New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-26
LITERARY NOTES.

r. NOV he true as reported by various newspapers
that Mr.. Howells has agreed to write Tor Harper
Aortbv for certain nuiber ct years. But IL Is no'
.rue that this will interfere with his WORK ior
popular periodical ,
mIread a few DAYS ago in Tory journal" says Mr.
Sabouchere an enthusiastic allusion TO Lord pea-
,onsaeld's fine epigram about critics pe'hg '"o'o
cho have failed ia literst re ard art Lord Deoon'
ted's novels are very brilliant and amusing ana owen
highly instructive; bat he was most anuAciou'
elaearist and only very innocent or Ignorant pe"Pe
will quote his good things with admiration IRIS very
enioram which occurs in Lothian is ooiay
cleaned from Walter Savage Landors niagua
conservation between Person and Southey, IN "h'0H
the former says Those who have 1aieo a. ","''s
I'm re,ieuers' One constantly fluids that Lord
Reaoons6elds undiscerning admirers are giving MN
ere III for invcntng the phrase gondoia oil Lonaon
49, tho hanson but this fecitous idea crib from
Balzsc'
T.. ia .aid that there is now in London q lady who
eorns livelihood by skilfuliy filing up worm holes in
old books. each Leaf being SCI arately and Patiently
dealt with the material being chcwcd or Pull ed,
and rre,sed into the hole. The charge Is sixIence
hole.
Apow critical edition Of the works of Athcnaeus is
to be brought out in Germany.
Hartford Coursnt" says that he the original proof
d. ~ " The Scarlet Letter and Of - Uncle Toms
Cabin y" Though only portion OF Uncle Toms
Cabin in book form was printed from the manuscript
If Mrs Stowe 1t having teen first published in the
National Era of Washington. | had much 10 90
with Mrs Stoves ard HawthOrnes manuscript In ther
later novels Mrs Stoves was handsome, PLAN ana
appsreptly dashed OF with yigor; Ha"tbornes care
,ollv and closely written in every part and altogether
w,,,bont :u,erineation Mrs. Stowe was not careful
and thonph she did not interlineate great DEAL u
was no uncommon thing to find inaccuracies In heF
writing | worked hard TO help her make her negro
dialect consistent place with another hawthorne
,vas tho most remarkable writer knew in one re-
snec, There Is not an italicized word in his Y orFs.
from one end to the other His style is perfect that
he seems never to have felt the need of any emphasiS
inc except what itself furnished. Mr. James T. Fields
a,et,Ilr nreseryed the manuscript of all Hawth0rnes
novels"
Moores " Lalla Rookh is the holiday volume upon
which Messrs Estes g. Lsuriat have expended the
largest share OF their energy this season. American
artists have made drawings which have been repro
duced in phOto-etchng.
An experiment ia cheap literature is about to be
tried in England in the publication Of series OF the
best known works at the small price of six cents
volume For more than twenty years there has been
unfinished in Paris La BibliotheGue Rationale" a
series not confined its might be thought to n-
dicate TO works by French author but including trans
ations from the literature Of ether countries For 20
cents the FTenchnan by this me- ans possess him.
self of Erasmuss IN Praise of Folly" or Machavelhs
Prince" of Byron's d" COrsair," or Tsssos Jerusa-
lem Delivered" y; while Of his own authors lie eau
wander from Bossuet to Votare and take his choice
betyeen Fenelon's Education des Files and the
Confessions of Jean jacques
NJ Faure's book on " A Grand Method of Singing 4"
Is to be published next year.
The Rev J. G. Woods 4" Horse and Man: Their
Mutual Dependence aud Duties is in the press OF D.
b. LippiucOtt & Co.
General Horace Porters paper on Lincoln and
Grant will appear in the October number OF The
Century"