New-York tribune., 1883-03-17
LITERARY NOTES.

r.;oh an English lady. Is about to
n..t q. Iondon a book concerning her life IN
k.-,oa Il IA TO be entitled "Ten Years on
S.c,gian Plantation since the War;"
rwo Of NJ. Turgenef tales, First Love anu
a p;nin and Baburin," have been translated py
svanev Jenold and will soon be published' accom-
panied by biographical and criticai essay
rh. lenpthening row of "Stories from BLACK
1.ood suggests the query as to the WISDOM VI p"o
t,.h,nc a series of short Stories from the Atlan-
,;c Dor other American periodical Putting aside all
cnsstion, Of international jealousy 1t must be sara
.hat ths average short story as 1T appears In the
Amer,can magazine or weekly has FAR more OF char-
.cter nont refinement and truth to nature tnan 'no
short story OF the English periodical ohce III
a hile of course, an English magazine pnphsnes an
admirable short tale but the average oi eAoonenoo
ia far below that of tie American magazine, Iheie
:. tor sxomnle in the current number of The Bdsdf
abort story which is III every particular OF art ana
oature immeasuraby better than anything Oh tne
,,r. IN auy of the pIetentious English magazines
OF the month.
Tho English novelist, Mr.. Greg, has written a
,.w story a aSapQuelac" which is a clever chant OF
,ro;sa of the Southern Confederacy and its people
He makes his Southern hero assault "Senator
Sonersr in the Senate Chamber. admitting that Inc
story of this attack is not historical although 10
.belieyes it TO be less unfair than what IN Similar
case PASSES for history" lie makes direct anu lhu
rec. charges against the Federal officers anu
sold;erv during the war. lie speaks OF tne
treatment accorded to Lee and his army after
their final defeat as the only hght Oh geu,
erosity that shines on Grants career vi
1ircoJ, Mr. Greg writes: "lt may be said
that he was prominently Jelir oPport""'tdte moruS'
e dia not live to pat to test the virtues ascroed 10
nd
ohoritv be never showed. OF the after treatment
of the conoue-vd will not trust myself TO speak
Vet Mr. Greg says IN his brief PREDATORY note nav
NAV be ascrbed TO anti-NOrthen prejudice is mostly
matter of Northern evidence" ms oelhs So
saws The London Spectator, let Mr.. Greg suOs'an
tiatc his charges"
The next volume of the Fan.ous Women series
,s moi 10 be a biography of Charlotte Bronte' ouV
one of ner strange and brilliant sister Emily
MI. Sala has made frank confession in the pre-
face 10 his new volume, America Revisited. w heh
first went to the United States" he writes III the
wear 1868, was, comparatively speaking young
man-yery prejudiced, very concerted ana great
deal more ignorant ana presumptuous thah u hopeI
lam now. When landed in America the country
was convulsed by one of the most terrihc inter
necine struggles that history has known. took'
nolitieally the wrong sde-that is to say. was an
ardent svrnpathizer with the south IN her struggle
against the North. III SO taking a SIDE, was
neither logical ntr worldly wise-in short ap
proved myself to be what is commonly called 1oof
but nv partiality Tor Dixies Land was Simply
and solely due to a sentimental feeling; ana AT
thrty-four years OF age 1t is permissible 70 possess
so,ne slight modicunl of sentlmentality. MY heart
WAS with the South, because came on nv motneis
side of n West Indian family-and a slaNe-owning
family ruined by the abolition of slavery ID the
British colonies; and although know perfectly
well that was altogether wrong in what wrote
politically concerning America IN the Midst oil
War my heart is still in the South with her gallant
sons and her beautiful daughters; and the song OF
MARYLAND my Maryland = yet stirs that heart
like a drum and will not cease to stir 1t, nope
until it ceases to beat for good and all"