New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-31
LITERARY NOTES.

49,. ..o,,Oor ~ omen writers of England
A'uo"- Wv rooro promise than Miss Mary Hop
,,ers the author of Five Chimney fai'h """
q A STORY of Carnival'-a book when HON ~
oro obont TO publish. Miss lloppeTs Is seh'I9 ana
reserved woman and an indeiatlsable stu"cA' u viz
str,etly spiritual side OF human nature
The beaur,fnl copy Of Petrarch BOUGHT ny MI
Pickering Tor 81. $50 at the Sunderland Saie h"S
INST been sold to the British Museum
The unsuccessful genius may find II sermon or Il
satire in the state nent tat Pecks DAD boy -
which is journal Of the vulgar ana laiC'0H NV
ceedinos OF a too enlightened young>ief-h"S TO-
Gently had q sale of 100000 coyigs Inc sanl' "'T
fortunate being mag plaster his hmt WIN ''o "'
d1topal bit Of information that thoueh ''0
oro runninc night ard day il is all bat imrossimet 10
supply the demand.
Mr.. CHARLES Dudley Warner as well as MI O"''''
will make an address at the Irving cel@pI".'o" d"
Tarrvtowp next week. MI Warner in his pleasant
narugrsphs On Irving in the current nuApe' "a INC
Critic declares that what will carry iryings humor
ON through all literary fashions is It's exquisite ue-
ference to humanity. DR.. Holmes IN the same pa
ner ,certioos his one brief glimpse OF Irving.
conId hardly believe he saws, that this sight
delicate gentle Invalid was the same man VINO
wrote the rocking chapters of knlckerbocher' ~
could not be that this was lie whose stories uHo"
10 read by the light of the astral lamp III 'Ao
short evenings of boyhood when went 10 neo Win
the lanb.-whose books could never open WI'hOU'
their bringing a smile 70 my lips or tear 10 NY
ewes wanted u mental stercoscope to DiIhG 'he
figure before me and my ideal portrait OF MN mo
single image. | came away knowing that hau
seen him bat not believing it. sweet piaci1'
Ieniguant old man, monument oil hlhiSeH WIN us
inscription faint yet still ieglOle.
A French blbliophile owns n Book OF Hours
which was n wear ago interesting for two reasons
only-ts binding exquisite, and on us loose ny
leaf were the autographs of three previous owners
Louis NV, Maria Theresa and Bossnet. Inc
Frencbman insured the book for five thousand
francs and when, little while age. an accidental
fire in his library sc0rched the bindlng and de-
s1royed the precious hyieaf, he applied to tue COM
many for his money. Not Ouly dId the company le'
fuse to pay tia court sustained the refusal mold
ing that as the body of the book was uniuured lis
value was not impaired, ASSOCIATION counting tOr
nothing.
The world loves biography, and " the sedentaly
veayers of long tales who cannot wreak Them
selves in more purely creative work are too apt 10
take advantage of that fact The men OF a former
time are perhaps fair gams to bloodthlrsiy piog-
rspher: but when in these days an eminent man
dies the writing of his life reasonably be left 10
eonsanruinity or previous selection, and deriving
authority and erla from the proper sources.
There have been several hasty and unnecessary bi-
ographles of Mr. LongfollOw; the world could well
have afforded to wait for the life written by the
ooets BIZ other and now IN the press OF j. IL OsgoOd
Il Co.
Readers in England are complaining that the del
icate covers of the volumes OF the Parchment Ii
brary" are mistake. For short time. they say
nothing could be more dainty; but the delicate
white is soon soIed ere long, the cover warpS; 1t
will not open easily ana absolutely refuses to close
completely and no one can feel quite comfortable
with book which is always gaping unless II has
paper weight on the top OF it. 1t is suggested that
in future volumes if paper equally strong and thick
is used with the parchment binding it would be
well TO revert to the ancient custom OF clasps or
strings the latter for choice, which almost un
,ersany employed in the case Of Imp yelum bind
ings one or two hundred years ago.
Mr.. Justin McCarthys Maid of Athens" his
new novel now running in BelpGrd. is to he re-
printed IN this country in the pages OF The Domestic
Monthly.
Aplain and practical little guide up the great Egyp-
tian river is Mr. w w Warren's Life the Nile
the third edition of which has just been brought out
by Lee Il Shepard. Many years have passed since
the book was first published, but there are too few
changes in that region of sand and sunshine to
make Mr.. Warren's story wornOut one.
70 Mr.. Henry James has come what is perhaps
test of popularity. number of his short stories
have just been reprinted in the cheap form OF The
franklin Square Library. These include Daisy
Miller" An International Episode" The Diary OF
a Man of Fifty" and" A Bundle of Letters. all
brilliant ana finished sketches of character ana OF
national diyeIsities.