New-York tribune., 1903-02-15
LITERARY NOTES.

L. L1GdIGI ~ vi JlAC.
| Lucas MaIet" has finished the new novel upon
which she beg1n work after the publication OF
| Sir Richard CalTnady." it is not certain that
| it will appear in the spring
| The first volume Of NJ. Ianotaux's Historic
ContempOraine'' is almost ready for publication
1t begins with the origins of the Third Empire
and it is full of picturesque anecdotes and brill
anecdotes illustrate Thiers's desire palm him
self off a universal genius
Count Won BIumenthars personal record Of the
campaigns against Austria and France IS
to be accessible in English.
The new edition Of DR.. Ciardiner's history ot
the Commonwealth ard the ProtectOrate viii
contain the chapter which was all ne had writ
ten in his last days for his proposed fourth
volume Of the work. 1t deals with the reasons
which led the Protector TO summon his second
Parliament and with the elections which pre-
ceded it, The chapter is also being printed
separately as a supplement- TO the existing
library edition Of the history
A book on Wordsworth is coming from The
press of Professor Walter Raleigh
Sir Leslie Stephen is recovering from his
serious illness and is contemplating the delivery
of the oxford lectures. which will probably al
mis- next book.
Eden Phinpotts's forthcoming novel An amer
lean prisoner of war in England appears in the
story. whose period Is ISL
The Prior and Harley Papers in the possession
of the Marquis of Bath soon to be published
by the Royal Commission on Historical Manu-
scripts. Some of the letters addressed 10 Mat
thew Prior were penned by swirl An interest
ing letter in the collection narrates the occasion
of Dryden's writing the well-knoWn three cauSuc
lines on Jacob Tonson in 1893: Mr. Godfrey
hos 1-ayr- at I6Tlcrr
friend Jacob Tonson. which he Showed MI Dry
den. who desired to give a toucn OF MS peilsl'
and underneath it writ these three verses
{" With Ieering look, bull faced, and freckled
With frowsy pores poisoning the ambient air
With two left leggs and Judas-eoloured hair'
In the collection of the Earl Of Egnont which
will also be published has been found this REFER
ence to Milton: Milton. the poet, died a PaplSI
DR. Charlotte Master of University College, Ox-
ford told me lately at Bath that he remembers
to have heard from DR.. BinkS that ne was at an
entertainment in King Jamess reign When Slr
Christopher Milton. one of the judges, ana elder
brother to the famous Mr.. Milton the poeIs was
present: that the judge did then say puOlcky
his brother was Papist some years before ne
died and that he died So am still more per
suaded of it from what DR. English told ms
that he had often heard Mr.. Prior, the poet
say that the late Earl of Dorset told him the
same thing"
A new book by Mr. Edward Townsend, author
of '.Chirnrnie Fadden." is announced by Henry
Holt & Co. 1t is called "A Summer IN Ne"-
York"
The complete library edition OF Rusklns
works edited by Messrs. Cook and WedderDurn-
is to be brought out in this country oy Long
mans Green & Co. Every original ILLUSTRATION
will be included in this edition, with numerous
unpublished plates already engraved some OK
the best portraits of the author VIII De use-
Much matter never before published VIII aP-
pear in these volumes. The price OF e4cn OF -u'
Contemplated thirty volumes viii be 81 net
Mr. P F. Collier. OF Golfers Weekly
establishing a publishing business N LohlOII
and may possibly bring out his clever peflouIC1-
there He Is looking for copyrights or the "ofAS
of the leading English writers, and proposes ~
brine, out all sorts of good literature IN accotu ac
ance with the latest American ideas IL pFil-1Is
and binding"
The new edition OF the works OF Charles LAM.
which has been printed at the MeTr! noun. s
Press for J. F. Taylor & Co is illustrated viz
many mezzotints, etchings and phOtoST4FureS-
1t was stated in this place last sunday on ~.
formation derived from an apparently uus.s
worthy source, that FrOudeS Letters 80 ,
Memorials OF Jane Welsh Carlyle" had gy gone %.
of print We are glad TO hear from ChaIL5s -
Cons yUbO DubliSh the book III lHiS