New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-07
LITERARY NOTES.
,sinn his leisure in

General Meredith Read is using his leisure III
Paris in writing Life of Gibbon the historian.
The article on Rossett and the Esthetics," for
the Encyclopedia Britannica" is being written
by Mr.. Thomas Bayne.
Mr. Longfellows new poem of "Hermes Irisne-
eistus" will fill two pages of the forthcoming oe",
tuu II is not an emotional but an erndite ana
metaphysical poem.
An unfinished article on the Utah problem was
. found on DR. Leonard Bacon's desk the morning
after his death and it appears in this weeks number
of The Christian Union.
cooroo p Fisher professor Of ecclesiastical his
tory NJ Yale. has prepared for the next number OF
The North American Rccicc article presenting the
claims of Christianity
.At Cracov. the Poles have lust erected memorial
Inst 10 the patriot and charming poet Mcklewicz'
America has some association with this author'
through Feninsre Cooper, who was III hono .no
intimate friend of the baniShed Pole. MlcKie"lc]
enioyed the unique distinction of having his WORKS
translated into Persian.
The essay on Superlatives" which Mr. Emerson
contributes TO the next number OF Inc Ce"t"G 10
one that has lain for time among the papers VI
the venerable writer. 1t will interest other authors
to whom he suggests the value and the charh Vi
simplicity and exactneSs of statement. Mr.. Eher-
son himself read the proofs vi tho di"N''' ''
daughters aid and made several changes
Mr. w. Shepards "Pen Pictures of Authors
which is about TO be published by u. T. futha'h ;
Sons. will contain many lively descriptions "n''
recolcctions of men and women noted III literature.
Among these will be Mr. Curis's Recollections OF
hawthorne Mrs. Kinneys Day with the Brown
inos Mr. Justin McCarthy's Visit to Lowell" ana
Mr. John Esten Cookies " Hour with Ihackeray'
Emerson. George Eliot, Swinburne, Bulwei, Charie'
Readc Longfellow and many others are on the
list of authors sketched or interviewed"
The sharply accented swing of the toohsh rhyme
chanted by Tombstone to R0Salnd, III the lorcS' VI
Arden has still an attraction for many inouern
versiGcr who puts more poetry into his WORK '"i'
did the airy Jester roclIng-hOrse medlocnty'
for instance wags IN the pages OF MENDOZA d
rhymed tale of Indian life, IN which MAYOR - u
Myers seriously emulates the merry louchSlohe'
Happy is the suffering readerWhen an arrow GUS
short the career OF the red hero and the rocking
horse together:
Home they bore the wounded chieftain;
Not a listening ear could note
Sound. as in his boat he drited
On the bosom OF Mendoza!
The Browning Society is severely criticised by
Tie Pal Mall Gazette which declares that 'h're
never was n time when the torrent OF hSSJeIleai
adulation and pseudo-philosOphIcal twaddle about
modern authors swced higher or threatened more
TO choke all available channels. Mr.. Browning II
adds has passed the period AT which no can be III
iurcd even by becoming the idol of an idolatrous
sect But the precedent is bad for literature in 50
far as it encourages the tendency 20 the formation
of petty chques each with its htle esoteric doc
trine its small bIgotry, its petty set OF dogha>
blown into absurd extravaganza by the exchange OF
mutual hattcTy disguised rs loyalty to common
object Surely it would he better for Mr. Browning
and for everybody else that there should not be a
little band of adherents in his livery bound to
propagate the cult, and convinced, as every Such
band is naturally convinced, that he who peppers
the highest is surcst TO please.