New-York tribune., 1889-12-22
LITERARY NOTES.
. r. oro to nubIIsh stanley's

Messrs Sampson Low & Co. arc to publish staniey
letters from Africa in cheap edition with an intro
ducton by Scott Kettle a traveller Of some dlsuhctoh
The book will contain one letter which has never peer
| published and there will be maps showing o,anney
/ entire route The book will be published In tn'
country, by Messrs. Harper Bros'' III paper oo'o'
This publication II need hardly be sald VIII no. cor
flct in any way with stanleys history OF MS "onu'
tourney. Stanley will probably write MS pooA u''
ntor ~ c.iro and its publication may be expected
I'm about wear from the present time. The American
rights have not been secured by any publisher d. Se
nor the English rights, as far as Is known athous"
Is regarded as probable that Sampson Low oo' "iN
have the book. II has happened more ''"r o"'e
that some subordinate. or even some deserVol nO
great travellers expedition has sought 10 u'i,I "
capIta in a literary undertaking, but the pubic Is
nrohahv aware that Stanley himself is the only one
who can write the history Of his machlcss Journey
The great popularity OF :" Looking Backward con
tlnues in New England, where one large mercantile
house has delighted It's customers by giving away
copies Of the story with its goods. In England IL we
NAV believe "The Pail Mall Gazette" the book mas
fallen fat" the circulation might probably be counted
in three figures"
Professor Horsford's enthusiastic conviction tnat
he has found in England the site of the ancient
city of Norumbega does not appear TO arouse equil
enthusiasm In the readers Of his brochure Therc Is
a haunting suggestion that it may be only vehcr
able Puritan cow pasture Nevertheless the professor
has resolved to erect this site a tower 10 the
memory Of the Norsemen of whose visit he is certain
No one will question the justice Of Mr.. Gladstone
high praise of Thomas Dabney, the hero OF the NC
MORALS of a southern Planter His one of those
beautiful manly characters which make the millennium
seem not impossble-even slavery could not spoil H.
Mr. Howells Is writing for Harper's Young People
a series of papers on 90 Boys Town" These are
based on his "reminiscences of his early life in Ohio
Captain Charles Kings forthcoming book is to wear
the title of starlight Ranch and other Stories OF
Army Life.'
A treasure owned by Mr.. Bernard ouarltch is the
MS prayerbook carried by the first Earl OF shrews-
bury at the battle of Chatllon in 1443 in which both
lie and his son were slain. 1t discovered as Is
supposed after the fight by some Bretons, who TOOK
it to their own province where remained until about
forty years ago. There is some reason to think IL
WAS written during the Earls captivity In France, and
IL Is probable that it the work OF his chaplain IL
sortains many English devotional and patriotic
rhymes in the style Of the Benedicne monk Lydgate'
some OF whose poetical work 1t includes. BY for
tunate chance several missing pages long separated
from the main work, have now been recovered.
An uncommonly handsome and debonnalre gen.
tleman appears in a frontispiece to the Jan
nary "Lippncott, II is Julian Hawthorne, whose
story, "Milllcent and Rosand," forms the complete
novel of the number.
Mr. swinburne has written a ballad which is an
Illustration Of the ancient superstition about ordeal
By touch. A man. in fit Of Jealousy, has slain his
brother and fled the country. on his return as
gray haired old man, he finds some men digging close
by thicket. Some bones are thrown out, ana wheh
he inadvertently raises drop of blood falls from
IT, lie accepts the judgment with a kind OF thank
ness for his heart has been yearnng to make atone
mept 1t is weird theme for Christmas night
That exceedingly handsome publication, Art anu
Letters is not dead supposed II is 10 oe re-
vived in its old form quarterly or conuhueo as
a monthly in less expensive style.
Not long ago in London MS. was returned 10 It's
writer with request that IT might be cop'ea ou''
as IL was quite legble to the recipients; ana the
ortbor renled that he must rewrite the essay In
ouestion. as he could not read 1t himself. AND yet
hat man made living" from literature.