New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-15
LITERARY NOTES.

~o,.,ait Of Matthew Arnold Will accompany the
~-.tnIs AN the English critic and poet which Mr..
Henry lanes has prepared for the next nwheer vi
The Enqlish Illustrated Aasas'ne
r,.,,xs, Charles King u. s. A., has been writing
s.creI To his clever novel, "The Colonies Dangb-
teri He has also been preparing military work.
sThs Great Land Battles Of the Earth" 1t Is
rather Pathological title
The twenty-fourth edition of German transia-
tiou of Baron Tehnyson DEyncourts poem Oh
aFnoch Arden has just been brought out IN HAM
burg. F
An English writer has just discovered that Snake
speare disked dogs looking upon them all more OF
less as ours, snappish and cowardly. SIT Henry
Holland once lost bet Of guinea OWING 10 ms
failure to find dog spoken kindly of by Shake
speare
Charles Reade is i'll - too i'll, he declares
Gto sit down to his desk and elaborate ANYTHING"
A handsome new edition of Professor G. 7. Fish
ers History of the Reformation has been brought
ont by the Scribners. Professor Fisher says IN
note to this edition: "The Church of the Middle
Aaes do not consider mitigated evil but an in
calculable benefit to society What is said OF the
Papacy should not be understood of the Church,
the organized collective influence of Christianity
But even the Papacy, as is shown, was I'D inc
medava period, in many respects, benenceh' H.
stitution."
Caroline of Brunswick is picturesquely called IN
review in The Spectator, King Georges "eXcruci-
ating wife"
The Harpers have Just published Mr. Rolfes edi-
ton of Titus AndrOnicus." The editor had III
tended to omit this play from his edition OF snake
speare and now includes it only in Difference 10 'he
advice of many friends on both sides OF the Atiai-
tic Most of these friends, he declares, agree with
him that Gentle Will probably had little to do with
writing the play The text is given without ex-
purgation.
A correspondent of The Transcript says that Ar
mold went out of his way and forced circum-
stances for an ill natured fling at Hawthorne
thereby showing himself IN whit superior to the
average English tourist who crosses the seas of
which Great Britain is the reputed mistress accepts
the hospitality and the homage of the truly literary
guild of Boston and Cambridge and goes home and
patroniZes abuses us"
Miss Blanche W. Towards novel of Z" Guenn" has
gone into tenth edition.
The late James Thomson, the author of The City
of Dreadful Night" left an unpublished poem called
GThe Doom of a City" 1t is founded upon a story
in the " Arabian Nights" which relates how the lu-
habtants of a city were all turned into stone. 1t
is entirely unlike" The City of Dreadful Night
portrait of the author will be given with the forth
coming volume of his poems, which will also con-
tain Memoir in which the story of Mr. Thomson
unhappy life is told for the first time
Mr.. H. Horne is still seriously i'll and it is feared
that his sight will entirely fail.
That clever and somewhat brutal person, Freder-
lex the Great had Swiss attendant called Catte
who read to him every day for few hours. Some
times the King who was fond of reading aloud re
lisyed his dependent, and read himself, inter
spersing these readings with highly original re-
marks. 1t appears that these royal remarks were
duly noted down by Catte and his manuscript book
has found its way into the Prussan state archives,
whence it has lately been taken for publicatio n.
The Rev. Constantine StaudeT, of the Episcopal
italian Mi sson of this city, has prepared and pub
hshed neat collection of Italian hymns for the use
of the mission. 1t is strange that some one has not
done this before, as the Italians are essentially
musical people and music must be an important adj
junct of Italian religious worship The volume con
tains smooth and poetic versions of some of the
best known hymns of ancient and modern times,
and will doubtless prove popular in Italian cOngTe-