New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-01
LITERARY NOTES.


phrase sweetness and light was not original win
hin h,t was horrowed from swifts +" Battle OF the
Books Many of Mr. Arnold's WORKS arc Already
scarce His 3Frtendshp's Garland for instance
(which originally cost about 80 cents In LONDON no"
brings something over e.
Oscar wilde is about publish Five Fairy Tales
walter Crane has made the Illustrations for the pooh
There will probably be session Of the Concord
SCHOOL OF Philosophy this summer, Mr. Acott having
GONE TO the Land of Shades and other important
members being unable to attend What VIII pocohio
Of all the metaphysical moonshine which the minor
lights had prepared to give forth' They are ID inc
svu casa Of the seven who ate tho 5000 loavcs
and fishes in the version Of the miracle given py
tho little Sunday school boy The miracle graveiy
continued the little boy, to the unconcealed delight
Of his comrades and the horror Of his teacher
that they didn't bust
ceneral Grants Memoirs receive high compliment
from Tho London Spectator" They are the truo
image OF q man. says the critic Probably never
beforc-perhaps mover agaln-shal we DC told eAac'iy
how commander feels when he goes Into action
Teneya Grant shows us this and besides he presents
that curious problem, the man In whom the purely
porsonal pleasure Of in battle was reduced 10
nothing and who genuinely sorry, nay crest
fallen, at having to take his opponents sword"
Tho West Is to have monthly magazine which is 10
be edited by Colonel Dom Plat and which VIII ooai
with politics. fiction, poetry, general literature SCI
once and art win give an Independent support 10
tho Democratic party and the present Admn's'ra'
tons and IL will issue a complete novel In each num-
Der It will be published by Belford, CLARK q w.
and its title will be &" Beford's Magazine
Mr.. Thomas Hardy's forthcoming volume IS TO 90
entitled awessex Tales Strange, Lively and common
,.csp The hook will presumably contain the shorter
MAGAZINE stories which the author has recently pup
,sbed Mr. Hardy's later work Is clever, Out no
whore does It touch the high mark OF Onder inc
Greenwood Tree" and a Pair of Blue Eyes
Mr.. Julian Hawthorne has become the literary critic
of the new Chicago weekly America
r,cknor & Co. have Just brought out new edition
=, w,m.r, winters delightful little book Shake
speares England
A cheap edition in paper covers OF Mr.. sumner .
rovs, The Nudge, IS announced by the Scribncrs
There is little chance for the establishment OF
,vo,apuk as a universal language, as inventors anu
s,sc,,ss Az. Constantly disagreeing about it. An
rcsh critic thinks that its origin is 10 be found
a. tho dsinclinaton OF certain foreigners to recognize
The hard fact that the English language Is dcstineo
by ultimate force Of numbers to become IL no' 'no
language of the world at any rate the universal COM
mercial language
Mr. W. D. Howclls's story entitled " Ammo
Kilburnn-pretty name will be begun In the hcA'
number Of "Harpers Magazine"
A usefp, volume called Book Prices Current has
.ust been brought out In London by Mr. Elliott eocA
II Is composed of priced catalogues with puyer
Names of all the auction sales OF books "hich 'ooh
,p,,oe between December, 1886, ard November, 1851
Its value will DO readily perceived by inc owners VI
libraries Tho most memorable event OF the year
for bilpopoles occurred that day in Juno when MI
oua,,,cb gave s1325o and 1928 for two successive
Gala he MaZar1n
Bible and the first Bible with date (Mentz' 1907
A collection of stories by Dom Piatt is announced
BY Bedford, Clark Co. The volume Is 10 10 GU
titled "The Lone Grave Of the Shenandoah
One of the cleverest Of the American novelsts'
0aptain Charles King has contributed serial story
70 the pages Of Harpers Weekly It's title, y
Wartime woong,' indicates It's romanuc cnara0'oi
70 those who know Captain Kings picturesque and
no.tcal method II will follow the story now run
ming in the weekly-a story which has borne some
resemblance to " She"
Captain Kings lates. stories, The Descrter' ana
aFrom tic Ranks are to be published under
one cover by the Lippincott Company.
great deal of matter hitherto unpublished will, is
reported appear in the edition of the Correspondence
and Diaries of Washington which is being prepared
by Mr. W. c. Ford and which will be brought out by
q. r. Putnam's Sons.
The next issue Of Tho Ohio Archaeological and
Historical Quarterly" is TO be devoted to an account
Of the recent centennial celebration at Marietta
This neat paragraph concerning the Emperor Paul
OF Russia appeared In the recently published Memoirs
of Prince Adam Czartorysk: Z" II poor man, with an
old round hat on his head, showed himself In the
crowd which witnessed the paradcs, an aidede-camp
Immediately pursued the culprit, who fled TO avoid
being bastnadoed the first guard house. The chase
was often continued In the streets, TO the great amuse
would succeed in making his escape. Lord Whtworth
the British Ambassador obliged to have hat O.
peculiar shape made for him, to be able to wall
about in the morning without contravening the En-
perors orders. Paul drove through the town daily
in q sledge open carriage, accompanied by one o.
his aidesdccamp. When he met carriage It stopped
the coachman and footmen had to take of their caps
and the persons In the carriage had TO aght and make
profound bow TO the Emperor who observed whether
It was sufficiently respectful. Sometimes women
with their children trembling with fright were seer
descending into the In hard FROST or into the
mud during thaw, to accomplish this saluation
Paul always thought that people wished to slight him
as they did when he Grand Duke he liked every
whore TO meet with marks of fear and submission.
When people went out into the streets in carriages
master; they fed at his approach and went down a
side street or hid under gateway