New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-08-25
LITERARY NOTES.

y way of establishing the proposition thas oeoa"o
book i, popular it does not follow that IT has permah
emit value 1.-THE Critic" says "One OF the most pup
ular writers of our green and salat days was
Fanny Fern. Her Fern Leaves had sale OF nearly
100 Coo comics her Ruth Hall Of $4,000, and her
.shaav Side, of 10000 Few books of their day
eoualed them in popularity But where, OH where
are they today Out OF print and out OF remembrance
everyone of them Another famous literary woman OF
n generation ago was Fanny Forester-ln those Gays
our literature was prolific in Fanny Ferns aud Fanny
Fore sters and Minnie Myrtes-whose collected writ
ings, in a two-volume edition bearing the title oil Al
derbrook' had sale of 33 600 copies: and the DO
GRANNY of the amiabe writer found 10 600 purchasers
Sill another widely-known writer was Miss Cummns
whose amplighter' had circulation oil near! Vi
quite 100000"
Messrs Cupples Upham & Co. have just puoisheo,
In nauphlet form n lecture on The Art of flcuon
delivered before the Royal Institution, by MT ""'oi
Besant.
lanes d Brown. Mitchell Librarian of Glasgow Is
,rono,;,c "Biocraphioal Dictionary OF Musie'ahs
" The Pail Mall Gazette reports that All compose
ofstandinr are to receive adequate notice IN H. anu t0
almost unworked field of American musical biography
nil no taken into account" The book VIII aiso uo''
of the literature of Theory" and the prneipai 'o'0
toos of CAROLS catches, psalmody songs, e'c' WI" u
dealt with
Mossrs. Estes & Lauriat are TO publish revised
edition of ex- Governor John ID. Longs translation u
the Fneid of Virgil
"Tbe Union" a poem which George Edgar Mont
eomerv contributed few years ago to " harper
Bazaar" has been to music by him. and VIII shortly
be published by William A. Pond n Co.
A third edition of Samuel p Batess Battle OF
Charlottesville will shortly be published
McPhersons Handbook of Politics Tor 1901
covers the field from August 9, 1882 to the adjourn
ment of last session of Congress 1t is the ninth vol
ume OF the series
Ben Jonson's own copy of the Faeric Queen" was
lately sold at auction III London for handsome sum-
IL contains marginal notes in rae Bens own handwnt-
mo kto, ,er recent London book sale 19SU was
oaid for chronicle OF early Norman history. Inc
shropcle is described as being written in beautin
manuscript on 257 vellum leaves, and emDelilshed
with pictures and designs of unusual beauty.
Mr.. George j. Romanes, author of " Mental Eyolu-
non in Animals" is now engaged on companion
volume ON Mental Evolution in Man. The OBJECT
of Mr.. Romaness former book to establish that the
principles of evolution apply TO the phenomena OF hihu
In the lower animals In his new book he will seek to
show that mans power of thinking about distractions
has also been arrived at by process of e, olution
sM Watson. librarian Of the Portland City Library,
Is the Editor of The Maine Historical and Genealog-
zeal Recorder" the first number of which has just been
issued There is always room foI such q publication
and this one is sure TO receive hearty welcome The
initial issue contains among other interesting articles
"Tbe King Family of Maine" with heliotype OF
William King the first Governor of the State. The
magazine will appear quarterly.
James Payn, ill his Literary Recollections" now
in course of publication earnestly advises young au-
thors not to publish their works anonymously. " II
one" he wisely says, has any personality belonging
to one whether ii is spet with not it is Just
well to claim it, otherwise one is sure to do so