New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-16
LITERARY NOTES.

Mrs Waford's novel. The History OF Week.. is
to 10 published in this country by Henry Holt Co.
Six full page illustrations will enliven the text.
Louis Kossuth now in his eighty fourth year. is in eV
ceent health and is work upOn the fourth volume Of
his Memoirs. lie writes from six to seven hours daily
which would he q reasonable limit for much younger
FrequenteIs OF OF orr principal libraries Will
appreciate the following hit OF rhyme perperaed by one
OF their number as tribute to the janitor OF the estab
lishment II should be understood that this person
unvarying and total lack of common courtesy
have fixed uron him among the hahues OF the library
the name Of PutO's tabled Watchdog:
In front OF ancient Hades.
Where never shonc the sun.
There sat dog named Cerbern4
Whose three neads growed like one.
But at our public library,
As any one may SEQ,
There sits a modern Cerbcrds
Whose one head grOWls like three.
Mr. Rockstro's general History OF Music" which has
,ust been published in London. deals with the subject
from the infancy Of the Greek drama to the present
period.
Mr.. Laurence Hutton has prepared for the forihcom
ing number OF LipD,ncou a critical and historical essay
on The American Play"
It is worth while perhaps, 20 quote from The IGl Md
Gazette the statement which Lord WO,seey gives TO
the books he carried aud read during the Mutny and tho
China War. These we're the Testament and two
volumes OF Shakespeare Wnlch rontalncl MS pest pays
Since then when in the field the General has always
carried prayer book, a volume OF Thomas Kempis
and the Soldiers Pocket Book The book which he likes
reading in odd moments Is, he says The Medtatons OF
Marcus Aurelius -; and he adds list OF books for
distant expeditions which includes under odd II not
satiricaI head OF fiction Macaulays History OF Eng
land and his Essays"
Minister Phelps has written practical letter on the
subject OF the best hundred books in which letter he
s.x ...
literary digestion will be apt to find good books dis
with him and will only help to illustrate what II
already sufficiently proved, that 1t Is much easier TO
make pedant prig blatherskite than 1t Is to
make scholar.
william Morris says he ca,not read MiltOu,"-the
being he is repealed by the union in his works
OF cold classlcasm with Puritanism" the two things
which Late most in the world" adds Mr.. Morris.
literary EnglishInan has Just found in the old South
Street Cemetery Calcutta the omo OF the Hon. Rose
WhitvOIth Aylmer who died In that city in 1900 age
twenty. II the OF this English girls death
which led Lander to write little poem exquisite that
1t can never DE printed too often;
"Ah, what avas the sceptered race
All, what the form divine,
What every virtue, every grace,
Rose Aylner, all we're thine.
"Rose Aylmer, whom these wakciul eyes
May weep, but never SEQ
night OF memories and OF signs
cOnsecrate to thee"
inc n.sJ instruments OF Mt. blackburn spring
haven" OF Mr.. Warmers story, Their Pilgrimage and
Of Mrs Craks novel, King Arthur" will appear in the
April Harper.
Another novel by the inderatIgable Miss Yonge Is
coming from the Macmllans' press. 1t is to be en-
Titled Chantry HOuse."
Mr. W. S. Gilberts unpleasant letter addressed the
Harpers Is apparently not admired by his English
friends The following passage is taken from an
editorial in M:.LOndOn Daily NeicS There appears TO
he fear that gentleman deservedly well known
may be accepted in the United States presenting an
average specimen OF the courtesy OF English men OF
letters. We venture their part to disown any
sympathy with this ebulliiion OF temper. Tie state OF
cor wright laws is profound grievance to English
authors. But when eminent hrm known all over the
world for ts liberal dealing with authors, attempts. in
however small way. to recognize the unfair position OF
Brit sh authoIs it little hard that they should be
snaried at"
The Memoirs OF Joseph Severn which bcing edited
by william sharp. will contain much valuable literary
| correspondence Of the Keats period.