New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-18

was DfdNc,
Good for good good he ollowd yet he looked beyond
Gle grave.
Truth for truth, and good for good The good the
true, the pure, the 1ustl
Take tho charm for ever from them, and they crmbe
Into dust
The signature "a. T., is not needed to show whose
was the pen that traced them.
Mr.. Andrew Lang, In preparing the new edlaon Of
the "Waverley Novels will have the advantage OF
aecess-granted by Sir Walters great granddaughter
to all Ms. and other material at Abbotsford. He
will supply preface and notes TO each volume. In
addition TO the ordinary ISSUE there viii be limited
number fer sale In sets, only 10 subscribers hand
paper the etchings therein to DO printed India
proofs before letters.
"Thcodora,' a new poem by Won Bodenstedt is an
nounced in Germany. Some hitherto unknown poems
have been found among scheffels MSS, and these will
soon 10 published In volume at Stuttgart
Miss Blanche Willis Howald's story, "A Battle
and Boy is running a serial In the London maya
zine " ATLANTA" The opens in the cfld-mar
ket' Of the spring fair Of German town-the market
whereat the rustic boys and girls assemble 10 offer the
services cowherds shepherds gooseherds 70 the
peasant farmers.
An edition OF NJ. Jusserand's new work. "A French
AHlDuSSaoOr at INC OF CharleS IL lie IOmtc US
Cominges, 1662-'G5," is announced in London.
An English writer mentions Carlyle telling
"laughingly" an incident related to him by friend
who had been visiting Emerson at Concord. "The
philosophers little boy being very ietfl and fearful
the optimistic parent took the urchn in his arms, and
said caressing him. Il will love the devil ont Of him.
Carlyle evidently thought for such an extFusion
sterncr mode OF treatment would have been more
effective or appropriate"
A new edition Of Jane Porters evergreen Scottish
Chiefs" Is to be brought out by McCllrg.
curious periodical is announced IN Engand
This issan English Arabic monthly. which proposes
" make the East and the West better known to each
other by means of paper that shall be read BY both'
1t is to be called The Eastern and Western Review"
and will be printed in London, partly in English and
partly I'm Arabic. 1t is said that influential support
has been promised from Constnntinople and Cairo.
Less novel than romance and less romance than
pOem,' is Mr. Hall Gaines opinion Of his new
book, "The scapegoat.'
Professor W. G. Summers "The Finances and Finan
cier Of the Revolution Is to be published by Dvdd
Mead in a large octave volume
Mr.. Henry James's dramatic version of his fine
novel, The American does not seem to have been
very successful In London THE Atlenaeum," while
evidently moved by the most friendly Of feelings for
the author declares that had any other an Mr. James
dealt with the novel, he would not have heard
last Of It, The critic seriously objects to the way
in which the melodramatc aspects Of the story nre
accumulated and forced into prominence, and adds
" Had MIR. james kept his play within the lines of
comedy, he would have enriched the drama with
work OF much charm, which. with competent inter
pretation might have held long possession OF the stage
As 1t Is he has tagged on, in pure wanonness it might
seem, achrymose and painful scenes Of melOdrama
wholly out OF keeping with what has gone before and
calculated TO perplex, rather than explain
Professor Huxley has written paper entitled Pos
slbites and Impossibltes,' which Is intended, It is
said 10 be "a judicial analysis OF some OF the Biblical
miracles. from the Agnostc point OF view"
The late Jules Grevy's daughter will probably pub
lsh a monograph her father within a few months
She is In possession OF all his literary remains Before
her marriage she acted her fathers private score
tary.