New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-07-15
LITERARY NOTES.

.,,..,;,v Of Miss Jcwctts Marsh Island Is said
a be Essex County, Mass.
~. Yr.u ,,ust bavc been In strait betwixt two,
-, nature endowed him with the susceptible i'm
.,.t,on Of the poet on the one hand and the clear
sA;c;a intellect of the critic ON the other" mus
It,. q. Barnett Smith, In an admirable article On
M Lowell in The Nineteenth Century
Tho FIRST two volumes of the publications of the New
vort Shakespeare Society will appear in September
No "a Mr.. Guernsey's Ecclesiastical Law IN
ffamlet,n and No. 2 is a study in Warwicksmre aia-
lat bv Appeton Morgan. All the society's pubhca-
tons are bound in black and gold, those being the
ooors of the Shakespeare arms and bear the sea- VI
the society," which is exact copy OF the rousn pehc
ling made BY the Herads Of the trst John
Grant which differs slightly from the secohd III" "'
device. Brentanos of New-York are agents LOT 'n'
society's publications.
The edition of the Revised Bible issued oy the neni!
Bill Publishing Company is an exceheh' ono WIN
good paper, c and handsome type ana 'n'rous" "o
curacy. While the old system of paragraphing py
il discarded the verse NUMBERS conveniently
pripted in parentheses 10 the body Oh the -
IN the margin as in the English edition.
There il somebody in Syracuse who under the guise
~ sturav bee buzzes thus-through The Standard
IN the ear of Mr. Henry James: DEAR MR.. JAMES
Don't believe any one who tells you The Bostonons
Is GOOD or even tolerable Don't believe any one VINO
savs he can read it, He is telling you an aniap'e No.
DO vour humble bee favor, and Whisper III
strict confidence what makes you think parody
of your worst mannersms can 10 'Aeu "
suffered by the readers whom your admraoo
carly work won for you You have taught people 10
delight in YOU at your BEST and if you arc determined
10 do space work for the mere profit OF H. won you
please take 1t to The New-York Herald which Is
fond of that eort of thing, pays well for H. ana VIII
prnt Il in its columns where it will be seen by
any one who loves you. You began WIN a NOV"
ENGLAND Winter and Lady Barberina the descent OF
a steep hill with Oblivion at the bottom OF IT. Inc
author of The Portrait of Lady you and know
-your bee relies on your apprecation-merits some
thing better than that Pray put on the brakes-put
them on hard!"
"Apd If we were Miss Murfrees bee" adds this
saucy writer we should whisper: RESPECTED
MApAM-It is DO doubt unmannerly to touch your
e.t cnn Of success with hint of dspraise but could
YOU prune the descriptions just thoughtf IL sue
Q. sted hestantly for we all know how charming the
descriptions are but they so good that they shoud
be petter and they are too good to be so numerous
Description dearest Miss Murfee cannot be made the
foreground of novel; the characters are properly
portrayed upon it background do you not thinK
And could you by the way, while you are DONG IT, use
come of the manlness which deceived every one put
your bee as to your to make those same descrp-
fions a little more virile little less-to sting hard
like Vasssar sophomore soaring declarations Your
bee cannot hum a homly at the moment; but read
William Blacks Macleod of Dare let us say and
then read Yolandc and compare thus the earlier ana
later work Of novelist whose artistic creed In three
articles: l. Description. H. Description. Ill
Description. You will find awful warning in
'Yolande, if you can read the book through"