New-York tribune., 1912-02-18
LITERARY NOTES.

A Centenary Edition of Browninv.
works is announced by Smith Elder 4,
London. II will consist of ten volimss
with a preface, photographed and Az.
planatory, to each leading poem by pr
Frederick G. Kenyon. c. b., principal n.
brarian of the British Museum. Tn.
poems will be arranged in their chrouo.
logical order, and each volume will hay.
as a frontispiece a portrait of Browning
reproduced in photogravure, several OF
the portraits appearing for the first
time. It is expected that volumes ana
II will be ready on May Z, the subse.
ouent volumes following at short inter.
walls. The edition will be limited To
75O sets. Of which $50 are destined for
this country. The centenary Of Brown.
ing's birth falls on May Z OF this year.
Letters Of General Sherman.
General w. T. Sherman as College
President: a Collection OF Letters, Docu.
ments and other Material, Chiefly from
Private Sources, Relating to the, Life
and Activities Of General William TIE.
cumseh Sherman. to the Early Years Of
the Louisiana State University and to
the Stirring Conditions Existing in the
South on the Eve of the Civil War; 1859.
1851" is announced for early publication
bv the Arthur II. Clark Company Of
Cleveland. These documents, collected
and edited by Walter l.. Fleming, Phi. D.,
professor of history at the Louisiana
State University. describe the beginning
of that institution of learning, tho
problems that Sherman. as its head. had
to face, the social, economic and polit-
cal conditions existing in the South I'M
mediately preceding the Civil War. the
effect on the South of Lincoln's election,
the coming of secession, and, rs re-
suit. Shermans resignation from the
university. In his business letters to the
members of the school board, as well as
in his private letters to his friends, Sher-
man discussed freely his own views on
the political conditions of the North and
the South, the danger Of war and its
impending results.
Arctic Hunting.
In his recently published book on
Hunters and Hunting in the Arctic
the Duke Of Orleans says:
Polar hunting is in reality only shooting
practice; IL lacks the emotions OF tramp
through the forest and the surprises Of a
forest hunt. An expedition 10 the frozen
seas with the sole object OF hunting VIII
very soon degenerate into nothing more
than a useless massacre.
The Heroic Age.
A new volume is 10 be added by the
Cambridge University Press TO the Cam.
bridge Archaeological and EthnolOgical
Series in "The Heroic Age" by H.
Munro Chadwick, fellow of Clare Col
lege. Cambridge. The work represents
an attempt at a comparative study Of
the early heroic poetry and traditions
Of the Teutonic peoples and Of Greek
heroic poetry and traditions, with the
object of determining the nature of the
resemblances between them and Of the
causes to which these are due.
George Brandes.
The seventeen birthday Of the great
Danish critic. George Brandes, was cee-
brated on February last by the Scan
cinavian world with special numbers OF
its magazines and weeklies devoted u
his life and work The National Library
at Copenhagen has decided to found a
Brandes Archiv, which is TO contain all
his MSS. the various editions and trans
lations of his works, his literary CORE
spOndence. etc.
A Life OF BuIwer Lytton'
Lord Lytton is writing biography oi
/ his grandfather. Edward Bulwer Lytton
/ though it is not probable that the BOOB
will he published for some time. Two
volumes Of THE Life, Letters and Lit
erary Remains of Lord Lytton." by his
son. the first Earl Lytton, were issued
i'm 1888. but they come down only 10
/ 1882. The coming work will contain
documents of interest dealing with me
last forty years Of Bulwer Lytton's Me'
The Garden Of Allah
4. +. W. Mason. the English novelist
has started for Egypt, Africa having
evidently succeeded Italy as the favp'.te