New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-14
LITERARY NOTES

Mr.. Ruakin was asked the other day what pay he
exucctcd for his paper in current number Of the
Nasassne Of Artr He repiisd 90 penny line"
Nm LEVEL viii desc rbe In his Landors article in the
February ~Censmys VISA which h~ pad to Lander
At Bath In 1852. He will also present hitherto un-
pubshcd poem by himself
Ior, Archibald Campbell won't let Mr. stevensons
sTconderoga- alone. Its historical motive Is 20 III
correct that II makes him. unhappy zone enih'sias
tic atAnircr Nr. stevrrSoa'~ pr eIa' he says, @
eeftoi it will live feersver In the Ensiish IAN
guawt / hope not, hr IL IL all wong
The unpublished letters which Mcnaelssohn began to
write tc Moschelcs wicu he was bis rnpn WIZ ap9oa'
In tho next Scibner.- 1t Is said that ME- s'eNen'"
in TIN, paper. The Lantern Bearers which ne mas
eontsbutcd 70 the same number, will plead for Ideal
Tam LA life and art
Mr. Crccn the widow of tho historian, writes IN
reference to hcr revision Ut husbands Short His
tmy az the English People = 81 Know or NO excuse
which could give for attempting any revision Oh 'he
short History, save that this was my husbands a-t
charge TO me. Nor can give any other saiesua"
for the way Ia which have performed the wo+& 'hsn
tho sincere and laborious effort have made TO carry
cut that charge faithfully. have been very Careful
not interfere In any way with the plan or s'iue'ro
Of the book, and In few exceptional cases, III
which knew Mr. Green's wishes, or where a ehange
of chronology made some slight change in arrange
necessary, have not aitoed its oror. NY "oia
has been rather that of correcting mistakes Oh ueta
which must Of q certainty occur la a story WHICH
covers so vast a field and in this have been mainly
guided throughout by the work OF revision aone os '
Green himself in his larger History In ths
History he had first proposed merely to prepare
library edition OF the Short History revised and cor
rccted. In his hands, however, 1t became whohy
different book, the chief part OF IL having ooch TO-
written at greater length and on an altered pan
have therefore only used its corrections within 'cry
definite limits so far they gould he adapted to BOOK
nd arrauQ
work now exceeds 10000 copies. The Bcw ediiion
viii soon DO ready for publication by MesSIs Macm-
Ian Il CO.
An unpublished schoolboys Sentimental Rhymtng
Essay7 by tho First Napoleon is to appear in new
French review called lie scmeur"
Tho author Of The New Antigene,' striking novel
lately reviewed in these columns, is Dr. Barry, a
Roman Catholic priest.
Muntzs "RaphacIs Is to be succeeded by his
LEONARDO da Vnci: His Times and Iasks.'
In the December number Of lie Lvre," NJ. Robert
du Poutavlce dc Heussey has paper IN vindlca'lon
of Buwer apropos of the extraordinary book pub
Iished last year by Miss Louise Dewey The position
taken by NJ. de Heussey Is that Lady Lyton was mad
and that the charges she made against her huseaha
simply Authorizations. In support OF this theory
a synoptized account of Lady Lyttons career IS given
The writer crticises Miss Dewey severely for accept
Ing as matter OF fact allegations which any qualihcd
elenist would have ascribcd TO cerebral disease WIN
out hesitation Apart from the argument, this Aztec
furnishes curious Illustrations of the notorious
tendency Of Frenc to bunder whenever they have
TO do with foreign facts and people. His countIymen
might be padoned for failing to recognize the author
of The Scarlet Letter" and " The Marble baun' In
"Nathaniel Harnctow,' the more especially since no
Is brac keted with Edgar Poe, as that other American
demonac.s Poor Mr.. Neare, the victim of 1lurteli
suffers a Gallo change and becomes Mr.. Neace''
and tout Paris is gravely informed that English high
waymen, les Chevaliers du Carrefour called them
selves knights Of the Cross" This last is really a
delightful muddie though is easy to sec how it came
about. What the hlghwaymen acuua'ly called theHl-
selves, or were called Knights of the Road"
Now carrefour" is " crOssroad,' and VI dc hcusSey
has clearly taken cross" and left out the ROAD
with characteristic national pcrvcrsity 1t is per-
haps hardly surprising that he has not even got Bu
wers own name correctly, calling him George Edward
instead of Edward George, and emitting the oapsma
| name Earle, which he also bore. These MISTAKES
do not Of course at all affect the argument of NJ do
Ieusscy but they indicative Of French Limitations