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

Mrs Harriet BceCDcT SNONu "N'
story for The ToS;Ns Companion
Mr. Thaxter is giving IN Boston new series Vi
READINGS from Robert Brownnss poeus'
Richard Hcngist Horne, now past his e'Ho''e'n
Gear is about to publish now work together WIZ"
= fcnrtb edition Of his Cosmo de Medci''
Mr., Isabella Bird Bishop has taken the title OF her
new book from y line in paradise Lost II Is
,,lled "The Golden Kherscnese aud the way
Ihither."
Tho fist volume in he forthcoming LnEhsh Sc
res of Eminent Women is TO be MISS H"'h.'"o
blinds George Eliot" 1t Will give for the hrs'
time faithful account of George Ehot cary ii'0'
srd many details of her unknown literary i"oo''
with much new aud interesting correspondence
Mr.. f. J. Stimson, a young Boston LAWYER Is
thought 10 he the author OF the snccess'u. no'o'
.Cuerndale" The versatile Clarence AlnS IS
,,o,,ionod ~ the author of " Democracy Those
.conaintcd with Nh Kings tIenchart yet deuo"'e
- Lpoy that he is quite capable OF writing
,riIli,pt novol-but he did not write " pcnoc
racy for all that
That Tennyson is 200 great poet to permit o.
s,cb snbordinaton 10 the composer as is necessary
1, sonc mt 10 music was the opinion Of Kan the
late distnquishcd musician. lie said IL a friend
last sprne that neither OF his two settings oil
Teas. idle tears" satisfied him, because IS ne
declared: Il grew thoushtLeayy myself IN max
Ing them
Tic first edition Of Miss divers biography Ct MAJ
rja Edgevoyth was exhausted on the day oi puo"'
cation to the surprise OF the delighted puOhsherS'
TIE second edition is nearly really. 1t Is PoS'lole
that the Quick sale of the books of biography puo-
lshed during the past two years indicates 'h'' inc
evil OF toe many cheap novels has brought IT'S own
cure A surieit of Jam sometimes creates t"s'e
Tor good roast bcct.
"DemOcracy" after being subject Of chuckhng
md elfrighteous praise from the English Journals
has inst received snub from The London Standard
This calm critic calls 1t an immensely over Praised
and over. pufed" book and one which, thanks to
its pretentous tle, has been TOO much regarded
from a purely political point of vicw.' and winch
contains some moderately clever ana among the
female pei souages one or two rather ueNCa'eN
touched sketches Of character"
"Evangehne-The Place The Story aud The
poemn Is the title CT folio volume by PreslGeht
Noah Porter, which will immediately be brought
ont by CaSseu, PETER 4 Galpin. The edition
will be limited to 800 copies numbered and s'ehco
by President Porter. and will be illustrated by
nineteen beautiful drawings by Frank Dlcksee'
Fonr OF these are proof IMPRESSIONS on India paper
from the o1i gnal blocks, and the rest are repro
Luced IN photogayUre by Goupl, OF Paris
The London correspondent Of The TRIBUNE re-
rorted Iy cable Professor Tyndalls wish expressed
Mt the uuyeiling of tic Carlyle statue that
memorial might be erected tc Emerson IN London
The Enelishma4. couched his wish in terms pecu-
liarlv rcyerent and apprecatve. lie spoke OF En-
pr>on AS the Hottest purest and most penetrating
spirit that ever shonc in American literature" ITO
fessor Tyudall declared himself confident that "hen
all the temporary dust OF mis- Judgment and mlsappIe-
hension regarding Carlyle shall have passed away
his massive figure viii stand out erect and clear; and
in glancing the leading attributes OF character
said that CaIlyles deiects-n such there were
cond only have reference to The distribution OF his
tympatlv. not to its amount his pity was vast,
and oply his division of it between black and
white could be called into question.
ais was Charles Mackay who wrote of America
As the land of tho free" says Mr.. CLARK Russell in
bis rather spltefulletter on copyright IN The AtIe
roua. lie mistook. 1t is the land of those who
make free-the land OF tie free and easy" Mr.
Russell has already discovered that he has only his
English publishers to blame for his failure to receive
his share of the money paid for his works by the
UaYpers; il is pity that lie Gd not make that dis
SoycTv before rushing into Incorporate print Mr.
Russells cX perence may serve as salutary hint to
the English author not to hasten too desperately
10 the conclusion that the American publisher Is
necessarily a fiend and the British one an angel
Ut Hgut. Inc ItttHtNW 10 HIlStdhtu III Roy IHS
that so long as uncompromisng proectionists Iule
in the councils of the Union there is but little hope
that the lust claims Of alien authors will receive
INV consideration in the United States No hon
psf American questions the duty Of paying to the
English author his rightful wage but there are
many who want to be sure that they are not giving
q needless monopoly to the British publisher-a
worthy gentleman to whom they are persuaded
that they owe as little consideration as Mr.. Clark
Russell now knows that he does. This is a narrow
view no DOUBT, put it is part of the question
which tie advocates of International copyright
forced to take into account.
There Is much III the following editorial extract
from The Boston Saturday Erenag GO@ette with
which readers Of independent mind cannot but
agree mir. Howells's laudation of the school of
which he finds III his brother novelist the chief
exemplar' seems to us extravagant. We agree to
much which he says in praise OF Mr.. James but, if
Mr. james is creating school, he is not TO he
graduated on his scholars. Except III the of
Mr. Howells himself. whom many will hold TO be
indebted to Mr.. James for not great deal, the
American writers who have taken the latter for
their model have added little to literature.
The school is fatal to the freedom of these good
writers, without a1ording any thing like an ade-
ouate compensation for the loss. The excellence of
Nj james and Nj ilowells in it is uuquestioncd We
would not depreciate the character OF their work
nor would desire that their methods be altered.
But this work is uncOnRenal to American author
ship. 1t is already almost demonstrated mistake
70 attempt to transplant 1t into our country. 1t is
essentially French in It's character; but there in
the French writers an epigammatic brllhancy
which VT can hardly hope to equal, This is not the
worst difficulty. The French have mastered the
at Of condensing, In which American noyests are
deficient. ditluse manner modelled the James