New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-07-16
LITERARY NOTES.

A short series of historical works to be published
under tho title Of Epochs of American History VIII
DO brought out by Iongmans. Green d Co. Albert d.
Hart assistant professor of history at Harvard Will
edi. the series and will write one of the volumes,
a. Tho Formation of the Union.' Professor Woodrow
wilson will deal with Division and Reunion and
Mr. Reuben G. Thwaites, secretary of the Wisconsin
Historical Society, is preparing volume on The
Colonies"
Mr. T. Adolphus TrolOpo has finished another
series of "Reminiscences which he will publish in
the autumn
The Rev. C. f. Stoves Life' of bis mother, IIar-
ret Beecher stowe. is passing through the press Of
Houghton. Midiin q Co.
Until lately,' says Mr. W. f. Ncrrls the popular
novel-wrter. l have almost always copied out my
own MSS. for the printers but have now begun to
have them typewriter for me, which Is certainly
4 saving OF time and trouble al "A small expense.
do not use the typewriter myself. and doubt whether
should have the patience TO learn but II one Were
beginning life over again. might, l suppose,
acquire the art quite easily that OF writing with
pen and should think 1t would be vol worth while
70 do So"
This passage on Abraham Lncolns religious feeling
viii be found the forthcoming chapter of the Hay
Nicolay history:
He was a man of profound and intense religious
feeling. We have no purpose 90 attempting to formu-
late his creeds we question If he himself ever dd So
There have been swift witnesses. whO Judging RON
expressions uttered IN his callow yGIth have csiea
him an atheist and Others who with me most le eo1
versatons which they bring forward TO prove at once
his orthodoxy and their own intimacy with him. But
leaving aside these apocyphGl evidences. we have
only look at his authentic public ana private uet
snces 10 SEQ how deep and strong in all the la, ter
MARI Of his life was the current of his religious thought
and emotion. He continually invited ano appreciated
al their highest value the prayers OF good people
The pressure of the tremendous problems By which
he Yves surrounded; the awful moral signihcancc OF
tbs conflict in which he was the chief comhatant the
nNAI he
never left him for an hOur-all contributed 10 pro
dnce In trr1rcrament naturally serious and predis
2osed to a spiritual view Of life and conduct. sense
OF reverent acceptance OF the guidance OF Superior
Power. From that morning When standing ainid
the falling snovhakes the railway car at Spring
field. he asked the PRAYERS of his negh0Is IN those
Touching phrases whose echo that night in invo
cations from thousands of family ataiS. TO that men,
orable hour when on the steps OF the { aplt3l ne
words Of the second inaugural there Is not an express
sion known TO have come from his lips or his pen but
proves that held himself answerable In every act
OF his career 10 a august tribunal than any on
earth. The fact that he was not commandment Of
regard to his personal religious life gives only the
greater force these striking proofs of his profound
reverence and faith.
"scribner's Magazine" will celebrate Tennysons
eightieth birthday by the publication in the August
number of an excellent portrait of the poet Pro
fessor r. r. Lounsbury, Of Yale. one of the most
brilliant and learned of American scholars, has pre-
pared for the same number Tennyson.
The cheap edition of Mr. Belamy's novel Look
Ing Backward is still selling at the rate of thousand
to fifteen hundred copies weekly.
Beatrice is the title of the novel which Mr.
Rider Haggard will begin to publish next January
II is e love story.
Lord Tennyson's new volume of short poems will
appear during the coming autumn. Mr. Brownings
poem is also nearly sready
Mr.. Gladstone is rewriting his book Juventus
Mundi,7 published twenty years ago.
Captain Charles King who is becoming of the
most interchangeable novel.writers of tho period, hH
just finished a story entitled The Love Knot; or from
the Point 10 the Palms. 1t VIII appear IN complete
form in the October number of The Cosmopolitan
This magazine will hereafter issue complete Illus
trated nove-or novelette-in each number