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

sCousp Pons" Ia to he the next Vo'""e VI '"0
Nalzac series published by Roberts.
/, svmueton who knew Carlyle very we'll Is
about to publish some raVor"p'o Poi''""'
At the chelsea Sage
Four authorized editions Of DIR. Holiness breasi"S'
Table series are announced In England.
Tho little prsver book which Mary Of Scotland used OH
the scaood was sold at IN London the other 'aS
The prayers are the handiwork OF some rare hiecn'u
century scribe; they are written In La''h o" ~,
Tho pages the mssal are eSQusitely iiunna'eu wien
e,eyant borders of fruit flowers sni BIRDS they arc ~
decorated with thirty five miniatures og r'0"'''"
artist, p,eces OF elaborate workmanship inc h''e you"
s,;ll rests in the original oak boards oovereo WIZ" 'A
now 10 ich worn, IN which it was originally oo"'"'
Philip Gilbert Hamerton says tha' "o'''O 80,
Stevenson is In his own way, one Oh ''o "oS' - -.
wrers living" Now IL is in order TO eath "n"' Ho'
n,s stevenson thinks about Philip Gilber; Hsmer'on.
Edward Ersles IONS health has so improved tha' he Is
now AGAIN at work upon his history OF Liza IN INC
Ama,,cn Colonies" While Italy last winter he wrote
navel which he may perhaps bring out on his return 10
This country. He sails hitherward on saturday
rb> Pan uoG CARTE says: We understand that the
,mpor;ant work upon American mstitutons-shs nature
and working Of the American system OF government
mon which Mr.. Bryce. 81. f.. has been engaged ior
ng time Is necessarily delayed for few months py MS
sppointmeut to the nderSecretaryship Tor Fore'g"
Affairs The manuscript, however Is nearly ro"S io'
the prjner and ais soon the pressure OF ocai worA
relaxes for few weeks. Nj Bryce Will he aoie 10 con
n,., and revise IT. and the first volume Will be lssueu
immediately"
General Fremont says the preface to his forthcoming
Memoirs: Concerning the Presidential campaign oi
1856 In which was engaged. statements nave peco
made witch Wish to correct and IN that OF 1904 theFe
.cye GOVERNING facts which have not been made public
These propose 10 set ont. Some events OF the CIVIL
war ia which directly concerned have been moor
ecy stated and willing to leave the resulting
im essous crystalline aud harden INTO inc
Iemblance OF facts
NJ Tame has almost completed his Bonaparte." In
fins work the critic institutes long parallel between
Napoeon I. and Caesar, recognizing the greatest INTEL
c,na facultes In both but laying stress on the com
,lce absence of generosity in the French General lie
regards him q. italian adventurer OF the sixteenth
.entnry fallen the end of tho eighteenth to thr muS
II extraordinary circumstances A rev CHAPTERS
1om this new book will appear in the Rerue des De"T
uondes before the OF the voume at the beginning OF
he winter.
az n writas TO The Boston Advertiser in regard TO
tongfeow's poem of Truth al inclined to think
hat MI Lonefclow was quite willing to let this early
,oem die. l asked the late John owen VINO ior
many years was Mr.. Lougfelows most intimate lreno'
be was aware that Mr.. Longfellow ever published
zone verses entitled Apostrophe to Truth he rephco
nat he never had thcm and was lncipcd 10 douot
he fact told him that had copied such verses thus
untitled attributed him. from some magazine into
rrap- book rs early 1885. And they now confront
no They will found. published under the title OF
,Trnh' in the first edition of the Boston Book p
los published in 1886 by Light X Horton of Boston,
The MARQUIS Tseng the Chinese diplomat. has kept q
,iarv dnring his residence England and intends TO
,ubsh it ia That country. He has resolved to omit all
personal allusions-whIch will exasperae his English
readers.
"The relation OF the modern municipality TO the gas
mpply is the beet OF the forthcoming monograph OF
ue American Economic Association. IL 10 the Work OF
Professor James, OF the Wharton School OF Finance ana
Economy.
mich O, the interesting private correspondence OF
Noah Webster the photographer, Will appear In the
biography which his graudlaushter Mrs Gordon L.
Ford has in hand. The book is nearly completed
Mr. Gosse intends 10 ask for reelection to bis Cam
brilge lectureshir 1t becomes vacant in October.
In his forthcoming novel, Terre. 1t is sail that NJ
Zoa will portray the peasant as he concelves him; brne-
inr ont mole particularly the fierce earth hunger which
Is AZ the bottom and which too often brings
his worst and most savage instincts into play. At the
same time NJ lola recognizes in the man VINO ives IN
constant contact the soil certain element OF
dinnity An even grandeur of character TO whlch he
exprcsses his intention of doing full justice.
The author Of Bootos's Baby has written q society
novel W IN the title of Army society" Her later
voIk dsappomns and it is to he hoped that sue has
returned m this novel to tho ST. lie OF her first beautiful
tile story.