New-York tribune., 1883-11-03
LITERARY NOTES.

,;,os which they used to be considered. So lar
the cheap Libraries have served them III iAahine
the publishexs eager for fiction which may be copy
,iehted and sold for more than ten or twenty cents
new collection of stories to be called the Aner
ican Novel Series has been projected by Henry
Holt & Co. The first of the series, A Latter-Day
Saint will be brought out almost immediately
The novel of "The Bread-Winners Will be COM
plcted in the January number of The century ana
will then be published in complete form Oy the
Uarpers. Meanwhile the publishers of the magazine
have brought out for the ben 5t of those VINO nave
missed by chance some of the chapters, a Plhplle'
containing the first three parts OF the story. iRe
Art Interchange has also just republished IN pamph
LET form the letters sent to it in response to these
onestions previously published in its columns;
4-From internal evidence is the author man
or wouani
B-Should Mr. Arthur Farnham have expected
that Miss Alice Belding would refuse him because
of the scene in the greenhouse, and is he to blame
for having kissed Maud Matchinf
The general conclusion is that the author Is a
ngn: and the majority hold that Arthur is not" to
blame for having kissed Maud"
The Duke of Argyll has written book on the
Hebrides, "an account of the management ol ah
island estate for l30 years.
Judge Tourg6e's new novel will be begun in 1he
much to do with Philadelphia. Its author tluilkS
that that city is poor place for pew puDiicatioh
of a general character especially If the man III inc
head of il is little given to society inclined 10 nave
his own notions, and not especially scrupuious as
TO whom he makes present OF them' Inc CITY Is
more conventional and conservative than any
other in the country. Newnees is next door 10 SIN
fulness in its eyes"
Mile. Ouida appears to dislike the literary ideas
of Mr. Henry James. /" No doubt" she says, all
the world over character creates circumstance ana
the tortoise is not to blame if it cannot leap, only 1t
need not disbelieve in the greyhound and the horse
No doubt adventures are to the adventurous in the
most extended sense of the word; and romantic and
brilliant lives will not fall to the lot of the dull and
the mediocre. But such lives exist, nevertheless
and it is not true that pale uniformity extends
like n pail over the whole of the human race.
friend of mine never gives a reception without nav
ing 800 francs worth of wax candles lighted IN MS
room; is he not as real as Jones or Brown whose
housemaid lights his single gasalierf little while
ago said to a well-knOwn dipomatlst, who Is also
great virtuoso and great artist and who has also
a most romantic personal history : III you were
put in a book" as people say, nobody would be-
Geye in you' Let me beg to be distinctly under
stood do not object to realism in fiction; what
object to is the limitation of realism in fiction TO
what is commonplace tedious and bald-is the
habit in word of insisting that the potato is real
and that the passiOn-hower is not. novel Is not
necessarily any the more like real life because it is
story about nothing, leading to nowhere, which
might meander on through half century for any
climax that it ever reaches" 1t may, perhaps. be
said that all this is not without reason even Though
it come from Ouda-especally the reference to the
potato Mr. Jaines's new story, Impressions OF Il
Cousin is marvellous in it's introduction of vulgar
and stupid people whose acquaintance in real life
one would be glad to shirk, and about whose con-
versation and action hOvers an inexpressible dull
ness. This indeed is realism run mad.
Mr.. James Payn has written out his personal re-
collections of Mary Russell Milford for The CogThH
Magazine
The wife of Barry Cornwall has told Mr.. Gosse
that the last time her husband saw the eccentric
poet Thomas Lowell Beddoes, the latter was III
the hands of the police for having attempted IN
fit of fantastic bravado to set Drury Lane Theatre
on fire with fve-pOund note Mr., Proctor easily
persuaded his captOrs that this was not the KIND "i
torch that serious incendiary would make use of.
After this Beddoes complained of neuralgia, and
shut himself up in his bedroom for six months,
reading and smoking.
Amysterious announcement las just been made
in England of a great social and political novel"
byanew writer of great political and social int
portanco" 1t is entitled My Name is Smith,
Mr. Edmund Yates's book of "reminiscences, Fifty
Years of London Life" will soon be brought out.
A calendar for 1884, which is not only attractive
but exceedingly useful, has been prepared by Miss
Della W. LYMAN of New-Haven, with the assist
ance of Professor Henry p. Johnston Ii is en-
titled " The Calendar of American History and
gives under each date and in All admirably clear
and compact form the chief event in our history
occurring that day. At the back of the card is
an excellent index and the block is enclosed in a
neat brx in which the sheets as fast as they are torn
off may be placed for reference. The calendar is
one especially adapted to the of students and
of all persons in fact, who like to refresh theiI
memories of our historical records. The printing
and coiorng are good and the datelncs are Of excel
lent size. g. p. Putnam's Sons are the Publishers
Let those who think Turgenef did not believe in
the R,.yulutionists read says a Nhilst paper, Tn,
following poem in prose, The Threshold which is
well known to many persons IN Russia: " BEFORE l'
is an immense odihce In the centre of It's iaclde
narrow door stands wide open beyond II a dcns,
obscurity Before the threshold stands madden
Russian maiden. From without that nnpenotlabl'
darkness an icy, freezing current bears the tones 81
a low sepul hTal voice, KnOYeSt thou, maiden
who wonld step athwart this threshold, what awa't
thee 2 Il know answers the maiden. That cold
hunger hatred, mOckeTy, contempt, impr sonmcntS
sickness. and even death may claim thecF d
know repeats the maiden. That complete sepaia
ton and isolation must be thy lot ? Il know it all
am ready to suffer all griefs and sorrows ali Blow
of fate Not only from enemies continues tn,
voice but even from parents and friendsT Yes
even from rhem.' ''Tis good. Are you prepared
then. to make the sacrfceP Yes But an IN.
utter.blc sser6cei Thou wilt be lost forever, anG
none will know thy name to honor it, 4 neeo
neither gratitude pity want no name' replies
Al. INT van arp1f ft 4
crime The maiden bowed her head. Yes sh'
said, | AN prepared for that. Here the voice
paused. 'Khowest thou, il continued, that thou
may repent and that thy young life may be sacri