New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-03-13
LITERARY NOTES

Mr. whittiers new volume OF verse; now in the press
q, Houchton Miiiin Co. Is TO be called St. Gregorys
Guest " and other Poems.
The prices brought by the late Mrs. Morgans books
have been such as to astonish all acquainted with the
real value OF DOst OF the works few sets extra Illus
trsted no doubt justified high prices but the rate ct
which ordinary standard books sold has been far too
high. For example, a set Of Appletons Cyclop9dla'
the like OF which can be bought for 500. brought
1887. The price paid for copy of srences Anecdotes
book of the most insignificant literary value was pre-
MYSTERIOUS The Rembrandts Works, published by
Quantin was cheap at Slli when the original price
q OOOtr is taken test. hut the work can be pro-
cnred to-day in tho secondhand stores OF Pas Tor less
than half the publishing price and therefore this was no
Great BARGAIN Wslpocs Compendium for sos was an
other extravagant purchase The book OF miniatures
which fetched $780, probably better worth the
money half the books beside were worth the nuch
smaller they sold for Competition among buyers
ignorant OF the value OF books kept tho prices up but
the truth is tina, excepting the extra Illustrated books
there are very few In the Morgan catalogue duplicates OF
which cannot ne obtained without going ont OF New
York for from so rs per cent of what they brought at
this sale
Hero are some musical stories told by NJ Reno in his
book eutitled Music in FogLand He reports a
memorable aphOrsm" 10y Theophie Gautier-" Music Is
the most expensive and disagreeabe OF discs AS
hay ing thought out in London, and adds that IL
logically led him (Gauter 10 print tue iOIOWug "dHHs
above his 1t Is forbidden TO deposit any music
along these verses >" When he AYERS, certain
young English ladies OF fashion, addicted to managing
his romances ask PaOlO TOt what he thinks OF thel
sineing replies You dress very well; but you sing
1erv hadlv ANY professor of singing who
respects himself is bound take the predicate OF sigor
II ia not his real business professor hut to be an
Italian asked an eminenI singing master one uay
What is YOUR professionf Italian, he replied Ana
where were you bOrnP In Belgium" the
butler of great lady of fashion overheard by her.
one day. discussing the vicssitudos of life with fellow
servant My dear feller, he calculated, am afraid
that our people going for economy Only fancy
at the party yesterday evening with my own eyes
MY lady and Miss usbe a-playin one piano at the
tuner"
Miss Sarah O. Jewett has written short story under
the attractive title OF THE Dulham Ladies'" 1t viii
appcar in the next number OF The Atlantic
The report OF the National Prison Association is about
10 go to press embodes speeches aud discussions by
ex President Hayes Charles Dudley Warner. Frederick
IL Wines Francis Wayland, George W. Cable. u. K.
Brockway W. NJ. +. Round and Wardens Brush, Nc
Caughry Fuller, Pattison, FELTON,, Masse, OF Toronto;
Hicks Of Raleigh Gardiner Tufts OF Massachusetts, and
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