New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-05
LITERARY NOTES.

yba Ncndolssohn- Moschclcs letters, in course
Of publication I'm Scrlbner's Magazine are to be
brought out In book form by Tcknor Il Co, together
with many other portions Of the correspondence stin
unpublished. The volume. which will contain many
valuable portraits and oth,r illustra tons, including
reproductions of some of Mendelssohn's own comic
drawings, will appear in April
Mr. Donnelly now expects to issue his book during
this month. Nearly 500 pagcs-oh, WEAKNESS ARC
now in type and the first 500 printed 1t IS said
that an edition do will be prepared and sold at
$25.
The wife of General Wallace has writton book on
titled "Thc Land of the Pucblos.' 1t will be pub
lished by J. b. Alden.
Tho author of that lively novel. Miss Baylc's Ro-
NANCE has written another entitled " Moiern
Brgand., Prince Bismarck and other distinguished
persons will appear in It.
Dr. A. p Peabody's "reminiscences Of Harvard will
shortly be brought from the fcknor press.
Mr. whtticrs verse to be placed on tho Milton
window presented to ST. Margarct's Church, West
minister, by Mr.. c. W. Childs, runs thus:
"The New World honors him whose lofty plea
For Engands freedom made her own more sure I;
Whose song. immortal as its theme snail DE
Their freehold while both worlds en-
durc"
"The independent says that Mr.. Whittier feared
that the word freehold would be objectionable, and
suggested the use of " hcroom.' an alternative,
although MAINTAINING, III MS hOIe W Ndhoh an
his preference for freehold" and urging that "Mton
himself uses it in the same way in his prose writings
namely, i, too, have my charter and freehold OF
rejoicing"
An entirely new portrait Of Mr. Whittier has Just
been issued by IIoughton Mifiin Co. 1t is reported
that the poets friends consider this the most salts
factory portrait of him that has ever been made
Here IS a hasty description of John Strange Win
ter" tho clever chronlclcr of British military life
"a dark haired, brlght-cyed young woman in pretty
white gown"
A delightful series of papers on Tho Children OF
the White House, are now Frightening the always In
terestlng pages of "wido-Awakc' They richly
illustrated the portraits given being especially at
tractlve. Tho current number deals with the young
sers of sturdy John Adams.
An English version of the "Kalcvala7 from the Ger
man of Professor schefner is in preparation
Mark Hopkins, the son of the late voneracd prcsi-
dent of Williams College, has wrtton novel; which
Ticknor Is about to publish 1t deals with American
life abroad.
Commissioner G. Brown Goodies popular treatise on
the Game and Food Fishes Of North America VIII
BE brought out March l. The volume which has been
prepared with especial reference to tho habits Of fishes
and the methods Of capture and which is to be Illus
tratd, will be sold only by subscription
Eliza Lynn Linton was one of the twelve children
of the Vicar Of Croshwatc in the Lake region There
she was accustomed Robert southcy, whom, she
SAYS she remembers " with his eagles beak and small
retreatng chin. spare frame, and dark eyes full OF
fire. lie preferred long solitary rambes to our prn-
tive society. But Harriet, Duchess OF St. Adams,
was more sociable, and when iourneying northward
used to invite tho Vicar to spend the evening
with her at the Royal Oak My fathers fellow
parsons were a very queer lot. Some drank and
fought in public houses others were little better than
honest ayaborers, and it not uncommon to hear
the officiating clergyman exclalm, when his Sunday
mlnstratlons were over, Gosh that Jobs 1obbed
portion Of Miss Lynns grlhood was spent at Gad's
Hill, which her father, like Charles Dickens loved
from his youth upward, and ultimately purchased
A volume of poems by Mr.. l. r. Pennypaoher,
Editor of The Philadelphia Weekly Press IS to DO
published by Houghton Mnlln & Co. Several of Mr..
Pennypackors poems have already found their way
into standard collections.
This Is what Matthew Arnold says about Russian
novels: "The Russian OF letters docs not mako
nature say: Tho Russian IS my best race lie
finds relief to his sonsivenesS in lotting his percep
lions have perfectly free play, and In recording their
reports with perfect fidelity The sincereness with
which tho reports gven has even something child
IKE and touching. In the novel of which am going
to speak, there Is not line not trait, brought In
for the glOrifca alton Of Russia, to feed vanity
things and characters go nature takes them and tho
author IS absorbed I'm seeing how nature takes them
and in relating It. But have here a condition of
things which highly favorable to tho production Of
good literature, Of good art. We have great sensl
tiveness, subety, and ncSse addressing themselves
with entire dslnterestcdness and simplicity to the
representation of human life. The Russian novelist Is
thus master of spell to which the secrets of human
naturc-both what is external and what is internal,
gesture and loss than thought and feeling
willingly make themselves known The crown Of
literature poetry and the Russians have not yet had
a great poet. But in that form OF imaginative liter
ature which in day is the most popular and tho
most possible, tho Russians at the present moment
seem to to hold, Mr. Gladstone would say, the
feldn
The Life Of Thoma II. Galaudet," the founder of
deaf muto instruction In this country, Is In tho press
of Henry Holt IL Co.