New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-29
LITERARY. NOTES.

William Blacks novel. ain Silk Attire" has been
orsmatzed and it will be produced next month !"
Belgium. The version Is In Flemish.
Ticguor & Co. have published a BOOK "no" ~,
s,udents of music history will he glad to place i"
libraries 1t Is called Oiden Time Muso, An- ooD.'ss
of a com pilaton of paragraphs ana ao'eru'o'"uA ~
books and newspapers relating to music nehiy ~. a
pr,ot. "a the compiler. The Significant ana hslg'i"
can't the valuable aud worthless are sadly lu~oeo !"
the book and the general inability OF Ia! "n W WIZ
sensibly on the subject OF music Is a'.esteu W
rarard g Mor.e's introduction, In which he compares
.cran-book Of NewEngland clippings WIN Dr burneS
800, . History" ana marvels that Mr.. Brooks has done
GO much when the English historian worked hfy years
On his volumes As the labor OF looking through e"
NeUEngland publications OF the last century was com
narabe with original research among the unknown
treasure. of all libraries, public aid private III
England France, the Netherlands Germany ana Italy
Nevertheless Mr. Brookss book is interesting as helping
70 an understanding OF music culture in NewEngand
century ago.
Miss Bach 1iece OF John jay and the author OF
volume emitted Mustard Leaves, has prepared ior
the Engllsn Ill strated Magazine series of sketches
of Old homes III England These will nave per-
sonaI interest," as their author Will deal envy with the
places wherein she mas been a visitor In lae March
number sue will scribe ponsh Est, the nome OF the
sidneys eud the second sketch viii, present AruhueI
Castle the Duke of Norfolk having assisted Miss Bach
with III. strati0ns letters, etc
Gertrude II. Churchill, Of Boston, has compiled
Birthday Book OF Musicians and Composers winch
Oliver Ditson n Co. have given 10 the world III
handy book for dates, though Miss Churchill mas nos
managed facts later than the hadoooks VI io
or five years ago. and her spelling OF proper names
I'M ght be revised with profit 1t is gevous III pooh VI
this character 10 see such blunders as brueoh'
"uaberneck," PretorlOus," "WienausM' ocNMe'
G.ueck" saeri," spledel," Langhaus, bIasih''
Ruoenstein," Lindpalner." III two cases, Blans'm
index but the other spellings are repeated, winch
proves that they not Typographical MISTAKES o
has the compiler yet heard Of tue deaths OF KAN Vok
maDn Flotow, Abt. Benedict Cborley or hudo Bia not
to mention the death list OF last year.
CODY of the first edition Of the nimitable Alices
Adventures was lately sold iu London for e25.
Sir John Lubbock has written a cordial and admirng
lu,rolucti ion TO the English edition OF Dr. H. e. Mo
Cooks Tenants of an Old Farm" fords, io"aru
Hubert have already brought out several edohs mere
OF this graceful book
Several unpublished portraits of Thackeray will APP
pear In a forthcoming English book on The great
novelist.
An American writer has managed 20 get book into
Noveo, Ever & Co.'S series Of Music Primers III ID
Professor f. L. Ritter vassar College. and his subject
t. Musical DicatiOn" exceedingly practical anu
sensible subject has had less attention than u
dc ,eryes rotofore Professor Ritter explains the need
OF such training his book Is designed 10 give clearly!
fully ana succinety in his Introductory Remarks
have almost invariably found ne says that even apie
panoorie or students well grounded IN the rudi
mens of music, when asked to write down from memory
tie meodlc passage OF the first bar only OF the simple
nj or song they have Just PLAYING singing for
me correctly by heart absolutely not do 1t; to NIX
the respective pitch of the derent notes OF the meiodc
passage, and especially the DIVISION OF the presents
insurmountaOe obstacles ~ then."