New-York tribune., 1885-01-14
LITERARY NOTES.

deisctafion a beautiful hfsie eoi'on OF "sS'oi ""
s,srler. srsi eaitics cf" Decree of Star Chamber
c---s.-,-. Printing. y made July IL. 1887. IL goes
sh,,, ,sv,.s sha. the book Ia model Of danness IN
,rt,,,n.. One hundred and fny numbored) copies
were printed from type
N, Henry James. new story, the opening chapters
of which will appear IN the next number o' Inc
r..,,,vp rre.snt. some neat ebaractcgizations OF
no.,ou women. Il will not be hard for those who
k.ew their Boston 10 recognize the people who nave
.useestsd II they have not sat for these pictures
.scvv prom.os 20 be stronger than anything "r'
James has done for many a year
There were printed in Great Britain last year exactly
100 books more than printed during the previous
vcarexclualve Of course. Of new edst'ons iheo'"ey
led the list-more than one-sixth OF the tota es"o
being religious books.
.The London Spectator says; "When another
ssaue In the social evolution oil the Union ma" o''a
reached when the German element has neu"A'1e"
Che irish f, when Tammany Hall. mionaire-vorship.
and expsctsratiou have disappeared, a. We are sure"
the England information l. now disappearing;
when seIfconsciousness has departed rom BOSTON TO
pose has taken up residence In New YORK. ana inc
educational value Of globetrotiing pr1pery unoer
stsod,-then, but hardly tai then. will real oo"k
on America be worth writing or reading
A TRANSLATION Of M Cables " Bale -Demosselles
Plantation appears In the January number at the
" Revue des Dcux Mondes.'
Mr. Edmund oossos edition Of Gray's works has just
.,neareA Ia London and win be brought out here next
Saturday The Pail Mall Gazette In laudatory
notice saws that the first and chief impression derived
from II wonder. greater than ever, al tue sing1
smsl bulk Of Gray's worf.
A magnificent and wildly expensive edition dc
uxs Of sapphos verse k 1t reported, on the press
In Ioudon. Every fragment Of the Leshians text Is
IN aepear IN II with an essay aud ranss
nou. from the pen Of of the younger English poets
Cpposts every page of there 10 be an etching
bv one of the most promising artists OF the newer
school of painting The edition Is 10 be strictly limited
20 one hundred and ten copies II viii only ee prn'eu
pr,yacly; after the stated number have been struck
off the type will be distributed, and the plates de-
streyed
Farar Allan Poe" tho next volume in the series Of
American Men OF Letters. will DO brought out this
month by Houghton. Mifiin Go.
The frat three volumes Of the " Narrative and
Critical History OF the United States which Mr. Justin
Wnsor and others have long been preparing VIII soon
be pubHshed by Osgood.
Tho Skies and Nancy reading Mr. Dolby de-
clares used 20 he nearly the death OF Dickens him
rlt Each time he delivered 1t be was utterly pros
trate for time after.
The new monthly, Tue Spectator" viii make its
first appear.nce next week Tt will hereafter I've made
q weekly if il receives sufficient encouragement lis
purpose II is need, will be 10 promuigae those
principles OF popular, historical and political eduea''n
aud REFORM TO further which the Webster Historical
Society was organized" Mr. EdTard Everett Hale
has contributed to the Grst number paper on "our
Schools"
Mis-, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps is mentioned as giving
q A.- rrtahr "a
wrote the short selections admirably chosen, on fine
parchment paper, four inches by two. These leaves
were made into tiny book With Russia leather covers,
which were fastened 10y bands of ribbon on cardinal
plush panel on the top of which huae bunch OF the
friends favorite flower.
Anumber of eminent names appear upon the editorial
lat Of the propo oil 4" American Journal OF Arch
zoology" Ii is to be quarterly of high character
devoted TO the study Of the whole field OF archaeology
IN Europe and America. 1t has already been recos
nzed as the official organ of the Archaeological in-
sttuts Of America Each leading branch oi the science
will be- as far possible in charge of special eoF
Each number will De illustrated with plate and
figures The managing editor is DR.. A. l.. Frothlns-
ham. OF Johns Hopkins Professor Charles Eliot Nor
ton viii act as advisory editor.
The author of a book about America which was
recently published in Paris says that no one has
more real distinction about him than an American
gentleman In the Broadway, that seem to have
found 30 much fault with have frequently met ladeS
dressed with perfect Partisan taste, and gentlemen OF
irreproachablo appearance. Indeed, the costume OF
the latter has often appeared TO the more European
of the two The American ladies, as rule, wear too
much velvet and satin, many glaring colors, and
too much ievelry TO be called ladylike. Yet some
times the most arsocratc heart beats beneath ali these
raudy coors of doubtful taste. These remarks are ior
the exterior only As the character Of the men, defy
the most arstocratc Of English mylords, the most
courteous Of the French nobility to be more chivarous
ss lady's man than is an American gentleman"
More library blunders as recorded by "The Library
journal: An asking: " want book ON the geo
praical distribution OF the solar spectrum" reply
In a certain very 6ourishing library one OF the
rare visitors had occasion to refer 10 the New Iesta
ment aud was told =" We do not have any new books
In this library"
The only known autograph of Moliere-an act OF one
of his plays with his signature at the bottom OF the Las
pace-has been presented To the Come1e FraneaSe by
Alexandra Dumas.
The Meisterschaft system of learning the Frenci
German and Spanish languages will no longer be
published by Messrs, Estes & Lauriat, but by new
lrm organized especially for the purpose under the IT'LL
of the Mestersehalt Publishing Company.
year ago NJ. Alphonse Dsudet wrote mover ca'le'
"sapho,r and he has jlst received letter from {
spaniard Senior Eduardo Lopez Baso, who inform
him that he was so charmed with the work that NJ
could not resist the temptation of ransatng an'
bringing il out at Madrid. This was bad enough, TO
no allus,on made to payment bat there was wois
to follow senor Eduardo Lopez Bago went on to sa!
that he very anxious TO publish letter from NJ
Daudet himself preface and that, knowing how
busy NJ Daudet always was, be had taken the liberty
Of writing it himself and signing it with III. Daudet
name lie felt that he had, perhaps, acted in some
what unusual manner but he hoped that 81 Daude