New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-21
LITERARY NOTES.


completed.
MANY Of the letters written by George Eliot and
,ncluded IN Mr. Cross's Forthcoming biography re-
fer to the American Civil War;
An old gentleman who in his boyhood went TO
school az Sion House with Shelley, and who died
lately in England, used to describe his famous
school-fellow as like girl in bows clothes hgh,ing
with open hands and rolling on the iioor wnen
logged not from the pain but from a sense OF III
dignity"
MIR. George Alfred Townsend has written a play
the hero of which is Oliver Cromwell.
George Taylor's novel of Clytia l" has oeen ,'""o
lated from the German by Mary j. oaho'u' """
will shortly be published here by W. = "o'''"oi
Ger. It's said 10 he better than the author pio'f
GUS book "AutinOus."
Tho tragic masterpiece by Fletcher and Massihger
aud the sprightly comedy BY surrey "nicn M
A IL Bullen discovered last wear lying Ill NC ~"
noticed in the British Museum. VIII pIooao9 10
included in the proposed new series Oh Enc"
he,bap Dramatists" They have hitherto been
,,r;n,cd onlv for private circulation The series
will be- begun this month with the publication OF MI
Rulcns edition in three volumes OF Christopher Mar
lowe. Middleton will follow in the autumn and VIII
he.ucceededb by Shirley. The Editor is now engaged
npou beaumont and Fletcher and is giving the
closest attention to the question. How lar was
Mas,inger concerned in the authorship OF plays at
triLuted to Beaumont and Fletcher"
An American edition of Arminius Vamberys
Autobiography is coming from the press OF Cassen
d Co.
Tho library edition of Tennyson's works when Is
announced by Macmillan & Co. VIII be III sever
volumes They will be published monthly AZ %l 10
n volume. The first will contain steel poruai' VI
the poet A limited edition, TO be sold only III sets
- do Aqrnr
be taken from these plates.
The Great Republic" is the title of the book on
the United States which Sir Lepel Griffin has Just
published In London. He has included the TWO
articles which have already been printed III PERI
odical and much discussed here.
Miss Sarah Orne Jewett's first novel, "a Country
Doctor" deals with the experience OF woman
physician in New-Englaud. Miss Jewett is doc
tors daughter. and is therefore, familiar with the
humorous and pathetic incidents of rural healers
nractios. The book will soon be published by
HoightOn, Miti'in N Co
Mr. Browning's new volume Is in MS. still, and
has indeed not yet left his hands. 1t Will proOa-
by not appear before next season.
For the new cheap edition. in two volumes, OF Sc
lections from his poems. Mr.. Browning has made
many slight revisOns.
Browning's powers in the way Of musical conpo-
sltion "have been known" The academy says
since his youth; and it adds that be must nave
his own tune for every poem he has written and
asks why he will not give them to the world
The arrangement Of the papyrus collection lately
bought by the Archduke Raner OF Austria, mas re-
yealed hitherto unknown speech of lsocrates, one
Of the finest specimens of Alexandrian caigraphy.
Another fragment has been found of the book OF
the Thucydides manuscript. Portions have also
been discovered of the Had, and of paraphrase
If the Fourth Book. Then n metanvia has been
found. dating from the beginning of tho fourth
century, being thus of tho oldest Christian
manuscripts The collection contains many we'll
preseryed documents In almost continuous series
of the Roman and Byzantine Emperors, beginning
with Trajan and ending with Heracltus
Mr.. Edmund w. Gosse's edition in four volumes
of Thomas Grays works is in the press OF the
Nacmillans Mr.. Gosse's recent appointment to
the chair of English Literature at Cambridge VIII
doubtless leave him sufficient learned leisure for
the undertaking Of many other literary enterprises
NJ lola has been expressing a sympathetic aston
isbment over the decay of English hctlon. lie
ascrihes this deterioration to the monopoly the CIT
culating library holds, and its tendency to cater
exclusively for Young girls. TO the detrment OF all
other classes of readers Any story" he says Is
good enough provided it be sentimental enough.
Neither poetry of language nor observation OF lie
and manners is asked for. The work is, hear done
chiefly by women who produce their two or three
hooks a wear All! how ! do admire their facility.
Here am l. Just come back from Azin. where have
been for the last two months compiling notes and
can barely complete three pages a day" This book
deals with the life of the miners
MIR John L. Stephens lately American Minister at
Stockholm has written book on " The Life and
Times of Gustavus Adolphus," which is coming
from the press of G.. p. Putnam's Sons. He is said
70 have secured among the Swedish archives in
formation which has not before been used in his
tory.
Nh Henry w. Domett has written for the dlrec-
tors of the Bank of New-York history of that In
etitution TO be published by 6. F. Putnams Sons
early IN June 1t will be illustrated with portraits
of the presidents of the bank during the past hum
dred years and with fac-similes of early bank
notes and of checks drawn on the bank by TaIey-
rand Aaron Burr aud Gulian Verplanck.
In the June number of The English Illustrated
Nagaaae will be an engraving ofMrs. Sddons, from
Gainsboroughs well-known picture in the English
National Gallery and a design by George Du Man.
rier under the title of Der Tod ais Freund.' MI.
II. Sutherland Edwards contributes an article on
Drawing Room Dances with illustrations after
Vatican and Hugh Thomson.