Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-09-11
DAiLg RECORB.UNION sEasEs.
VOL. XyI.-NO. IS
TRANSIENT NOTES.
fne Coming Princess-An Authors Carnf-
val = Some Reflections About Writers
and Books.
Correspondence Of the RECORD UNION.
SAN FRANCIscn SAINT O 1850

eluu BOOKS.
correspondence Of the RECORD. UNION
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 9, 1882.
Inc Princess is coming; the Princess
Will be here in few days. We hear this
announcement on all sides, and it seems to
give every one unmixed satisfaction. There
Is well-defned ieudal instinct in us
Americans, deny it who will. ANY repre-.
sentative Of reigning house is deeply in.
teresting to US, and one of that house of
Hanover which rules where our own Ian.
guage Is spoken-or. 1 should say, lam
guage to which ours approximates
aoubly an object of curiosity and specula-
tion, not altogether of the snobbish sort
eitner. A ruling family-sspeciall the
uaugnters OF ruling family-are a
klnd OF thrice refined essence of human
ity we think of them az beings who have
mad nothing but gracious and goodly asso.
cations and influences all their lives. and
as such they are refreshing to the imagina-
tion, which gets its wings rather draggled
IN the course of the year. Her marriage
the trst instance of the marriage of the
daughter of a reigning sovereign of En-
gland to subject-makee another claim
on our interest for this fourth daughter of
victoria. To call Ter the maiden all for
Lorne was a brand new joke in 1881. We
IN America supposed, in the abysmal deeps
Oh our ignorance, that this was royal
meSas!tdnce but one Of the Gaelic depend.
ents OF the Duke of Argyll, when he
learned OF the prospective marriage, ex-
CLAIMED IN all good faith that "the Queen
would do well to wed one of her lasses
with the sen of the McCallum More !"
!" Campbell the Great, )" as they call the
head OF the Campbell family)
What a rsiiet 1t is to know that one may
sound re IN that same name Camp
Dell. We we all taught SO rigidly, and
80 against the grain, as 1t were, to suppress
1t In early youth, when everything Scotch
was fascinating, from plaid penhoIder to
a RussIa-bound set of Sir Walter.
1t Is said that the Princess is making a
collection of fans, and that two are To he
added to the number in San Francisco
They ara to be of black and white point
lace, with pearl sticks, and are the gift of
lady who has the taste to design as well
as the means to execute the choice present.
MIR. Swinburnes new volume. "Tris-
tan OF Lyonesse, is out and at the mercy
OF reviewers and the New York Critic.
That tart nTTseling of journalism has
hrmly and Enthusiastically sat down upon
tAe poet and his works. II is balm, how.
ever, to the rebellIous feelings of students
and admirers Of Mr.. Swinburne, to observe
that the Pal Mall Gazette and the Athen-
rum ind Tristan of Lyonesse worthy
OF praise and appreciation, speaking of
Mr.. Sw1nburne as "our great poet"
and recognlzIng-what was apparent in
the Songs of the Springtides that
he had successfully conquered the
peculIaritles arising from his Partisan train
irg, which robbed his poems of their full
effect for Anglo-Saxon readers.
there is 70 be another Authors Carnival
lhIs Is the third. 1t will be held. in the
Mechanics Pavilion, like its predecessors.
1t has nothing to do with Lent nor with
tarewells to flesh and sense, because Lent
comes late IN the winter good Episcopa-
lians can calculate it by hocus. pocus about
the fret Monday after the second Wednes-
day., and some mystic hour when "the
moons a fool" as the gentle Chinaboy
oharacterizes the skyey influences to which
his movable feasts are servile. The Authors
Carnival Is, however, a kind of Passion
Week all alone by itself. By means of its
fervent heat the best and holiest feelings
of our nature seethe ike asphalt In cal
dron-Vanity, jealousy, extravaganza, emu
lation, petuiance-a Pauline list and when
all Is over the agitatOrs and posers in
the great show proudly wrap them
selves IN sixteen yards of gold gauze
with the all.suthcing formula, GOOD for
trade. There are enough amusing liter
airy biunders made to tit out q new Mrs,
Malaprop entire. We recall at the second
Authors Carnival a graphic description a
young lady gave of the NEUROLOGICAL booth,
IN which one, whom she repeatedly called
the Count Of Paris, was a conspicuous
figure, The Dardan Shepherd, Sir Wal
ters's Count Robert, and Juliet's discarded
wooer were the three single gentleHen
rolled in this one distracting
character.
What gay deceiver has told the tourist
that September Is good month in which
to visit San Francisco The tourist is the
hero, or heroine, of the open carriage
that is, the hack with its back folded
down, and such vehicles, with their char
contents, abound Just now, the
tourist mouth generously devouTing the IN
soil and vast tankards of bouanet
de street-improvement, the tourist person.
atty clad, as to the outer man, or woman,
ike comic valentine.
Poe has this good hit at labored innuendo
in one of his bitter little sketches elf
you feel inclined to say bread and butter
do not, by any means, say it outright. You q
may hint at buckwheat cake, or you msyaA'
even go so far as to insinuate oatmeal Dor.
ridge, but if bread and butter be your real
be cautious not on any account to
say bread and butter" Our present
school of novelists seem to
have reversed this order and plainly said
bread and butter while felicitating thom-
selves openly upon leading the readers
mind to contemplate vistas of buckwheat
cakes. After a conversation between two
young people on scenery and abstract emo
ton, or the Christian virtues, these authors
sayof their heroes He was amazed at
her def quality of mind, her subtle shift
ing of dangerous ground, her penetrating
aad so on, adj lib. You
turn back TO discover by the aid of this
sign post all that you have missed in a
which appears to give its au-
thor such lively satisfaction, but it remains
to your unanointed eyes the same waste of
words. If you are Undetermined ycu
vote yourself a barbarian and read on, if
you are not-but all Mr.. James readers are.