St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-12
LITERARY NOTES.

LhEEkA RG NOTES.
The Knight of the Black Forest, by Grace
Denis LitchGeld. is the best work of a
promising novelist and stnry-writer. The
scene Of the novel can be learned from its
title. The knight i 4 handsome young
German count. who breaks the heart of a
confirmed iliTt The story Is bright and
pleasant, and forms agreeable summer read
ing.
Owen Meredith's'' new poem. Glen
aniel. viii not have as many. readers as
his Lucille. Ii Is an ambitious poem.
now publishing in parts b. ID. Appleton x
Co. The measure is ByrOnic, and the
poem suggests Byron. with strong infu-
sion of Lord Lytton'S politics. The alines
sOnnetic are often defective, but the story
in verse. with its digreSsiOns, will be
found readable, even if It cannot be called
highly poetic. The basis of the poem is a
curious subject for metrical treatment. Ii
concerns the infant sons of an English peer
and of 4 German parSOn. and they mixed
their babies un.- A ''specimet brick OF
Lord LyttOn's style Is found in his deScrip-
of Maud Mcleod, 1.-THE great Scotch
heiress:'
And she could dance and fiirt the livelong
night,
Yet keep the rose stin fresh in her young
check;
Discuss the style OF Miiton's prose with Bright,
Or rally Gladstone upon Homer's Greek.
Welded. she would have been a social light
Whose guidance Fashion had been forced TO
seek.
Or, loves gay Pyrrha, ruled that pleasant
cave.
And won Wing hearts from sprightly Waldo
grave
In ceremonial hours so stately she,
That all averred that she was extremely fit
For an atubaSSadreSS: yet could she he
The soul OF frolic when she fancied it;
Serious enough. with Stanhope after tea
To criticise the character OF Pitt;
Lively enough, to laugh at Osborne's jokes,
And bet with young 81. Leger on the Oaks!
The following description refers TO Lord
Salisbury, the present English premier:
Tho born the scion of a house that boasts
Historic title 10 its rich domains,
Long while about the obscure and bitter
coasts
OF that bleak land where Wants chill win
ter reigns.
The hardest laborer of those struggling hosts
Who daily dig for bread its stubborn plains,
His sad youth toiled, and from its toll hath
wrought
To enrich his manhood, treasures dearly
bought"
IAN English heart with high-born ardors rife,
Fervid as Fox. but national as Pitt,
And thar. for cause. miStrusted by time
When 10 be national is deemed a crime"
Gen. Longstreet. in his article on ''The
Seven Days Fighting about Richmond" in
the July Century. after discussing the Con-
federate leaders. says: Without doubt the
greatest man of rebellion times, the one
matchless among forty millions for the pc
culiar difficulties of the period, was Abra-
ham Lincoln"
Few things are more fascinating in their
way than a study Of the subteTranean his
tory of man. whether in caves or in
mounds, whether il be TO confederate
written history or to take testimony
that ante-dates all writing. President
Bartlett of Dartmouth contributes an
interesting article on this topic to
the July number of the North American
Review. From the men of unknown ages
and their work underground. to men Crap
ping with the latest questions of our own
day and discussing the parceling out of the
earths surface. Is long step, but III the
same number of the Review appears a con-
Henry George on land and taxation. Another
urgent question. which may soon make a
very serious issue. the extradition of dyna-
mite criminals. is debated by President An
CELL of Michigan university. George Tick
nor Curtis and Justice T. VI. Cooley. Dor
man B. Eaton. chief OF the civil service
commission. gives his views If the results
OF that reform.
In Down the Ravine Charles Egbert
Craddock displays all the wonderful power
Of picturesque description which have
marked this writer as one of the most
charming and original of American story
writers. Down the Rayine is hardly
more than a sketch. yet it is as true
TO life, as full of detail, as a larger
and more ambitious picture. The story is
of the struggles of poor boy who finds
iron pYTiteS and thinks il is gold. Convey
ing his discovery TO fellow. the latter
makes all haste to pre-empt the land FOR
himself. OF the mental torment of the
boy who sees this done and vet is
unable to stop what he thinks is the loss OF
a fortune. owing to his being compelled 10
work hard and constantly tn support his
mother. is set forth with cOnsummate skill
that Will commend the story to older people
than the children for whom it was first
written.
William Il. jenkins, New York. has Just
issued an original French story of Italian
life in New York, written by Professor
L. d. Ventura. well-knOwn teacher of
languages in Philadelphia. 1t is entitled
''Peppino. and constitutes number five of
the pretty French series of COnteS Choisis.
John b. Seden of New York has issued
Ohifer Die.a one of the most attractive OF
recent volumes Of essays, in a very con-