New-York tribune., 1885-02-18
LITERARY NOTES.

. wit, q; so;d 70 have found the original or at ieas'
.,o snoosstion. of Sam Weller in Samuel 'aie pup
r,or Iow.comedy actor whom he saw IN MS 9ou,n'
,-a,.s cnaint comparisons which form also oho VI Wv.
lu,,,rs of Sam Weers conversational ior which n''
ovcr,day talk was distinguished, were iavshiy n'ro
ueed bv the actor into his part, and maze uiS'"0,
hit .,oone those which have been recorded we ina
,befol wing a. Come on, the man SAID 10 lne'S"'
Iootr WHY, here we are all mustered as the roaS'
beof said TO the Welsh rabbit; "'WheIe sha" We
Nv "a tbe bullet said to the trigger" kio" inc
,ro,l3 .s the monkey said when he cut on MS 'an
.Tlre she is musical and melancholy, as the ct'cAe'
said 10 the tea-kettie
Mr. Ieonowenss hook " Life and Travel in India
will be brought out Immediately by Porter Coates
Mr.. Charles A. Danas beautiful collection OF Chinese
norcelains is to be described with ilustraohS III 'o
April :" Harper"
The contrast between what happens to man IN ra'is
ond what happens to him in London If he is brilliant
Itterateur is says "The London Standard marAcu
and striking " In Paris he becomes power in
London he remains curiosity, Anotorious oooA may
in our metropolis make people talk OF the autnor lor
short time But unless he has some other credentials.
he is rapidly forgotten, is there any oriei lerVa
during which the whole of London equivalent TO that
tout Paris interests itself about him. In iact'
there ia no whole of London in that sense. London
Soclety as any can see who reads some ol our
wcekv contemporares-consists Of Princes. Peers and
Peeresses people with yachts, persons who give oaS
and professional beauties. man may have written
very clever book and live, and move and have his
beinp among these people, If he does however, IL Is
mt he has written the book but for some other
reason The tone of London Society is not gwen oy
clever people, but partly by people OF br'h ana pafy
nv people with money 1t is a Society amusing itself
In o costly, vulgar, and purely material way. real
man of letters Will belong to such world but spar
ingly no matter how open it may be to him ana IL Is
open to him only condition that he snail SINK MS
d,aerentia, and act and be substantially like the
majority. Nor is the political world any more CON
genial or open to him. a rule. than the social world
Ifh wants to belong intimately to the political world
he must 90 into the House of Commons"
Il; neosant to record the fact that Zoas novel
has fallen hat in Franceit attracts absolutely no at
tentiOn.
In Germany last year 15,6o7 works we're published
beng about eighty more than during the previous
year.
Professor GEORGE Ebers's romance, Scraps" has
been translated by Clara Bell and will be published
here by w. S. Gottsberger.
Joseph Knight holds that physical fatigue is more
easily overcome than intellectual fatigue men who
follow any intellectual pursuit need more sleep than
others and are exceptionally fortunate II the processes
Of restoration occupy less than hours. Goethe
owned to requiring nne Soldiers and sailors On the
other hand like aboIers do with much less quantity
$500 " writes to " The London Times y" 4
rather strange chance had made me aware that Miss
Evans was George Eliot but kept the information TO
myself Some time after | saw paper handed about
at friends house. which my host told me was sub
sc-pton list in favor of one Joseph Mggin] whom the
parties active in its promotion declared to bo not only
the author of George Eots works, but that he was in
deep poverty and had been paid in a most nggardlJ
way by his publisher. mildly suggested to a lady OF
rank who was active in the matter that she was alto
gether mistaken and that felt certain this man had
never written one word Of the said works and that
was equally certain the real author had reason
whatever to complain Of the payment for them. was
met iy the most positive assurance that there was
more than one person active in promoting the eu5scp
fon who knew from actual proof that this Lis ns did
write the Scenes in Clerical Lite, and other OF the
novels consulted my host, and told him that it
deliberate fraud. He was most generous nan, and
said Do prove it TO be If you fail would rather
nyself pension such writer than allow him TO want
assured him LIE might be quite at in the matter,
for would by that days post send to your columns an
exposure of what knew to be fraud. My letter
published at once. with Oonote from the editor
6rmnr IT, But now comes the most curious part Of the
affair In the face of my letter, cOTroboraed by
Messrs Backwood and George Eliot, had several
most severe attacks made upon me, uphoding the
fraud and, if NY memory serves me right one was in
the pages of The Athenaum." One well-known
public man wrote me strong lecture, aud said lady
was then in his house who knew Mr. Lggins. and had
actually seen him at work the manuscript Of of
the works published as those Of George Eliot That
Mr. Liggins was clearly able fctionst there be
10 doubt but it has always been to me enigma a.
yet unsoyed how he could have imposed upon those by
whom he hoped to be subsidized in his authorship,
seeing that knew OF the most active the mat
ter TO be people wIse above the average of folk