New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-15
LITERARY NOTES.

The poems winch MT. huShiH Ni"lO III no 'N"'N
are soon to be reprinted here by John WileYs sons
They do not particularly add to his fame.
= Mr. Austin Dobson has written and Mr.. Abbey
has illustrated for Harpcr'S Magazine a poem en-
titled The Ladies of st. James"
The verse of the late Hungarian poet and
patriot Janos Arany. is little known outside the
borders of the land he loved, only little OF 1t nav
ing been translated into German. An immense
circle of admirers have regarded him as the hrs OF
the contemporary Magyar poets.
new magazine for the republication OF the hest
foreign periodical literature is to be brought out IN
Buffalo next month 1t is to be called me hodeTH
Aqe. and IS to be sold ut the small price OF 10
cents a copy. With the fate of ErGy saturday
before their eyes, the projectors OF The perlodica
are proving themselves brave men.
Mr. Phil. Robinson, whose last and peasantest
book has been reprinted here by Roberts Brothers
arrived IN this city las, week from Liverpool. lie
visited America earlier in tine year. and the results
of that journey, which included a three months
tour in Mornonland, are about to be puOiisheu
under the title of Sinners and Saints"
Mrs Jane G. Austin has made a careful study OF
Nantucket life, staying upon the island in and out OF
season. and taking observations not granted 10 the
mere summer visitor. Her volume of Nantucket
Scraps" will shortly be published by j. r. Osgood
& Co. The same firm have IN hand volume OF
mems entitled " Poet aud Idler," by Mr.. Rosslter
Johnson
Mr.. L. B. Aldrich is quoted by the Boston cor
RESPONDENT OF The CMcaqo Tribune as saying that
Mr. Howells never succeeds in portroying a VII
LAIN BARLEY Hubbard is after all the best man IN
the book He has kindly impulses; he goes out and
buvs his wife clothes which am sure Is more than
most men would do and for my part think he IS
far above that priggish lawyer or that morbid Hal
leck."
Scribner 81 Wexford are about to republish
valuable volume on Ancient Greek Female Cos
tune" 1t Will be illustrated by series of one
hundred and twelve full-paee plates aud about
thirty smaller illustrations, with explanatory
letterpress and illustrative passages from Homer
Hesiod, Eschylus, Sophoces, Pindar. Herodotus
Euripdes. Aristophanes, Xenophon. Theocritus,
Plutarch and Lucian. These have been selected
and arranged by Mr.. j. Moyr Smith.
In discussing a new book on the modern English
dramatists The roll MGll Gazette quotes the author
as saying that the newspaper critics can nowadays
damn any play they please. mentioning MIR IenDy-
sons Falcon" as an instance. "For our own
partD is The Gasette's comment. we should have
said that The Falcon was damned mainly by its
author, but if the deed was done by the critics we
hitherto done. for the play was beyond all ques-
ton Il very bad one, whatever may baVe been its
| qualities as poem"
Lord Granville at the recent meeting of the
| LonqGellow Memorial Committee said that he had
| alwayA Thought one of the best lessons to diplo
matists, whether in the United States or in any
country in Europe is to be found in the beautiful
! opening of "Hiawatha," in which Longfellow de-
scribes with simplicity and grace the Great Spirit
looking down with surIow and pity on the feuds OF
| those below then carving pipe out OF tho rock,
and blow ing through this pipe of peace the vapors
which restore peace and goodwill among those be-
| meath. a am happy TO say" he added that,
during even my lite, have seer this feeling OF
good Ill and cordiality wonderfully increased, not
only among politicians and the masses In the two
| countries, but among men of letters At one time
the largo proportion of writer's from this country
came back, after visiting the United States. bring
| ing with then nothing but clever criticisms of
what they saw. But now no English or American
writer of distinction visits the country of his
friends on the other side of the Atlantic without
having them their due tribute and strengthening
the feelings of admiration and respect which they
ought mutually to feel"
xAfter copying Mr.. Howellss details concerning
| the early life of Mr.. Henry James, The Missouri
| Republicar adds "By descent Scotch .lrishman
| born in New-York of rich parents going abroad
with them at the age of twelve and remaining five
years. returning to become student at Harvard
and a society man in Newport. Cambridge and
Boston for nine years more and in 1869 practically
taking nm permaneut residence abroad. Mr.. JaEes's
claims to be an American, in any true sense OF the
word, certainly rest upon veIy flmsy foundation
He NAV be COSMOPOLITAN he is not, and cannot
be. an American He was born here. received por'
ton of bis early education here. and at Intervals
has lived here; but, according to Mr Ho"eilS
eighteen years out of his thirty -nine-and these Tue
bost-have been spent in England and on the Con-
tinent To call his novels American novels and
Judge America and Americans by them. is therefore
unite absurd. He knows far more about England
| and Europe than of his own land and people. and
probably would utilize the larger knowledge In hit
books If 1t did not pay better Just now. pecuniarly
and otherwise to give brilliant ana laundering de-
scriptions Of persons and things this side OF the
| ocean"
| The November lssue of Tie Magazine Of American
| History presents the fine Appearance which has be
come one of its established characteristics Among
| the illustrations worthy of special mention are
| those accompanying the notes on The Washington
PedQreeD tho fine pc rtrait of Colonel Varick, wht
| was Nayor of New York from 1850 to 1900, anC
the portrait on steel of the late Frederic De Peyste
which accompanies the memorial sketch read before
the Historical Society by the Hon. Hamilton Fish
| The interesting paper on 'The origin of Thanks
giving Day Is another evidence Of increasing tine
huess in the selection Of topics An original dccu
ment which will attract attention Is letter oil
The Beginnings of Steam Nayigaticn." written by
| the man who organized the first company and CAM
| from England here in the first steamship which
crossed the Atlantic The letter was written to thu
father OF Cyrus W. Field by Junus smith.
graduate Of Yale College, and 1t recounts the diff
culies and delays he experienced In the infant on