New-York tribune., 1886-08-25
LITERARY NOTES.

sour poets are men of talents who sing and NOT 'ne
children of music" This sentence from Emerson
sssay on The Poo" be accepted BY tho mag"A"'
readers who are deplcring the decline OF poetry
partial explanation of the Same. There arc ~"
reservations to be made howsver,-there are so''e
children of music. though they may be moro ''""
easily counted on the fingers Of one hand.
The new edition of Longfcllow's- works eoi'eo "
Mr. scudder will come from the Riverside press carry
M 1t month.
General Low wallaces novel. "Ben-iur'" oo''
not lose it's popularity nor find any decrease "
sales though il Is some years sirce 1t was Pu",
The Harpers bring out editions constantly "AN
have already sold more than 100000 copies
Professor McMaster's volume on "ben).n""
Franklin will be the next addition to the An,e'n
Men of Letters series published by housh'0n' "l" ~
& Co.
Anew rcv;sed and enlarged edition OF the "sei''
q Chi,d,s Book of Nature is announced by 'ne
Hsrpers
In a revev Of Mr. Henry Jamess latest book l ne
Cont.mnorarv Review says: 1.-The most earnest
o,a j.; s,te of some odious associations we VIII adu
the most valuable page in the Bostonians no
xoted IN nrotest against what he calls the dahhaoe
fsmir;z.t;on If the aae How strikng'y latent
touch Of conscience accentustes prot'sti Mr' 'aes
"a tbe greatest sinner in this 'feminzauon 'na'
60. ean nroduce He gives us on this present
anvas at the least three women to one man. aud takes
NO, half the trouble over the that he spends on
onv Of his women As Mr. James conceives tho
interests of women. his tiny brush, his perpetual
stippng his touching aud retoucbing every line, arc
appropriate media of representation, and he Keeps
10 the region where this method is legitimate Inc
novel ends abruptly with the triumph OF mans will
r f.;&t 10
ment and makes us feel vividly the weakness OF
woman and the momentum OF man but there is no
sense Of real strength anywhere"
Miss A. Mary +. Robinson writing from London 10
sThe Literary World" of Boston, says that Mr.
Thomas Hardy has i'll his miud tragical little story
TO be written when The Woodlanders is finished
The legend is an old IN his family, and tells how
O wilfnl passionate girl, day in the last century,
ran away against her parents Will to see maefactor
hanged in chains in that old Roman amphtheatre OF
Dorchester which n ade so fine setting 10 tue
Mayor of Casterbridge.' The girl came home,
sobered pious. ecognzable-henceforth as
ciplned and religious woman
Walter Besant is the modern English novelist
who writes with serious and noble purpose and VINO
vet makes his book one of absorbing interest HIS
Forthcoming story The Children of Gideon. ia SAID
TO touch the deeps Of human nature" In way
without parellel
sThe Book of Berkshire" by Mr.. Clark W. Bryan
of Holyoke Mass. is something more than guide
book, although as gnide-book it will prove almost
to those who design to visit the Bcl kshe
Hills. MIR. Bryan describes the noble scenery and
charming resorts of this farfamed region with the
intuition of au artist The many illustrations in the
book and the full record which it gives of every spot
in berkshire County, will make it interesting even to
those who have never been there map on which
are outlined more than 500 drives accompanies the
volume