New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-05-18
LITERARY NOTES.

An Emerson Birthday Book resembling in plan
Ana = IourfcIlow Birthday BOOK" Is nearly ready
ct Hon ghton. Mifllin Co.'S
Mr.. Longfelow is sail TO be the author OF " Aut
vic,,.rs.b.un the poetical tribute TO the iate
James r. Fields In The Atlantic Tor june
+ Tho .sco,d volume of James Il. Osgood q Co.'S
spn,rd p,hu stories will be called " Lesson IN
Love- and will make its appearance next Sa'u'-
day.
Miss NJ. r. Oakley, tho artist has written an essay
m aBsauty in Dress which is designed TO en-
tighten women or the subjects OF color, harmony
choice Of materials and styles and drapery harp0'
& Brothers will publish it in a small volume
n. Frechette. the French-Canadian poet whose
new book of poems crowned last year ~ ~
French Academy is an adrirer OF the stories % AA
George w. Cable and. with the conseut Vi 'i,o
.ntbor has undertaken 10 translate "Oid Cre"ie
Days into French.
I'm Friday next Harper & Brothers will issue
sThe Story Of Helen Troy" by the author Oh
sGolden Rod" the latter being story OF mount
Desert that had considerable success when IL ap-
pearcd year ago; also tlie long-expecteo EnoS,io
I'D. NJ Poetry the editing of which was the last
work of the late Epcs Sargent: and new eor'''n
of Harper's European Guide-Book
A writer in The Chicago Dial relates the following
reading his own poetry reminds ME Oh an ahecuo'e
that he told me about Tennyson, whose style OF re-
citing verse he initiated to my hearty delight
while he and his wife were visiting Tcnnyson some
wears ago. at the Isle of Wight in conversng aoou.
the laureates poems Taylor said that ne couiu
never read aloud the scene OF the parting Vi
C,ninevere and Arthur in the 'Idyls of the King
without breaking down. Il cam SAID Kenny son
confidently; let me show you And there LII INC
L hafnr
and guests, he began. AS he went on with MS
deep sonorous voice, chanting like an OH briusn
bard and was getting fairly into the pathetic part
TAYLOR said as l glanced around. Mrs Tennyson
was in tears my wife was vainly attempting I'd
rcpress her emotion, great lump came INTO
my throat, my own eyes filed MI Iennysons
voice was becoming more and more tremuious
and husky, till finally he choked with feeling ana
broke down utterly. Il thought could do It, was
the only explanation of his failure"
Miss Tinker, the author of "Signor Monaldlnis
Niece" had still another novel nearly completed
when she was writing the last chapters OF by the
1iber" The dispute as to whether Miss TINKER In
tended By the Tiber" as q revelation of personal
history seems to be settled in the affirmative by the
Boston correspondent of The Providence Press who
says: @'By the Tiber' was TO lie the first Of the
two novels brought out tho publisher advising the
author TO get this personal grievance of her nina
before she went on with the other After this was
on various occasions permitted to read Miss Tlnkers
letters which spoke of her wrongful Incarceration
In an insane asylum by her enemies. The week
that wrote my review of By the Tiber was
given the advance sheets also four five letters OF
Miss Tinkers, that might get thoroughly informed
upon all the facts In those letters, so vivid were
they with the passionate pain of wrong suffered
that now recall burning sentences where she de-
clared that if her statements in BY the Tiber were
attacked by her enemies, she should tell the
whole story, which presupposes that painful as are
the revelations in BY the Tiber there is something
still more painful withheld. And again she writes
In this connection of being herself so outraged In
all her feelings that she is justified In what she has
written. This is pretty good proof that Miss
Tinker had no desire and no idea that tho book
would be treated as mere fiction"