New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-09-28
LITERARY NOTES.

g.. 10 the papers thus entitled; A fren"in"'! WI
f.sson," Novels and Asnosticsm,'N AmeIicanism ~
, ,,,.r.,,ro 10, (,hidren" The Moral Aim in
,.s,,on s. Tie Maker OF Many Books"" Mr. MallocEs
,rIss,ur Science" Theodore wiuthrops Wrinns"
EN-, N as an American" @Modern Magic" ana
rc can Wild Animals In Art"
- 6 Of Dale" otherwise Mr.. stinssp intends 10
rennnlish bis short stories In volume ehu"ou
Ger mental Calendar"
~ Charles Mackay in his new book on Tho Founoe's
of te American Republic" makes he rather sweepne
assertion that In this country oneia coiruP'o
..o,os an o,asscs except that which includes the
r,ressent tho Judges OF the Supreme Court ana io
n,he,s who might he counted the fingers OF oo'"
hands The greatest danger Dr. Mackay perce'o' 80
IA the Unsuitable desire TO make the Repuoh' quo 80
indivis,ble and ultimately to abolish state rs"'
dear 10 the hearts aud the Judgment OF the ioun"o
80, r,ion an tina DAYS of Washington. the
taUrs ia for ascendency aud dominion rather tnan i
1berty-a passion which is the Woo oi o." -.
democracies." DIR. Mackay anfms tna' '"' 80
khought in American breasts Ia the desire 10 naAo
United states the frat Power IN the "''i'' -,
$3.50, Gao, rri,ain into the second rank. All other
opss,,ons that imperil the peace and liberty OF ,ne
American people sink into insigninoance ooInp"o WV
the growing lust OF dominion. ana tue ten"oho' W w
concentration OF political power st the expense vi ~
free local governments" 1t would be interesting !"
know m what observations Dr. MacKsy pasco HIS WI
illusions
Moaaoo nanehe Roosevelt has prepared for publica-
.,o,, a nove with the queer title of Copper Queen.
Tho cIever English novelist heretofore known as
sBa,il i" tears in reality the name OK Richard Ashe
Kins He is about TO publish q new story en'i'iou
"snsdowed Life"
Laureate Idyls and Other Poems Will soon DO
published in Boston by Mr. Oscar " Aa""'s' 1n'
yo,une will contain among other things ten poem.'
Initiating In style Tennyson's ldys OF the Ming "
basoi on divers Mother Goose verses
.Tbe Fortunes of Phillips Fairfax" serial story
which Mrs Frances II. Burnett published many years
ago in Ietersons Magazine has been reVlseo ny 'uo
author ana will be repuolishcd by ne* eyn
dictate Mrs Burnett proposes ais to dram"'ize tns
story.
.By womms Wit " is the suggestive title OF the novel
which Mrs Alexander nuthor Of "Ihe "ooips w
has Just brought out IN EDgland.
Tho rem,niscences OF Marie Antoinetto given In the
recently published memoir Of Madame dc Ioirsel are
full of interest and OF pathcs- she told u.s. says
Madame de OF her chapters on the royhi
life at St. Cloud, that the Emperor Francis l., on
leaving Tor Italy, he not destined TO returh
called his children to take farewell OF them L was
the youngest Of his daughters abe added. MY
father took ne his knee kissed me severai unles
with tears in his eyes, and appeared to ina extremely
hard TO leave me- This seemed odd TO those VINO were
present aud should perhaps not have rememheren
itifmy present position, reminding mo OF tDe circ"n
stance did not give presentiment for the rest OF my
life Of succession OF misortunes only too easily lore
seen' The impression made upon us by these last
words was so deep that burst into tears Ihe queen
then said to u.s. with her accustomed grace ana gooanes
IL reproach myself for having saddened YOU Calm
,oprelves befo Won reach the castle let unite our
courage Providence will perhaps not make us 50
unhappy as we think"
The Rev. IL r. Eaweis-who, 1t must be confessed IS
not brilliant wrer-has in the press new Work In
five volumes entitled Christ and Christianity
4The Story Of Jack and the BeanstaE "a version in
hexameters by the Hon. Italian Tennyson with fity
illustrations by the late Randolph Caldecott-wil be
brought out by the Macmilans. This will doubtless 30
aechtinl lille book for the oldsters who appreciate the
artists humor we'll the youngsters who delight
in .he story.
Mr. Blackburn has completed his memoir of Caldecott
aplit will soon he published. II viii be embeliished by
many OF the artists unpublished drawings.
"Tle Old Order Changes" Mr.. Mallocks new novel,
is not admired by The Pal Mall GGseae. That journal
SAYS that is dshgufed vugarlty at which AIRY
of the Music Halls might blush" and II declares
quoting Mr.. Mauock himself-that his novels are
rotten eggs flung in the face of literature IL candic
enough however to adj that there is ono idea In the
last volume which Is good enough to seTe from con-
domination.
Mr. Naock's one good ldea" IN The Garete's opinion.
comes as sequence to the question: Where does our
duty le-in which OF these two opposite things-in
reuouncng position or III using 1t u Mr.. MaiIock
insists that political economy and the social con-
UltiOns OF labor nave become III our Va
the0lOgy-its youngest branch aud lie proposes 10
reconcile political economy, Socialism and religion 10y
the following expeiient Why should not the old
inoDastic Pronunciation OF riches be revived In the
modern world, under the fOrW OF a rbnuncla'loD OF
Irofs II all the directors of industry. the inventors
the sharp men. the OF energy and enterprise,
through whose industry in pIoductiveness
would stil themselves to maintaiu and increase
production. aud at the time forego the claim to
the increased products. then. she says-and she is
perfectly size is obviously rghtthe socalistic problem
would be solved. But. said just now, TO forego
these al claims would be nothing less than special
monastic virtue OF precisely tue character
poverty and celfbacy. The idea Is not that What
has presented itself TO the mind OF Miss Consuslo
Burton is vision OF some Industrial order, or
orders which the nonastc of poverty might
be applied modern factory system. Her notion.
In fact of monastery went is a modern factory,
where the hands should be monks or nuns whore the
spires should side By side with the chimney and the
quiet eloster should refresh the mind after she rattle OF
wheels and looms and bells. The profits. Of course
instead OF going to the capitalists the manager, and the
specially gifted few, would DO the property Of the whole
body. They would not however, be divided among the
workers and thus take the form Of increased
That result would stulufy the whole scheme The whole
monastic body would live iu voluntary poverty-or
lower wagcs rather than higher wages, than the
average worker outsider and all their profits would
set by fund to relieve Distress especially such
caused by commercial crises"
Mrs Man, formerly Mrs. Fred Burnaby has written
book called High Life and To OF slencs."
One OF the most convenient little books pubis
Is Tho Pocket Atlas Of the word prepared by John
Bartholomew, r. G. s.. and published here by G. p.
Putnans Sons. 1t is little marvel OF full and compact
Information and Its maps excellent.
A Jubilee edition OF the Pokwick Papers" edited
with NOES by Charles Dickenss eldest son-the
"Charley OF his inimtable ietters-wi soon be cub
hshed by the Macmians- Many illustrations will be
inserted IN the text
NJ. Georges Ohnet himself has been dramatizing his
novel, La Grande Marniere tho book from which
Mr.. Charles Coghlan has taken his play OF Enemies
M. Ohnet calls his country place, where he
writing, Les Abymes" There he livos with his wife
aud children a truly rural life. dressed like sim pie
peasant who Is at dayreabk hunting the hare and