New-York tribune., 1886-05-29
LITERARY NOTES.

.,,o.o ,no svatematic edition OF Long
sllow : works ~ eleven volumes, crown oc'aNo 70 III
nours. II rreparailoa by Houghiou Miih'n q Co. inc
,,ros ,.u ,c.up, two volumes. the poetry six and
tnrce will lie gwen TO the translation oil the D''ha
Commelia Quantities OF foOtnetes, Aeainotes concern
ING ire history of he separate works, oopous Indexes
seyer, portraits aud Tire beauties OF print and paper 10
which the Rivegfdc fress has accustomed us Will po
found IA THIS edition. IL viii he printed nom nc"
Mat. VIII be published daring the autumn and the
price will bc go Tor the set IN cio't More eNl"'
binlirc, Will also be furnished
The Riverside Prcss VIII send forth at the same time
THIS edition in au elegant form p0ndlng win e
larec papor edition. " Nh stadnans ." foe's %
America" Only 800 copies OF this Lar~eFaper h'i''o"
of TIN. fourflow will he pnblisaed, eaca copy pel's
numaorcl The price OF tie eleven Noiu"'s "'' 90
aud tue iir!n Is now ready to receive Subscriptions
tits TIC opt ION Of nc 81 Louis Gio1e-p,''e'af 'h
thor is such thag az telling the truth without ''"N
~. whole trnfh: AMI int acuonwrltcr'. rs class
.ce 10 hy. hopelos,ly fallen into that uLe"ndid ana
rerneious way oi porraying their country men, Iheii
obscrvat. .on Is partial that Is to say and al OF re-
v,aline American character in broad and thorough
sense they appear be always in search OF special traits
and conditions which, however veracous as FAR as They
,o stoo Infinitely short Of tenu, the fun story
Taere is not American novel IL whieh just
a.d consistent specimen OF American manhood OF
vem.alooi is 20 be found. We are assured That our
bcs c.rlont nc,on is chiefly admirable because ~ is
realistic but realism is term easily subject 10 "huse
The simple f.ct that weakness and vulgarity may be
seen ln every community does not signify inaI weakness
and vulearity are hest worth consderius or thdt hel
exercise controlling power in onr aiurs II we were
10 take the novests according TO the testimony of their
book in fhis respect shoald have TO think that 'he
good ueope in this country all nsipid and useless
and the potent ones al coarse and dishonest IAA IA
not the truth. as everybody know'.'
Mr. Edgar Fawcett VIII include in his forthcoming
,o.nne OF poems tale in blank verse entitled The
SOrocr,s&"
There no reviewer who VIII not feel the force OF tis
paragraph on mediocre books from The BOston Courier;
{" The amount OF works OF this sort which somehow
srneee mo print is appalling. One who has occasion
10 sec all The new books is likely soon 20 become deeply
depressed by the sense Of wasted human effort which
.anno, bnt come over him day after day the pub
lshers send out volume upon volume which is cooress
ttsicss and iofcec, and he knows that out o. every
dozen publications put his aabc not three Will be re-
meubsrcd on their own merits AZ many months. The
difficulty DE That as publishers are forced 10
continual compromise b0tween their own sense Of merit
ana tho vagares popular taste they more or less
fl tie habit o sending ont good many books as 20
many expenent try the temper OF lie reading pub
nc."
Anew portal, OF Nathaniel Hawthorne VIII appear IN
the July H0FIer