New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-17
LITERARY NOTES

LIlEnAhI NOAG
- .c,. Too. .,orv IL a long and more ambi-
tous work than anything its late author had previously
written.
Mr. Lowell, 1t lie reported VIII 'N'N'
work upon his Hawthorne"
.ovr..nondent of The Pail Mall Gazette writes
"Apropos of Frank Buckands lie, tnere !" an
.mn.,ng story current of his father the Dean who
-, on a Wait TO Nuneharn, was shown casket
containing what was esteemed most precious rehc'
tbe heart of one of the early French kings NO sooner
Xas the casket opened than, to the upspeaKape hoio
of the owner. Dean auckland bounced upon the reno
and instantly gobbled 1t upl He had pass'n '''
aiming the flavor of everything he came across
and never having tasted kings heart, the temptation
- too stronu 10 be resisted He is SAID to have eaten
through the whole of the animal kingdom anu
ayerred that, though mole was somewhat o'S"sioe-
able the worst creature of all to tackle was oue
bottle fy subsequently he went out OF his mihu anu
crawled about the deauery ON his stomach, iancyis
himself an icthyosaurus. In which condition. said
his son so the story he was 'ar moio
than he had ever been before"
Mr.. Howard Seeey recent graduate OF Yale ana
former Editor of 1.-THE Yale Literary Magazine" Is
about to publish volume entitled, A Lone o'ar Do-
peep and Other Tales of Texan Ranch Lie"
Victor Hugo" which Will be puohsned In i"' N''''
tecnth Century"
High Conway wrote Called Back" in ten weeks and
received for it the of $4,000. Mr. Arrowsmth the
pubher saws that he brought out the story In royal
Svo edition of some ninety pages. sit simply fell nat
as ditch water printed of this edition in November
5000 copies and despite the fact that it was published
at Cd. few-mserably few-were Sold during TINS
period of depression used to be irrated oy the day
cheerfuness of Fargus OF course, he had no risk ID
the venture whatever and could afford to come around
to my office and gleeiuy speculate as to what theh
sadly deemed to be gross improbabities His 'ah III
the ultimate popularity of Called Back was 30
remarkably unalterabe that sometimes was tempted
70 take courage and join him in his wanderngs IN the
cir castles Of success And was not long before his
,ropbecies were realized. BY some good fortune Mr.
Comyns Carr had the book placed in his hands as one
tkcly to move his dramatic instincts 1t is reported
that that gentleman went sleep In searching for the
merits of the story But that was In the evening
Next morning he made further essay, and was at
length so capvated by its richness OF incident that
he telegraphcd straight away to Fargus with whom ne
was intimately proposition to coaborate with him In
dramatizing it. Almost simultaneously London
paper saw in the book what all the world has dls
covered In it Then the futter me-" went on
Mr.. Arrowsmith with evident satisfaction. "On the
ordering Called Backs The early edition was prac-
fcaly unrea chable SO resolved to get up the
volume in new-and its present form Naturally, as
a provincial house. my productive power was then
limited but by supreme effort got up he type In a
week. stereotyped the pages NEARLY ZOO and mad oil
my machines running on the novel night and DAY. Inc
demand became enormous, and was at my wits ends
TO meet it, l had first one new machine laid down,
then sent to the makers in oil haste for another then
another and another" The book has been translated
into Dutch, Spanish, Italian French, German and
Swedish.
Monsieur Paul Blouet-otherwise Max ORell-is
setting forth in his book the best sides OF the
English and French characters. He has resigned his
anastership in st. Pauls School and will probably
devote himself to literary pursuits.
Mr. Ruskn is, as the first chapter of his Autobiog-
raphy just published set, forth, son of wine mer-
chant His maternal grandmother was the landady OF
the " Old Kings Head" at Croydon, and her husband
was sailor His mother tried to make an evangelical
minister of little John in this endeavor forcing him by
daily toll learn long chapters OF the Bible by
heart "To that discipline patient accurate and reso
luter saws Mr. Ruskn, ." 1 owe not only much OF my
general power of taking pains but the best part OF my
taste in literature. Once knowing the 32d OF Deuteron
omy the 10Th Psalm the 18th OF LIST Corinthians, the
Sermon ON the Mount aud most of the Apocalypse
every syllable by leart, and having always way OF
thinking with myself what words meant, 1t was not
possible for me- even In the foolshcst times OF youth
to write entirely superficial formal English, and the
afectation of trying to write like Hooker and George
Herbert was the most innocent could have fallen
into" The author adds that the great accomplishment
of his childhood sermon preached at home over
the red sofa cushions and beginning with People, be
good"
1t is reported that the circulation OF "The North
American Review" under the management OF Mr.
Thorndike Rice, has reached $4,000 copies.
Mrs. e. l. Filley. the wife of the St. Louis politician
of that name is said to be the author popular
anonymous novels.
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