New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-03-15
LITERARY NOTES.

,i Mabdi and the Soudan which VIII appear
;mme5iately from the press of Dodd M'"o :"
1-;a.or;o hos herself revised the German trsnsla-
zion Of her new book which VIII shor"S " rN
hshed al Stuttgart. 80, O.oo,,s
The pretty little d"OaCeimo edi'ion .. tonCbt ont
l,n ubcb the Harpers have Just brought ou'
n4ors the portraits and other iiiuS'.| lI 40
osentcd in the English edition. in'y -
III, ocoin how the German strain IN the oIoou "a
kno" "S 1T. rroponderates over any British
admXture. ,.,
,,,ndo,,,s edition of Rawnson's "Monarchles
Of the Ancient Eastern WorId Will ''O"
brought out by DOdd, Mead u TO-
..r,o;a, - j. the title of an anonymous story
lone serial-the publication OF when WIZ Uo
- in the Nav number of The Manhattan. III Is
1orolded rs n work of absorbing interest III ue"i'
With the characters which surrounded the Elhp'o''
1nccnie and with the days of the FrancoFruSslan
war and of the Commune.
The Boston Transcript makes the extraordinary
statement that an Englishman seldom succeeds III
creating fascinating book of travel. Il conSoi-
,ntiopsness cramps his pen and turns INTO so'oi5
prose what ought always to have poe'ic H0'
favor
Mr.. Howard Pyle the artist, has written S'o, .,
which Will appear in the May Harper. ~ " 81 :.
lied A May Day Idyl Of the Olden iimo ; "nU -
a,,oo,, londsor,elv illustrated by the author
r,,o 0os.essor Of the late Lady Bulwer-Lytton -
-.aI;l,ropbx and collection of letters bears VII
oss 20 The excessive egotism shown in the episties
90 .b lod,'s husband These letters and the au'o-
biography. taken together promise to do Tor bu'Wei
T,tton what Mrs Carlyles journal mas
dore for "Dour Thomas The execuulN
makes sarcastic mention OF bu"ei
constant posing in his correspondence; anu
.be Gives from the autobiography the beautiful
doc i,tiOu of
with her future husband: There was Shh"'
comnootion and a sudden cessation of voices al inc
other end of the room, and Miss BengeI sad 10 me-
sotto voce oh. here is that odd, rlch Ola Wohdn'
Mrs Bulwer Lytton. and her son-her taVorite son
he is very Clever, they say-his was the prze
pocm this wear at Cambridge. must introduce
YOU 10 him.. Oh no, pray don't on any account
I said as Miss HenCer hurried away to greet the
new arrivals as she did so, stopping at the door u
sbokc hands with them. l had time to take an IN
xeptory of both. He had just returned from faIlS'
and was resplendent with French polish so 1ai
as boots went; his cObweb canoilc SUM-
front WAS a triumph of lace and embroidery com
lnation never seen in this country TIL SIX OF seven
wears later except babies frocks; studs TOO eA
cent in racing stables, were then non esq., Ou' per
feet galaxy glittered along the milky way down
centre of this fairv-hke lingerie. His hair which
was really golden ghttcrlngy golden and abundant
ba wore literally in long ringlets that almost
touched his shoulders. The likeness to his mother
was striking only reversing the usual ORDER OF
things. his features weIe though very pronounce
softened duplicates Of hers he was also unlnIstak
ably ccntlemanhke looking indeed according 10 M
surroundings too patricsh- looking lie als'
dauclcd from his ungloged and eitierng Heh
hand somewhat goreeously jewelled headed eoohS
cane and the dangling was of the scientific klnd
that had been evidently learnt, marked ana III
wardly dipested. Miss Landon and l. thus takei
nnawares. both laughed at the strange tablean
contrast at the door as ! exclaimed
Sir Plume. Of amber suul-box Justly vain
And the true conduct of a cOudcd cane''
6. w. Green's Son announces for immediate pun
location a story by O'DonOvan Rosa. Its title
"Edword ODonnell"; aud the author says that n
arrives to paint in it the typical Irish landlord
and 70 show the me1icency Of the much-laude
Land BILL
II, same publisher has lately brought out tn
,ool, ON Bcrlin Society," extracts from whlc
were given in TIE TRIBUNE several weeks ago.
The o5i,jos de lure of the "Jac5daw of Rheims,
pnblished by Eyre Spottswoode' has had
great success that the house has issued louII
1bousand The book is in imperial quaIto the tex
being old writing-type and the illustrations TePlO
auctions by photo-lithography.
The late c. ; Calverey, who was known at Han
row as G. : Blayds was the most audacious an
daring of schoolboys both morally and physician!
The Pal MaH Gazette says that about the year lof
DR. Vaughan was endeavorng TO teach MS puphS
Ittlemodern history. The innovation was star
ling one and the sixth form offered to 1t passl'
resistance which, considering the nature Oh the leA
hook enplovel "Russels Modern Europe, W.
from literary and historical point of view, not a
together indefensibe. Not finding his question
xerv readily answered, the doctor on one occaslc
asked as sort of inalquestIon, and III voice Of
him somew hat unusual sernness, And now biayd
did the Huns conduct themselves after their arrlVi
in Italy2' The answer, given verbatim from u
textbook aud sounding all the more apsuid ITO
tbe relentless accuracy with which the authors q
most incredible sentence had been committed
memory and the calm deliberation with which q
words were uttered ran as follows: HIT
limited the bear in the vouptUous partarre' u
trim garden and the expensive pleasure groun
where effeminacy was wont TO saunter and ma
lence to lOlL"
Young Blaydss mastery Of some Latin autho
was 80 urecocOus aud so extraordinary that on o
occasion when he was put on in school, at t
beginning of a lesson, the Doctor was SO amazed al
delighted at the brilliancy of his rendering that
LEFT him 30 on in the most uueNampled way
,ranlate some seventy lines on end Of the Seco
Eneid Of Virgil.
Mr. Howells's little farce of The Register b
been published in a neat and convenient shape
j. r. Osgood Il Co.
The new and revised edition Of Mr.. Dona
G. Mitchelrs novel of Or Johns has just be
issued by Charles Scribners Sons. The edition
anexcellent one, ana the price Is small.
Mr. wilkins, of The UhitchdU Times has becol
convinced that For Congress Is wholly I
property OF Mr., Lloyd. owing nothing whatever
his novel of The Cloverdale Mystery"
handsome new edition of Mr.. James's essays
"French Poets and Novelists" has just come fr'