New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-14
LITERARY NOTES.

n,,llisbed Law G. p Putuams sons under the title on
q Tonnes of the fine" Successive volumes Will De
devoted TO collections OF current papers Oh SOCIAL
problems questions Of belief International Issues
and scientific progress. Studies IN literature, IN
history aud in biography viii he included IN inc
series the first two volumes OF which" Studies IN
biography and Social Problems will be ready
next month.
The fact that Coleridge has not yet found place
in the English Men of Letters series is deemed as
1onishng by writer for The London Daily Ne,cs
who holds that two-thirds of the persons admitted
are unquestionably his interiors. "Whe protested
critics hold back" he adds "the general public, If
ITS view may be summarized, probably considers
Colerid2e as a person who took TOO mucn OPIUM
was a trial to his friends, talked beautifully but
unintelligibly, and by way of amend wrote the
Ancient Mariner and the lines about the quarrel
of Sir Iodine and his friend"
Wilkie Collins in a recent most interesting letter
TO friend in New-York (Mr. William Winter who
ventures to think that these excellent passages are
too good to he kept to HIMSELF refers as follows 10
his own recent novel and TO his lately deceased III
erary comrade, Anthony Trollope; The govt no
answer your friendly inquiries about my heai'n
keeps away wonderfully so far and this IN spite OF
my vital power the doctor calls IT, having oeen
severely tasked by my last story, When man is
odd enough to know better he generally commits
some of his most fragrant indscretions. This new
hook Heart and Science so mercliessly excited
me that went On writing week after week without
davis interval of rest. Rest was Impossible
made desperate effort: rushed to the sea- went
sailing and fishing; and was writing my book all
the time in my head' as the children saw The one
wise course to take was to so back to my desk ana
empty my head, and then rest. My yes are TOO
much shaken for travelling. An armchair ana
(ftath raQh-
ing of the glorious Walter Scott king,
EMPEROR President and God Almighty
of Noyelists-there is the regimen that is doing me
good. All the other nove-writers | can read, while
l am at work myself If / only look at The Anti
ouary,' or odd Mortality l am crushed by the
sense of my own litleness and there is no WORK
possible for me that day. lou knew
Anthony Trollope. of course. His immeasuraDe
energies had q bewildering effect on my Invalid
constitution. To ne he was an incarnated gale OF
wind He blew off my hat; he turned my UNI
brella inside out. Joking apart. as good ana
staunch a friend as ever lived, and, TO my mind'
great loss to novel-readers. Call his standard as
workman what you will, he was always equal to IT,
Never. in any marked degree either above or below
his own level In that respect alone remarkable
writer surely. II he had lived five years longer he
would have written fifteen more thoroughly read
able works of fiction. A loSs-a serious loss, say
again"
There isa rumor that some of Mr. Andrew Langs
critical papers are to be reprinted here IN neat
volume. Mr.. Lang is one of the most accomplished
scholars in England, and his prose, If it sometimes
creaks with prejudice, never other than interest
ing.
In the effort to present literary novelty one In
penious Frenchman has taken to the writing OF
long and elegant articles without using qai or
que.
Anew edition of Sir Theodore Martins transla-
ton of Oehlen-Schlager's fascinating drama OF
aladdin y is coming out in England.
Professor Austin Phelps has prepared volume on
English Style in Public Discourse" with special
relation to the usages of the pulpit The work Will
shortly be brought out by Charles Scribners Sons
Mr.. G. W. Cable has definitely relinqulshed his
commercial occupations in New-Orleans and Will
venture forth a brave and already skilled sailor
upon the enchanted sea of literature Landsnen
and seamen alike will wish him favorable winds
and clear course by and stars.
There will shortly be sold in Paris the album con
tanning the notes and sketches made by Alfred de
Mnsset and George Sand during the celebrated but
tragic journey to Italy they made together. There
is a vast fund Of drolery in the remarks and carl
catures which refer to the excursion on board the
steamer and the compulsory visit of the travellers
to the Italian Custom House. Musset embellished
the pages of his album with sketches in which
some of his friends hit off from the most sar
castle point of view.
The third edition of Bosworth Smiths Life of
Lord Lawrence" has appeared III England.
The author of the No Name novel Barrington's
Fate is discovered to be the English writer Mrs.
Alfred w. Hunt. The book has been published in
London under another title.
NJ TurgeneffTs latest contributions to literature
are his little prose poems entitled Senlia" Many
of these slight satlrical tri6es betray consuming
indignation at human selfshness and mgratitudc,
tempered by compassion no less intense for the
ignorance and stupidity in which, rather than in
actual peryersty it has its root. A man with white
hands claims brotherhood with q knot of wOrkmen.
impossible" they Ieioin; "your hands white,
ours are brown. Oars smell of tar OF what smell
YOURS ~ Try" "The devil they seem to smell
of from Even so. have been six years IN let-
tiers for your sake" "Ob, you would he a rebel,
would you7" Two years afterward the workman
meets another, and hears that the man with white
hands is going to be hanged "What say you,
Brother Dmitry, could not one get piece OF the
ropei They say it is lucky thing to have in the
house, "True true, Brother Peter; let US try,
In other tales the moral IS conveyed in a
more ideal and pOetica fOrm-frequently not
without pungent hunor; as when the
poet having penetrated behind the
veil of Isis finds the awful goddess of Nature occu-
pied in perfectng the hind legs of flea or IN the
dialogues of the Jungfrau and the FInsteraarhorn,
where millennium after millennium the latter giant
reports to the former the gradual dwindiing and
disappearance of the troublesome human insects
who had for time crept up TO his base. One of the
most amusing and not the least significant of this
class is the parable of the Virtues In Heaven. Once
upon a time, it is recorded, the Almighty was
pleased TO summon all the Virtues TO a banquet.
There they came, great and small The little Vr-
tues, it was Observed generally more agree