New-York tribune., 1885-01-07
LITERARY NOTES.

rho ;u e. four volumes in the SERIES which will be
nubl;sbed by the Scribners "Anecdote biographies"
of course means compilations from the pieasantest
The large paper copies with proofs of Mr.. Philip
Gilbert Hamerton's work on " Landscape are held by
Macmillan & Co. at $40 each. Only limited humber
ll be printed. and each copy will be numbered inc
volume consists OF series OF chapters or essays Oh
landscape in nature, literature and art, in which,
although painting is not untrequenty referred TO- there
is little of technical character and nothing likely 10
repel a general reader who takes some interest in
landscape.
Mr. Ju,ian Hawthorne answers with somewhat un-
necessary vigor the cri icisms of those surviving
friends of Margaret Fuller who object to the paragraph
dealing with her character printed in his biography OF
his father He writes to The Boston Transcript THIS
among other things: " When my mother was preparing
her husbands journals for publication 1t was her ho
frequently to consult with me as to the propney Oh
admitting or excluding certain passages; and' among
Others the above extract came up for consideration
She had copied it out ready tor publication but II was
finally decided to suppress it, for Margaret ana MIS-.
Harborne had been well acquainted and the formers
conduct toward the latter had frequently been marked
by deficiency of good taste. to say the least so that
this might have been construed in the light Of
revenge taken upon the dead. We concluded, there
fore that it should be published if at ALL only when
O complete biography was written
The praise which has been bestowed upon Margaret
Fuller was not perhaps. sufficiently discriminating
she was in some directions greatly overrated as were
many men of her time and country; but she was very
far from being "a dismal fraud" as Mr.. Hawthorne
hastily calls her.
Some unpublished verses by Lord Tennyson will
appear in "E V. BIS" forthcoming book about roses,
entitled " Ros Rosarum."
This is the sort of smartness which the average
English ne spaper critic-in this case The ST. James
Gazette" man-brings to bear upon such an American
book us Natures Serial Story" To pint of solu
ton of Burroughs add half ditto of personal observa
ton and mix we'll together. Assmilatio being com
plete, sprinkle judiclousy with few old fogics,
pretty girl a scientific young man, an unscientiho
ditto one two children few thunder storms anu
Doors according to taste add one teaspoonful OF plot
and stir we'll at intervals. Serve ccd garnshed with
American engravings"
long suffering librarian writes TO The Library
Journal that she has had several applications for
Uncle Toms Cabinet" and not long ago a blank
faced boy asked for The Bakers Utmost Dream
Upon being informed that the collection did not contain
q work with this thrilling title, he triumphantly
pointed to a finding list and pointed to Bakers
Amateur Dramas" One woman asked when she first
received her card Have you Mrs. Holiness books -
The answer "No" was immediately followed by
"Have you any of Mrs. Southworth'sp A second
mo" met with visible surprise and disappoi ntmen
but after short pause she asked resignedly What's
next best :" 1t frequently happens that Oliver
Wendell Holiness books are taken out under the i'm
preston that they are Mary James
Mr.. A. b. Frost's amusing volume of sketches
entitled StuA and Nonsense" has had remarkable
success England. Two thousand copies have already
been sold there
Mr.. George Dolby in his recently published volume
on Dickens tires of mpressng upon his readers
that the gentleman whom he calls the chief" was one
of the most temperate of men, But there people
too temperate even for him This is what happened
when he went to stay with the Russels Knowing Lord
Russels very temperate habits he had ordered bottle
of Baards celebrated punch to be packed IN his port
manteau intending las Lord and Lady Russell always
retired early to mix his grog when he went to his
room While talking with his host and hostess in the
drawing room before dinner. Lord Russells valet
entered and asked Mr. Dckens for the key of his port
maoeau so that he might have his things in readiness
for him when he should need 10 dress for dinner Ke-
membering the punch he thanked the valet aud said
he would put ou his things himself" The conversa-
ton continued, and when the dressing rang Mr.
Dickens went to his ROOM where he amazed to find
his dressing table arranged from the contents OF his
travelling bag (which had not been locked) and his
bottle of punch placed on the manelsheif with a
tumbler, VINE glass and corkscrew placed beside it.
At this spectacle he troubled in spirit At about
half past 10 the early hour observed by Lord Russes
household, he rose to wish his host and hostess
goodnight" when Lady Russell, with laugh in
which her husband joined her. said, Don't be in
hurry. the tray will be here in minute" At this
moment the servant iii with tray, on which
were all the materials for the manufacture of punch
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Gad's Hill" The incident amused him good deal,
and gave him story to tell against himself.
Even in America-which Is. all Engishmen know,
an extremely ignorant country-it would be hard to
find less well-iniormed functionary than the town
clerk of certain Lancashire community. This gentle
man. upon being applied to for the use of the Town
Hall by Mr.. Dolby as IL agent of Mr.. Dickens
answered that before the of the Town Hall could
be granted, it would be necessary to supply him with
full particulars of the of Mr. Dickenss enter
tanment."
Mr. Dolby declares that Dickens cleared out of his
readings the comfortable fortune of 2225 600 Of the
effect of these readings upon Dickenss mind and body
his old agent says The ordinary state OF Mr. Dckens
pulse was 70. David CoppsrGeld" brought it up to
90; DIR. Margold,' 90; the first night of the
Murder" during the last readings, 1t 112, and
the second, 11S; Nicholas Nickleby brought it to
l12: and "Dombey" to ia. On occasion it
rose to 1914 At the last reading Of ALL when he went
on the pll torn for the Christmas CAROL his pulse
marked 10S, and at the conclusion of the reading it
had risen TO no. He himself was astounded at the
high state OF his pulse after the last Copperfeld
reading, and explained it by the emotion he felt in
parting (for the last tme with the reading which he
liked better almost than any OF the Others and which
had done much to popuarize he whole series. Al
though his pulse frequently as high during many
other readings the aftereects not serious
when he lett the platform the termination of the
Skies Murder reading. On these occasions he would
have TO be supported TO bis retiring and laid on