New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-26
LITERARY NOTES.

of Wendell Phillips, which is much more satsfac-
torv than any of the portraits that were thrown
ppon the market Immediately after Mr.. Philllpss
death It represents him in the full maturity of his
great powers. but before the decline which was too
perceptibe to his friends in his appearances In late
years on the platform. The same firm have issued
n good but less successful portrait OF Mayor Low
Of Brooklyn.
Short passages from Thoreau's journals have been
collected in a volume which will bear the title of
Summer" and will be brought out by Houghton,
Miflin g. Co.
What Is described as a mirror of Philadelphla,
society in the shape of novel called "Miss Nancy
VIII soon be published in the Quaker City. LVeh
The publisher, it is reported, does not know the
names Of the authors, who are two young persons
prominent in society.
The author of " John Inglesant" has written
poem called any Wife's Valentine" for the next
number of The English illustrated Aaga;iHe.
The Memoir of Princess Alice is to be published in
this country by G. p. Putnam's Sons.
Charles Reade knew that death was coming and
refused absolutely to meet it at Cannes NO." he
said " | feel myself breaking up and wish TO go
home to die" lie bore the journey northward
pretty well, until reaching Calais, where. while
lingering to obtain, if possible, smooth sea and
fair passage the east wind brought back upon him
that bronchial affection from which he had pre-
yiOusly suffered and sent him to his house in Shop
lord's-bush in a moumful condition of prostratIon
from which he never rallied. The lease of
his much-loved dwelling and all the effects
contained therein advertised for sale
This is the place which lie called " Naboth's Vine
ward and the history of which he has related III
characteristic fashion
Reade always felt that he had no Imagination and
was oppressed by this belief He often spoke OF
this to his friends; and it was because he mis-
trusted his own powers of invention that he never
liked to begin new work until he had found
dramatic framework taken from some newspaper or
play OF legal record to rest il upon. Tie st. JdmtSs
Gazette saws: In order TO stimulate and quicken
what little of the imaginative faculty there might
be III him. and TO bring himself beneath the lnnu-
ence of the main factors in the story on which ne
was engaged, Mr.. Reade used to hang around him on
the walls of his workshop all kinds of excerpts and
inscriptions referring to the matter IN hand.
Mounted on mill-board these citations were at once
texts to inspire and signs to guide him. lie SIT ln
the midst of them like a navigator among charts or
strategist among route-maps; and. thanks or not
TO the instructions and warnings all sides Of him,
he never failed 10 guide the incidents and person
ages of his novel to their proper end. While Keep
Ing well before him the striking points in the story
on which lie was actually at work this very method
zeal craftsman had in his room long row OF large
portfolios full Of newspapeT-cuttngs. arranged
under such heads as Murders, Suicides. Dis
asters at Sea- and laboriously indeXed' These
were the facts for his social hi>ories-facts which
he had got together with much care as could have
been taken by any collector Of materials Tor
serious history OF the military and political kind.
In spite Of tins appearance Of method, il may tc
doubted whether at the last moment Char''
Reade made any direct use OF his notes and hs
memoranda. According to an author who worked
with him for a time land with whom MI EcIde fell
ont before the novel on which they were Jointly
engaged was completely, he wrote on without refer
ence to his notes; but doubt the mere process OF
making them must have had the effect of impress
ing the main points on his memory"
Miss Anna Katherine Greenes "Leavonworth
Case is to be rcpublished in London by Strahan'
Mr.. w. J. Rolfe has prepared for students an
notated editions of Tennyson's Princess and OF
his "Songs.' They will be published by ). i.
OsgOOd & Co.
@The Autobiography of Judas Iscariot" Is tie title
of a character-study which the Rev. James W. Y
Hart has lately Unpublished IN London
The first and second Of the promised three volumes
of the History of Philadelphia have lately ap-
reared. The work deals exhaustlvely with the city
from its earliest days.
A new aud carefully revised edition Of =" Osgoods
Complete Pocket Guide to Europe Is announced.
This perfect little guide has the rare merit OF beng
really small enough TO slip into ones pocket and
it contains, moreover, the fullest Information h
type large enough to consult with comfort.
VI. Darmestetter says Of George Eliot that she
possessed to a large decree those qualities with
which her favorte characters are frequently eli
lowed She herself was accomplished man
acer and model housckeeper TO the end of ber Iie
II was ever her maxim to do well whatever her
hand found to do. Her handwriting and proounci-
alton were extraordinarily neat but the elegance OF
the former and the harmony of the voice became
only apparent On nearer acquaintance
The new HIaworth edition of Charlotte Brontcs
"Jaue Eyre" which is 70 he brought ont by Robert
NIindsay OF Philadelphia, will be ready in about q
fortnight. The paper, far as specimen page
shows Is excellent The type is large and hand
some the margins broad and the size convenient
A newly etched portrait and eight other lHustra-
tons etched from authentic drawings Of scenes de
scribed in the book have been prepared for this cd-
ton Only five hundred copies viii De issdcd, and
alI will be numbered Scventy-Gve Of these copies
will he printed on Whatmals papervith duplicate
signed proofs of the etchings Japan paper II Is
a pity that this Is not to be IN edition Of all Miss
Brontgs works instead Of one of her first novels
only.
Lord Cranbrook, IN a memorandum Of converse
tions with Christopher North written forty years
ago and lately Published, quotes North as saying
concerning Wordsworth: HE was too dlguhed
and self-dependent a character for Coendge who
always required sympathy, and probably has eN-
pressed his feelings in the description o. friend
with which he concludes Johu Anderson. Words
worth could not sufficiently bend TO this weakness.
which he thought uumanly, and hence the es-
arrangement, though Wordsworth still loved Cole
ridge as did COlcridge him. 1t was this weakness,
and not PRIDE OF vanity, which led HIM to delight