New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-08-16
LITERARY NOTES.

LITERARY NOlLO
mrhs Current will shortly present paper pre-
n.r.a nv ono of the most prominently known oanR
nre.;aents of tho wcst, which will discuss the always
tn,sro.,ng oucstions "Why is Money Scarce v anu
81 Where has the Money GoneP
Mr.. Phillip Gilbert uamcrtcn will publish during
aha au,umu volume entitled Landscape an I'M
technical treatise on landscape in nature, literature ana
ar, Illustrated with engravngs, etchings and photo
gravures.
David Mckay n Philadelphia publisher announces
The Confessions of iIermes and Other Poems" by
Paul iIermes. for September L.
Mrs Henry Pott, Appleton Morgan, r. NJ. Theobald
IN descendant Of tho famous Shakespoarean editor and
p,hors took steps in London last month TO organize
Paco Shakespearesu Society to be composed OF mem
bore believing in other than Shakospearcan author
,hp Of tho Plays and Poems About 100 pcrsons we're
present at the preliminary meeting OF the society VINO"
proposes To hold regular meetings aud print the papers
road before Il ON the model Of Mr. Furnyalls New
Shakespeare Society
GP putnam's Sons viii issue at once In their IranS'
atlantic Serics s,ory entitled The World We Live
In" NV Oswald Crawiurd author of Portugal, Old
and Nav which has received favorable attention
from the London critics. Tho Spectator" says of
IL. "Thi. biz lttlo book Is like u coujurors bottle
thora Ia IN a sip of something for everybody
Tho talk IL oxoeont that know the takers, and
make mental portraits of them"
Thomas Whitaker has in press volume of poems
by j. Hazard IIartzol ID. ID. entitled Wanderings on
Parnassus;" also new volume by Bishop Oxenden,
late Metropola of Canada, dealing with the Christian
life in practical way. Its title will be Touchstones
or Christian Graoes and Characters Tested both
will be ready September l.
"The Saturday Review" has this TO say of Thoreau:
hta aInpO
closely and look over his shoulder he sets about his
Intellectual labor. The position of Thoreau in htera-
urc is curious one and not TO be easily cassed lie
ls not so much independent influence, as his Ameri
can admirers hold him TO be- link in a long chain
of influences. He is acted upon directly by Elmer
and acts directly upon Walt Whitman that 1t is
difficult to read him aud lie instantly and constantly
reminded of those writer's and of the minor satel
tes of the Concord system As is the case with all the
members Of that school, with the leader HIMSELF the
simplicity of Thoreau is too emphatic to be perfectly
Natural. He affects to be unaffected with too much
stress and intellectual hustle, and he reminded of
startling things in an unprecedented connection too
consciously leave the reader in that condition of
mental calm which he desiderates. Here for instance
rom the present volume, is reelection which is apt to
provoke a smile. The constant inquiry which Nature
puts is Are you virtuous Then you behold me-.
Beauty fragrance. music. sweetness and joy of all
tnds are for the virtuous. That ] thought when /
heard the telegraph harp today" This is an admira
ole example of what ia reast delightful in Thoreau
The thought 10 elaborate. and yet false. There is no
real connection between the singing of the telegraph
wires and tho question Are yen virtuous" The eX-
preston is naive in and yet fantastic substance
II born Of self conscious subety not Of the wisdom
Of simplicity 1t is founded. moreover, ThOreaus
exaspcrating fondness for contemplating his own
virtue his moral vanity unparalleled outside of the
igous systems, and formed of his chief
literary faults.
George Temple the writer whose appears on
HE title page of Lancclot Howard NJ P," dedicates
Tho book to Walter Besant. novelist, in grateful |
recognition of much literary kindness"
Mr. Henry James, Tales of Three Cities 4" and his
athers work on Spiritual Creation " will shortly
come out together from a wcll-known house
The Amazon an art novel by Carl Vosnacr from the
Dutch by L. j. Irving with irontispiece 10y Alma Tad
tma X. A." is published to-day by William $. Gottsber
ger of this city Georg Ebers contributes preface in
which he writes: Among the poets who never over
step the limits of probability and yet aspire to realize
The IDEAL IN whose works breathe purer air, who
have power to enthra and cxat the readers soul to
stimulate aud enrich his mind we must number the
sethcrlandcr Nosmacr'
Mr. Henry r. Wharton, NJ A., Of Wudham College,
Oxford purposes TO publish early in the autumn little
solumc Sappho. Ii will consist of two parts 6rst
imemoir giving popular account of all the facts
known about Sappho second the original text of every
fragment of her writings that has come down to Us,
tgether with literal prose translation, and all The
best rendcrugs into English that have been made
Of them. Mr.. j. A. Symonds has contributed moro
Than dozen ronderngs, IN the original metre of all
the longer and better known pieces.
Tho Paris correspondent Of" Tho Boston Transcript
In the course ola notice Of Octave Fcuillets "1he
widow makes this observation " lts author pass
Ing to-day through phase experienced by almost oll
writers who have written much The public which
has followed them from tho brilliant outset Of their
career, and them slowly develop before its eyes,
no longer expects anything now from them. They
have given their best; know thoroughly their
forms and methods and feel for them love not unlike
the tender but rife nonchaant, affection of hus
band towards the wife in whose nature twenty years
of married life have left longer any mysteries tor
him"