpio with Plato
writing on the same subject; " The Railroad" a
paper detailing all the haps and mishaps of two
Roman travellers Oh a modern railroad the fifth
. instament of Pliny's ghOet story. bringing in a
brave philosopher who wants to zee the ghost and
therefore hires the haunted house, a part of SAL
lust's speech of Cesar Concerning the Conspira-
tors" turned into the indirect discourse and the
opening OF lively dialogue based on Li'ys de-
scription of the battle of the Horat aud Curiati'
Latino also presents correspopdence both American