New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-09-08
LITERARY NOTES.

Mr. j. b. Mllet, who is TO give his valuable super
vision to the illustrations of tho scribner" has
had the charge of of the most important works
brought from the Riverside Press. Mr.. Vedders
SONAR Khayyam" is one of the books which owe
much to his skilful superintendent. Mr.. Miet is
BROTHER of Mr. Frank ID. Millet and used to be the
art critic of The Boston Advertiser" and has been
contributor to The Atlantic and other magazines.
Ouida's paper on Female Suffrage" in The North
American Review would be- If the writer were accept
ed as a typical woman excellent argument for
denying to her everything but nunnery. 1t is
shallow, illogical and nasty.
Miss Laurence Alma Tadema is careful to point out
that her paper on Fashions in Hair" in The Eng
lsh Illustrated Magazine for September was written
two years ago In spite of that important fact the
article is interesting. This number has also clever
little description OF dynamite factory, from which
learn that the unaooustomed stranger who handles the
uncovered sausage like rolls of dynamite is to
be overcome by nausea, and that the workmen who
occupy the posts Of danger oil clothed IN Mephs
tophelean garb of scarlet, In order that any black
coated intruder may be instantly detected and hustled
out.
There is much talk OF "style" in these days let
those who talk anayre the charm Of this exquisite bit
from Dorothy WORDSWORTH journal "As went
along stopped at once, at distance Of per-
haps fifty yards from favore birch tree. Ii was
yielding gust OF wind, with all its tender twgs
the shone upon 1t, and 1t glanced in the wind like
flying sunshny shower. 1t was a tree in shape with
stem and branches. but it was like spirit of water"
"A Secret Inheritance is the title of the serial story
by b. L. Fargeou the first chapters of which will appear
IN tie October number Of "The English Illustrated
Magazine"
With the publication of one more voume Sir Richard
4. Burton's edition Of The Thousand Nights and q
Night as originally planned will be complete. He
has however concluded to add TO the ten vol mes five
supplemental ones containing Arabic tales found in
the Macnaghten or Bulak editions "The London
Academy says: The first two of these supplemental
volumes which already written will exhaust the
terminal stories Of the Breslau edition the third will
comprise the Selection of New Tales found In vol
VI of Dr. Jonathan Scotts Arabian Nights Entertain.
nents 1Sl1). which Sir Richard Burton intends to
translate afresh from the Wortey Montagu MS in the
Bodleisn, collated with other MSS; and the fourth
an fifth volumes will contain ten of Gallands most
popular tales. which have never been traced to an
Arabic source. Among these old friends
Aladdin and Ali Baba'"
A translation of Turgucnef's unpleasant and fan
tsstic Song of Triumphant Love opens the list of
articles In the September Cosmopolitan" Mary e.
wilkins contributes pretty little rustic story and
Mr. Hornsday offers second lively instalns nj of A
Yankee in Canton" The magazine improves.
The test of good poetry of good wine, an English
srtc says. is not analysis. out taste aud he adds
. collection ct really good poetry made by good
critic-such as Palgrave's. Golden Treasury helps
more to eeyatet he popular standard of poetic excel
lence and to FIX absolute standard than any quantity
Of ingenious analysis in the details Of which probably
no two critics agree"
"The Book Annexed Its Critics and its Prospectsv
is the title of vigorous pamphlet iust issued by the
Rev. Dr. W. r. Huntington, of this city Dr. Hun
hngtoDs position Is one of the compilers OF the Re-
vised Prayer Book. well as his wide knowledge OF
litures, makes him we'll qualified to speak tor the re-
visers Of the Prsyor-Book and this pamphlet will
DOUBTLESS be real with great interest by the deputies
20 the coming Episcopal General Convention, which
n TO decide the fate Of " Tho Book Annexed"
sThe Church Magazine " for September is a credit
able number. The Rev. Dr. Leighton Coleman writes
nstructivey and Interestingly about the music OF the
English Church. There is the usual soporifc religious
serial, which is at least good the run of such
stories The Rev. Robert Ker tells of triumph of
oalcanism In Canada. The Rev. Hamilton NJ Bart
BIT tells what he knows about the childhood Of John