New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-29
LITERARY NOTES.

for the next report TO state that MT T. W. '"'"'-
not the author Of this story.
The Macmillans have in press an edition OF MAT
.h., Arnold's works intended expressly ior inc
American market. twill be the nrst anu o"S
uniform edition.
Mr. stcdman's poem will lead the list OF contents
IN the December Manhattan. fuli-page ura"i"s
nv Mr. St John Harper will accompany IL
The Sanitary Engineer is to be published herea''eT
In London as well as in New-iork, the 1a'e VI 'sso
na;nc fortnight later than the date in this city.
nso,s will be sent over each week and folded
.oa bound in London where at the outset 1t Is sad
40 have circulation of 5000 copies.
DF. Randolph & Co. are about to publish the
III left In Ms. by the late William NJ Baker, VINO
Is most clearly remembered as novelist lhis pos
shumous volume is not a work OF ncuon' out
record of the writer's mental struggles III tue
effort 10 understand life and its purposes III is 10
se entitled The Ten Theophanes, or the Maniies-
tatiops of Christ Before His Birth IN Bethlehem"
popular edition of Sir William Stirling Max
wells don John of Austria" is nearly ready LOT
ratification il London. The edition de lure consist
ing of lI5 copies 20 only for sale, was issued some
few months ago To Sir Stirling Maxwell the CON-
niIation of the book was labor of love. 1t was
begun at least twenty-five years since. ana was an
poupced for publication so longago as 1870. lWlce
The whole manuscript was reprinted solely Tor the
eve of The author The handy form OF the book Will
contain most of tie choice and characteristic Illus
trations gwen in tie larger edition.
The Rev John Beecher. who nay be remembered
I'm connection with a criticism upon one oil Loru
Byrcu' poems was the author OF this passage; AS
ships meet at sea moment together, wheh "oTus oi
greeting mnst lie spoken, ami then away AGAIN III
The darkness: so men meet and part in this world"
II is coniectured-but probably unlustly 1or why
,hould not two men have bad thought so beau
tiful aud so obvious THAT LongfeHow louho III
that sentence the suggestion for his lines:
As ships that pass in the night and speak each o'her
OaV aSgna given and distant voice in the darkness
20 on the OF life we pass ana SPEAK one an
only look aud a voice. then darkness again. ana
silence.
The putnams are bringing out volume OF
"Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayisis" They
have nearly ready Miss Auna Katherine Greens
novel of " Hand and Ring"
Mr. Swiuburne has written the articles on Mar
lowe and on Mary of Scotland for the new volume
OF tho Encyclopedia Britannica
The fourth volume of BrOckbaus's " Conversa-
tious-IexIkon" or general German encyclopaedia
extends into as far as the word " Deichsefecht'
or fright of letting the pole of ones cart protrude
from ones own barn-door over ones nelghOors
courtyard" "a privilege which was highly vaued
protracted lawsuit
The Macmillans will soon publish in the Golden
Treasury Series Mrs. ELEPHANTS selections from
Cowper's Poems" and the Rev. w. Benhams " Se>
lections from Cowper's Letters"
Tho October edition of The Manhattan is already
exhausted and another is IN preparation. Mr..
Whittier by the way, is said to have received SloO
for his sonnet published in that magazine.
CARLYLE once said of TurgcneH's "Moomoo"-a
little tale Of adeaf-mute and his dog-that it was
the most pathetic story he ever read.
The Macmiilaus have printed 10000 copies OF
the new periodical The English illustrated Magazine,
induced thereto by the preliminary orders received.
That absurd little extravaganza called "Nice
Versa has had marvellous success in England.
The cheap edition of 10000 copies which lately
appeared there was almost Immediately exhausted.
The author of "Guerndae" is writing another
book-a work which WILL of course, be the test OF
his capacity While bis first novel was undoubI-
edly clever it had the air of telling all that the
author knew--a characteristic of many first bucks
Avoume called The Poets of New HAMPSHIRE
was recently published in that State. Selections
from the verse Of nearly three hundred poets are
given therein, together with biographical notes.
Constance +. Woolson Is named among these poets.
The last wish of Turgcneh that o should be in
tefTcu Dy lns VI lis SiieO DOi'hShf' 10 =" w
fulfilled in a curious way. As there is no room in
Belnsky's vault 1t is proposed 10 disinter the
remains of Belinsky and renter them beside the
body of Turgenef The novelst's last story, La
Caille: Impressions dEnfancc," has just been pub-
lishcd abroad.
How John Norton kept his Christmas " 10 the
title of the Story which Mr.. W. II. H. Murray has
prepared for the extra holiday number of HorPe"s
Utekiy 1t is said TO be a touching tale OF AdiIon-
dack adventure. Its pathos turus upon the painful
journey taken by John Norton, old trappsr, and
his companion to relieve from starvation Il poor
family who had been forsaken IN the wilderness.
The story is to be superblv illustrated by Frost.
Carmen Sylvia, otherwise the Queen of Roumaaa
has lately retold the story of tho Wandering Jaw.
She has treated it from wholly modern POINT Of
view The wanderngs OF her Ahlsuerus are
undertaken 10 find proofs of the existence of
God. lie says: When you can show me the God
that has created all the God who leads the sum- the
God whose voice sounds in the storm, then will
pray 20 him. But before that will not bow. One
said be was God, and he died. You say he was God,
and you killed him. laughed when God Ian
guIshed and fell ard bled. Ny God cannot De
thus" Many stages of existence, many metamOr-
phoses of being and mind, has Abasuerus to go
through before he is brought the know ledge that
God IS no visible great king but spirit and truth,
and working Power, pervading all things, whose
manifestations have been evolved and made evident
through the ages IN tho form best suited to the
peoples and the temper wherewith 1t dealt. Very
tender as well as powerful is the scene in which he
oomprchends that God is the Life of the universe.
He falls his knees and cries: My God. my God,
my God sought Thee on the whole earth Isought
Thee in sacrifice and remuneration; in sin aud in
madness did seek TDee lave suffered all wee
ON earth, have drunk Of all grief Doubt was my
food, darkness my day. But now my eyes see. God
is In life" And having thus spoken, the spell that
bound him is broken, and he dies.