New-York tribune., 1902-03-18
LITERARY NOTES.

George =. Putnam's name appeared as the
publisher on the first editions Of three vol
umes Of Poes works-~The Raven and Other
Poems" 1S45, Tales 1S45 and Eureka,
lS4S. And now, undeterred by the existence Of
the standard edition in ten volumes edited by
Mr.. Stedman and Professor Woodberry, G. r
Putnam's Sons preparing for a complete edl-
tion OF Poe-s writings, edited by Charles +.
Richardson. professor OF literature at Dart
mouth College. The works viii be arranged in
chronological order, under the heads Of poems,
tales criticisms and miscellany The editor
says that the faulty and whimsical punctua-
ton" Of the editions printed during Poe's h1e-
time under the supervision Of his literary
executors VIII be made TO conform to ac-
cepted usage; but with this exception the text
revised by Poe-who did much fastidious
revision-wiH he substantially followed. The
edition VIII give all the poems Of 1927, the
journal Of julius Rodman" and some hitherto
uncolIected passages from The Rationale Of
Verse" said to be Of much Importance for Poe's
theories.
Lieutenant General Sir Harry Smiths auto
biography has just been published by f. p. Dut-
ton & CO. Sir Harry English soldier, who
was almost necessarily engaged in his country's
service in the Peninsula. in South America, at
Washington and New-Orleans, and later in
South Africa, where his name and his wife's
perpetuated in the towns Of Harrismith and
Ladysmth, wrote these memoirs down from
time to time without revision. He seems TO
have entertained the quaint idea that some lit
erary man Ike Charles Lever could take them
rewrite them with fictitious and fashion
a sort Of military romance out of them. The
editor quotes a letter Of his from which it is
clear that he did not contemplate the publica-
of hfe in form in OfGb he
had written il:
I have never read a page Of it since my
scTawiing 1t over at full gallop. Harry
LoTrequer would make d good story of it. You
may ask him if you like and let me know what
he says Of ii.
An unpublished work by the late Sidney
Lanier is in preparation by Doubleday, Page e
Co. 1t is comprised in two large volumes. en-
titled Shakespeare and His Forerunners:
Studies in Elizabethan Poetry and Its Develop
ment from Early English" It consists Of two
series Of popular lectures; about an eighth of its
contents has appeared ;n print, but the book is
practically entirely to the reading public.
II is called by the publishers AIr Lanier's most
extensive piece Of prose writing. Among the
subjects with which il deals Sonnet Max
ers.' Pronunciation Of Shakespeare's Time"
Music" Domestic Life" Doctors" Growth
OF Shakespeare's Art and Growth Of His
Spiritual Development" The book viii be elab-
orately illustrated with portraits. facsimiles,
reproductions OF title pages and pictorial mat
ter intended TO give the reader the feeling and
color Of the time.
The Putnams announce a new volume by
Leslie stephen a collection of essays entitled
Studies Of a Biographer." 1t viii probably not
\ appear before the autumn.
III
Cabinet Government in England comes from
the press Of the Macmillan Company. It is
attempt trace the history Of the Privy
Council. Of which the British Cabinet is COM
lnittee; the story Of the separation of this com
mittee rom the council as a whole of the
gradual transfer Of the power OF appointment
and dismissal from the King Parliament; the
rise ia power Of the House of Commons and the
accompanying decline of the House of Lords;
OF the development Of the party system, and,
finally so far as it has been possible TO ascer-
tain it, the internal history Of the Cabinet,
An American book has just been crowned in
Paris. where the Societe dAnthropolOgie has
awarded the Bertillon prize to Professor ". L.
Ripley's sociological work, The Races of Eu-
rope"
Nessrs. Henry Holt & Co. are just printing
''Democracy' for its sixteenth time, and bring
ing il i'm q simple binding This
satircal novel first published over twenty years
ego, presents a vivid commentary on life at
Washington as influenced by politics rather
than passing political questions.
one of the most interesting Of the collection
of FitzGerald's books and manuscripts exhibited
at Doubleday, Page & Company's Fifth-ave.
bOckshop is copy Of the first edition of THE
Rubaiyat'' with the inscription Dante Gabriel
Rossetti. Whitley Stokes. July 10, 1861" Swim
burne says in Il letter TO the secretary OF the
omar Khayyam Club Of London. in 1897
II is upwards Of thirty-six years since I was
introduced 10 him by j. g. Rossetu who had
just been introduced himself believe, by Mr..
Whitley stokes. At that time the first and best
edition Of FitzGerald's wonderful version was
being sold at penny a copy. having proved
hOpeiessly unstable at the published price Of
shilling. We invested q should think in
hardly less than siXpennyworth apiece; and
returning 10 the stall next DAY for more, found
that had sent up the market to the sinfully
eNtraVagant sum Of twopence-an imposition
which evoked from ROssetu fervent and i'm
pressive remonstrance.
The little child's book attributed to Charles
Lamb. The King and Queen Of Hearts with
the Rogueries Of the Knave who stole the
Queens Pies" Is published in an exact fac
simile by Mcclure. Phillips & Co. The little
yellow covered pamphlet vita the stains Of
az the years since 1909 upon il. is accompanied
by another little pamphlet serving as an intro
duction. by Z. Y. Lucas He quotes letter
from Lamb dated June 1906 in which he
speaks OF "a Paraphrase of the King and
Queen Of Hearts. Of which l. being the author
beg Mr.. Johnny Wordsworth's acceptance and