New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-23
LITERARY NOTES.

uo,.h Tho Grandfather of the young gentle
- SO. .rcceeded Mr. John Foster Kirk as eoitor
80 r,nnincott's Magazine substantial ou. no'
,rarlv brilliant journalist in the early DAYS y, .r
e,u The Mr. Walsh of to-day Is known oino"'
= :, yvu,,ar sbepardn the compiler OF o'Veis s0n"-
literary semipersonal and not very important
1y,s REORGANIZATION of the magazine wln 10 80
-, 1900 Under the editorshp OF Mr. hrk IL mas
-, un,tormv entertaining mot ambitious aha'9 U0"-
or philosophic, but always amusing
A., ,,oeot,,s bopraphies of his father and motoer,
che famous South African missionaries ho"'i.
Mar Mo0at. will be pnblished in LONDON iOi
hence.
IT, ,.to NJ Tboms coined the word folklore
nd once wrote it thus on the back of his portraits
II YOU would faih know more
OF him whose photo here IS
He coined the word folklore
And started Notes and QUERIES
Tho attempt to fix the authorship OF 'no -
po,na - stories upon the late H. d. Is so'"''a
chat she would probably not thank the paraE,
Coz To saw truth, these stories were 1nileuso'1
- ard were the subjects of much skiiiui anu HUI
a little absurd advertising
,,.pr Browne. the Editor of The Chicago Dal''
q nrenaring collection of poems OF tue o"n 80
- White Stokes g. Allen will bring out th 10
30 called Bugle Echoes" The same nrin n"' -
,ros. GOOD and decidedly cheap edition OF fleiunS
.,ora,s and a little volume OF Sir John -oucAnns
poems.
Mr. Dickens is going to publish an almanac IN con-
..oo,;or with his All The Year Round" LII Is W o "
entertaining production and will bear tne a''
ellie of " All The Year Round: an UnconVeh''0n"i
Almanac"
ARev. W. D. Mahan, of BoOnvile' Mo- Is accuSer
nv The st. Louis Republican" OF publishing DVvn
an the Archaeological and Historical winnings Vi 'ne
TalmudsD which consists in great ine"Suio v
material stolen fom General Lew "a1'"'0'
Hur."
A correspondent of " Notes and queries susses"
.,.. NJ Rnskiu's name is derived from " rus-reo Pr
ronxl and the diminutve ending kin anu '"sv 'A'
meaning of his name is therefore Little keoneau'
"A Great American Novel " is the title OF revle"
4, Z" The Pail Mall Gazette" of Mr.. HoWenss mise
of slas Iaphamr The reviewer calls the doom '"0
.,uh- ,ater mark of Mr. How ellss great and unique
nbotoqraphic genius" The author. the English eilnc
declares, is beyond dispute great artist, a.oNH
.nd nv Gradual tentative stages even we Fhli'Stine
r0olisb noonle are beginning with grudgng reiuc-
.aroo to nerceiye IT, The extreme delicacy ana hgnV
ress of his humor tie exqustely evanescent aroma u
his truly native genius, have prevented sohu' so
bard-headed race, brought up on Ueel anu oeei az.
Dickens from readily approaching the u"i' " ,
s;o+pess and cracefuness of his mastery touch we
are rs nation too slow and heavy to rise at once 10 e
airv little bait he bangles cevery and iantascaiS
before u.s. And then, too. he has resoluleiy "n'
sternIy set hts face against that last superstition VI VIC
aa,t aoos that a novel must necessarily base nseh
mon fact or incident utterly unusual IN ORDINARY io
The interest of his xorks is entirely dependent upon
che fc that every Incident and every COW ersaton
might really and easily have happened in the actuai
world a. we practically know it, His system Is un-
vanished naturalism, but naturalism OF a heatny'
sensible. wholesome kind. He has discovered that
great raipter. with a wonderful gift for texture ana
detail NAV paint something besides horrors
and nastinesses- may use his skill upon
delicate portraits of pure women ana sohu
men may represent life itself, not its occasional ugly
morbid excrescenccs.'
This English critic goes to assert that TIE mover
of pure character is the novel of the future Is Inc
direction in which all romance has been perpe'uauy
travelling, aud toward which it still guaduaHy
trayels With each half century we are progressively
shocked at the clumsy devices, the palpable unFeay'
the crude and stale machinery Of the preceding age
We get moro and more realistic and analytic we care
less and less for the bare plot the impossible ep'ode
the terrific encounters, of the older novellsts
"Ihe illustrated Nautical Polyglot is the title OF
work compiled by j. C. Coke. and valuable com
pendulum of sail and steam vessels TO all VINO may DC
interested In the description of bulls sails rigging and
spars of deep-water craft. 1t contains IN Enghsh'
snanish French, Italian. German and Scandinavian
full technical descriptions of all classes Of sailing ships
steamer hulls engines, boilers, wndlasses etc, with
illustrations of all their parts carefully numbered to
correspond With the description The work is hand
somely bound in cloth in atlas style. seventeen by
thirteen inches.