New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-05-29
LITERARY NOTES.

Among the many guesscs made coioe'. po,,orond
%borsbip of the striking new mover ~ .snor,oc-
Idoln is one that points to the au.iVi o,,, ho;nc
racyr the American story WIN"
no praised in England.
GP. Putnam's Sons are about TO 'lN oiou,,",
ovner;mont in the publication OF cheap railway
-, 90 Hoods Whms and Whimsicallues-lhe
ol,oo,ion of agreeable pleasanrics first puplSheu
:; tho reriodicals under Hoods control Inc buyers
of summer reading ought not TO neglect inns i''o
volume.
Mr. Robert s. Davis. one Of the three editors OF
mr. Continent. has resigned his position Tor reason
of illbealth and the greater part OF his interest III
inc comrapy has been purchased by Judge l"uISvo
and DIR. Brinton his associate editors. MI D"N'
retirement, Judge Tourgoe says VIII pave Nv
upon the continuance of oar Continent
Lewis Rosonthal. arecent graduate OF DarlnoA,i''
hoe written n volume which IS suIncle"'S
soribed by its title: America ana france ~: tto
fuence of the United States on I"''O ,,,I,
Ficbteenth Century" Henry Holt CO. VIII ti m',
~ +lo boot which was written under e>peci"iI
favorable circumstances for the conS"i''.'i''
authorities Mr.. Rosenthal having been lo' ioUi
wears an Unofficial attache oil AiiS'ei IVY
Paris.
Apropos of the riGculously far-tetched u,lc VI
recent simple book of travel an English cilu0
calls a story which used TO he told al oaihoi'O5o
about the celebrated Mr. Simeon one OF ms pu F9
was reading TO him sermon, perhaps the hrst til''
he had ever composed, IN the course Oh VIM" ~
came IN the following passage: Amid TINS luihu''
,bc son Of Anram stood unmoycd." " Nhoh 40
,.ou mean bv the son of Amram" inquired 'Ie
divine. If YOU please, sir. mean Moses" men,
if Won moan Moses why do you not say Moses was
the reply.
The literary alliance which has 50 long cXiStou
between Judge Tourece and his publishers Fc''l''
lords Howard Il Hubert, has been stu more ci"S'S
cemcnted by the purchase oSan interest III ms "ec|
lv MAGAZINE or Continent in the conduct Oh WhI,H
tbev viii hereafter be actively represented. Juo-c
Tonrree's new story " Hot Plowshares," now ucn-
nitcly announced to begin early III July. VIII 'o
quite dissimar yet germane to lHe nv
pursucd in his previous WORKS b's"i
ming a decade and half before Tue ""''
il sketches rapidly the progress of the antl-saVeiy
movement 70 It's cUlninaton in John Browns rad
nj Uarper's Ferry making this event and the war
;r,rocdiotelv succeeding it the background Tor q
story Of domestic life
Alexander Ireland, the clever Editor OF Ihc AHH-
chester Eyoniipcy is accustomed to relate an anec-
dote told 10 him by one who Lad personal kno"l-
edge of the fact il chronicles. The blacksmith OI
little English village had got hold OF Richardson
novel of Pamela. OF Virtue Rewarded, ana uSeu
10 read it aoud on the long summer evenings
seated on his anvil and never failed TO nave large
and attentive audience 1t Is PRETTY long-Wlhueu
book: but their patience was fully maich lor 'iie
authors prolxty, and they listened to 1t all Al
length when the happy turn Oh iortlue arrived
which brings the hero and heroine together and
sets them living long and happily according to the
most approved rules, the congregation was so de-
lighted rs TO raise a great shout and, procuring the
church KEYS actually SCI the parish bells ringing.
Ouida is perhaps mere impatient of even the
1nildcst criticism than any other woman novelist.
The PaU MAJ Gazette in noticing her new novel,
ain Maremma" venturcd to say that heI physical
portraits and some of her accessories were pretty
evidently taken from Alma adema's pictures.
Ouidas wrath beng reused she straghtway writes
q letter TO say that it is not So ! know Italians,
fhe saws. "quitc as beautiful as the Hermes OF
the Vatican, as the Venus of Titan, as the angels
of Luca SIgnorcli: the face l have given to Musa
in 'Maremma l nave seen on the shoulders OF a
Young Italian patrcian who moves like goddess,
down the great rooms of Roman palaces; a peasant
,rl rs lovely as the Madonna di san SstO goes now
through the blue iTises in my fields plating her
straw and hut yesterday net half-naked boy
of some fourteen years, with as slender. graceful
limbs and as perfect oval olIve-tIntcd glorious
face rs ever Sarto or Sodoma painted; whether one
turns 10 the thoughts of the masters enShrlned IN
color or in marble OF groets the crowd coming gayly
against the sweet spI!ngtime wind faint with the
ncrCume of the vinelower, whether one dream
beneath the vault of S.stne or watch the Usher
man set his eirea in Tibcr water. sees so much
beauty here artistic and human, that 1t would he
strange indeed if had to seek its conception i'll
any London studio or even in any Roman one.
Allow ne to say that to suggest that have done
so is much as though one supposed that Shelley had
borrowed all he knew of Italy from the illustra'
lions TO the Italy of Rogers"