New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-03-15
LITERARY NOTES.

Mr. H. c. Bunrers now novel will appear next
month Il takes IT'S title of Nudge from its heroine
The scene u laid in NewYork and a great deal OF the
action pasa In the French quarter south OF Washing
ton Square;
Mr.. Gosohen in recent address in London on Hear
ing, Reading and Thinking gave some excellent advice
10 his hearers on the second and third branches Of his
subject "EpGemeral literature he said, Is driving
ont great classics of the present and the past
warn you against this tendency, aud enreat you as
students OF that time which you have at
your disposal to the study OF serious works requiring
thought Hurry is another evil connected with reauR
As you read much, and for Other TIE result of
nearly always obliged 10 hurry sac the beauties of
hurry'nG on the raiwSh we pass and so with hurried
'nc 10 not see the beauties OF The literature you
Ssso Ana what is the next RESULT I: ia that as you
do NOT apprccate those beauties. the beauties are no
longer created for you style suffers because readers
read too fast 10 enjoy the syIe' anu
beautiful writing IL becoming more ana more
rare Some men there are Who in reaction against me
slovenlines Of writing OF the present day become
themselves stysts aud literary aesthetics; bu, that
a,an il rather an exaRgeradOD. Speaking generally
fist class style in literature is being weakened,
ard seriously weakened, by the extraod'
nary pace OF which everybody Is anxious TO
zeal Do not bolt your mental food any more tnan
Won can bolt with satisfaction your PHYSICAL FOOD.
Take your time over it. wholesome appetite occupied
NJ, wholesome mental food leisurely takeu-tha is the
WAY in which students will best thrive"
Mis-. Harriet W. Preston has finished a novel
which Is TO be published simultaneously in London and
Boston.
The new no el written by Professor Hardy the author
OF Bot Yet Woman, has been given to his publishers
Tho las, n, mber O, Casselrs National Library con-
,o,s the quaint sermons The Card" delivered by
II,ch Lanler while free preacher in Cambridge in
100 Several other :discourses included in the little
volume.
n, Lyman Abbott's series OF papers called Aids to
pith and pu lished in Tie Chrisi,, Union have been
collected IN volume which will soon he brought out
by T.. 4. Dutton & Co.
:. Becnner describes in The Boston Transcript the
effect which the absence OF an international copyright
lag has had upon budding genius publisher returned
hi. Ms story with this explanations Your story is
good one You possess skill strength and imagination,
o. rel as good degree OF insight iuto huauln nature.
dozen years ago we should not have hosated to pub
Osh II But now. with the country Hooded with cheaI
English stories IT, is not practicable With choice be-
+veen Anthony Troppc, Charles Dickens and all the
ret Of the hest authors England and France at fifteen
or twenty cents and John Smith or any other new
American writer at dollar or more a Volume, the
nc Tic gives the beueftyes, and The prolific the pub
fisher OF cheap libraries. II Is not enough that You
wit. &C GOOD story as Mrs. Ouphant Miss BraldOn.
You must write an infinitely better one Ana Just rs
long a. the competition IL is in fact
Ine a. VIC have no international copyright law pub
lshers can give young American writer's little or no en-
couragement.'
Mr. Warmers charming Back Log Studies " FIJI the
last volume of the beautiful little Riverside AldiGc
Series.