New-York tribune., 1884-11-24
LITERARY NOTES.

=. ,,,,,,. p.ot bas written o novel entitled
.,,,.... ua..,ery the first chapters of which will
=, Tho January number of "Longmans
rIra-,o, As the story is also to appear in ' Har-
80 Bazarp the American edition of the magazine
may suffer.
Mr. Black, by the way, says that he makes 1t RUE
nowadays not to read reviews OF any oil h's BOOKS.
This is no doubt wise piece of sefdenal so lar az On
authors feelings his satisfaction In his work. arc COL"
cerncd but might he not sometimes learn sohc'h'"g
from un,reiudced criticisms Few novcsts are, after
all, intallible.
Professor Freeman has written some papers on
"Child-Iiie Thousand Years Ago. Tor inc
Youth's Companion ~; and Max Muller has prepared for
tbe same nuLlication articles the "Cuhtvation oi
Memory"
Uouchton. Miain g. Co. have provided some hand
somey decorated calendars for 1SS5-all OF them quite
attractive enough for Christmas gifts. Holiness
Emerson Longiellow and Whittier are the poets whose
writings contribute their graces to these pretty tribes
Mr. Ruskn in one Of his recent lectures informed h''
audience that his former distinction between fancy
and imagination was unnecessary, these are diicr
enccs in degree not in kind. young fellow VINO iaiis
In love with girl is correctly described as taking
fancy 10 her but II he loved her rightly he ought 10
be said to take imagination to her. Aosether' 'hc
Professor had good deal to say on this pleasing SUD
,ect He mentioned, for instance that one could LOOK
At Girl until he believed her angel because al her
best she was one but he could not look at cockchafe
until he believed il girl" That is the sort oil way
they lecture at Oxford in these days.
.The Dalr of Chicago maintains its high character
ne literary journal, singuary free from prejudice
MIR Stedman has said of it 1t Is at TINS moment III
my opinion the scundcst most dignied and credtaoie
literary journal in America The tone and standard Of
III tlnpai 10 IAN
and an absence Of iiippancy and assumption about The
Dial witch commend IL to the judicious
Mr.. Julian Ilawthornes biography of his father has
been cordially received by English critics. "Ihe Lon
don Tunes says that Mr.. hawthorne approaches his
task In a manly spirit and with robust reliance upon
his fathers character as q whole including lie deiec's
M well ~ its many and unusual e1ceiiences' Inc
work IL by no means conceived In spirit OF excessive
landatcn aud its psychological and human value
will be oil the greater In consequence" " Inc
STANDARD" In reviewing the book declares that
the opinion steadily grove that Nathaniel Hawthorne
T. the ,aost considerable literary pctsonaee the United
k,atos have ~ yet Produced Fiopapy noeo"y WIZ
question that statement,
NE h, =. Roe w,itcs 20 tho Editor of"lhc Literary
Wor,dp "Who over tho reviewer OF my latest novel
may be- freely acknowledge HIS right to crticiHo my
booLa with the peveryo 10 condemn them alto
rether bu, ho has no right TO say of INC or my friends
What Ia unjust and untrue, Tho reviewer In Your
c,,umns wntesf; We understand that Mr.. Roes own
er,u ,te Of his novels Is privately expressed to his
friends la about this language don't think they
amount 70 very much, but they seem to sell pretty
weIin' Permit me 10 say that If, animated by the
spirt you suggest, spoke In this vein to those who
honor me with their friendship they would not remain
friends do not think that of them would tolerate
a man who tried TO palm off for money what he re-
garded as comparatively worthless and am at loss
to know how you have been led to understand that
/ privately express myself in a way that would
slenate any person of and sclfrespect do not
know what my books amount TO. Time and the pnohc
will settle that question: