New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-21
LITERARY NOTES.

Mr.. Tennyson has written new poem WIoSc
title will recall an earlier one. 1t is 1.-The Chaise
OF the Heavy Brigade" and 1t IS to appear III 'i''
next number of Macmdn's Magazine.
Joel Chandler Harris, the clever chronicler .,
Uncle Remus's savings, has sketched our S'i,''
story THE Romance of Rockville nc 'S "'''
writing story Of old slave life in the south
WI. Stone is preparing for publication volume
containing the orderly book OF sir JohA 'oNn'o's
during the Onskany campaign, ana Il sho,I" "
Sir John by his granddaughter, General john W. oo
reyster.
Mrs. Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, the daughter Oh
Nathaniel Hawthorne, IL writing for the iirsV mum
her of O.r Continent a sketch OF her old home at
Concord with some personal recollecuons Oh n'i
father.
"Spartans. stoics. heroes, saints and gods says
Mr. Emerson in his CcatWy essay, use shor' anu
positive speech. They are never OIL their e'h'l'o
As soon as they swell and paint ana ma 'fu'h no
enough for them S0ftenuG OF the brain mas "ho"u'
begun"
A London editor ridiculcs this cable message re-
ccivel in London before the lofty being IT mentions
sailed for these shores: "NIu Wide WHO poc'"'
twenty lines. terms guinea line; subJec'-S'h-
fover or ljly. to be delivered on arrival to ORDER
Of The price is far from "holiow, hollow
hollow" but what viii the poem be
Aliss Christina K9Ssctts last volume did not II
rpst lie confessed sustain her literary reputation,
Neither in conception nor in art can II he cohP"lu
10 her former work. There Is not much PahiS'dNi"7
abont her poetry lit simply comes 10 'll'Hu
VINO asked ii she had written any poems H''IS s"0
said: Il do not write pocms--thcy happen 20 nc
none have happened lately
George II. Boxer the Philadelphia author and eA'
Minister to Russia, is about to publish through lay
,ucott "a volume OF poetry with the strange ana az
fractive title Of Tho Book OF the Dead Inc
poems ere all short and all relate to one "Ho Edt'
departed" Mr Boxers friends say that th's VOL
nnlc contains the finest and strongest Work ol MS
literary life.
II complained IN England that While thele was
never such high average OF fairly good ana cIeNeI
writing in that country az at present, yet tho can
NOT produce one good original comedy year WINE
France plodnces at least Il dozen The sudden pop
MARTY of the novelist IN England maze inc
grave of the playwright. Just now physical science
aLsorbs an uuduy large share OF English mental
capacity.
Charles Rcadc. who for the past year or two mas
been not only III but respondent, is doing h''le
literary work in the shape OF sketch OF Sr hoDeit
Iusl. Tor many years one of the Justices Oh the
Court of Queens Bench and later one Of the LoIds
.t,,t,ces of Appeals. Sir Robert was concerned IN
fle IlCLbOIAc lIl3l, ana i' ''''' ''''1'
,ro,uut fashion Ia which lie ordered the lash III
cases of pcIsonal violence. There could hardly be
better subject for Nh. Rcad"s PEN
Hartley Coendce said of the Amolds one day
that they were most gifted family. When Miss
Fox askel him what specially III their education
distinguished them he rose from the dnncr-tablc'
rs hi, manner was, and answered, 9" why they were
euckcd on Latin and wcancd upon Greek lie
smoke of his father being day in company with
some celebrated man and some man who was Hot
celebrated: the latter wore leather breeches, ana =
T. Co!cridgc had the delight Of observing INN tax
ing notes of their conversation Win pm III inc
Creases OF the leather.
When clever Caroline Fox asked Carlyle what
raralelisn there was between his own early his
tory and that of the imaginary TcnielSdfock, lie
rcplied MY advent was nothing out of the com |
mon: one extraordinary fact Of my childhood was
that after eleven months taciturnlty, l heard a
child cry and astouishcd them all by saying, what
,ls wee Jock p" If this was, indeed the first ut
tcrance OF the infant Carlyle, and that too before
he was a year Old, ono cannot wonder that the oc-
currence was deemed extraordinary 10y the
family
Asan instance Of the absurd extravaganza OF ian
c,aqn which is too fashionable nowadays, The Pdit
sJaU Gazette mentions Mr.. Waddington's statement
tint .cyen the souncts of Shakespeare or Milton
,co,n to lose somewhat Of their grandeur when com
nored with certain sOnnets OF II. u. EOsSettl :,
which Mr. WaddinVton nightly admlTes. Translated
pto the louguage'o of sane criticism this OF course
means that some Of RosscttlS Sonnes hardly lose by
heino couparcd with those Of Shakespeare and Mil
tom The Gazette naturally does not approve OF tins
kind of dogInatlsm. and tells Mr. Waddington that
the business of tie editor Of an anthology Is T. pro-
vide his readers with pleasant spectacle, and not
10 tread Oh their toes and order them about while
lLey behOldlt