New-York tribune., 1884-03-22
LITERARY NOTES.


Southern stories in volume which VIII soon oe
brought ont by HOughtOn, Mitin N Co.
The Poet Laureate has thus snubDed person WIZ
sent him a notice of his lordship's sell LoIu
Tennyson is much obliged to Mr. Henry holi'lAo
for his incosure, but such notices 40 ho' "'0', ,3
him so he bess MIR Rcmeke not to take 'he 'louoio
of sending him any more
The library of the late famous hookohder' 1 fI"n-
cis Redford is TO be sold at auction IN LONDON next
month Among the numerous rarities ineIe0eo III
,hn collection will be found copies of the
preeches" and Unrighteous" Bibles and OF
Gvraldi Cmthios excessively rare "Hecatom-
r;if;b About 500 volumes are of the collectors
own binding the finest example of the biohope-
istic art being the two volumes of RogerSs Italy
which have several times figured at international
exhibitions The sale Will last over live days
The sum of five hundred thousand reis contributed
nv the Emperor of Brazil to the Longfellow Me
mortal is not so unduly enormous as it looks on paper
II takes thousand reis TO make one mllleis ana
one mllreis means about fity-four cents III our
coinage But at its smallest 1t is generous ana
n kindly contribution, and ii heads long list o1
offerings from Brazilian gentlemen
The English answer to Max O'Rell's criticism OF
England will soon appear under the title OF John
Bulls Neighbor in Her True Light
Professor .Jebb will not bring out the second part
of his Sophocles" until next year, his WISH 10
America this summer interfering with his WORK.
The GomIo och Ma Hemlandet. a Swedish journal
of large circulation published in Chicago oegah
the serial publication of The Bread winners Will
ont consulting the author or the owners OF lhe COPY
right A suit which was promptly instituted III Vno
limited States Court by the publishers Messrs
HARPER g. Brothers was decided yesterday ao-
yersey 10 the Swedish publishers, compelling them
TO respect the authors copyright in the story and
pay for their use of it in their journal
A volume of poems by British and American law
yers is TO be brought out in San Francisco, by Sum
ner. Whitney e. Co. Many of these poems have had
heretofore only private and local circulation
Blackstone. Neaves and Justice Story will be repre-
sented in the volume, which will be entitled
"Lyrics of the Law"
Mr.. w. J. Sendall, the brother-in-law and life
long friend of the late C. S. Calverley, will write
memoir of the poet.
The advisabty of knowing what one is writing
about is illustrated by this remarkable paragraph
in The London Echo "A Boston paper says that one
of the earliest poems of the authOTess OF Johh
Halifax, Gentleman that beginning Philip my
king was addressed to Mr.. Philip BOurke Marston.
That would indeed be very singular, seeing that
Philip Bourke MarstOn must have been a small BOY
when Mrs. Craiks earliest poems were written
"a
sngularlty is not so very singular But it is rather
curious that the cOmpacent English critic should
not have read one OF the best known poems in his
language.
The April number Of the London Art Journal will
contain Mr. Ruskn's lecture on" The Storm Cloud
OF the Nineteenth Century"
Mr.. Cables novel of DR.. SEWER" will be con-
clnded in the October number Of The Century,
The late Grenville Munays book, High Life in
France under the Republic" is on the eve OF publ
cation in London.
"The Century Guild Hobby Horse" is the queer
title of new English periodical, the projectors Of
which desire to give in some form, other than that
of our special craft. articuate and permanent ex-
preston to what to us some OF the inner pulsa-
tiOns and chOicer impulses of modern life, as felt
tnobbng through the artistic world IN which we
chance TO live . Our single intention is sufh-
cient security against commission OF the commoner
literary offences inevitably following system OF
publication that makes literature but creature
of commerce, made for market, cried at the cor
ners, and bought to safe a hunger that habits OF
chronic greed have rendered tastelvss." Original
poems. ESSAYS upon art, criticism and works OF fc-
ton will appear in this periodical
General Badeau has written an article on General
Grant Tor The Century The next number OF the
magazine will contain the first OF Mr.. Julian law
thorne's papers on the American scenes OF his
fathers TomanCes.
OFF. D. Maurice's novel lit is said that one of his
friends. whose habit 1t to speak in superatVes,
declared that if it had not had the most vllanous
Mot that had ever been constructed, it would have
been the best novel that had ever been written"
Another "Why, Maurice, how on earth did you
ever come to write such thing as this Why,
there is not a man in the whole book that
shouldn't like to have the hanging Of"
Houghton, Mifllin & Co. are about to bring out
book on Italy by Mrs Z. ID. Il. Blanchard
1t is proposed in England 10 erect memorial to
Charles Dickens, taking the shape of hospital for
children, the institution TO be called Tiny Tins
Hospital for Crippled Children"