New-York tribune., 1885-01-28
LITERARY NOTES.

r.,,,.,., 90 Mr. Henry Adams's work on The
History of Political Parties in the cn'ed S'A'eS nave
been completed.
do Banville has proposed to judge every metaphor
NV the simple and ingenious test; Can You make
picture of
The indefatgable Mr. Buchanan has written another
novel which is to be published by the Appletens. IL
will be called /" Mott A Tale of Caravan
BazaroG, the Nihist in " Fathers and Sons was Oh
all the characters Turgenief created his own iaVore'
Som. one observing once that the man was caroa'ue
the novelist exclaimed: q" Oh no; Bazaron was ho
corcature ne was my avorte hero, on whose account
/ uuarreled with K,tkoff. l never wished to wounu
the feelings of youth" Bazarof, he says In iet'er'
dominates all other types. l wanted MIN W p0
heroic He i. honest truthful, and Democrat to the
backbone"
Turgenieif had not particularly bgh opinion Oh 'e
English authors of his time Writing IN ~ "
friend he said; II wish l could recommend you
sometbino srikpply good in English terature bat
"a ouite imnossible. Modern English poets are all
Rosssttis which means terribly affected and unreal
AIoernon Svinburne is exception, In him aone yo"
and sna,kles of real talent lie initiates Victor hugo,
but there is genuine passion in HIM, whie hueo CON"
poses his feeling. Read Swinburnes Songs peiore
Sunrise Now and then he is slightly misty; st'
you'll enjoy the reading"
The volume on California in the " American Com
monwealth series is to be written by MT JOSIAH
Royce OF Cambridge
There |. something of truth in this statement OF the
French critic Daryl concerning Anthony ifonop0'
"a good father good husband a good pos'-o"'e
Official a great foxhunter and, moreover MA" "
letters he does not leave behind him the name u "
great author but that Of man who mas succeeuou ~
h brsncss of writing as he would have succeeded as
bo hoo1 M
marx o his fame of how many ofletters can even
as much as this be said y
Tbere ia n movement in New Haven for the founda-
ton of public library
prroe Frederick Charles of Prussia has published
magnificent edition of his account OF his travels IN 'ne
Orient 1t is illustrated from his drawings and those
of his fellow travellers.
Captsiu Bingham. who seems to have devoted him
self to Napoeonc literature has just published In tnree
volumes an English version of the more interesting
nortions of the correspondence of Napoleon Fheen
xou,nes of these letters published In France
dnr;no the first years of the second Empre' Out
when.n 1.-The London Times says, 1t became
question of printing letters which showed that Napoleon
had ordered Wholesale forgery OF English pank notes
that he might inure the credit of the Bank OF England
the Commission recoled The Emperor was cohsu''eu'
and new Commission was issued under the rresi-
dency of Prince Napoleon, who announced tha' LOT INC
future nothing would be published except VIVA.
Napoleon himself would have agreed that the worid
should see.p A mass of letters remain unpubhshed-
and many have been destroyed
Napoleons epistoary activity was prodigious. Even
in camps he often dashed off than twenty letters
a day with his own hand, besides those which he dc-
tated to his secretaries and it is believed that his cor
respondence during the eighteen years In "nich' as
General First Consul and Emperor, he was the fore
most man in France amounted to not less than Zo'ooo
papers.
Mis-. Louisa Alcott is i'll from overwork ana ehteV
unable to finish her book, " JOS Boys and how lhey
Turned Out"