New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-28
LITERARY NOTES.

,.; o,,or m Boston that DR.. Holmes has
rosr In devote tie leisure which his retiremeno
t., h;s protession has given him To the seiVice "
The Atlantic Monthly. His promise 10 writo '"v
.EmersonD for the Z" american Men OF Le''e.s
se,es would seem to show that be did not h'ehu "
go restrict his work.
very beautiful and expensive DOCK mas i"'o'S
been made in Boston, only ten copies Oh "n0n "1,0
pr,nted II IS the richly illustrated story OF yaonT
inc tr,p taken by Mr. Edwards. the inventor Vi 'ho
helIotype process.
II p hinton & Co. will publish in this country
Canon Liddon's " Life of DR.. Pussy" ana new 70
xised edition with American preface OF bunts ammo
tated' Prayer-Book
A catalogue of the early German prints IN the
British Museum is to be published soon oy 'ne
trustees of that institution. These prints date IRON
the earliest period to Albert Durer.
The Boston Courier. in quoting Mr.. Hawthorne'
remarks upon the novel at the recent meeting VI
the Nineteenth Century Club. says that IL IL
sufficiently evident that Mir. hawthorne Is hei'ne'
a Howells nor James Young man"
The wife of the Rev. Joseph Cook has written
down rome observations made during her journey
round the world and they will shortly DO puoiisheu
in The ChaatduqHaa.
Professor LouusLury, of Yale the biographer oil
Cooper is engaged upon work of brilliant Ilicr-
ary promise.
volume of poems by the late Mare Cook VIII
soou be published by Lee & Shepard. 1t is coilec-
ton of verses originally printed above the pen
name of Vandyke Brown"
The forthcoming volume entitled Ten Years on
q Georgian Plantation" is the work OF Mrs Leign
the daughter Of Fanny Kemble Butlerl. Inc plan
tatiop is the same upon which the English actress
nj to
three years ago. Mrs. Leighs opinions on slavery
ran with those OF her father rather than with those
Of her muther and her experiences with the freed
men did not change them. Mr.. Butler lived IN the
North during the war, but IN the spring OF lSoo Tic
returned TO Georgia, taking his daughter win MIN
He died in the following year. and the care oil the
estate devulved mainly upon Miss Butler. few
wears ago sic married an English clergyman, The
Hon. j. w. Leigh
Mile. de st. Victor the daughter of the late
French critic raul dc st. Victor is collecting Tor
publication the letters of her father.
The correspondence OF the celebrated revelation
list Armand Barbes will probably be collected and
Published.
NJ lola, it is reported, has tired of his disgusting
vein and win soon publish volume which may be
mentioned IN accent society.
Mr. George Macdonald is publishing in England
a nav novel called "DOnal Grant" aud Mr. Percy
Fitzgerald has Just published one entitled The
Night Mail"
The literary works OF Leonardo da Ninci. contain
ing all his writings on Painting u Libro della
Pittura ~ Sculpture and Architecture; his obser-
vatons on Geography. Geology and Astronomy
philosophical maxims; humorous writings; his let
teIs aud miscellaneous notes on personal events on
his contemporaries, on literature. etc, are to be
DC bllshed for the frat time in London ueIt month.
They are taken from the fUrty-two autograph
MSS. existing in the public Libraries of London and
Milan III the royal library at Windsor, and other
private libraries in ENGLAND, Paris and Italy.
Reviewers having called attention to a supposed
resemblance between the short stories of Bret Halte
and CAPTAIN Steele's " Army Sketches" the latter
writes to his publishers Jansen, McCurg g. Co.. that
at the time his sketches were written he had read
but Que of Mr. Harte's stories" Miggles"-i in
stray newspaper " In the same little upper room"
SAYS Captain Steele, lover the sallyport from
which tn. Guard house Gentlemen escaped
nearly all these chapters we're born about the yoaIs
of grace lSGS-69-'7O remember that used some
hundreds OF sheets torn from the printed orders
that came 50 often and So useessly TO MS, as they
were about the right size and stationery was little
scarce"