New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-08
LITERARY NOTES

a.. r.,a,vtord,s Roman Singer will be rather
e.. .torv II viii run through The atlantic for the
coming half-year'
u-s oliphant. who has apparently an endless
.enaeitv for composition, is now living IN venice
she "a about to bring cut work on that city. IN
sdd;t;on TO her promised novel of Hester" IL
~Sn,d n. interesting to know how well Mrs. Oil
miami could write restricted to one book In TWO OF
three years.
IN. Vheelu,an grows brighter. breezer and more
artistic with every number 1t is magazine IN.
valuable TO those who love the merry machihe.
The illustrations of the December number are ao
rnirable. and the "reminiscences of bicycling travel
I'D adventure are interesting even to mere laymen
The bound volume of the magazine for the past SIX
months is a mine of pleasant suggestion for the
bicyclist
The British people seem to take sentimental
interest at least in the miseries of their poor No
sewer than twenty thousand copies Of Mr.. G. X.
Sims's book, 4" How the Poor Live, were ordered oy
the trade in advance Of publication.
n scribner g. Wexford announce the " first COM
plete and uniform edition of the historical and post
humous Memoirs of Sir Nathaniel William Wrax-
al.p The work is, it will be remembered. ohron-
icle of that period in British history especially In
and 1854.
Mr. Tennyson's new poem on Early spring
nublished by The Youths Companion at the cost OF
81 .0oo-is a painfully weak production. 1t hardly
reaches indeed the level of the ordinary newspaper
poetrv These verses for example, are not exactly
worth 1925 each:
From skies OF glass
JacOb's-ladder falls
And Ger the menntaln-walls
Young angels pass.
Before them fleets the shower
Aud burst the buds,
And SHINE the level lands,
And fash the floods
The stars are from their hands
Flung thr0' the woods;
The woods by living airs
How freshly fann'd
Light airs from where the deep,
All down the sand,
Is breathing In his sleep,
Heard Oy the land
The printing of illustrated papers is done so much
more cheaply in London than III Paris that the
Figaro is having its magnhcently illustrated OhrsV-
mas number printed in the former city. The presses
on which this has been placed cost 200 each; III
Paris they would cost s., 600 to $4,000
There is in The Andquary curious and entertain
ing article showing the remarkable slowness of the
world in the development of agricultural matters
The evidence derived from the comparison OF
ancient and comparatively modern implements is
that presented by the writer.
Time has not been permitted to change the old
Leather Bottle Inn at Gotham, Kent nor its parlor
SO infinitely described in the q" Pickwick Papers,
wherein Mr. Tupman on memorable occasion was
discovered Within and without the quaint inn re-
mains as it was fifty years ago. and is in the hands
of landlord and landlady proud of its associations
Kate Greenaway's Almanac for 1854 George
Routledge Il Sons is the prettest and QuanteSt oil
triling gifts Her little tripping figures of lads and
lasses, sodccatey drawn and colorcd, show earnest
study and increased power in this conscientious
artist.
The Magazine Of american History for December has
some excellent papers on Christmas-tme IN Colonial
America The best of these is Mr. John Esten
Cookies graphic description of the holiday III Old
Virginia 1t is enriched by some very attractive IL
lustratiOns.