New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-03-12
LITERARY NOTES.

i;sh them in a volume under the title oil o'uueS :"
uistory.9 The same firm is bringing from the press
81 volume. half biographical and hall cr'tca'' q"
Dal7oc nv Edgar E. Saltus. Mr. Houghton is con
s;lering. It is said, the Immediate publication OF
Judge Nelson's Life of Rufus Choate'
Mr. Walter Bcsants next long novel. which IS to
he entitled Dorothy Forster" will be brought out
in May.
ooeen Victoria has read it is said, only such press
notices of her book as have been marked Tor her by
her ladies.
Mr. Yates saws that when Thackcray contested
tbe representation of the City of Oxford, the late
c. s. Calverlcy suddenly appeared on the scene IN
his support Soon afterward he was seen and heard
bv his oxford friends harangung the mob from the
hotel window. -Note for my man. he cried, " and
j promise You bread ioT penny oaI' an" Io''''0V
for nothing at ALL
The complete edition Of Hans Brcitmann s
Ballads" Just published by T. B. Peterson & Broth
crs. presents in neat if not artistic form all the
Jolly verses in winch Mr.. Leland created many years
ago a very original figure. If Hans Breimann is no
longer a. popular rs he when he made his hrSt
appearance he has not at least been forgotten An
excellent glossary accompanies this edition.
The Russian poet Polonski. who has been publish
ing some "reminiscences of Turgonef says: " As
rule we went to bed early and rose In good tuie pu'
Turcencf was always up before any OF rs walking
about in the garden, where he fed the bds OF look
ing at the stables which were being buIlt. Alter
this he went to his dressing-roon, llny square
room in the garden. containing only WaShstaud,
lookinp-rlass. and a few toilet utensils Turgcneh
changed his linen every day, and bath"d ms whole
body in a mixture of water and can de Cologne.
He spent a long time over the arrangement of his
hair. for which operation he used several combs and
brushes. As am excuse he used to say that this
mania was inherited from his mother, who, in her
youth. had been wont To brush the hair of all her
servants even to the tangled locks of an old invalid
soldier"
The History of American Humor which Mr.. Proc
Tor Knott and Mr.. SpofoId, Librarian Of Congress,
are writing is making slow progress.
Two new volumes of " The Sacred Books Of the
East are nearly rcady-a translation OF The
Lotus of the Good Law" by Professor Kern, of Ley
den and the second volume of the Upanishads,'
By Professor Max Miller
The poems. tales and essays of Mrs Bubauld and
o Ann and Jane Taylor are TO be neatly rcpubllShcd
in the Classic Series of Roberts Brothers.
The letter IN which Ieine introduced himself to
Coethe-who was not remarkably kind TO the young
man-has lately been published in Germany. Il is
dated October l. 1s21 and ran, as follows: d" l ask
your cXccllency to ma lie ne happy 10y allowing me
10 stand before you for a few moments. Will not
trouble you | Will only lis5 your hand and 60 My
name is H. Ileino: 1 come from the Rhine have for
some time lived at Gottingen, and before that AT
Berlin. where l learned to know aud love some Of
your old acpliaintauccs and admirers. |, too, am
poet and three years ago took tie liberty of sending
YOU my Poems and q year later my Tragedies
with a Lyrical Iutemezzo. Besides this, am III,
and three week, ago l went for trip to the Harz,
where / was seized by the longing to make pill
cIimage to Wcnar in order 10 worship Goethe.
And have i'm the true sens, of the word, made the
pigrmago -namcy, on foot and in worn-out
clothcs-and await now the answer TO my request,
remaining, with enthusiasm and devotion, yours,
H. IlEINE."
For the Ms. of Dickens's Battle Of Life now
ON sale in London. the price asked Is $500
NJ. Daudet takes his notebook everywhere. Once
it is related he had a scntnen entail and dramatic
scene with his wife. concerning which he remarked
"This seems. my dear like a chapter that had
slipped out of a novel; 1T is more likely, Al
phOnse' was the reply to form chapter that Will
slip into novel
The volume on Colcridge in the English Men of
Letters series is to be prepared by Mr. II. d. Trail
The fourth volume of Mr.. Bancrof,s new revised
edition of his History Of the United States has just
appeared.
The comparative methods of Tennyson and Walt
Whitman are discussed in an article which is to 60
into ono of our magazines. The article need not be
long one
Mr. George Lowell Austin in preparing his forth
coming Life of Wendell Phillips will haze the use
of the three hundred pages of autobiography rem
iniscences left by Mr.. Phillips. He will also use
some unpublished "reminiscences by Charles Sum
ner The book viii be published next month
Mr. Amolds paper on Literature and Science, -
which is 70 appear in the next Manhattan Is not III
all respects like the lecture which he has delivered
under that name.
The late Abraham Hayward is sand TO be the orig
inal of Venom Trift" in WaTcns novel of" Ten
Thousand Year
The autograph letters, Mss. and sketches
gathered through many years by Nr. and Mrs. s. c.
Hall have been mounted in fifteen large volumes
and purchased by Mr. George W. Childs. The
collection includes letters from most of the dis
tuguishcd Engishmen Of the time.
Mr. Robert Buchanan's now book, Tie Great
Problem, or SIX Days and "a Sabbath IS coming
from the press.
Mr.. Kas4on is writing diplomatic history Of the
Civil War.
Mrs HaIlowcPs lives Of her grandmother and
grandfather Lucrctia and Jane, Mott, VIII shortly
be published by Houghton, Niiin 4 Co..
The new monthly number of The C0atR@t-aud
very good number il is-besns the third year OF
that pleasant and useful periodical During the
coming year the editors propose 70 reduce tie
amount OF serial matter, making the stories com
plete in one weekly number or monthly part. They
have engaged a series of short stories by wcl-known
writers which are to be published anonymously at
first under the general head OF " Too True for Fic
ton" These tales are TO be based veritable in
cidents Of startling and unusual character.
Macmillan & Co. have issued new edition of
Lord Tennyson's works in a single rather thick
volume, printed with new, clear but somewhat
small and thin type upon thick white paper, and