New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-04
LITERARY NOTES.

LITERARY NOTES.
Mr.. Matthew Arnold has written poem upon the
late Dean Stanley aud intends to print II IN INC
next number of The Nincteeath Centarg,
Mr.. Anthony Tr4lopc swriting a new story called
"Kept in the DARK" Mrs Ohphant who Ike MI
Trolope seems &c have an endless store of fiction 10
draw upon is about to print story called Lazy
Jane"
The spiichtly little Critic continues to I'VE anu 70
show signs of the growth that nSureS me- II '''
learned that illustrations not desirable feature
for the sort OF critical journal 1t aims TO De- anu HAS
therefore wisely decided to abandon them
One Of The most exquisite books an English press
has ever Issued is recently published vo1hlhe oS
AIR. A. Trer on Bar'oo2zi, the engraver II no' Only
gives an exhaustive history of Bartolozz but also
countless delightful details about prints, prnt-coI-
Io,ti,g aod print-sales. The illustrations arc
charming copies from some Of the Italians most
characteristic works.
The r,,ana Fjqcro which to the inhabitants Of the
Koiserstadt il what the KladdcI adatsch is to the
perlinese. has inst celebrated the twenty-hlth
anniversary of its first appearance in book called
Kre5s- Huchln (Crab-bookl deS Figaro 1t bears l'S
name because, crab like it goes back 10 the year
1857 and reviews IN cOmc-satlrical VEN inc
leading political events since that time IN the MS
tory of the Auslro-hungariaa Monarchy surely Il
fruitful theme for the satirist. The publishers
announce that the net proceeds of the sale OF ll'
book wiz lie given to the fund raised for the
families OF the victims of the Ring Theatre lire
Prudence Marlitt. the heroine of Mrs. Lilies
aesthetic story in the forthcoming number OF
Hqrpeg's Nagq-inc is young American girl OF
wonderful fresh beauty and charm. She makes
her first appearance dressed in " a shabby muslin
gown in an aesthetic drawing-IOom in Passionate
Bromptou," surrounded 10y multitude OF apostles
of the Utter and the Intense. Their heads are
frowsy. their costumes soulful, in accordance with
tho dTawinc-room--~ for are not Mrs Lille
asks so delicatey organized to-day that we must
be saved any kind of artistic shock As Barley
SimmOnson a constant VISITOR at the POynsetls'
remarked There is a power to pain actually TO
pan-in that shade of our youth known as magenta
or solfeino just rs there s power to lull anguish
into calm and here Ir. Simmonson smiled with
timetable tendcrncss-'in Bordonc's reds" Pru-
dence has some characteristic illustrations OF the
London aesthetics by Mr.. Du Maurier.
Mr.. Robert buchanan has dedicated his strange
and powerful new novel " God and the Man. to one
whose identity Will probably be easily recognized
by those who remember his bitter controversy with
Mr.. Swinburnc concerning the Fleshly School,
Thus runs the dedication:
TO AN OLD ENEMY.
would have snatcid bay-leaf from thy brow,
Wrongng the chaplct on an h0nored head
In peace and charity bring thee now
4 liy-hOwcr instead
Pure as thy purpose, Jlameess thy song
sweet as thy spirit, may This offering be-
Forget the bitter blame That d1d thee wrong
And take the gift from me
Mr., Julian Hawthorne's new nOvel-whch bears
the curious title OF " Dust has for motto the
c0uplet
only the actions OF the Just
Smell sweet and blossom IN the Dust
It opens in the England of lSlG, in the days of
Ranclagh and YauNhall, OF small-clothes and tight
brooches Of short waists and turbans-of the
First Gentleman and foremost blackguaFd OF
Europe.
Miss de la EamC d" Ouida y has rechristened her
little comedy Cloth of Gold and Cloth Of irieze,"
and now calls 1t Iesurgo hardly an improve
ment The motto defines the story
Cloth OF gold do not despisc
To match myself with cloth of tricZe
The hero is an English earl who as n very young
man marries a beautiful French peasant girl OF
fifteen. After six months he tires OF her ignorance
and her social bluuders and sends her to convent
TO be educated There she is supposed to drown
herself in the moat OF despair at being so cast OIL
Ten wears after the earl visits Rome where he
meets q Madame Glyon. a noble creature. and
great artist whose pictures ne delights in. Here
the comedy opens and who the lovely artist really
is and how the earl ias IN love again with his own
wife ignorant OF her identity Is easily conJectureJ
Many striking and picturesque complications
Naturally arise from this plot. IL IS the first time
Ouida has undertaken to Use the dramatic form.
The comedy will run through four numbers OF
Harper's Uecl}g, beginning with that OF January T.