New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-01
LITERARY NOTES.

IA Reverend IDOL" now in Its eleventh eait'on'
b still being rapidly sold.
Mr. Walter Besant is writing new novel win
the p,easant title of All in a Garden Green IL
win appear in Good lords next year.
Mr. A. Symonds one of the most indefatlgabi
Al English authors is at work upon collection Oh
"studies OF the Elizabethan Dramatists"
MFR. James Bryce, NJ. p, win have an article Oh
"some Aspects of American Politics" IN the NoVein'
her number of The Fortaights Recie'c
Mr. Paul Merritt, the dramatic author, whose
work is now almost as we'll known here as IN Lon-
don was born at Kiev. HIS real name Is sa'u 10 W
Paul John Maetzker, his father having been n"-
tive of Prague in Bohemia.
Two novelties in tue publishing trade are men.
toned in the London journals. One is the printing
Throughout in brown ink of the new eui'io" % 80
Austen's works and Of Fanny kempies nV'''
sbokasnaares plays: the other is the bringing ouV
Of books in covers Of various sorts OIL woou'
Mr. Wa,ter Besant is secretary to the Palestine
r,nIorotion Fund and the late Mr.. Rice was LONDON
oai,or NJ The Toronto Globe. When their hoNoIs
bocan TO command high prices 1t was sugges.ou
that they should give up these avocatiohs anu uo
vote themselves to fiction. Mr.. Rlce repieu tn"'
tbev should continue their more practical Work on
the ground that they liked to be perfectly in"o
neudent of the public tastc and of publishers
RI Stevenson tells pretty story illustrative OF
the mower of romance. friend OF MS "eiSn
blacksmith. was twenty-five years OLD ana couiu
nei1ber read nor write when he heard cnal 'ei Vi
aRobinson Crusoe" read aloud In a iarh k. XIV
I'm To that moment he had sat content huuuiou ~
his ;gnorance: but he left that farm another man.
,rraro ,,oro dav drean,s il appeared, divine day
dreams. written and printed and bound ana 10 DO
boucht for money and enjoyed at pleasure DOWN
ha cot that day. painfully learned to read Wcish'
o,d ,eturped TO borrow the book. 1t had been iost
ror conld ne find another copy but one that as IN
ENGLISH. Down he sat once more learned Ehglish
and at length, and with entire delight, reao hoo-
inson."
Mrs divers forthcoming biography OF Maria
Fdocwortb has been as TIE TRIBUNE lately sur
missed. founded on Mrs. Edgeworths privately
rrinted memoir The author has also been sotortu-
nate as TO have the aid of several members OF the
nresent generation of the family, who furnished
much additional matter. She has spent more
than seven years here aud In England III
preparing her work, which will be the hrSt oe'aiieo
biography of the favOrite English writer III Is suH-
gested by a correspondent that the reason LOT 'no
decentralization of Mrs Edgeworths memoir may
he in its lack of literary skill. Its author was not
n literary woman. and when it was written she was
more than elderly Her work, however, has many
nrettv. and gentle. and sympathetic passages
I'VE beg Mr.. Howells to spare us Thackeray."
saws the Editor of The Boston Gazette. 1--WE will
acree +, mart with Dickens if the school so in
sists but the confidential attitude of Thackeray
is one OF the last thugs can consent to give up
Mr. Howells will perhaps in future years revise his
singular opinion as to fiction in these days and Ill
the day of the author of Esmond." Meanwhile the
old Colonel and the CampaIgner. and BeatrlX ana
Esmond aud Becky and Dobbin will remain beloved
of the English-reading world. so long as noble
painting full of the very form and color of breathing
life and rich with humor aud poetry is
preferred to a fine photograph 6@intily touched
ND with India ink, so long will Thackeray's
confidential attitude maintain its present rank in
relation to Mr. Jainess studies with the camera and
fas,idious exercises with the tOngs. The New
England writer's work. Nute, elegant and refined
as II is can afford to stand alone. But So too, can
that of the master of modern English fiction
Mr.M.D. Conway's new volume. Emerson at
Home and Abroad will he brought out next
month by j. r. Osgood & CO. by arrangement with
Triibner of London. In addition to "a mass of bio-
graphical and critical matter, the work will con-
tain a general history of the sO-called " Tran
accidental movement, and various letters by
Emerson not before published. In one OF these,
addressed more than thirty years ago to Mr..
appears. Il believe" he wrote, what interests
both Won and me most of all things, and whether
we know it or not, is the morals of intellect; in
other words that man is worth his room In the
world who is not commanded by legitimate object
of thought. The earth is full of frivolous people,
who are bending their whole force and the force OF
nations on trfes and these are baptized with every
grand and holy name remaining, of course, totally
inadequate to occupy any mind; and so sceptlcs
are made true sOIl will dsdain TO be moved
except by what natively commands it. though it
should 60 sad aud solitary search of its master
thousand years. The few superior persons in each
community are by their steadiness to reality and
their neglect of appearances. This IS the euphrasy
and rue that purge the intellect and insure insight.
Its full rewards slow but sure; and yet think
it has its reward the instant, inasmuch as SIM
pllcity and grandeur always better than dapper
ness"