New-York tribune., 1904-10-28
LITERARY NOTES.

Still another new edition of the memoirs of
Count Grammont is to be brought out, this time
with a rich pictorial accompaniment. Mr.. AL
Ian Fea is preparing Sir Walter Scott's text for
republication and he will scatter through his
pages over a hundred portraits. dozen OK
them being given in photographers. The edition
viii be fully annotated. and will include in its
editorial machinery a biography of Lady Castle
maine and a reprint of Peter Cunningham's
Chronology"
The Babu is not alone in adding to the gayety
Of nations by the production of beautiful ex-
amples of English as she is wrote" THE Lon
don Morning Post" reproduces this note, recently
received from a firm of German publishers: we
take the liberty to deliver you inclosed crit"
icisn exemplar of a work shortly published by
our firm The translation comes from a native
Englishlady. Hoping that you will spend some
owning lines to this excellent work in the slits
Of your highly esteemed paper, we are ETC.
The same newspaper records dehghtIul mis-
print. discovered in the announcement OF a
book. the real title of which is Bible Flowers"
The compostor gave the name Of the work as
Bible Howlers
An Edinburgh firm Of publishers is to bring
out under the general title of Lives Of the
Kings" an uncommonly promising series Of re-
prints It will present the biographies OF Eng
lands rulers produced by Tudor and Stuart
writer's The editor will be Mr. Charles whitley,
who rendered so much help to the late w. E.
Henley in the publication Of the we'll known
Tudor Translations." The first volume in the
new series is TO be given 10 Edward Hairs
Chronicle of Henry VIII" first published in
1912, but Nr whitley will print from the edi-
ton of 1850. The second number Will be Cam
denis Queen Elizabeth" to which Mr.. New
bolt will contribute an introduction. The series
will also include Sir John Hayward's Lives Of
the Three Norman Kings of England Q613);
THE Historic Of Edward the Fourth, King of
England" by William Harrington. Esq. d640);
Bacon's Life of Henry VIZ; Strangwayes
Life of Mary Stuart and others. The series
will conclude with Holinshed's Chronicles"
In the book about Mr.. Theodore Watts-Dun-
ton. which Mr.. James Douglas. his fervid ad-
mirer. is presently TO publish. separate chap
tiers will be devoted to his "reminiscences Of
Rossetti. William Morris, George Borrow. Tenny-
son. Stevenson ana Herbert Spencer. Doubtless
something viii be said about his long intimacy
with Swinburne. The promise Of first hand an
| ecdotes about Mr.. Watts-Duntons famous con-
temporaries. rouses interest in a book for which
otherwise it would seem. there could hardly be
very serious justification.
Some new Ibsen letters have lately been pub
ushed in Germany. One Of them was written to
the King in 1866. soon after the publication of
! Brand" The author states that this work has
aroused great interest outside the borders Of
his fatherland, but, he adds, Il cannot live on
the expressions Of thanks have received" and
he pleads for a special grant of 400 thalers in
order ito afford me the possibility of living my
life as a poet" He continues in this wise: II
am not fighting for a future free from care
but for my life's work, which. I firmly believe
and know, God has provided for me. a work