New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-09-10
LITERARY NOTES.

LITERARY NOTES.
work which promises to be OF grea. "'e' a.,
., s,,,donts NJ science as well as to lovers Oh III
erature Is the collection in two volumes Vi w
letters Of Professor Asa Gray. His literary s'yie
os "a attractive as his scientific skill was pio
ru,d and his correspondence ought 10 DE luii Vi
matter instructive and entertaining.
Mr. Rudolph A. Van Mrldeldyk, OF G'ia'ehi ara
vho has been studying South America siilee i-'
is preparng to publish historical ana desciip.se
work under the title of Latin America io,' wv
discovery and Conquest TO the Present Day
A Shakespeare Reading Society has been io'ieu
T., England its chief object being the performance
=. chaIosneares nlays with a reproduction OF the
d,,.,ic conditions of the paywrights day Inc
stoge is 70 be a model of the Elizabethan stage
and the characters are b. dressed In Eiizaoe'd'
costumes.
The theological and philosophical teachings OF the
,o,a President Noah Porter have been discussed in
chonters contributed to The forthcoming memoria'
volume bv Professor G. Z. Fisher, Professor IT, NJ
Duncan. Profe s3or J. Ii. sheath ana Dr' H'Ai~o
Nakashma.
The new edition of Lord Tennyson's Maud
Win decorations by William Morris. has been
printed on ha made paper at the kelmscott rress
1t numbers 800 copies and is TO De puo"s"eu ~
the Macmans.
prottv little volume of seleo tons from the prose
of Edward Everett Hale Is TO be pupllsheu soo',
nv Roberts Brothers. under the title Of "lielpfui
Words" About the same time they VIII issue MI
Halls volume of poems For FIFTY hears'
In his new book Massachusetts, Its histor-
ians and it's History" Mr. Charles Francis Adams
has endeavored % convc, historians OF cohuo'ins
II not ignoring religious intolerance of the great
state distinguished in the struggle for political free
dom.
The new edition OF Andrew iang's Letters 10
Dead Authors" which the Scribners are bringing
out will contain four additional letters addressed
to John Knox, Increase Matter Homer ana
Samuel Pepys The volume will be published as
one Of the Cameo Edition. and a limited NUMBER
Of copies large paper will be issued
All shakespearean students will be glad TO learn
that the Shakespeare Society OF this city has begun
to reprint in it, Banksde Edition of the Masters
works the archaic texts OF the seventeen plays
first printed I'm the Hemnges and Condc folio OF
1923 THE Tempest Is nearly ready for publica-
ton Only 800 hand-numbered copies are 10 be
printed corresponding with the $40 sets OF the
twenty volumes OF the edition previously brjight
out.
The late Sir Edward Hnnley's brilliant novel
Lady Lees Widowhood." was written TO relieve
the cnnui Of hot days and suitry nights whie its
author practically isolated with his battery ~
Europa Point. The book is now In its NTH edition.
one OF Haml.ys pecuiarties was strong
affection for cats. The author of an interesting
sketch Of him in "Backwood' says
The cat I'm efiiey or in water-colors crayOns
was a. common on the tables and walls IN his
rooms az the bears about Berne CstS IN al h rnar
e. e ar
christmas cards y ladies' Wh1 9y With all
the eats at the clubs ,sn@ther as he said. they
were regular or merely honorary members ne
who used to reside in a hutch beAind the United
Seryice.' AS he walked home In the peaceful
night by ampllght he could never pass a cat on
doorstep without STOPPING to scratch H. In his
Athenaeum dining room he would stop himself and
lay his hand on your arm ne saw Hns oI ms ms
claws tiger-ke against the trunk OF trse We
remember at one OF the annual SATURDAY Review.
m, n chanccd 70 b. ea,9d together. all devoted to
cats Two OF them had written monographs on
ihs" SG OF " th four 1r We nave seldom heard him
I'm greater vrrvc or force as he Illustrated his
OF his faVorites with How OF anecdotes and recol
Lotions one OF thes' he gave in the letter in
the Alma to the Katcha. Il carried a small black
kitten. which one of our people picked up on the
feeding him with biscuits ont during my absence
from the saddle h. made on
\ book which all who delight in historical work
will welcome is Captain Mahans promised Life
of Nelson" All his leisure time on the Chicago Will
be devoted II Is said this work. II is unfor-
tunato that the order which sent him to neces-
sarlly withdrew him from his work his great
naval history.
Mr. Richard lie Gallenne's book The Re
lislon OF Literary Man." is an attempt to show
where 4 modern man Of "A naturall. religious tenn
permanent finds himself after having read all the
works OF modern doubters.
The indefatigable Mrs. Oliphant has written
other new novel-a long one called Lady William
It is announced for immediate publication by the
Macmillans The same publishers bringing out
Mr.. Crawfords Marion Darche." which is de-
scrbed IA story without comment"
The forthcoming first volume Of Professor FlInts
PHILOSOPHY OF History In Europe" will deal with
France The work will be complete in three vol
umes
Some essays which have never been printed here
tofore will be found in The Natural History OF
Intellect" and other papers 10y Ralph Waldo Emer
son. which is in the press NJ Houghton Mit'iin
Il CO. The available portion Of series Of lectures
at Harvard has been used in the essay which opens
the volume
Mr. Adds Wright Is about to publish in single |
volume the delightful Letters OF Edward Fitzger- !
aid forty letters having been added to those in
cuded in his original edition Of the Letters and
Works OF the eccentric translator OF the "Ruba- |
yat"
Mr. T. II. Aldrch has described his quaint old
native city OF Portsmouth In his volume. AN Old
Town by the Sea" which Houghton. Mfin & co.
about to publish. a collection OF Mr. Adrich's !
short stories will be issued about the time |
under the title of Two Bites at Cherry, With |
Other Tales"
one of the strange events In the literary world Is
the bringing forth OF n revised edition of Will
lam Watson's poems. 1t is to be supposed that |
there Is a demand for H. else the publishers would |
rot have made the venture. But whence comes this
demand? Who are the people whose taste for poet |
ry H. satisfied by Mr.. Watson's verse?