New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-07
LITERARY NOTES.

No+boniel Hawthorne's desk-the one when nc
need durinc his custom house service at saiem-is
preserved in the venerable First Church OF tna'
town. II is tall desk and was evidently used ny
the novelist in a standing POSITION
Marshal Bazaine's book Episodes of the War OF
1870" is going through the press.
An elaborate Life of General John A. Dix, in two
thick svo volumes. with portraits, will be Drought
ont nv the Harpers early in May. Other books an
pounced by this house 12mo edition OF Ma
smvth,s autobiography "a cheap edition In inc
Franklin Square Library has already appeared
ond n volume of Games and Songs OF American
Children collected and compared By w. W..
NewelI This last book is devoted TO formulas OF
nlav which children have preserved from genera
ion to generation without the intervention OF oider
minds The collector declares that this view OF
folklore in the United States is both rlcher ana
purer than that SO far worked In Great Britain
Victor Hugo's private secretary, NJ. Richard Le-
scde il contributing series of papers on his dis
,inouished employer to The Youths Companion.
pleasant description of the poets Guernsey nome
appeared last week. A number OF original poems
bI DIR. Charles Mackay are now in course OF publ
cation by The Companion.
translation of the powerful novel Elm Gold
meuscb,r by the Hungarian writer haurus Jokai'
will soon be published Ill this country Inc usns-
lators are Mrs L. @. Billiard and Miss L. Herzos.
Mr. p. Graves's Life of Sir William Rowan
Hamilton will shortly be published here by j. D.
Lippincott q Co.
At a recent sale In London copy of hr. Ruskin's
Modern Painters" brought Sl15. though the first
two volumes were of the six h edition ana the
plates throughout were badly spotted.
Mr. Curtis. in the forthcoming number OF Hdrper'
Mooosine. steps forth with his own peculiar grace
and courresy TO the defence of Mr. Howells and Mr.
lanes. against the attacks Of their irate Ameri-
ran critics. The Europeanized American. he de-
| clares in whatever form be may DO viewed Is az
| distinctive an American figure and as le8ltimato
studv for the sarist the novelist or the philosopher
| ga Rillv Bowlegs OF Leatherstocking OF party
boss.
| Dr George Macdonald's collection of essays en-
| titled Ortsn will be reprinted by D. Lothrop
| Co. under the title of Imagination and Other
Essays"
Mr.J. F. Morse's biography of Thomas Jefferson
| will be brought out this month by Houghton
| Miffiin g. Co. The same firm announces memoir
| nv Samuel Longfellow of the late Samuel johnson
| the author of Oriental Religions"
| Arthur s. Hardy the young professor OF mathe-
| matics at Dartmouth. Is about to follow his schol
| arlv work on "Quaternons with novel, which
| Houghton, Mifln e. Co. will publish.
Seven editions of Miss Cobbe's speculative
| "Peak in Daren have already been published IN
| America.
| Complete sets of the Memoirs of John Quincy
| Adamso Will hereafter be very valuable, as the
work was printed from type and will not be TO
| printed.
| The first number Of new magazine. historical
biographical and genealogical, has been published
IN Philadelphia under the title of Bor0hers Repos
| tory.
| translation of Frederick Douglasss auto
biography has been welcomed IN Paris with remark
able cordiality. 1t is called " Mes Annees PEscla
rage ct de Lberte."
The volume of selections from Brownings poems
for which Mr. Richard Grant White has beer
writing an introduction, will be brought out imme
diately by Dodd, Mead e. Co.
| The Noupelle Rerue of February B contains an in
terestinQ series Of hitherto unpublished letters from
| Louis XIV. 10 Marshal Tallard, his ambassador a
the Court of st. James. They discuss at grea
| length the Spanish succession Tallard Is III
| strncted to convince William that an extension o
| Fnpland's colonial power would be seriousl.
| ieopardized by the formation of vast Indo-Euro
| mean empire such as Charles V. ruled over, ant
that an alliance with France is necessary to defea
the ambitious schemes of the House of Hapsburg
These letters are said to have escaped the notice
historians until now and to have been accidental
found among the archives of the French Foreig
Office only short time ago.