New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-08-17
LITERARY NOTES.

..rns YANKEES Man-ofwar" is fine ballad. SUI sung
~ the Navy, and found in W. A. Ponds eohecsion ~
Axaval songs.s on the daring bravery OF Captain
Paul Jones' on his cruise in the Ranger, 100
I drst lines are:
s,Tis Of gallant Yankee ship that new INC '""
stars, -, -. n,a,,
And the whisting wind from tho wesInof "e'' V'0"
through tho piteh-pine spars'
n any reader give the authorship and date of this
balladi
u,a tho opnlor OF a writer for The Phiiddepha But
iefin that American authors have written enough az"
,sst stores and would better stop where they are.
s :. who cares" no asks, whether Miss Mnriree pn's
Inst such phrases the mouths OF her illere "he
~ black Tennesscaus they actually use To use IL
seems comics ion of lack of imaginative ana OF Great
s. a., oxer when an author depends much upon local
color and hunts up specimens OF ungrammaucai sp""Ao
IN out-of way localities. Httle dialect soes p" ~
way especially where It has nothing out HS Vo'i"pv
ness to recommend IL. Yankee farmers VINO IAN Do"
h.ovs' and w ll guess or negroes VINO say "'9o
xr Master, and shuah for sure, and all the o'her
,,,,,orate rroducts of our American lfe shohd nave
sonethng beyond their lliterdcy to warrant the ho
s duction into fiction These are the mere eAlern@is ~
accidents of character. and, like all oddilies thy ~
strike little observers but they can hardly ever DO re-
,roauced IN books great writer's are TOO wise 10
rv ,ne reader with them. Thackeray did not run the
ar Irish or French English OF some oil MS crea-
fious into the ground. The innitaole taiA Vi N'P'"
Costigan-yyhich. by the way recent critics say ho'
erunne Hibernian alls mere side stroke ana not
the pillar on which the interest OF Pendehns rests
So. too, with the delightful iet'erS Vi Noo"''
French sweetheart"
mr. storrs,s book on "The Origin Of Christianity Is
rs,rv pr,sed by he London Spectator whichdeclares
that the facts are arranged in luminous order ana SCI
forth with fcrvor and eloquence Tue union oil eoe'
coeaat reasoning. and eloquent speech Is remarAaoe
n tho logic is llnc is noue the less logic ana II 'he
fell ste
the Less knit together by the bonds OF strict lher
ence."
An illustrated edition of "Tbe Sermon on the Mount"
with an introduction by Edward Everett Haze WIZ
shortly by published by Roberts Brothers
The author Of a new English novel writes concerning
editors aud managers "Ihese gentlemen he s"ip'
care eonpelled to follow, they do not lead the pubic
,aste and tcy are wise. Give them good thing not
riual and they know il and take it, offer them Twice
as GOOD thing in new line they know It's value per-
fecty but they reject It. They have to, and approve
,hcm: they know what they are about suppose
shakespeare contemporary, aud not to nave written
line Let him 90 with masterpiece to the Accordion
Thoasre and no would receive week after neat par
a., oontalniig Ills play aud the following letter: 10
William Shakespeare, esq Stratiord-on-AFoh' or
have read your Ms. tragedy, entitled han'e1 WIN at
teniion aud beg to say that. making some aHo"a'o
for your obvious of experience in writing Tor tue
theatre nnd considerable talent both in the plot ana
sa,oyne Jhave strong doubts however, of its power
of interesting an audience ana accordingly regret to
Ia nnder the necessity of returning your Ms with
many thanks for its perusaL' Aud the manager woad
he in the right The pubc won't stand what is good
o,5 ne,r too trey want educating first aud they will
only stand a little education at time This theory
was OF indispensable comfort to many young gentlemen
of genius engaged in literature.
r. Y Crowell & Co. will soon publish work on social
ism and the labor question in this country the author oil
which is Professor Ety. OF Johns Hopkins University