New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-10-25
LITERARY NOTES.

King Oscar Of Sweden e ABOUT to mako notable
contribution to the series of works by royal authors
He has been for several years engaged upon book
dealing with European events between 1903 and ls'2
and this Will be published in the spring.
Arebdoscon Farrars new volume Of " Sermons and
Addresses" will shortly be brought from tie press OF
z. p. DuttCn Co.
CHM Company's series Of classics for children viii
be enlarged next month by the publication Of SCOTS
" Talisman." edited by Dwight lloibrook The saiLe
house is bringing out the Introduction TO lthe
Language and Verse of Homer" by Professor Seymour
of Yale.
Miss May Lafan, the author Of Hog NJ. p" ard
clever novelist who should write more books hos just
published in England "A Singers Story which is
| described as admirable work.
That industrious WI or, Robert Buchanan is about
| to publish new novel called The Master OF the
Mine"
Those who still believe that the author of Henry
Esmond " was greater writer than the small fish who
swim to-day in the waters of fiction viii be glad to
read what Andrew Lang writes in letter to the shade
of Thackeray "In what other novelist" he asks,
since Scott was down by the burden of orlorn
endeayor and died for honOr's sake, has the world
found so many of the faires gifts combined II we
may not call you poet or the first OF English writers
of light verse did not seek that CROWN who that was
less than poet lite with glance 80 keen as
YOURS so steady, and SO sanei Your pathos
| cheap your laughter never forced; your sigh was
never the pulpit trick of the preacher Your funny
people-your Costigans and FOkers-were not mere
characters Of trick and catch-word. were not empty
comic masks Behind each the human heart was
beating; and and again we were allowed to see
the features of the Thus fiction in your hands
tltarb tf4
slant reflection OF the whole surface Of life reT Gated
echo of its laughter and its complaint Others have
written and not written badly, with the stolid pro-
fssonal regularity of the clerk at his desk you, like
the Scholar Gypsy might have said that " 1t needs
heaven sent moments for this skill" There are. 1t will
not surprise you, some honorable women and a few
men who call you cynic; who speak of the Uthered
world OF Ihackeray and satire :; who think your eyes
were ever turned the sordid aspects of lifeo the
mother n-law who threatens to take away her silver
bread basket; to the intriguer, the sneak, the
termagant to the Beckys, and Barnes Newcomes and
Mrs Mackenzes of this world. The quarrel of these
sentinentalsts is really with life, not with you they
might as wisely blame Monsieur Button because there
are snakes in his Natural History. Had you not
impaled certain noxious human insects, you would
have better pleased Mr.. Ruskin; had you confined
yourself to such performances, you would have been
more dear 10 he Neo Balzacan sci DOL in fiction You
are accused of Devr having drawn a good woman who
was not doll, but the ladies that bring this charge
seldom remind us either OF Lady Castewood or Of
Theo or Hetty Lambert. The best pardon
YOU Becky Sharp and Blanche Amory they find II
harder to forgive you Emmy sedlcy and Helen
Pen dennis Yet what does not know IN his heart
that the best women -God bless them lean in their
characters either to the sweet passivcness of Emmy
or 10 the sensitive aud jealous affections OF Helen
lis Heaven, not you, that made them SO and they
are easily pardoned both for being very little lower
than the angels and for their gentle ambition to be
painted by Guido Guerclno with wings and
harps and haloes."
On Wednesday Of last week five of the abest writers
among the Harvard undergraduates put forth new
literary venture entitled d" The Harvard Monthly"
These five writers are A. b. HOughon recently chosen
as class poet of the class of 1886 G.. r. Carpenter W.
M. Fullerton, T. r. Sanb0rn, class day odist of the
class of 1886 and G.. Santayana 1t is hoped by the
projectors that to write for the Harvard Monthly -
will in the future introduction to the world OF
letters 1t is their intention to publish every month
article by prominent graduate in this first num-
ber the article is by Mr.. Barrett Wenc ell, Of
the instructors in English and author of the well
known story " The Duchess Amelia" The magazine
presents also short story by John S. Phillips of the
class of 49, who Is studying at LEIPZIG; article
by c. o. Hurd, SO the iaaces in logic of Poe's
" Murders in the Rue Morgue" ~; and sketch of the
Jesuits by j. G. Sinnot of 81 T. p. sanborn, SO
gives poem of two stanzas G. Santayana SO, con-
tributes somewhat melancholy sonnet, whose bur.
den is would that my thought might live and might
diei'; there is q Song OF the Noun tain by w. A.
Leahy Of aud there is also ballad In honor of the
memory of Don Quixote by A. b. Hougbton, $50.
GOOD LITERATURE TAXING THBlPLAOE OF BAD
, One of the most active and Efficient helpers in
THE TRIBUNE Air Work for years has
Mrs A. Pratt no is the nstron Of the West Side