New-York tribune., 1884-01-26
LITERARY NOTES.


"Vernon Lee is writing the life of the Countess
of ALBANY twilc of the Preicndeu for the Eminent
Women Series. Other forthcoming volumes Oh Ire
series are Madame Roland 10y Miss Blind; Eh@a
beth Fry.' by Miss Pitman, and Harriet Mar"-
neau," by Mrs. FeuwIck-MiIicr.
Iongfcllow once presented TO a certain fine lady
n copy of his collection of short poems ny ''h'iv"'
authors. Beautiful" she exclaimed. pnt why
don't YOU write something original ! OoHsi''i'"e'
SAYS Erc-u otter SdtUdGy. tat the poet was ''u'''
what sensitive on this point, the fine lady maze
harder hit than she knew
"Occilept aud ORIENT" is the title OF the conec-
tion of discourses by tho Rev. Joseph COOK WLleh
will shortly be published 10y Houghton' Miuln
\ Co.
sncw and complete edition of Hans BroitmannS
Baliads i'll soon be brought ont by l. IL Peterson
Drotbors There are Rfty-six Of these ballads which
will thus for the first time be published 'oge'nCf'
A portrait of Mr.. Leland will be pretixed to the
poems
What George Eliot, Tcnnyson Ruskin, Swinburne'
Archbishop Trench and other English notabilites
have thought of Walt Whitman will be disclosed
in an appendix to the British edition of DR.. Bucke
biography of the poet.
Only limited edition of Ex-Governor CorheHS
biography of his father will be published.
A splpQulQ new eOlIlOU tl La my
becn broupht out in Paris. 1t is in three 'hlcA o0
-, ,,;,b a se,arate album. which contains two
veil engraved PORTRAITS of the author ana nc
.u,iles of hts handwriting. The first two Nolulhcs
are enriched with cOpiOus notes, whlcn NJ hesi,'i
has selected out of all that has been wti''oi on -"
Bruyere from the gossip of Saint simon ana 'no i1t
1ers of Boieau from the critical edluons Vi 'n1
eighteenth century-COste's III l|4o' beiin "nu
Halln's IN l70O-to the six most famous eutious VI
our own time and TO the commentaries OH 'ncSo oS
Jal Sainte Beuve and Edouard Founier. lhe
second volume also contains collection OF keys 10
The names of persons dcsignatedinthe "Caractefes
that is the original guesswOIk keys invented oV
To Rrpvaro's contemporaries, often with no oDJect
lint IN emhroil him with friends at Court; ana the
later KEYS manufactured from the most CaIeluly
etndied evidences as TO the authors meaning lno
third volume ia devoted to analytical tables con-
cordance glossary. a photographed notice. ana
an exhaustive study of La Bruyeres style and
philosophy in every page.
The third edition of the Rev. w. r. Huntington's
ESSAY towards Unity" called " The Church
Idea.~ has been published i'll neat and convenient
shape by L. p. Dutton Co.
The first volume of Estes & Lsu1iats complete
edition of Carye's works will be ready neAt
month-and thereafter the edition Will be issued at
the rate of two volumes month. All but twenty
of the three hundred and fifty sets are already SUD-
scribed for.
German writer has Just published biography
NJ shelley in which he demonstrates how absolutely
,nnbilosophical was Shelley's mind, refuting the
nrrtensions of those who would have us regard him
as conallv great in the domain of practical thought
and that of ideal poetry 1t is on account OF thls
very idealism that the German regards Sheliey as
interesting because. he contends. this attitude OF
thought is an exotic in English literature.
An exouisite bit of book-making is that which
presents MI j. +. Genung's Study" of "Ienny-
SONS In Mcmoram." The makeup Of the book,
with its broad margins, its delicate printing and It's
simple cover, is of a severe refinement ehlhenuy
creditabe 10 the publishers. Messrs. HOughton,
Nifflin e. Co. As for its matter IL may be Ques-
toned if an exhaustive inquiry into the purpose
mud structure Of Tennysons poem is servlceable IN
ouv way 10 literature and men of letters When
the modern reader reflects how little good creative
work comes In these days TO balance the Hood OF
critical writing lie must feel like echoing the wild
Princes cry: 20, monstrousl but one haf-penny-
worth of bread TO tins intOlerable deal of SACK"
Mr.. Frondc's short biography of Luther has been
1epriuue here IN a handsome pamphlet by Charles
Scrlbners Sons.
Itisin her songs and sonncts, The AuCnGum de-
clares. that Fanny Kenble shows her real poetic
power: and it quotes as an example these stan2as
for music.
Joud wind strong wind, where art thou blowingl
Into the iT, the veV!esS air,
To be lost there.
There am blowing.
clear wave swift wave vherc art thou fOvingl
Into the sea, the bOuudlcss sea-
TO be whelmed there,
There am flowing.
Young life, swift life, whcrc art thou goingf
Down 10 the grave, the loatheome grave
To mOuldcT there,
There an | going
Canon Tarrar's selection of English Poetry,
"Wlth the Poets Funk & Wagnalls) is so mod
est in its claims as not 10 challenge comparison
with better known collections He has, as he says
taken such complete poems or brief passages from
longer works as seemed most likely to bo of use in
forming the taste of young readers, and in making
Them morally and mentally the richer and better
for learning aud reading them. Such work hardly
invites criticism. The poems selected are largely
didactic and no living author is represented
THE TRIBUNE will print tomorrow an eXtraordi'
nary letter dated 1850 in which Southern mem
her Of Congress revealed scheme for the return OF
St9tes IN ollppianco the BTltlSl