New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-06
LITERARY NOTES.

Mr. Ruskin in MS autobiography says OF Byrons let
ers that they contain the utmost number that will
some together into the space OF Absolutely just wise
and kind thoughts and which perfect because the
suaptty they hold is artihcialy intrcatey con-
sentrated, but With tho serene swiitness OF smth
hammer-strikes on hot iron'
minister in Mr. Howellss new Century story, Ihe
Minister'S Charge" Is the Rev. Mr. sewel who ngured
IN The Rise OF Silas Lapham."
Heath Il Co. will shortly publish The Temperance
Teachings OF Science by Dr. A. b. Palmer, OF Michigan
University.
Boston IL to have new monthly magazine INC O''@e"'
the first number appearing this month IL Is 10 DO oe-
voted to the discussion of questions OF popular interest
relating TO citizenship and government and VIII DO
edied Inv members of the American Institute OF Cycs
The first volume OF the posthumous works of Victor
Hugo will be published shortly 1t is entitled Theatre
en- berJe."
Rev William wilberforce Newton. author OF priest
and Man issues Summer Sermons from Berkshire
Pulpit" from the press OF ]. b. Harrison Plttsheld
IN, Pail Mall Gazette advises bookc whenever
they purchase a hook to "write plainly on the
first page the name of the person from whom II was
bought and the price" In order to enforce this
excellent hint The Gosche adds: This hah-
IT, carefully followed out has added consid-
eraby to the and value OF the library sold TINS
week In the rise in value OF volume mas
been enormous For example a thin folio OF scotch
about the middle of the sixteenth century, was bought
In 1879 by Mr. Woodruff for one guinea, and by Mr.
Pain in 1886 for 15l guneas Mr. Balm, however, oe
MES that he has paid extravSgant price, ohe guinea
left at compound in 1879 would, at per cent
In 1886 as may no ascertaned by very rapid cacuia
ton amount TO lust about $50 guineas and during the
next century the process OF accreon OF vaue DO
continued some Mr. Balm Of the future will have TO give
about $40 600 this uDpreteDding and by no means
attractive volume"
The autograph dictated letters which passed BE-
tween Goethe and Schiller will before long be added 10
the Goethe archives They now in the possession OF
Baron Carl Won Gotta OF Stuttgart VINO purchased heh
I'm ls5 hut he has agreed sell his treasures 10 inc
Grand Duchess of SIxe-Wemar. the owner OF the
archives for the price originally gwen Ihere u one
condition however, attached to the transactOh anu "
is that Baron Won Gotta sha. retain the MSS during his
lfetime and use them without restraint for literary
purposes.
Mr. William Cushing in his Dictionary OF Pseu
aonvms and Literary DISCUSSES" issued by Messrs Low
Co. states that "Junus letters were attributed
70 no fewer than fftyone writer's Of rcpute and st OF
their names Is gwen.
The Italian Government has offered reward OF
10 600 lire to any giving certain information Vi
where codex of Cceros De Ofciis, stolen from the
Mupcipal Library OF Peruga, is to be found report
il current in Rome that stolen manuscript has been
sold for 600 lire English or German collector Inc
Italian Embassies In foreign countries are authorized 10
nav no Roman papers announce that anotner
apuseript parchment cOdex has boon stolen from the
Cosanatensian Library Rome It consisted OF -FOUR
parchmopt leaves and the :" Mundus Novus"
written by Amerigo Vespucci himself.
Ticknor CO. for publication in the spring
the long promised Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfeow'
by his brother the Rev. Samuel Longfelow
Henry NJ Brooks has prepared series OF Volumes OF
which the material has been gathered from ola news
of Boston aud Salem which will be known as Inc
Ol1en Time Series each book to have separate tte'
sucb AS Curosities OF the Old Lottery Days OF tho
SWIMMING Wheel" Quaint and Curious ADVERTISE
mcnts"; "New-Eugland Sunday" etc. TicRnor X Co
will publish them.
Jansen McClurg & Co. announce for immediate pub
,c,,iop new edition OF George p. Uptons Women in
Music"
Andrew Lang is to make book OF his " Letters 10
Dead Authors"
TN, Academy ports that Wilson Mccormack the
Glasgow publishers will bring out in cheap FORM
selections from the prose and of Walt Whitman.
It's said that Pere Didon, the wen-known Dominican
priest is writing elaborate reply to NJ Renan, to be
called Refutation de Ia Vie dc Jesus"
ri, announced that public demonstration win take
place at Kmarnock in August next under the auspices
of the federated Burns CLUBS on the occasion OF the CEN
enary OF the publication of the first edition OF the poems
OF Burns.
The late Charles stOrrs amused himself Tor many
rears in collecting material book the stOrrs fam
ilv in England and America This material has been
used in the preparation OF volume now in the press OF
a. g. Barnes & Co.