New-York tribune., 1901-10-23
LITERARY NOTES.

The latest addition to j. D. Champlin's series
of Young Folks Cyclopadias is the Young Folks
Cyclop@dia of Literature and Art. which Henry
Holt & Co will soon publish.
Such a book that on Social England edf-
ted by the late H. D. Traill and published about
four years ago. lends itself peculiarly to ilustra-
tion-it is "a record of the progress Of the Eng
lish people in religion. laws learning, arts. in
dustry, commerce. literature and manners from
the earliest times The original edition was
published about four years ago. and now the
Putnams announce one. in six volumes.
with $500 pictures and coored plates. This
Ella borate undertaking will occupy year. prob
ably. in the fulflment. The first volume will
appear in the future.
| The little book of four plays by Evangeline
W. Blashfield that the Scribners will bring out
toward the end of this month will be made
doubly attractive by the lavish decoration that
Mr. Blashfed has contributed to it, including. be-
sides a large number of drawings illustrating
the text, head and tail pieces and a cover
design. The book will be called Mosques of
Cupid" and the plays range in their period
from the classical period of Greece TO the pres
ent day in the United States. OF the former
| epoch is In Cleons Garden" dated All B. c..
after the failure of the Athenian expedition
against Syracuse; of the latter, "A Surprise
Party" THE Lesser Evil is put in medieval
times and THE Honor of the Crequy' is a
modern French comedy.
The Harpers hold out the attractive promise
of book OF short stories by Thomas A. jan
vier, which they expect TO have ready for the
public in November. 1t will be called Stories
of the Sea" One is about the Dutch island of
Marken. is laid in Minnesota. in
Provence. The titles are these: "A Sea Up
cast" The Wrath of the Zuyder Zee" "A Dull
with Tragedy "A White Penitent," and The
Death Fires of Les Martgnes"
A book that will appeal to sportsmen is n
nounced by the Putnams for early publication
The Wild Fowlers: Duck Shooting in the
Great Lagoon" 1t is by Charles Bradford. who
has written THE Determined Angler" and at
one time edited The Sportsmen's Magazine"
and contains practical hints as to the natural
history of ducks and what the author calls the
chivalric sportsman's best methods of shooting
them.
rather curious collocation OF names appears
In book of the Putnams. H. c. Shelley's
Keats and His Circle" In this 1t is intended
to dwell particularly on the human as distin-
guished from the literary aspect of the poets
life. The author promises TO clear up several
disputed points in IT and to emhody some
material. The book will be illustrated with
many portraits and pictures not before repro
duced many being taken from the collection of
Sir Charles Dixie.
Britton Browns bulky Illustrated Flora"
with some abridgment and numerous emenda-
tions. has been compressed into single con-
venient volume. without the illustrations OF the
original edition. and will be issued in this form
by the Holts under the title Manual OF the
Flora of the Northern States and Canada"
There are many points OF resemblance both IN
It's general plan and in details OF the narrative
between Comenlus's Labyrinth of the World"
and BUnyan's Pilgrims Progress" many
that it has oeen called The Bohemian Pilgrims
Progress" a English translation OF this
curious book is TO be published by f. P. Dutton
& Co. CoInenius the Latnzed form of
John Amos Komensky's name he was one of
the Moravian sect expelled from Bohemia in
the seventeenth century. The Labyrinth OF
the World. a book OF the same exalted piety
as Bunyan's. though the work OF a man much
more widely familiar with the world than the
Bedford tinker. suppressed in Bohemia
down TO the beginning OF the nineteenth CEN
tury: but the Bohemian peasantry devoted
70 IT, and the few copies that escaped destruc-
ton passed from hand to hand and the exiles
often took their copies with them to foreign
lands The translation is made by Count
Lutzow. a we'll known Bohemian scholar and
literary
The Macmillan Company is to publish at
Francis B. Gummeres The Beginnings OF
Poetry. which undertakes to set forth the
facts of primitive poetry, so far as they can be
ascertained. and to establish some conclusions
not about the origin Of the art the outcome
OF individual creative fancy. but about the
beginnings and development of poetry a
ciaI institution, an element in the life of early
man.
Poetry is usually considered a drug in the
publishing market but. while this is true in the
main. Harper & Bros. rise to remark that
there is a kind OF poem that does SELL and
from which both author and publisher derive
comfortable profits" That kind is Mr. VIII
Cartoons. and their publication of his works
is instanced by them probably of the
most striking instances of profitable verse max
ing and selling. They have published and sold
1876 900 copies of Mr.. Carleton's six volumes of
Farm and City Ballads" Festivals" and
Legends" The total amount of money ex-
pended by the public upon these books. at retail
rates, amounts TO more than S1.O00.OOO
Mr. Cables dramatic novel "The Cavalier
went into its second edition before publication,
although its publishers, the Scribners, had pre-
pared for a considerable demand in the first
h e Krehbers book on The Pianofcrte and
It's Music " is in the hands of the publishers