New-York tribune., 1884-01-09
LITERARY NOTES,

Professor Lounsbury, of YALE has prepared for
The Ceptary an open letter advocating the publca-
tion in scholarly shape of complete edition OF
Henry Fieldings works He has found mueh
brilliant and valuable matter with whichno editor
of the English novelist has seemed to be acquainted
Since the death of Turgeneff the demand IN Eng
land for his novels has largely increased. Inc
libraries find that they asked for constantly
and the cheap English translations have q reauy
sale on railway boOkstalls. Ii rs even saiu INA.
some enthusiastic students, having read and re-read
all the French translations obtanable are actually
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS to the study of Russian IN order
10 read their beloved author in his native tongue
Volume XVII. of the Encyclopedia Britannica is
NOW in press General Mcclellan and Mr.. u. w.
Cable are among the American contributors fro-
fessor W. ID. Whitney is preparing the article on
phlolopv Volume XVI, which has just been
isused. cc:.tains many noteworthy biographies
The edition is rapidly approaching completion
The issue of The CoHtinent in press contains
some personal "reminiscences of The Resurrection
of Italy in 1S4S" by the gentleman who was Uhlteu
States Consul at Genoa at the time OF the revolution
in that year. G. f. Thwing contributes to the same
number a paper on The Rum Power III City
Politics. A coming number OF Inc COh""e"' WIZ
contain an article on Richard Doyle. the recently
of his work
There is in a recent English magazine pretty
story of Harriet Martneaus lawn al Ahlo'eSi"e'
She could get no turf for love or money; out one
morning she found a CARLOAD of turf lying on the
gravel. which had been pitchforked over the wall
ON bit of paper pinned to a slab of the turt, was
serawled: @To Harriet Martincau. from lover OF
her Forest and Game Law Tales.-A POaeher
The writer adds that Archbishop Whately, VINO
hated Miss Martneau, happened TO be guest at Dr'
Arnold's house at LoughTigg at the time "hcn ho
heard the story he shook his head. lie was ashea
whether he doubted the genuineness of the letter
aDoubt it3 OF course l doubt it," was his answer;
. the woman wrote it herself"
The last quarterly volume of Littelrs Lining age
which is, from the beginning, Vol CLlA-cohtalhs
a striking collection of papers. The readers Oh Ihis
fayorto old magazine get therein all the cream and
only the cream Of the foreign periodicals.
A writer in The London Globe thinks that there is
large though mostly silent, class of readers who
are out of sympathy with the rising school o1
American fiction"
Mr.. Edmund Yates, of The london HorH, is busy
writing his autobiography and 1t will appear IN a
few months Mr.. Sala is also writing his antobiog-
ranhv. Both journalists have much that Is OF IN
terest to record.
Professor Max Muller's "Deutsche Lebe," frag-
nents from the papers Of an alien, will be ready this
month.
It is reported from Iceland that lady caHed
Torfbildur Thornsteindottr Holm, at present III
Canada. has edited at Reikjayk an historical mover
in Icelandic entitled "Bryniolfur Sycinsson.. TINS
H said TO be the first historical novel ever written III
that language. The plot is laid in iceland IN the
middle of the seventeenth century, and the hero
Bryniolf Svensson is the Bishop of Skalholt, who
discovered the Mss, of the older Edda IN the year
1643.
A new edition of the ever-popalar Lie OF
Nelson by southey has been issued by the Lipp4n-
colts IL is III good, if cheap, form.
neat little volume giving clear aud exact direc-
t1ons for PLAYING forty-four games of solitaire has
been published by Dick & Fitzgerald under the
title OF Dicks Games of Patience" Thirty-three
illustrations help to explain the text. These are
innocent and sometimes absorbing recreatons for a
lonely and weary hour; invalids especially will be
grateful for the book.