New-York tribune., 1884-02-02
LITERARY NOTES.

"A
Hibernicism-which they charge upon the author
IN Mrs. Belongs saying that young lady's name
oupht not TO be printed more than twice in her LIE
time and one of these should be funeral notice.
These clever critics seem quito unaware that tniS
ia only one of many such speeches put INTO Mrs.
Beldings mouths which are entirely CONSISTENT
with the character given her Of unrefned common
sense. and laundering expression. IL may perhaps
40 said that the au thor of the Bread Winners is
sometimes too Saxon-he lor she) is certainty never
Irish.
Dr. Mombert's edition Of Tyndale's Pentateuch OF
,nao will be brought out in May by A. ID. +.
panaolnh g. Co. Besides DR.. Mombert's Pro-
,egomena this edition has the marginal notes oil
Luther and John Rogers.
Colonel Higcinson is reported as saying In
lecture the other evening that the place OF literature
In American society is Of honor but that 10 DC
called literary man was a compliment that was
not ouite n compliment. American literature, he
added, has not quite established itself in eenerai
recognition Its quality is all right. but its quantity
is limited. England OF Germany OF France ylelus
three or four times as much of good literature
YEAR And much American literature has not s'oou
sitting we'll. Few American writers oil hity years
ago are destined to last another fifty years.
ANTHONY Trollope's last completed novel; AN
Old Mans Love- will soon be puDlshed oy 'ho
Blackwoods.
The English poetess, Miss ROBINSON s apou' ~
bring out a new volume of poems-mostly tragic
s,ories of country ife-to which she gives the name
80 The New Arcadia 1t will be interesting 10
observe the progress which it is to be hoped MISS
Robnson has made since her last volume. mat
while correct and graceful in form, was entrey
what has been called head-poetry" Whatever
feeling il expresses is the feeling which MISS
Robinson believes from information received
exists in mankind. The young lady hath much
learning and pretty gift of rhyming' but mas as
vet displayed no formidable powers of Imagination
Miss Robinson is also preparing another volume
for the Eminent Woman Series-one upon Margaret
of Valois, Queen of Navarro.
The MARQUIS of Lorne's volume of I" Speeches and
Verses is treated with very little ceremony oy an"
dtheuqum 1t quotes some vague passages not the
least puzzlinr of which is the poem called song:
Osborne 1SS2'':-
Here Rose and Magnolia
Our dearest enshrine,
The PRAYER of the south wlnd
Is thine and is mlne,
For Child aud for Mother
Here sweetly twice lsled,
Brave seamen are praying
For Mother and Child.
Are Rose and Magnolia (n capital letters asks inc
derisive critic, ordinary flowers or INDUSTRIOUS
personagesi And what has the South WIND 10 90
with praying and who is the thine" Oh tno lour'n
linei
As for the Marquis's speeches, the critic says;
He does MOTTO do him justice-often Quoto
noery. but before the Art Institute of Montreal he
noted with apparently no immediate effect lit took
another sentence to excite laughter J, the
following dignifed lines:
I've been photographed like this,
Iye been photographed like that,
I've been photographed in falling snow,
In long furry hat
Were his audience too much astonlshed 10 laugh'
Mr.. John Habberton is said to deal with import
ant social questions in a serial novel when he mas
nearly completed. The publication OF this story
will be begun in the spring in the new Chicago
weekly, The Current
Uouphton Miflin g. Co. have just brought out
the large January number of the ~. S. Official
Postal Guide. This compilation OF Information
concerning all postal matters is an enmently useiul
and valuable companion. Subscriptions 1t Is
announced are received at the Post Ohice In THIS
city.
{ Now and then a flavor of the ministerial imagery
of the newfoundland of 200 years ago is still to be
perceived There is q suggestion OF the style OF
Cotton Mather in an obituary notice OF deceased
preacher included in the recent report OF the
Massachusetts Baptist Convention. There was
his sermons. which always left in the mouth
taste of sweetness"
Mr. Charles Dudley Warner has selected in "The
Relation of Literature to Life" an admirable
.ubiect for his course of four lectures to be given at
PRINCETON. The first is announced for the evening
of February T. These lectures will give opportunity
for the expression of many original and perhaps
some jconocastic views. That Mr. Warmers
opipions as to divers phases of literature are not
the same rs those of his contemporaries was shown
in his vigorous paper on modern notion. Inc
illustrations of his forthcoming lectures are taken
from the period Of Percles from Roman and
Medieval times and from the England and France
of the seventeenth century.
G.P. Putnams Sons are preparing new edition
OF Washington Irvings works in seven Volumes IL
is to be printed from new type, sold at low price
and called the Stuyvesant Edition"
The same house also announce these volumes as
presently forthcoming: The History of the Dis
coveries of America to the year 1925, by Arthur
James Weise with maps and illustrations; Inc
Book of the Beginnings familiar study OF Genesis
in the light of modern criticism, with some general
suggestions to students and readers of the Old
Testament by the Rev. X. Hcber Newton; The
Words of Christ, considered rs principles OF per-
sonal and social growth, by John Bascom, Prcsi-
dent of the University of Wisconsin; History OF
the Thirty Years War, by Anton Gndely, Professor
of German History in the University Of Prague,
translated by Andrew Ten Brock, recently
Professor of Mental Philosophy in the University
of Michigan; The Elements of Political Economy,
by Emil de Laveleye, Professor of Political
Economy in the University of L6ge, translated
by Alfred W. Pollard of Kings College, Oxford
with introduction and supplementary chapter by
i. w. Taussig Instructor in Political Economy IN
Harvard University and Only an Incident, story
of New England life, by Grace d. Litchheld.
Tcnnyson who is now carefully and conveniently
called by the English journals not " Baron" nor
aJord Int the Laureat" will shortly print his