New-York tribune., 1884-01-23
LITERARY NOTES.


IL is designed TO supplement the autobiography OF
Mr. Weed which appeared q few months ago. beng
devoted largely to the period between 1910 ana
1852. One of its most interesting features VIII
consist of letters never before printed from Clay'
Webster, Lincoln. Seward and others
The ssnc of The Youths Companion for February
2 will contain the first of a series OF papers oy
Miss Mamie Dickens, giving "reminiscences Oh hoi
father the novelist. She refers with tender ieelhg
10 his love of children: can see him now throngh
the mist of years with child nearly always on his
knee. his bright aud beautiful eyes full of life and
finn. | can hear his clear and sweet voice as he
sang TO those children as if he had no other occupa-
tion i'm the world but to amuse them A
invenie parties he was always the ruling spirit.
He had acquired by degrees an excellent collection
of conuring tricks, and on Twelfth Nights-the
eldest sons brthday-ho would very often, dressed
asamagician, givca conjuring entertainment, when
q little figure which appeared from wonderful ana
mysterious bag and which was supposed to be q
personal friend of the conuror. would greatly
delight the audiences by his funny stories his
eccentric voicc and way of speaking, and by MS
miraculous appearances and disappearance. vi
course plum pudding was made In hat ana was
always one of the great successes OF the evening"
BEGINNING on February 1 next, Charles Scrlo-
ner,s Sons will issue The BoOk Buyer, a monthly
literary journal containing concise SUMMARY Vi
American and foreign ltcIdtuio' AM
arranged to print London correspondence, wDlch
,vin he furnished by Mr.. Charles Wexford The
spbsorpton price of the periodical will be 90 cents
per year.
tbousand copies of Mr. Putnam's edition OF
aElia" have gone to England.
Itis said that for every novel printed and pub
lished in England ten written and reJectcd'
This makes an average of three thousand hoVeIs
which are written in that country every year.
The first volume of Mchcet's Memoirs" is just
coming from the press in Paris. 1t deals Win MS
childhood and early youth.
The most important new publications of this
week are Schliemann's Troja" Harper * Brosi;
Henry James's Portraits of Places" ~. X. Osgood
& Coz; and Courthopes addison" CHarper q
Bros
A delicate little sonnet by Jones Very which was
inspired by the wild roses at Plymouth has been
found among the papers of friend. 1t is thought
that il is new TO the readers of Very's grave and
sweet verse:
THE WILD ROSE OF PLYMOUTH
Upon the Plymouth shore the Wild rose blooms
And scents the morning air with sweet perfumes
Though new this hour, ancient for than they;
more sposa poTea the land before the Pilgrims came
And here for ages ound dwelling-pace
Though new this hour out from the past 1t springs,
Telling this summers morning IN 5 OF n,ipd It's PRIME RSncs
That stretch Oey ond, cen to the verge Of time
Ia such the Pilgrims fate, a. Indians doom.
While thou, wild rose, shalt still immortal bloom
Sdleml june %, looZ
"The history of line Of poetry" says The Pail
Mall Gazette "is sometimes curious. Apropos OF the
recent parody of a poem by Tennyson which ap-
reared in this paper correspondent informs us that
an American editions The grand old gardener and
his Wife figure as The gardener Adam and his
wife, and he seems TO imagine that some American
publisher or pirate took upon himself the response
bty of making the change in order to assist the
comprehension of the American reader. The facts |
of the case are we believe follows; The line ap-
reared in the first edition The gardener Adam ,; |
subsequently, in Difference, it is said, to the judg
1nent of the late Mr. John Forster, The grand old
gardener was substituted, and ran through some |
editions; later on the poet reverted to The gar
dener Adam who now reigns supreme, and dQnbtless
will reappear in the forthcoming edition of Messr5.
Macmillan IL Coz
The origin OF THAT Lass o LOwries" has been
described by its author to a correspondent of The
Clercldad LeadY. THE character" Mis- Burnett
said, "was taken from strong handsome woman,
among the miners IN the village where lived with
ny parents before | came to America | was very
little girl at the time, not more than seven or eight
wears old but | can remember her perfectly, she
was such contrast to the Others with whom she
was associated They were ordinary miners, she
seemed like a queen among them. was at the time
TOO Young to appreciate that she was beautiful.
Ny idea of beauty then of the china doll order,
pink cheeks aud delicate features, | had not yet
conceived the nObler kind of beauty, but as grew
older after leaving this place and thinking over this
woman perceived that she was really beautiful.
She was finely formed, stately in her movements,
and her neck was as graceful as that of the Venus
of Milo. used as a child to watch her with great
interest and when she would not pass my fathers
fov ina nhCrt yVOUld
long for her. In later years wove around her the
story of That Lass o Lowre's.''
A classified series of articles of real value from
The venerable Gcatlcmda's Magazine Will be brought
ont in England as rapidly they be edited The
first volume, which has just appeared, is very at
tractive one, reproducing it does the best and
most suggestive articles manners and customs
printed in the magazine between 1871 and 1868
Mr. George Lawrence CONNIE, the editor, has added
many instructive notes, and the series promises to
be one especially interesting to the student and
writer. Just ninety years ago there appeared in
the GentlemaRs Nagaeae para graph from the pen
of GibbOn, in which he pointed out that if proper
choice and classification were made Of the innumer-
able articles of real value which lay buried in what
is now called padding" but which the historian
styled heap of temporary rubbish" the result
would be beneficial in more ways than one The
idea has been properly carried out until now.
II is said that a cooperative publishing company
of authors is to be organized England for the dis
cOmfture of the "grasping British publisher"
All English critics do not impugn the accuracy
of Mr. r. G. Whites observations In England as
conveyed to the public through his recent work.
The London freeman says: "Mr. Washington
Adams is one of t racest and wltticst "impor-
tations" we have received from America for long
time Mr.. White has shown in previous works how |
accurately he has observed our English scenery and
customs. The vein of fine sentiment which runs