New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-16
LITERARY NOTES.

Mr.. Julian Hawthorne has written for The Man
haitian a story with the singular title OF SET MOI
Thy Foot on Graves" Mr.. Hawthorne is writing q
serial story for the same magazine, which Is, by the
way, displaying much enterprise in securing con-
trbutors and improving its makeup.
ieerirg writer for The Saturday Rereic-who is,
it may be, Mr.. Lang-decares that with all his
merits, 1t may be allowed that Mr.. Longfellow IS
European quite" and that even when he sang OF
Hawatha he borrowed his metre and good deal OF
his method from the "Kalewala" the epic of the
Firms. There was nothing peculiarly American
in BRYANT" adds this scoffer; there is much that
reminds one of modern English poetry in Mr.. T. b..
Aldrlch. Walt Whitman is indubitabiy not
European, but then he is individually not poet
The American bard sh )uld be a child Of Nature
'self-taught like the minstrel of Odyssus, war
rior lover soaring human being"
Mr. Lafcadio Hearn is beginning to be mentioned
as a Southern writer of unusual promise. Certainly
his article on the Mississippi marsh-folk pub
lisbed in recent number of Hdrpers Weekly gives
ample proof of an observant eye and skilled pen.
Another article on picturesque New Orleans" will
soon appear in that periodical above his signature
These are the first of series which he has agreed
TO write. Mr.. Hearn is a Greek, man who is de-
scribed as looking like a brigand but as behaving
engaging He does not care for society. He is now
on the staff of The 1rmes- Democrat of NewOreans.
Mr. Henry Ruggles, who has been United States
Consul at Malta and Barcelona and who has trav-
elled much in Germany, is about to publish through
Lee e. Shepard volume entitled Germany Seen
without Spectacles" He makes therein many
sharp observations on the Germans.
A number of Miss Ingelow's poems have been
added by the American editor to Roberts Brothers
edition of Living English Poets"
serial story, which is apparently from the pen of
the brilliant Lawrence Olphant, has just been be-
gun in BldckcOOd One of the characters is an en-
inont American speculator aud railroad king, Dexter
File by name-a gentleman who is mentioned as
having once seized railroad and held it in defiance
of all corners until he had quite done with it, when
he magnauimously gave it back again.
rumor has gained some circulation that Helen
Campbell.D name known to belong to the literary
and household editor of The Continent is merely a
nom de plume for Mrs. Tourgee. The two PERSONAL
ties are distinct, Mrs. Campbell having been first
known to the public as Helen G. Weeks, success
full writer for children She is. moreover the author
of Patty PearsOn's Boy" which first appeared as a
serial in The Christian Union under tie title OF
unto the Third and Fourth Generation" The
Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking" Un-
der Green Apple Boughs" IA novel;, and 1.-The Prob
lem of the Poor: Record of Quiet Work in Unquet
Places" beng clever and suggestive study OF
phases Of life and work in the slums of New-York
G. p Putnam's Sons have in press volume by this
lady. entitled "The American Girls Home Book OF
Work and Play"
Mr. Gosse declares that it would scarcely be
unjust to say that Crawshaw was the first real poet
| who allowed himself to use splendid phrase
| when simple one would have better expressed his
| meaning; land" he adds, Gin an age when all
but the best poetry apt to be obscure, grabbed
and rugged, he introduces new fault, that of being
visionary and diffuse with deliberate intention
not only, the others did, to deck nature out in
false ornament but to represent her actual condition
| as being something more starry and seraphical
| Than il really is . To use an odd smile Of
Shelleys he sells us gin when the other poets oflel
us legs of mutton at all events baskets of bread
| and vegetables"