New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-07-08
LITERARY NOTES.

Pau. Slba,in. who has been made famous by his
"rlf, OF $, Francl. Of Assist Catey published here
by the Srribnerst was quite unknown a few months
ago He was then a now. the priest OF an obscure
country village in France
4 number Of letters addressed TO Robert Southey
hy many celebrities 81 the frs half OF the century
were soil IN London the other day FOR Almost
nothing" It is supposed that careful perusal OF
those papers viii bring TO Ugh, much valuable bio
graphical material.
An American edition Of George Ellots NH on
The Floss" - ~ the press Of Merrill & Baker /;
IS % Doe in two volumes. ana VIII nave t"eIVe
photograyure Illustrations.
Mr. Arthur sherburne Hardy will continue 70
conduct the editorial affairs Of THE Cosmopolitan
Magazine in this city though the printing plant
viii soon be removed TO Irylngion
Professor Maspero's Dawn Of Civilization" a
work ~ over eight hundred pages. Will appear in
the autumn. Tho English translation has been
,fi.oI bv Professor sage. L IS TO be spien-lly
Illustrated.
4 volume on "Thc quaker Poets OF England Is
coming out a, Hull I; viii contain selections from
the verse Of these writer's together with bograph-
cal and critical notices essay on the character
ietcs Ok the Quaker muse and a sketch Of the rise
OF n. Society u Friends Il Is believed that the
title viii be stretched 10 include Whittier
N. octave Uzanne has prepared for the August
"scrbncr' a paper bearing an enticnS title The
End OF Books. a Bbophiic's Look into the Flu
ture." It will be accompanied by Illustrations 10y
\. Robda.
Not much Interest. in these Gays. attends the
anrounc, ,acnt Of new book by Sir Edwin Arnol-
q writer who has by no means sustained the itor-
AIRY position gained hy hs early work. But the
fact that he is about to bring out volume under
the tito 81 "Wanderlng Words Is a part OF the
literary news Of the week. and may therefore be
recorded
James Russell Lowell's letters to Poe will form
the subject Of an article by Nr. O.. T. Woodberry-
an article which viii appear in future 'Scribner"
''Thc Peasant state" IS to be the title Of Edward
picey's forthcoming work Bulgaria. Mr.. Dlcey
has been gathering material in that country for
some months.
Let the American college boy Of the period try his
hand at translatlug the speech delivered by Or.
Sandys. the Cambridge Public orator. when the
university the other day. conferred its honorary
degree on Captain Mahan L. ;. y:
Hospitcm nostrum trans oceanum Atanticum cd
Britanniam nupor advectum. amino fraterisD hodie
lbcntcr salutamus. Salutamus reipublcae max
ina, GIVEN virum ct sc.en;iae - his;oriae navaEs
peritisslmun qui In litterarum monuments ordine
p,rsplcuo dlspositls luculcnter ostendt gentum
magnarum I'm historic maris Emporium quantum
valucrit. Dunn tails vlrl Nhros still lucid lumne
illustrates perlegimus. an;c oculos nostros gioriae
uOstrac naYals Image velut * ipss unds spl'hida
r,aurglt. in imperO nostro maritime non modO
commerci nostri late dfusi causam ct originem
rs~pciWIs srl "tilm cO.onir.um nosirarum procnI
lctut.um praesd.um OF ouXIium agnosclmus; n1vs
dcnque stimulus incitamur. at orbis terrarum al
conmunem fructum. pacis universae al commitment
utiitatcm g.orlm liam m1nous nostrls ne sinamus
erpi Ausuramnr lam IN pos'erum iTAtrss nos.
interim utrmquc eiusd'm s1nSulnis, eiusdem I'M
lam ut ollm dissociahilcm. hosptlo in perpetuum
Wt fprramUs) duraturo, deXtras invlcem lbenter
tendimus.
Ouos coniunglt amor ncquiquam dlvldit aequor;
iunglmus urlntmes trans freta magma manus.
puco al vos virum hospItn lure Britannis, CON
iunictissmum. rel navalls Americanae inter decora
uuineratum. A.urelUm Thayer Mlhan.
Al Of which extremely nice for our brilliant
captain to listcn to-
The little "Chap-Book" which continues TO he
tstc and amusing IL still ut hectic and affected.
has these unequal but rather attractive lines (by
Alice Browm on "Trby':
O living image Of eternal youth,
Wrought with such large simplicity Of truth.
That now the patterns made and on the shelf
Each swears he might have cut IL for himself!
Nor marvels that We sang of empty days.
or rank grown laurel and unpruned bays.
Tho Trilby footprint had not 19gched the sand.
Here's new carelessness Of Titan play
In such sweet artlhce OF dainty Wit
That men shall die with initiating II.
Now every mans old grief turns I'm its bed,
And beeds a drop two. diVlnely red.
Fair baby joys do rouse them one by one,
Dancing n lightSOme round. though love be done;
And Memory takes off her frontlet dim.
To bind a bit OF tinsel round the rim.
Dreams come to life and faint foreshadowings
Futtcr anear us reluctant wings.
Iiut not one pnng-n1y. though twcre ga, OF bliss
And not one such awakening would We miss.
y comradesi here's stun. ours to adore,
And swear we'll carve our cherry stones no more
The first part OF the unpublished correspondence
Of Poe which is TO appear in THE Century" Will
deal with the poets literary life in Richmond.
Tho second instament ill cover his Philadelphia
experiences ana the 'rd his sorrowful days in
and near New-York Tie whole. II is said Will end
divers controversies on the life and character OF
the
A Browning photography has been compiled by
Mr. T. j. Wise. The volume is divided into five
ports dealing respectively with first editions and
their reproducons separate issues Of single poems.
collected editions the published letters OF the au-
thor md ana which includes the writings OF
others the poet.
DO women writer's excel their literary brethren in
the delineaton OF feminine character Ii Is ques-
ton calculated to evoke much pleasant discussion.
and It Is suggested by the fact that the most sue
cessful characters in Mrs. Deland's new novel are
those OF the heroine and her stepmother-chara
ters whose peculiar.ies are set forth with par
tcularly feminine sharpness and subtety. 1t Is