New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-19
LITERARY NOTES.

The publisher of Walt Whitmans WORKS ueoi"'''
that they are having an excellent SALE
There is one official in great English library VINO
knows how 10 do a pleasant thing distinguished
novelist ono day received package containing an
accordingly worn and soled copy of one OF MS own
stories With 1t came letter from the librarian
explaining that he had sent the book to snow ,'S
snthor how much his work was appreciated IN 'ne
provinces.
German biography of Shelley has just been
published in Berlin by II. Druskowitz an Austrlai'
writer
Mr. George H. Boughton's new series OF Arus.
Strolls in Holland" will he begun in the August
number of Harper. Engravngs from MS U|"
drawings and from those of +. A. AbOeS anu % -
Rogers will illustrate the series.
Colonel Hicginsons excellent papers on American
history will be concluded in the July nuhoci Vi
Harper. c..,.,o,, 20
Thousand dollars is offered nv The Con"ne' 10
that clever reader who shall guess correctly an ln'
names of the writers of the series OF ShCir So
now annearinp ANONYMOUSLY in that puoIlc"''"'
The money will probably not change hahuS' o"'
long and painful will be the efforts made 10 "
Madame Blanche Roosevelt's new novel Oh stag
Struck will be brought out here Immediately ny
Fords Howard & Hubert.
Coleridge's tragedy of Remorse" was recently
reeited in a London hall by professional re"uei
who had committed the whole to memory ~
nroved TO be very dull entertainment the
audience were not once interested or e1ci'eu
II &c said that the American publishers OF the
schaff- Herzog," Encyclopedia OF Religious hhowl
edge have paid to the German contributors 10 INC
original German edition moro for the use OF theH
articles than was paid for their use In that oilgh
edition. n.
The new novel by j. S. of Dale-otherwise MI
Frederick Stimson-which the Scribners are apou'
10 bring out is called Henry Nane"
Mr. Stimson suggests as title for the mover
which he is writing in conjunction WIN MI
Wbeelricht. Mr.. O'Reilly and Mr.. Grant either
"Eonr IN Hand and Two-in-the- Bush" or " The
Fifth GEORGE Mr. Wheelright wants to call II
"Tbe Middle of Next Week." or Hard Lines"
Mr. Grant PROPOSES The Wreck of Dream" OF
"Friyolity in the Twentieth Century :" and MI
OReillv suggests a Fearful Woman" These
titles are said to convey good idea OF the STORY
Mr. Andrew Lang in making many words about
MFR. Besants lecture on fiction says that 1t is nara
10 generalize about any art. " MI Besant, Nc
saw, added another TO the many British stones
II have thrown few MYSELF which cucumber the
cairn of the unfortunate Mr.. Howells. ms popu-
lar writer once said in his haste that all the Stories
have been told, and implied that modern fiction
of Thackeray) went in mainly for observation and
ANALYSIS of character-for pictures of life in short
MIR. Besant stood up as Justify as Mr. Louis Steven
son for the excellence of stories We all wish both
of them more power and are ready to welcome
more stories as good as The New Arabian Nights
md This Son of Vulcan To my own taste, tho
story is the thing, and prefer. for sheer sensual
enjoyment, book like Margot La Baafree to
all the Bostonian nymphs whoever rejected Engilsh
dukes for psychological reasons But, TO be falr IL
isamatter of taste A novel is q picture of life;
many people like the picture TO represent SILL llfe
or as the French put it, nature mOrte All sorts OF
fiction in fine are good, except the wearisome Sort
Story or no story personal knowledge ormere guess
work selection or 'naturalism,' romance OF real
ism thieves slang picked adjectives-all are
good if they amuse us, and waken, as Mr.. Besant
said. onr sympathy with men, and take us out of
ourselves and away from this world of trouble"
The majority of the letters written from Ham
by Napoleon III. to his fOster-sister, Nine. Cornu
contain VI. Rcnan says, nothing more interesting
than the request that this that book might be
sent him, and like things There arefew references
TO politics The letters will he published next year.
w. H. Mallock's Property and Progress" is just
coming from the press of q. +. Putnams sons. The
author discusses Mr.. Georges theories in Pro gress
and Poverty"
His Majesty Norodom l., King of Cambodia, has
jssued decree announcing that "for services rem
dered TO our country, Colonel Thomas W. Knox OF
New.York, United States of America, has been ore
eted an officer of our Royal Order" The diploma is
on a sheet of yellow parchment nearly two 1eet
square Side by side with the decree in the Cam
bodian language is French translation OF 1t, the
latter bearing the seal and signature o. the Gov
ernOr of Cochin-China. Accompanying the docu-
ment was a letter from the Governor informing the
,oo;n;ant that tbe honor was intended an
acknowledgment of tie faithful description OF
Cambodia in the second volume of 1.-The Boy
Travellers in the Far East