New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-21
LITERARY NOTES.

Mark Twain Is preparing TO publish now book.
Tho titlo "A Yankee At the Court OF King Arthur
indicates something Of tho quaint and fantastic fun
II promises.
Tennyson Is recovering. He is stronger than he
has been for long time and s gaining flesh rapidly.
An old scrapbook containing a number of drawings
made by ThackerAy has lately been found 10 Lon
don. Perhaps tho most interesting sketch 10 Of
q very prm and somewhat thin damsol with fan
under which Thackcray has written, "Mad'lle Me
lanle v. spiegel, dame d'honneur TO tho Princess
william OF Prussia" ono OF his early loves, and
drawn, may assume, after his passion had fed
IL Is uercstiug TO speculate to whether this young
lady immo1alized under the name OF Dorothea
OF Ottilla. The latter, probably. tho descnp-
ton which best suits the drawing Is thls OttiliA
was pale and delicate. She wOrc her gistening
black hair In bands, and dressed In vap0ury white
muslin Otillia's surname was II viii be remem-
bcred, schhppcnsehlopp, and tho engagement
broken OF because she ate seventeen bad oysters.
There are also some pages OF punning drawings, the
best being lecturer with skeleton, froiQ. which
be is demonstrate entitled De mOrtus nil MIST
bonum,' and unfortunate man suffering the pun
shment Of the bastinsdo, called Bamboozling."
Finally, there is a oomical sketch OF prisoner
loedcd with chains watching a butterfly on the
window Of his cell, beneath which Is written, I'd
DO butterfly"
An illustrated edition Of Thaokeray's works. which
will be- II is promised. complete than other
edition yet published anywhere, has been undertaken
BY HoughtOn, Mifiln Co. The twenty-five crown
octave volumes will DO printed IN large type.
Mrs Humphry Wards new novel Is TO be, It is
said, a frankly human piece Of fiction. She is I'm
ishlng the Ms. in Italy.
Tho long disputed question as to the true literary
centre OF tho United States is In
lions New-Yorh and Boston arc both TO be rejected.
Tho honor Is to be bestowed upon Baltimore. II Is
made known TO tho palpItatng world that Young
lady Of that city promises TO DO tho next star 10
rise in tho literary armament What She has
written what she l. about 10 write, or how she will
write IT, is not revealed. But We assured on in
dubitable authority that Rshe Is fashioned IN
4 generous mould Of womanhood and her large, dark,
luminous eyes instinct with emotion" That
probably settles IT, The Boston eye, under tho ma
nlpulation Of Professor John Lawrence Sullivan's
virile right hand both largo and dark but masked
by oyster or raw beef IS by no means luminous.
Nor does New.York claim 10 hold patent right on
eyes OF that description. We not altogether sure
that either Thackeray Dickens had largo, dark and
luminous eyes and We arc confident that whom at
a dinner whero all the guests hanging breathless
on hI, tuncfn words. Lord Tennyson sententlousy
declared that no liked HIS mutton cut in chunks
his eyes were instinct with cruel GOODNESS. rather
than emotion. Room, therefore, in the Pantheon OF
Letters for the latest and greatest Of writer's; rhe
young lady with large dark luminous eyes, Instinct
with emotion. Roomi
Edward W. Emerson tho son Of Ralph Waldo
| Emerson has described the private and domestic
life Of HIS famous father IN volume which is COM
ing from the press Of Houghton, Mihiln & Co.
| Emerson I'm Concord" is IT'S title. Tho writer Of
the nineteenth century is not only maker OF books
but the cause that many books should be made
Here are some titles Of books inquired for at an Eng
| lsh library
shakespeares Judith Edited BY Black.
The Curtain VIII Not Rise Tonight BY Thorpe.
His Equal. and other Poems.
| Paradise Of purgars by bel E,s,,.ro..s
Lambs Essays. ny Eliza
MO0lar's -Four Boys Escaping
s foor S MIss FiSs b Ry Earl Eff Derby.
| Molar's BurglarI0us Gentleman.
And here are tho books required:
Judith Shakespeare. BY W. Black.
ThorTe'S Cartsw Must Not Ring Tonight
burglars n Paradise ~ Phelps,
E Descen a's q Man. N' By By f Darwin.
M GSrSs TSTOer Bs e. So aUT
Homer's Illad. BY Earl Derby.
Molere's 10 Bourgeois Gentlhomme
new novel by Professor Ebers, translated By
Mrs Bell ia announced by oOttsberger. II Is en-
titled "Margery" Cred }, and is a tale OF old
! Nuremberg.
"peopie rye Smiled with is tho title OF q vol
ume Of "reminiscences by Marshall p Wilder which
Cassel Co will bring out shortly.
Mr.. william Bell Scott, tho Briton to whom Swim
burne and W. j. Linton have dedicated their
volumes Of verse, is both poet and painter His
" Dead March" is bit Of verse whose sonorous aud
majestic movement never DO forgotten by the
| reader
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