New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-04-22
LITERARY NOTES.


v.,,erop win soon be published 1t Is said tnat COIL
Gains ord pictures Venetian life In the twen'h 0en
tury based on and imprinted records
Mr. r. L. stevenson has had co-laborer IN the perso
of his wife in preparation of his forthcoming oooA'
sThe Dynamiter."
Mr. Cables volume Of Remarkable True STORIES WILL
II is reported, be published In the autumn.
The late Judge Blacks Essays and Speeches. Will
soon be issued by the Appletons
A volume OF sentimental poetry written py riinoo
B,smarcks grandfather has Just been pupnSnoo 9"
Berlin.
The author OF "John Halifax" has positive oihion.
on marriage connected with genius Two peop,o
abe SAYS man and wife, of whom one was supposeu "
ne and bot really WERE wonderfully gifted succeed In
making one another thoroughly miserable. why
Because the woman married out OF wounded le'uinio
pride or (she owned for AMBITION seh-apsoi'
egotistical bad temp cred man. who nad rulneo ' 0
sttuton by his persistent breaking OF every Id" v
health Disappointed. neglected, she does her wiiey
duty literal but she seasons IL WIN hees"
complaints and the cruel use OF that weapon "n'on
geutlewoman's Instructive defence against pocr-
sarcasm He too lives life unnpeacBab'e e1'ernaiiy'
but within full of malice and selhsbne's WHICH
approaches absolute cruelty: his peasant nature per
pctnay binding to the sufertngs OF his WIFE, more
gently born and gently bred while her morbid SENSITIVE
ness exaggerates trivial veSations into great iS'o,V
unes and mere follies into actual crimes. All 'iis
wretchedness sprung not from the mans genius ou' HE
other bad qualities, which, had he been oraniess as''
would have made his wifes life and his own Just aS
miserable. Yet society means out the moral never
marry geniusr the worse one, II you do marry
genius you must condone all his shortcomings lay
self down as mat him rub his shoes on give MIN
everything and expect from him nothing not even inc
commonest rules of domestic courtesy and social moral
i,y.'"
Mrs Craik emphatically refuses to accept what she
Thus describes the creed of half the world concerning
genius and OF genius concerning ITSELF Is 1t grand ana
noble or and cowardy that any one should niue
behind the shelter OF his brains saying, This is me-
You must expect to be like you common mortas
to eat drink and sleep as you do 10 pay my ueo1s anu
control my passions, to be decent son. husband laher
and citizen have only myself-hat Is. my genus-to
think Of Everything must be subservent to this IL
break all sanitary laws, and my health gives way tS
not who am accountable; 1t is my genius. the sword
wearing away the scabbard. II am Irregular lazy
unbusiness-like, and consequently always behhdhanu
with the world, 1t is the worlds neglect not my own
improvidence, which has made me poor II run
counter to all the OF society. all the doctrr es
of moral right 1t Is my fault;r was not nade ike
other people, and / am not to be judged like them
Prince Ibrahim Hilmy, son of the exKhedve is pre-
pairing work on "The Literature of Egypt" the first
volume Of which will shortly be Issued The work Is
dedicated to the Princes father.
A volume dealing with the of Thackeray's books
will soon appear under the title OF "Thackerays
London" The author is Mr. W. II. Rideing, and the
publishers are Cupples. Upham & Co.
Ouida's last long and very bad poem In which
she gives In dramatic form sketch OF the bad results
Of examining little children with too much booklearn-
ingD "P'raps rm ill.," complains the poor little urehin
OF the drama,
.The clphers Jump about my bed all li Light
And when shut my eyes see tho slateI
TRY IN learn; try with all nv might;
Is'pose I'm stupid; learnins such weight.
And, do 'em how may, they won't come right
Mrs Greenough, of Cambridge has written story OF
New-England life which will soon be published by
Cuppes. Upham Co. 1t is to be called The Story OF
an Old England Town 81" and it is understood that
the scene is laid in Brattleboro. VT
The line Then be content, poor heart" on the new
monument erected by Mr. Corcoran over the spot In
Tunis where Paynes body rested for thirty years. was
the topic OF statement Sundays TRIBUNE, rightly
accrediting the authorship to Mrs. May Riley Smith
Our Consul Malta, Mr. John worthingon. who super-
yised both the removal remains and the construc-
ton of the new monument, and who Is man OF taste
and literary abilities wrote TO his friend MI H. u
stednan, requesting him to suggest an appropriate
quotation FOR part Of the desired inscription MT oeu-
man CHANGED upon the line, in the poem Sometime
over tue abbreviated signature OF NJ. K. Smith" It's
rathos and simplicity pleased him, and at the poets
suggestion 1t was adopted by Mr.. Wc-thiDston.
"rfve Months at Guernsey" is the title of the book
which Madame Adam is writing about Victor Hugo
Mrs Elizabeth Akers Allen is preparing collection OF
her poems for press Thirty ago she published
her first book and twenty years ago her second Mrs
Allen lives at Woodbridge. N j.
Miss Gordon has received from the British War once
the last volume OF General Gordons diary The Journal
is,wrtten on back of telegraph forms ana the French
business-ke printed words on one side, Service
teegraphque de fEgypto ct du Soudan presents con-
trast TO the flowing firm writing inscribed day by day on
the other There few erasures no sign Of hurry
or furry no blots the pages. Every now AMI then
they are adorned with quaint drawings. humorousJ
conceived. of the scenes that the besieged General
imagines are passing in London. conversation
between Lord Derby and Lord Granville, in an elegantly
furnished apartment OF which he is the subject is the
theme OF one of these sketches. Turbaned Eastern
figures in London draw ng-rOOms furnish another
Cuttings newspapers dealing with his position or
chroulcling some popular outburst of feeling for him
appear pasted in the Journal Miss Gordon has just
received a letter from him from KhartOun. In which
committing himself to Gods WILL he says. d" am quite
happy and like Lawrence. have tried to do my duty"