New-York tribune., 1884-10-01
LITERARY NOTES.
,cx. volumes to appear from the scribner p

.,ox, volumes 10 appear from the Scribner press
;cporal Keyes's Fifty Years Observations
' SCR sayce's Ancient Empires Of the East and
Z, rc~ Newman Smyth's Reality of Faith
..r "A, Love" is tho title of Wkie Collins's new
tto...
II is volumes of Carlyle "reminiscences already pub
Nshed have aroused popular indignation. what will he
said Of the one that is come For il ia described rs
containing far more observations on his Goa
Hmporarie than did the frat volume.
Mr. Abbey and Mr. Rcinhardt have made some
dclehtCnl sketches for Mr., Brander Matthew's new
editions of the famous sheridan comedies
John Morley will in sritc of his recent political tr
urorb take time TO write for the English Men of Letters
series a sketcn Of John stuart Mill. his friend and
master Sir James Filz-James Stephen will do the
volume on Carly
The Christmas number of " Longman's Magazine
Il TO have coored illustrations and Du Maurer and
Brket Foster are its stan of artists.
Mr.. Coxwen the English aeronaut, is writing an
aeronau,ca novel Ills object is to show mp in hn
morous fashion the humbug and extravaganza which at
present surrounds balooning and the first chapter
(which is laid in the city of York. for which as the
scene of ublc ascent every wear for the past twenty
six years Mr. Coxwell has developed cutie atecton
Is conceived in the Pckwickan vein The new story
will be the anthess of Jules Nerne stories for every
incident described the chapter and verse of actual tact
will be furnished.
Mr. Howellss introduction in his serial story OF
bis old hero Barley Hubbard, is deprecated by a
Boston journal which declares that i'll dragging from
the tomb where his readers them deposited with
feelings OF unmixed satisfaction the remains OF BARLEY
Hubbard Mr. noweils is trying experiment at once
novel and somewhat hazardous Ii Is not entirely that
the character resuscatcd is unbcarabe cad. but
the reading public feel that they have done their duty
by Hubbard and have no desire to be further
bothered about him. The process of going back to take
up the threads of his previous life has rather confusing
effect which merely gives general feeling OF dlsloca-
ton and misplacement BARLEY Hubbard is one OF
the most real of the characters which Mr. owel' has
painted He is IN certain respects absuidY unhko
anything which could by any possibility exist in the
ranks of Boston newspaper men, but none the less Nc
is more human than any other of the noyeliS crea-
tions 1t Is to this fact, indeed, that much OF his
intense disacrccabeness is due His caddi>huesS has
In 1t something violently personal that his existence
even in the pages of novel seems direct insult to
the reader Marcia. his simple and brane-, wife, had
no clam, 10 sympathy beyond feeble helplcS ness
which i.ritated almost much as it touched.
The most important biographical works now in press
in England are the Carlyle book and the forthcoming
"vndication of the late Dowaccr Lady Lytton' with
extracts from her autobiography, diary. original let
tcrs. and other documents
"Thc Portland Orc.ouian thinks that Harper" "
and The Century have made competition IN the
direction Of ma eazine, almost impossible.