New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-15
LITERARY NOTES.

sarmons nreached in English Churches" by the
Rev pbiIlips Brooks will be published in September
bvE Dntton e. Co., simultaneously with Its ap-
nnarance in England The same firm will also puo-
lisb sThe Life and Achievements OF EDWARD
Harry Palmer by Walter Besaht, the well-known
English novelist
For young people Messrs. G. P. Putnams Sons
announce Plutarch for Boys and Girls" selected
and edited by Professor John S. White. The book
will be in quarto form with large type and Is to
have many illustrations.
Henry Holt & Co. have in preparation two novels
by new American authors. One will be anon
ymous" and in fall probability the names Oh
both authors will be withheld. These Will be tne
ouly novels of American origin which Messrs' hoi'
d Co. have Issued for many years.
aAmong the Mongcls on Missions" and =" Eastern
Women On Missions will beissued by a. u. r. haD-
dolph & Co. III few weeks.
Messrs. Dodd, Mead g. Co. have in preparation
aTrayels in the Soudan Country" by +. L. JaiuoS'
The book is a narrative Of the experiences OF .nreo
Journeys to the Soudan and Will contain ior'y
original fuil-page engravngs on WOOD. Miss Lucy
M. MitchelTs History of Sculpture" will be pub
lished in few weeks.
Harper e. Brothers autumn publications Will con-
tain. among other works, What Social Glasses Owe
to Each Other" by William Graham sumner ITO
fessor of Political and Social Science IN iale Co-
lege; "Irench aud German Socialism IN Moderh
Times,n by Richard I. Ely, Ph. d.. Associate Pro-
lessor of Political Economy in the Johns Hopkins
University: and "Old Mexico and her Lost
Provinces" by William Henry Bishop
General Cesnola is pushing forward his large three
volume work on the Cyprus collection which Osgood
g. Co. are to publish, illustrated with elaborate
plates plain and in color. The attacks made on this
collection last year retarded subscriptions but they
have since been received more rapidly and the list
is now nearly full. People who once thought the
collection might have been overvaued are treasured
by the recent growl of the London Saturday Reriec
which said:
"Lord Beaconsfelds Government before annex
ing Cyprus let the Cypriote collection of General
Cesnola to be sold 10 America for song. The
Americans are Gow depreciatlng the value OF thelr
purchase we wish they would sell II back at cost
price II is matter of taste but one single gem,
an emerald engraved with the story OF Boreas aud
Orithyia, seemed TO us as desirable as even tne
Ashburnham manuscript decorated by the pencil OF
Peru lno and his great contemporaries. however,
II is idle to make these comparisons with accuracy,
because the country has lost the treasures whch IT
would have been pleasure to cOmpare-the finest
works of the generation before Phldas and OF the
generation before Raffaele. They are most prob
ably going into the possession OF people who DO not
yet seem quite capable of understanding the meas
IRE OF their own good fortune"
NJ Emile Olivier, who aspires to be at once poll
ticiaD author journalist aud musician, is about to
come before the public as the author of pamphlet
treating of the leading questions that have arisen In
France between the Church aud the State. Some
of the questions thus treated are the suspension OF
the salaries of the Church officials and the character
of the books to be used the schools The title OF
the pam phlet will be: us the Concordat Re-
speced ~ and from NJ. Olliviers past position will
probably attract considerable notice in France He
is understood to take position of violent hostility
to the present Government.