New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-07-29
LITERARY NOTES.

~, ra, neron " The Revocation OF the
Edict of Nantes" contributed to the Aug"ss """'
"The Magazine Of American HISTORY, !" 'o'" ~.
.....ou Sc a, historical work on 81 The Treaty OF
Utrechtv The ork is now in press
n, n po,nett Smith has an article OF james kussel
Low ell in the August Eclectic
"vox ct preterea nhil cannot DC appne' "
Adeliua Patti. She preparing series oil aruo'e'
LARGELY autobiographcal which the Harpers VIII pup
lish.
An epterprsng person with taste for statis'cs ~.
norris that of the hcroines of last years ho'e,'
were blondes and only 100 brunettes. |ohsoos
how Door most of these 372 were. the Ofune'''a
did not figure in them may veil congratuia'o 'A''
selves On their escape.
SC Grggs g. Co. announce as he"'' .
After ALL a novel BY Lillian Spencer inc "o"'''
n revised edition of Rachel Carew's " laugieu On"
a. Comn,ete Rhetoric for Schools, Coleses "nu
Private Study" by Professor A. H. "elsh'
,soe,t visitor to Wlitticrs home at Amespury
ave Tho, in General appearance the poet has changeo
hut little in the last ten years He signify oo"i W"
bis full dark eve bright as ever the Tall io !" " "
strapht and the r"ind is alert lie does not impress
ono "a an old man. for his interest In auars Is DIS s
as in tho past years and his conversation 10 10 'H
tertainipg.
A new edition of Mr.. Matthew Arnolds poems III
three volumes containing ~ " Early roems' M"',"
tive Poems and Sonnets"; ~ " Lyric anu Ios'"w
Poems; and ~ dramatic and Later foenlS'
have been issued by Messrs. Macmillan " 20
Light on tie Path, treatise written lot inc per-
sonal use of those who are ignorant OF inc Ea''ei
Wisdom and who desire to enter within its influence
is now in press for Cuppes, Upham q Co. Inns n.Oi0
volume is reprint of the London edition. Inc au''
a. member Of the London Theosophical Society
Mr.. Austin Dobson is peparing the article on George
Cr,,;tshonl for The Dictionary Of National Biog-
raphy."
Professor Charles Foster Smith, OF Vanderoi' M
versity, is preparing an article ior Inc oo".n0'A
n;vouocn on {" Southern Dialect in Life and Litera
turey The September number of the same magazine
viii contain the first of series of illustrated papers by
Pan, n Havne on " Ante bellum Charleston
writer in The Spectator argues that Matthew
Arnold is superior as elegac poet to Gray. lie
.ou.. GRAY will always we suppose, hold by virtue
rbcr of earlier claim than of prior right the hrst
nominal Mace amongst our elegac poets The Eieey
IN a Country Churcbyard is so beautiful ana SO
s;mnle SO entirely devoid of anything that Is caViare
to the general" and reflects So perfectly that mooa Vi
gentle regret which is neither too gloomy for iasclna
ZION nor too intense for quietly imaginative near
that it has almost stamped him on the Na'onai nina
os the elegiac poet of country But the present
writer at least is vnced that neither the Elegy
n Country Churchyard," nor the - Ode on a Distant
Prospect Of Eton College" beautiful as each u.s. touches
90 high point in the elegac poetry OF our country as
sone half-dozen of Matthew Arnolds poems. just
glance over the edition of his poems In three
which Messrs Macmillan have just issued; you will be
,ot nv rho tact that all the finest poems In all three,
.ven Though protesting to be lyric, or dramatic or
narrative are in their finest passages and happiest
thoughts essentially poems of elegy-by which we
mean poems of exquisite regret-and not. in fact
poems of longing of PASSION or of character OF oil
heroic venture.
A revised edition of the Manual of Photography mas
beep published under the authorship OF Benn ftmsn
and Jerome b. Howard The first edition OF this book
appeared In 1855.