New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-24
LITERARY NOTES.

Mr.. Charles Dudley Warner has written ior u,o
Nav Ceatury lively and satiIical article On ino
nEnsnsh Volunteers during the late Invasion" the
invader of England being in this case American
literature He defends himself and also MI
Howells against the recent attacks of the tngnsh
critics.
Attbe meeting in Baltimore the other day OF the
snbscribers TO a fund for memorial oil sidney
Ianier. Mr. J. r. TAFT said in regard 10 Lahier
"I remember his describing. when very Ill himself
the condition of brother poet OF the Sou'h' Win
laugh In which were blended sympathy and tender
ness with q certain sense OF the consequences vi
the situation. A poet who lived at place-no, not
a place, but pump in the pine barrens where
thirsty locomotives stopped to drink, ana wheIe
in a log cabin of smallest dimensions, tapestrieo
with pictures from the illustrated newspapers tiie
poet an invalid, dwelt and wrote and cared ior MS
family The laugh ended IN something iiNe d sou
and there were tears in his eyes of admiration Tor
the muck and sympathy for the lot OF one SO much
worse off than himself. And yet Paul Hayne has
lived to write his elegy."
The London telegraph says that although some
modern litt6rateurs of the srpeThne type have
long affected hold the eighteenth century UP to
seorn as producing nothing but Phistlnes. 1t doubts
whether its successor exhibit three more usetul,
mertorious and good a-round men, than james
Edward Oglethorpe. Benjamin Franklin and Ben
jamin Thompson, commonly called Count Rum
ford.
Jules vernes new work is entitled Godfrey
Morgan, Californian Mystery"
Miss A. MAY +. Robinson's study of rural life in
England will I'LL two volumes, and will s0cn be
published under the title of "Arden."
The revised edition of Mr.. Osgood's tiny but adj
mjrably complete and well-printed Pocket
Guide" Will shortly be brought out for the benefit
of the summer tourist in Europe Ii is most IN
Cenious paradox for while the volume is smaller
than the edition of last year, the type is equally
large and clear and the amount of matter has been
increased.
In a recently published Englisl book on " The
Childishness and Brutality OF the Time a chapter
is given to the literature of the day. which is char
acterized as false affected and pretentious, and
lkened to the llimsy silk called saIsenet.
Miss Anna Dawes, daughter of the Senator
will, it is said, occupy editorial position on The
Ereaing Journal. of Httsfeld. Mass
The coming of a new novel from the press of A.
Williams g. Co. has been announced with some
flourish Of trump-ts. II is supposed to he hstor
zeal novel and is from the pen of the Rev. W. W.
Newton, of Pittshed
"Once There Was Man" is the original title of
"a
Iish. and which Mr. Il. II. Newell lOrpheus c. Kerr
has written after long retirement from active
literary life 1t is said that the story differs
terially in style from Mir NewelPs former humorous
work though the elaboration of an intricate plot
gradually develops a huge underlying Joke, the
d6nouement OF winch is reserved until ;he very end
The characters are introduced III prologue which
gives picture OF the New-York society of sixty
years ago and then transported 10 the island of
~. D.. - v,,I
and scene to which Mir. Newell has gwen careful
study. The story will be illustrated by Frank I.
Merrill.
Major General J. G.. II. FurOng, who has served
for thirty years in the British Army IN India, al
ways intimately associated with the natives, has
made ready the first two volumes of his long prom
ised work ON the evolution of religious thought |
from the rudest symboisms to the latest spiritual
developments. The first volume of this work.
which bears the title of Rivers of Life" treats in
successive chapters of Tree worship, Serpent and
Phallic worship, Fire worship, Sun worship, and
the worship of Ancestors The second deals with
the early Faiths of Western Asia, the Faiths of
Western Aborigines in Europe and the adjacent
countries and lastly the Faiths of Eastern
Aborigines, non-Aryan. Aryan and Scientific Flu
ture volumes will be devoted to the examination of
the various historical and Biblical religions of
Hindus ZorOastrians, Buddhsts. Hebrews Greeks,
Chinese Scandinavians and MahOmetans. General
Furlong made himself master of the various local
dialects of India, and carefully cultivated friendly
relations with the natives, who revealed TO HIN
much of which the ordinary student Is ignorant. The
work is proiusey illustrated and contains key in
the shape of large colOred chart ZIG feet long by
2l4 broad, in which depicted several parallel
columns the rise and fall OF the various religious
ideas, mythoogies and rites which have at any
laAa hao ofion ond
action OF the several religious forces upon one
another their relation TO the migration of the
growth Of natlOnalines, language and literature.
are here exhibited in chronological order. j. w.
BOuton Is the American agent for this work.
Only three hundred copies of the Putnams' beau
tiful memorial edition of Irviugs works will be
published each set of three volumes viii be nnm-
bered and the first will be ready for delivery early
ii April