New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-06
LITERARY NOTES.

Daudets q LEvangeiisto is to be published In
translation by B. Peterson X Brothers.
The widow of Jared Sparks has lately published
a volume Of devotional poems.
UawthOrpe's novel, " DR.. Grimshawes Secret"
has been published in London by Longmans.
Mr.. Joel Chandler Harris is said to have reached
only the fourth chapter Of the novel of Southern HE
upon which lie is engaged.
Three editions, one cheap and two expensive Oh
Canon Farrar's Early DAYS of Christianity have
Loo, hrouoht ont bv Cassell Peter, Galpn q Co.
Mrs. Rosa Hawthorne Lathrop is not, as has been
,enor,oa tho author of the novel A Transplanted
Rose" The name OF the real "Ii'oi VIII 10 "n-
nouueed by the Harpers next week
A pmor comes from London that The Acddemy is
q, ma snspended and that The 4$henanam is to be
consolidated with another paper OF literary fame
Professor George Ebers, of Leipsic. the distn'
cuished Oricntalist and novelist. is now partially
naralyzed. He still writes. however, and is able to
take share in University work.
The lats Professor Henry Is. Smiths "lntroduc-
tion IN Christian Theology" Will soon be published
bvA. G. Armstrong d Son. The volume will con-
tain Professor Smiths arguments on theology as
science and Cd the sources of theology
The pleasantest Yankee in all English fiction is
rropounced by London critic to be Hiram Search,
a character in Mr.. David Christie Mnrrays now
novel of Val Strange The critic goes ON to call
this lucky Yankee the bravest and gentlest OF Ma
ture'B gentlemen"
The last number OF LittelPs Licing Age takes that
communicable magazine into It's one hundred anu
Gftysixth volume Its familiar brown cover Is al
WAYS suggestive of good things within and 1t prom
ises to reign unrvalled until international copSlsn'
comes TO chase it from the field.
-ha yoIuma of Colonel WllIlamSS " History
of the Nepro Race in America will be brought out
shortly by the PuInams. The same firm announce
an important work on /" The Woman Question IN
Europen 1t will consist of series OF essays Dy
representative Euror can women.
"Cats Cooks and Cartwheels is the somewhat
strained title Of little volume of clever domestic
sketches by Edward r. Ely. They are slight ou'
neat and full of quaint reflection ana humorous sug
restion They deserve to be reproduced IN o"in'
tiei shape than that IN WHICH MI O'' io''" -'
clothed them.
That musical performers gre, as rule, the moSt
unsatisfactory subjects for biography IS the convlc
t,op of the reviewer of The London Daily Ne'cs
"Take away the fiddle or the piano he saws " ana
what remansl" Among the notable exceptions 10
counts Franz List who would, he thnks nave
been remarkable figure in his generation even II
he had never composed a single opus OF p'ayeo
note ON the piano. He could never have been lost
i, the cro wd. Had he become a monk in youth in
.tead Of becoming an able in his old age he woald
bavs DISTINGUISHED himself as missionary mar
tyr an APOSTLE, or apostate. HIS waywaru
Genius his restless enthusiasm his electric eh'er
ament must have flashed upon the world IN SONIC
shane or other Had not music absorbed MS redun
dant energies. he must have made name ior n'in-
self as revolutionary force
Mr. Ruskjn has prepared new edition OF the sec
ond volume of Modern Painters" ("Of Ideas OF
Beautv ~ and proposes to print with 1T new pref
ace and numerous critical notes. He has before can
didlv propounced this second volume as originally
unfinished the most affected and weak OF all my
booksn full he adds of morbid violence OF passion
and narrowness of thought. The STYLE TOO Isse'eIe
lvcondemped: the author doubts " neither the SEN
fences are lntelgible" and he absoves his reauers
from the necessity of beginning OF the most elab
crate massage unless they are breathed ike the
Groeme. Right up Ben Ledi could he press, and not
n sob mis- toll confess" Indeed, almost the only
,,easureu Mr. Ruskin has himself in 1ereading MS
Id hacks is his sense of having done justice to tho
pine"
The revival of The Orerland Monthly was celebrated
in San Francisco the other day by dinner 10 'he
contributors. Many pleasant speeches Were MAUI
nearly all of which celebrated the work OF trancls
Rret Harte Mr. Germany, the publisher OF the
series under Hartes editOTship. SAID III the course
Of his speech: at has been often asserted that
did not appreciate MIR. Harte and that l, more than
on, one wa. the cause of his leaving. when the
wave of popularity was mounting higher ana
HIGHER suggested 10 him that we take Trip East
ON a lecture tour, the financial management 10 DC
in nv hands He was quite pleased win the loea'
and ! have no doubt we would have returned Win
Increased fame for him and greater prosperity LOT
tba magazine l would have given but one oppor-
tnnitv to each community TO see and near hilh'
fins undoubtedly making grand success. but IL
ofconrse failed end az final proposition, being so
,o assured of the success of the publication under
his editorial care. offered him salary OF $1,000
ner onnnm. payabe monthly; 800 for every story
and 400 for every poem he contributed, together
with quarter interest in the magazine"
The london Times III reviewing the concluding vol
ume of Bishop WilberfoTces Life" asks; "What
are we to think of the propriety of publishing the
following extract from the diary, purportng &c
rive on the authority of an eminent diplomaus''
AN account of the demeanor at Rome OF an eminent
living Cardinal who was a near connection OF the
Bishop'sY- .r,
"Odo Rnssell-much talk with him; he said Man
pipS,s influence at Rome absolutely personal IN
fuence with the Pope. The Pope man OF strong n.
will, though of intense vanity. cannot pear th'
slightest contradiction. but very FOND OF on Wno
faEe his absolute dlcta as law. This Manning has
played upon and got tb on POPE e ali l"G bis own ideas
which pleases him exceedingly. Clifford had fesis-
ted the Pope, which was why ne passet Hn eS o.
Archbishop. Mannings appointment Hroles'GGC
against Al the old R HS I.te fnm Msnniha
Ens nb,seonious: creeps on hands and knees
to Kiss his and even When bidder to PIG ge So SO
rS'nn saving among the Roman Catholics al
Rome nn is Otter Popes believed themselves thu
Wears OF Jesus Christ Pho believes that Ie soI
Christ is his vicar He Is under gI9at M d.
~ dv"ng Tins wear from the superstition OF no Pop
OUTLYING his wen!yfth y year # PORed ond I an
sayius a. tIa Sv1od of 1869 he will, by new
decree, pronounce himself to be fourth person II