New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-11-01
The two concluding volumes of Nh. Courthopes
edition of Pope viii be published next month.

The two concluding volumes OF Mr.. Courthopes
edition of Pope will be Published next month.
The literary critic of Z" The London Daily News"
thinks that the modern novepeader has perhaps been
spoilsa by prosperity. Dickens, Thackery, George
Eliot Charles Reade and Trollope all alive, and
all busy at once not &C very many years ago. We miss
them az is but natural and hardly that their places
have been filed Without being ungrateful to some
contemporaries for the pleasures which their humor or
tenderness or powers OF telling good exciting story
have Afforded we may yet grant that they nave created
comparatively few immortal characters, few OF the
people who like ThacSerays and Dickenss men become
friends and companions, and whose names are mousse
hold words 1t may seem prggish as wen Us uhsra'o
full to add that pleasant contemporaries nave ho
mixed with their fiction much of that wise ana huinor
Gus criticism of life which we find In 1hackerays
prose- and Fieldngs; which is not to be overlooked
in Cerv anes and which isoften present George sand
Nor il great deeacy and certainty of STYLE exquisite
polish of manner and refinement OF VIII the most
notable characteristic of the best contemporary
fiction nor az ain has it much poetry mingled with its
naqes We would not be understood to censure-it
takes all sorts to make national school of fiction as
well as TO make world and every genre is good except
the tedious genre But the qualities least conspicuous
in each seasons precisely the qualities
which romance should have if it is to take permanent
place in literature"
Mr. FreeInans monograph on William the Con-
queror is coming from the press.
Mr. S. G. W. Benjamin has used his diplomatic ex-
periencs to such good purpose that he is now writing
book on the Persia OF Today"
Walter Besant has said of Charles Stuart Calyercy
1--WE were quite persuaded that Caverley had only to
name the particular pinnacle which he proposed to
stand for the admiration the world and that it would
be at once set aside and reserved tor him like sta at
the theatre" Yet this with remarkable powers
and unusual chances in life did nothing but write few
lively verses. He athlete of whose feats ms
frieuds do not tire of talking. Leaping" says a
biographer was his strong point. He went at a
four foot wall with drop OF twelve feet on the other
side missed it and fell his head went at 1t again IN
stantly and cleared it with ease He cleared flight
of steps OF twentyone feet oblique measurement ana
nine feet drop On foot and dressed in cap and gown
he Jumped over horse; feat which held iBcred-
lille when Lever made of his heroes perform 1t on
horseback he cleared hedge without looking before
he leaped and found himself dropping into well on
the other side from which he managed TO save himself
by the skin of his teeth His intellectual eats were OF
the same order He turned passage from Shakes care
into Greek iambcs in the time it took schoolieow
to dictate the lines to him. Having neglected to pre-
pare Latin theme he improvsed one Wien satished
his tutor pretending to read it from Manuscript BOOK
which was in reality blank. Being ordered 10 learn
the first book OF the Iad imposition tor having
his candle alight after hours he reighted the Tor
bdden dip and got it all by heart in single night"