New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-09
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LITERARY NOTES.

Mr.. Aldrich's book "From Ponkapog to Pesth "
will appear this month. THIS is the Compromised
collection of his shorter prose writings winch nave
appeared from time to time in the magazines
Mr.. Julian Hawthorne expects to finish his bio
graphy of his father in July, and the book VIII
probably be published in the autumn. IL VIII con-
tain much interesting correspondence.
The title of the novel which Professor Hardy, OF
Dartmouth. is about to publish a suggestive one
it is But Yet Woman"
The absence of an international copyright law
works hardshps for the American we'll as for the
British author 1t was only by accident thai
Colonel T. w. HiQginson recently discovered that
an English publisher had issued an edition OF his
Common Sense About Women" On examining q
copy of the work in the Boston Library the
| Colonel found that the economical Briton
had printed only about two-thirds of the volume as
originally published here, and had in no way lndi-
Gated the fact that the edition was garbed or Re-
prnted one The work is, moreover, disfgured by
ridiculous misprints.
Mr.. Wilkie Collins, who is suffering from an at
tack of govt, has finished his latest novel, aud 1t
will be published next month. 1t is chiefly re-
markable for strong study of a vivisectionist of
the most cOld-blooded type.
The life of William Cullen Bryant, in the Amer
can Men of Letters" series. will he written by an
emnently competent biographer, Mr.. John Bigelow.
Those who have long enjoyed the charming quail
ties of Mr. J. X. G. Hassard's literary work Will be
glad to know that he has promised to prepare the
volume on Bayard Taylor
1t is pleasant to note that SD clever Journal as
The London Globe some compensation IN the So
called pratica practices" of the American pub
fishers. In discussing the experiment of placing
.Io Of rtfn haf no
lowest class of readers 1T declares that
if there were no other example than
that of America there would be sufficient assur-
apce of the beneficial effect of feeding the people
with the works Of the best authors. Some of our
best writer's" it adds "have won thoir spurs in the
States before the ordinary English reader was
aware of their existence Some OF them who have
suffered from certain degree of ObscuIity on this
side OF the water have been equally charmed and
astonished to find, on visiting American soil, That
they were the subjects of unbounded admiration
three or four thousand miles from their own
country"
A Canadian author, DR.. r. VI. Buck will soon
nublish A Study of Walt Whitnan"-a disserta-
ton for which it might be said by the irreverent
there is no deep yearning the part of the literary
world.
MIR. John Esten Cookies "Virgina: History Of
the People," Is in the press OF Houghton, Miilin IL
Co.
The next volumes in the new edition Of DR..
Holiness works will be ELISE Venner," Medical
Essays and Pages from an Old Volume OF Life. y
This last book will include Soundings from the
Atlantic" and Mechanism in Thought and
Morals"
George Elioys poems have just been printed by
White. Stokes & Allen edition uniform with
that of Charlotte Bronte's verses.
"Isaacs" appears to be popular name with
noyelsts Mr. Crawford calls his novel Mr.. Isaacs.
while Mr.. Fargeon gets little variety by naming
his Mrs Isaacs."
The Puritan authorities of colonial New England
are treated without much resps 5tful ceremony by
Mr.. r, p. Haowell in his forthcoming volume on
1.-THE Quaker Invasion of Massachusetts"