New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-03-27
LITERARY NOTES.

Nice Alexander the American lady whose draw
,nos arc so much admired by Mr.. Ruskin, has pre-
rared for immediate publication volume OF poems
illustrated by herself. The book VIII ne caiIeo
"Roadside Songs Of Tuscany"
Snrieaut Ballantine will publish Immediately IN
England his account of his visit to this country
new American novel, called "a Fair Device" is
coming from the press of the John W. Lowell Com
many. The author is Mr. c. w. Balester.
Mr. George Macdonald is preparing for pubca-
ZION \ second series of Unspoken Sermons"
Tenuvson in the Dream Of Fair Women eol-
ton of 1898, made Iphigenia say;
Tho tan nasts ouiver'd as they lay afoat
The temples and the people and the shore;
One drew a sharp knife thIO my tehder 'hIo"V
SiOwy,-2nd nothing more
vbereo+ the critic of The Quarterly Rerier for April
1ss3. exclaims: what touching simplicity
What pathetic resguatlon He cut my throat
Nothing more! One might indeed ask, What
more, she would haveY 2" For many years the poet
left the lines as they were first printed now, as
every one knows, they stand thus:
The high masts hicller'd as they lay afio9t;
The Crowds the temples, waveTd, and the shore;
The bright death quiyerd at the ylctlms throat;
Touched; and knew no more
perlaps saws The ST. JdmesS GGzctte IL Is III lhe
speech of Cleopatra that the improvement is most
visible. Such phrase as realm-drainlng reVelS "
has happily disappeared; "my gallant Antony" Is
bettered into my Roman Antony" and my
mailed captain" into my mailed Bacchus" Down
10 1912 one read, "Oh what little snake stole
Caesars famew At present it is, with worm
balk'd his fame"
The recently discovered manuscript OF Kant is TO
be reproduced phOtographlcally. There Is sald 10
be no doubt as to its authenticity. 1t was hrst
mentioned in j. g. Hasse's Remarkable Sayings OF
nf dc Toll COnOauiOuS.V
in 1904. the year in which Kant died. Hasse
therein refers to the work, which the author had
several times shown him, and to which he Kant
had not only given the title System of Pure
Philosophy" but of which he spoke as being his
principal work, his chefdGarre," an absolute
whole completing his system, and only needing TO
be properly arranged-an arrangement which Kant
hoped to have time left him to accomplish
Mr.. Eugene Schuyler having finished and pub
Usbed his book on Peter the Great, is now at work
upon the History of the Court Language of
China"
Holland. il is said, has only one poet who is also
woman This is Miss Stratenus, who is now Wis
ting London, and who is described as charming
both as poet and as woman.
1t is stated that no literary Englishman knows
anything about Dutch poetry except Mr. Gosse.
Dickens's sketches of Young Gentlemen" pub
lshed in 1888, and his "Sketches of Young
Couples" printed in 1910, have been reproduced in
fac-simile and will shortly be brought out In
London.
There is apretty quarrel going on between Mr.. II.
n. Hudson aud Mr. w. J. Rolfe concerning their
respective editions Of Shakespeare and the mistakes
therein. Mr.. Role calls Mr.. Hudson an unpleas-
ant name, prsfacing 1t with that useful word if"
and Mr. Hudson retorts by calling Mr.. Rolfe Tho
man" A pamphlet showing forth the causes and
progress of the quarrel has just been published by
Mr. Hudson 1t offers interesting reading to the
friends Of the rivals.
NJ. Max O'Rell writes to The London Standard,
complaining that he has received no cheque from
the American publishers of his book, John Bull
ct Son Ile," whereupon correspondent OF The St
James's Gazette retorts If the ingenious NJ. Max
oRell would take walk down, not Fleet-st, but
BooksellerS-row. he might see another side Of the