New-York tribune., 1885-01-24
LITERARY NOTES.

..,,o,,orv breakfas, is to be given to Mr.
ramrnd Gosse at the Hotel Brunswick, on Monuay
morning.
mThe Evolution of Dodd." will be published by d.
Iothrop g. Co This is the book which has oeen
beraded as a sort Of f" Ginx's Baby and when de-
scrbes the effect of the public school system upon
sensitive child
The prettest of literary anecdotes has been related oy
Wilhelm Grimm, of the pair OF famous stor
One day little girl rang their bell and met MN III 'uo
hall with the words. Are you the Mr. "rinlih VIM
writes the pretty tales :" " Yes and my pro'nei
And that of the clever little tailor VINO matreu lno
princess - "Yes certainly" "Wel, sa'd the chio'
produeng the book is said here that every one WHO
doesn't believe it must pay him thaier. Now' uoh
b.lieve that princess ever married tailor. haven't
80 much as thaer but here is groschen ana please
say hope to pay the by degrees" just then jacob
came up and the brothers had an interesting interview
with the little dame but they could not persuade her
to take away the groschen which she had laid on the
table.
uTbe R;bliotheca Sacra which is now published
IN Obcrlp Oho-costs at present three instead of four
dollars year.
Mr. w A. Hovey. the author of " CauSerie," a little
volume publshed few years ago, has prepared book
entitled Mnd.reading and Beyond" 1t will have
hundred engravngs illustrating curious experiments
and it will be published by Lee N Shepard.
Mr. Dolby tells an amusing story of the way in which
Dickens's Mugby Junction was first sugSgestea TO
him. "On the arrival of the train at Rugby he says
ait was discovered that the carriage in which we were
travelling was on fire. While was busy superlniehd-
ING the transfer of the light baggage, Mr. Dickens
came along the platform in state OF great exc'emehl'
and requested to accompany him to the relreshe'
room Them standing in the doorway, and pointing
with his finger he described the picture ne particularly
wished to impress on my mind. You see, Dolby
stove to right hand-torn cocoanut mating on noor-
counter across room--cotee-u n-tea-urn-piates oi
,nsks-nile, of sawdust sandwiches and shrunken-up
oranges -bottles-tumblcrs-and glasses on counter
and behind counter, note particularly our mlssis.
When the train was fairly off again. Mr. Dickens pro
eeeded to explain Entering the reireshment rooih nc
md Mr. Wills had each asked for cup OF coffee,
which was supplied TO them. While Wills was feelng
In his pocket for small change wherewth TO pay
Mr. Dickens reached across the counter for the sugar
and milk when both articles were suddenly snatched
awsy from him and placed beneath the counter while
his ears we're greeted with The remark made in shrl
and shrewish tones, You sha'nt have any milk ana
sugar till YOU two fellows have paid for your coffee
This speech was delivered by the woman whom he had
poipted out to me as Mssis,' and it gave infinite
amusement to a page in buttons, who, with that
demoniaca spirit which seems to seize some boys al
the idea of somebody else catching it, was so over
joyed that he burst ont into an uncontroaoie nj oil
laughter The discounted travellers left their cohee
on the counter, after apology for making so free
with the sugar-basn But it was an evil day for that
buttons for he figured as The Boy at Mugby in
the next Christmas number of All the Year Round
The york which Edward and George. the two sons Of
the Prince of Wales have prepared together Will be
published n April in two bulky volumns of five hun
dred pages each They will contain many illustrations
"La Revue Conten poraine is the title of the new
MAGAZINE which is about to appear in Paris. Zola is
its principal contributors and the first number will CON
tain an article on Edgar Poe by NJ Emile Hennequin.