New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-21
LITERARY NOTES.

The indefatlgable MISS lohge h"9 "A''
novel called Stray Pearls
Matinds EspagnOIes is the title of weekly review
pohtical and literary, which Madame bohap"i'0
W SC. Ratazzi-Rule has founded at MauIiu'
~. Turgenefl has just published Weird S'olS
entitled "Apr6s Ia Mort"
Mr.. Anthony Trollope once wrote TO Lohuon
pubiisher concerning the printing OF conversations
=; novols . - you. think, will understand that,
having written SO much, nave naturdHy gwen NY
mind to the subject and have studied the way to
ro.cb if nossjbe. the attention and the sympathy
of the reader. There can be no law fit TO rule all
cases. In general when the speakers are supp1s
To stand in presence Of an audience, the writer's
o iect will be best carried out by letting each
speech stand alone But when the fragments oil a
cOnVcrsatiOn are given as having taken place. aU
some past time, then the spoken words should De
wrapped up in other matter. But this cannot DC
taken as a universal rule The author as ne
writes feels the weight which lie intends 10 give TO
each passage and if he be experienced, now
the effect may be produced which he desires.
But such an instruction as that of which you
speak as having come to YOU from certain editors Is
subversive Of all effect II is though you were to
order that III your house all liquors should be drunk
out of cups of the same Size-Whether brandy OF
small beer There can be 10 one but the author III
to arrange his own paragraphs. lie may 40 IL o'dly
but if So he is responsible There is an abonlna-
bic French habit Of disiointing paragraphs Tor the
sake of spreading matter and filling pages but th's
is infinitely below such publications as you ana
are connected with"
An old gentleman who knew Sir William Rowan
Hamilton notes an instance of that DISTINGUISHES"
mathematicians precOcty as a child hoh
about nine years old" be says, 6 was taken Dy
nv father to the house of his old friend, Arcly
ia
Dublin. for an evening tea. lhe son, William was
brought in TO show of the progress he had made,
not only in languages. hut in the iachty with
which he could read the characters, Greek ana
Hebrew especially, however placed before him.
The Hebrew Psalter placed upside-down was read
with as much ease as if 1t i'll its right position
before him."
Mr.. Herman c. Merivale says that a few weeks
before Charles DickenS'S death he visited the nov
elisi's house many days in succession for the re-
hearsals of play in which the characters were
taken by his two daughters Mr.. Hastings Hughes
Orother of Mr.. Thomas Hughes, and once the very
scLool-boy who wrote TO Dickens to tell him what
ought to be done with some Of the characters in
Nicholas Nickleby" and got back the delightful
answer beginning Respected Sir'1, Mr.. +. C.
Grove. and Merivale himself. Charles Dickens I'M
dertook the entire stage management; and, though
he was Suffering fIom his lameness, directed AL the
rehearsas with boys spirit and a boys interest
in ms favorite art " coaching" oil with untlrng
kindness, marking his prompt book y as he marked
his readings and acting all the parts con dmOre one
after another passing from the old man to the
young lover with all his famous versatility and
power. On the night of the performance, MerlYaIe
saws Dickens was behind the scenes as prompter
and stage-manager ringing all the bells and work
ing all the lights and going through the whole
4 81 iufe | gloomy
about my part, and do not forget asking him in the
morning as last hope las he seemed uncertain
about its bearings himself, whether he thought 1t
was comic or serious, and the twinkle IN his eye
when he answered, Ny dear boy, God alone
knows. Play it whichever way you feel at night.
And remember his enjoyment at the dilemma of
one Of our company who lost his personal clothes
behind the scenes and had to slip away as best he
might, without Joining the company in front,
in the white regmentais of an Austrian officer
from the coStumer's point OF view"
The Putnams have just brought out second ell
ton of Mrs. NJ c. Sponsors little story, The Bone
ft of the Doubt"
Mr.. Howells is said to be writing novel Of Amer
lean life in FlOrence-a novel intended to form a
companion picture to "A Foregone Conclusion"
Mr. Walter Besant's novel of "Al Sorts and Con-
dtions OF Men" is reported to have made the
squad East End of London place of fashionable
resort. 1t has become the mode for wOrldlingS in
search of new sensations to make up parties of ex
ploratiOn in those strange regions.
Mr. William Allingham has issued one of his pro-
posed new volumes of short poems in London.
Most Of the verses are personal, and many tiny
strays of rhyme like the following
-Four ducks a pond,
A era shank ucyOnd
A blue sky of spring
White clouds the wing;
What little thing
TO remember for years
10 remember Ia tears