New-York tribune., 1886-03-08
LITERARY NOTES.

r,. tr. a, Tnresule1's last novel 10 Talaxajcw."
=, vas dictated on his death bed 70 PsulineVardot Gar
esa II will frat appear in the Gegen'odrt
speoal limited edition Of sheleys poems las edited
ey ". NJ RossettD. is announced by Estes q Laura"
zach OF the fifty copies is numbered and has fronu@
,. an India paper Professor Dowdens new biography
Of Shelley will be ready In the autumn
LADY Anna Blunt the ghter OF Byron, Is one
ef the ceverest women England She Is an author
m adept in music and painting, student oi o[ien'a
politics a scholar capable OF wriung 70 hes Ne!io
friends In their own the capable manager OF
her beautiful home Crabbet Park ana tne teacer VI ~
onlv daughter Her husband. Mr. W. s. Blunt. Is poll
,o,an writer OF much ability and the author Oh
the "sonnets Of Proteus
people who don't know anything about the aims oe
,,efs and history OF the Theosophsts VIII welcome INC
.nnearance of q book entitled " WHAT'S Theosophy
1t is the work OF q Newport lady anu 10 W oo p
by Cuppes, Upham Go.
Curiosties OF the Old Lottery" the first OF the old
,ime series Of handhooks which Mr. H. NJ Brooks IS pre-
narnp and TIckuer & Co. are bringing out Ihe Ola
nevspapers OF Boston and Salem. sources not easily
accessible have furnished large part OF the material
Other books OF the series which are forthcoming arc
"Days of the Spinning Wheel "some Strange ana
Curious Punishuents" "Qlaint and Curious Adveruse-
ments." Literary Curiosties." "New-kngland sun
day." etc
Mr. H. Shorthouse has ii Is reported. laid &s,ue the
book npon which he has engaged and has resolved
10 allow his literary fame to rest upon Johh hses"
alone IL is added that the work which ne mas ao""
donel dealt with vast subject and he feels hnseH u
able to devote to it the time and study whicht demands
The new volume of the cheap lttlo National Library
Series contains SheridanS comeules iHe hN"i' ~
"Tne School for Scandal"
orr.s,ondent of The IT. JaneS's Gazctte complains
that while richly endowed professorship was Instituted
by the latest University COmmisson with the o9ecV VI
introducing English literature into the course OF oxrora
study that poessorshp has been pressed INTO the SCI
vice Of Germanic philoogy, and its msapplication is
now beyond recall
Victor Huso's long lost drama " Les Deux Jumeaux
has been found among his papers and 1t VIII Dc pup
.hed upder the title Of Comte JEAN" The painter
Bonnat is quoted by The London World as repeating
anecdotes ABOUT the immense and Olympian egousm Vi
Hugo One Instance OF his high opinion OF himseH was
given during tho siege of Paris The bombardDeht hao
been going on for time people were losing nope;
and one aay in the family circle Hugo declared III
measured tones: 81" ths siege continues much longer
Twin 20 forth to the ramparts; VIII aiio" mysei
10 be killed by Prusslan bullet. The Prussians VIII
have slain Victor Hugo, and then the war VIII De al an
end" "Yes at an end for you replleu LOUIS OO''"'
whom Hugo never fOrgave.
Rabbi Solomon SCHNEIDER of Boston. has written
hook entitled "MessaDic Expectations and Modern
Judaism" This work, which is q statement OF the
hopes and faith OF the American lsrsehtes VIII oe
brought out by s. f. Casino & Co.
The excellence of the Illustrations in Lieutenant
Creelys book has delighted the English critics The
London Times declares that "anythinG more beautiful
and truthful in the way Illustration we have not seen
IN any similar work This is. doubt, partly due TO
the admira photography of Rice. who unfortunately
IS among those who perished at Camp Clay Dut aso
certainly mastery work OF the engravers OF III"
limited states with which such magazines as HarpeTs
and The Century have made us familiar. The informa-
tion conveyed by illustrations greater than any
amount Of description could give and now that atten
top has been called value Of pictures In geograph
ia, education We hope that enlarged copies Of these
will fud their way into our schools"