New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-08-20
LITERARY NOTES.

Miss Emily Faithful during her recent Visit 70 TINS
sountrv. arranged with the Fowler "eiis 70 W
come the American publishers of her new DOOR, eh"'
"Three Visits to America" The work Is now Is Po''
md will appear simultaneously here ana IN Lonoo" ''
fall
Horace f. Scudder will have an article on Inc
Hone Of Hans Christian Andersen" in the oc'ooer
number of " Harper's Magazine
uonehton. Mialin & Co., taking time by an ample
forclock announce the Holmes Calendar for 1850. IL
will be published uniformly with the Longielow'
Emerson and Whittier Calendars.
Julian Hawthorne has written a short story, such
stna as Dreams" for the October Manhattan
Another of the stories of the number, Notary
of Rest" will be contributed by Rose Hawthorne
Lathrop.
Iicripcott 4 Co announce the completion of their
edition de luxe" of the works Of W. H. Prescott
The edition which Il in fifteen octave volumes i
limited to $50 copies.
A writer in Notes and Queries" who evidently
brides himself on knowing misquotation when ne secs
it. thus falls foul of a well known noyehsti II seems
strange that an author so well known as MI janus
Pawn sboud have made two interpretations ON the same
page but such is the In his novel, Inc lax
of the Town." which began In the July NUMBER VI
The Cornhll Magazine at p rs, he Wil'o'' no"!
noe the man was thirty if he was a day" ana
youth cannot I'VE together W '''i''' 49,
boary should be grabbed" shakespeare " The
Passionate Pilgrim" xii, l. ~ The other quotation Is
made extremely vulgar:
Cuss the clerk and cuss the parson.
Cuss, oh. cuss the whole concern J.
This "a from Bon Gaultiers Lay of the Loyclorn' and
The quotation should be in one lne
Cursed be the clerk and parson-cnrSed DC the "hoo
concern"
II Mr. Pawn thus plumbers in his quotations on one
mage. how many plumbers will he make in whole
novel
"The Century Company" viii publish soon a new
book of stories rhymes and pictures, TO be called
Baby World" edited 10y Mary Mapes Dodge. 1t VIII
consist Of selections from st. Nicholas"
Funk & wagualls will shortly issue " Ten Years in
Police Court" 1t is given out that the work IL from
The pen of Judge of one of our Eastern courts -"
statement which leaves ample room for gnesscS touc
ing its authorship.
"It is not generally known" writes correspond'''
of "The Pal Nell Ge1".te." That Inc Lazy VI
LYONS was brought out quite anonymously ana 'ha'
ON the night of its first production, beyond hacIeady
and Bnlwer Lytton himself no one III LONDON h'u
been allowed to know tho secret of the authorship oil
tbe nlay Between tho acts Dickens, who had been
one Of delighted audience went behind the scenes TO
talk over the play with Macready and Bulwer, con-
graduating Macready his wonderful imperSonauoh
of Claude Menotto Dickens was in raptures with the
vbole thing aud asked Bulwer what he thought oil IT,
Bulwer affected to find some fault with the plot and
suggested improvements here and there in the various
situations Come now, said Dickens, 1t Is not IKE
YOU Bulwcr, TO cavil at such small things as those
The man who wrote the play may have initiated your
work here ana there perhaps, but he Is deuced
clever fellow for all that To hear you speak so I'M
fairly is almost enough to make think that you are
jealous"
The London Times begins six-column- and-a-
half review Of the life and writings of Boingbr"ke
with the statement that Henry ST. John now better
known as Vi,count B'ingbroke, was the create
orator the best writer the least scrupulous statesman
the most accomplished proisatc and the worst patriot
Of his time"
An elaborate book, the preparation of which has
been suggested 10y the Queen. who has also taken inc
venture under her direct patronage Is in preparation
IN London Its title is Songs of the North" and Its
contents are to consist mainly Of the words and
music collected in all parts of Scotland aud hitherto
uunubi.hcd Magnificent illustrations are to be
prominent feature of the book.
Lord Honglton said. at the dedication Of the Burns
monument in London. that he had the privilege OF
being one Of the judges in competition OF poems
written on the centenary of Burns lie went through
great deal of verse written on tn" sutJctt-a Hl'le
of il very good a great deal OF 1t very detestapIe.
What was more remarkable, however, was that what
wa, good We, not very remarkable; bat among Tue
hundreds of poem, that sent in from all quarters
al the world in some that utterly unimportant AS
n whole there did occur lines of real Inspiration
which we should have been glad to have remembered.
Two lines however, he dl remember, written by
some unknown person, male OF female. No name was
attached to the poem. but he would be glad some %
those who were gathered there would remember the
lines as he had done. They were these
Scotland viii flourish while each peasa ant learns
The Psalms of David and the songs of Burns