New-York tribune., 1891-09-25
LITERARY NOTES.

Tbe value OF Crrkshanks Illustrations does not de
cressc At recent sale in London copy OF Carey's
Life in Paris with twenty cOloed plates lone ha'us
been torn out) and twenty-five woodcnts from Cr'ia
sfanks designs was sold for nearly $40
fudicous criticism on two garing faults Of modern
American fiction Is to be found in letter written py
Lowell concerning Miss S. o. Jewetts New-Ehgiana
stories "she Is lenient in landscape nc says
a great merit / think in these days. Above all,
she n also discreet in dialect using It for havor out
not as is the won't of many so oppressivey as 10 sus
eest sar.ics We have in mind al least two American
novcliss who would do well to take these sentences
TO heart.
new volume of five short stories by Thomas Nelson
Page Is coming from the scrlbner press EisHet anu
Other storcsn is to be the title.
Sir James Douglas who has lately compiled an
anthology OF sScottsh Minor Poets apuy says ~'''
the poetic literature OF scotland Is tnst minor poe''s
and Burns TWO hundred thousand poets or VersF
fers-are on the roll OF scottish literature i"s
anthology contains three pieces by ua' so",,e
David GRAY who once wrote to Sidney Dooeii !.
at am so accustomed to compare my own mental
procress with that Of such men as shakespeare
Goethe and Wordsworth that the dream OF my souui
will not be fulfilled IL my fame equal not at least taV
of the latter Of these three" Perhaps IL was wen '
the singer died at twenty threc for 1T Is propaoe '
his boyish aspirations would not have been rcaliheu'
The scribners are Bringing ~f new EDITION Oh ooni
Rac's book, Contemporary socialism, Four Oh i'S
chapters are new or nearly new.
Sir Edwin Arnolds Japonica'-lustratcd beantl-
fuIlv hy Robert Blum-will shortly be found on the
tables Of the booksellers.
Miss Jessie FotbergIl, whose most successfui "orh
WAS the semi musical novel "The First Vohn' 0ou
NOT herself pay any musical instument-could not even
sing.
ors q, ,h. most usefnl and valuable libraries IN the
country &c that of the State Historical Society OF WIS
oonsin II is the property OF the commonwealth ouv
free from partisan Interference and mas IegslsH'o ~
The library now numbers about eO,OOo volumes s"u
10000 pamphlets. The following details from Librarian
Thwaites offer some suggestions OF value 10 the "u
thote. NJ other historical libraries "The society has
many correspondents, American and European, who'
knowing It's desire for pamphlets on every eonceiVa
subject take pains to pick them up; ana In seVerai VI
the largest cities the society has repositories lot ue
receipt OF fts-the warerooms Of dealers ana PUBLISHERS
whom 1t patronizes. 1t obtains some books ana
namnhlets chiefly the latter by exchange OF duplicates
with other libraries but the exchange system IS not oe
veloped as it should be. There ought to be clearing
house for this purpose, under the drecuon vi "le
A. l.. A. One Of our sources OF pamphet supply Is
fertile several OF the Wisconsin delegation in Congress
are so kind when persistenty nudged as to save Ior
us all pamphlets that float TO their desks, and we gen
eraly get large batch Of these Mt the end OF each
session. many of them being rare and OF great interest
Some Of the leading newspaper editors OF Wisconsin
assist quite materially in the picking up OF odds ana
ends. Pamphlets on every conceivable subject come
to the editorial desk. and in several offices goodszed
box or basket Is kept for the society, into 1t being
thrown these literary waifs the contents being sent to
us at the end Of the year. to be ced at our pleasure
Not nfrequenty books of considerable importance sent
for revew are included In the bundles" The society
has probably the largest collection Of Dutch books In
the United States These comprised in the prfVate
rn nrfpyU ma
Van der Aculen who left them by viii to his daughter,
then living Wisconsin. This lady having no place
to store the books presented them 10 the society on
condition that 1t pay the freight charges from Holland
This collection consists OF 5000 old and rare books,
mostly in the Dutch language. Nearly half OF them
are richly bound In vellum, and many are profusely
illustrated with seventeenth century copperplae en-
gravi gs. In the collection numerous Bibles,
aliases and charts old editions of the classics early
lexicons and historical works.