New-York tribune., 1886-11-10
LITERARY NOTES.

Mr. Gosse and Mr.. John Churton Collins continue
their animated warfare through the English news
paners and The St. James's Gazette thus sums up
the case:
John Cburton Collins loudly thunders
That Gosse's book is full of blunders,
And Gosse as plainly as he can.
Hints Collins Is no gentleman.
The world amused behods the two
And thinks both charges nearly true
Maurice Thompson's novel, "A Banker of Banker
Vile" is coming from the press OF Cassell.
Mr.. Robert Louis Stevenson's forthcoming book
Is entitled The Merry Men and Other Tales and
Fables"
The translator of the Autobiography of Giovanni
Dupre Just published by Roberts Brothers, is Sgnora
Peruzzi. the daughter of w. W. Story, the sculptor
and poet.
The publication Of the posthumOus works OF the late
Leopold Won Ranke is now indefinitely postponed Dr.
Wiedermann. his faithful secretary, has succumbed
to the strain and lost his This is gricvous
loss for Wiedermaun better versed iu the Pro-
fessors plans ideas and hopes than any living scholar
Wiedermann was a great favorte with the historian,
and had become through unbroken intercourse his
u alter ego" " The History OF the World" upon
whose completion he was working. is simply elabo
ration of the lectures which Ranke delivered during
his long profe ssorship at the university. Rankes
immense iibrary-how many volumes no one knows
may possibly ,me to America wel-known anti
ouaran is in respondence with the heirs in regard
to it's purchase for an American institution Rankes
GHand Library" as 1t is called. numbered 5000
yo,umes but the garret of the old mansion contains
four or five times scattered about promiscu-
ously ON the floor. The motley mass is appalling, yet
Ranke knew the place of each book and required like
knowedg from his assistant The effort to please his
master laid the seed of the terrible disease in poor
Wiedermann. which has cum mated in the eouded
intellect and added another to the list of martyrs to
science.
Mr. Norris the author of Matrmony" and other
eever books has written aud will soon publish serially
another novel entitled, Major and Minor, the
Story OF Two Brothers"
Dr. Hueffer writing to The London Times from
the Leeds Festival very in his criticism of
Longfelow's @GoIden Legend" which he ranks
among the conspicuous and numerous literary
failures for which GOethe's Faust is responsible"
The critical journalist states that excellent but
unpublished translation of Hartmann Won Aue's poem
(which Longellow took as basis for his work. exists
from the pen OF the late Mr.. ID. G. RossettL Dr.
Hueffer is a brother in law of Dante Rossetti.
~Old Blazers Hero: How He Made. Unmade
and Remade," is the queer title OF a new story by
David Christie Murray. Old Blazer" is Black
Country coal mine
The newly published volume Of Carlyle's letters
veaIs the fact that his youth his health seemed
to him very bad. The London Daily News" CON-
ments thus upon his lamentations: What could be
endured through long expanse of vigorous years
could not snrey have been very dreadful Whoever
has seen how weak will bear incurable
torture that frou their lips. from their 1aces no
one could gather that they were in pain. must think
poorly of the stoicsm OF Carlyle. He is great
philosopher, when he has not cold, like the Roman
1900 4,,t,,, TO
Some days / suffer much pain would drive about
three Lake poets down to Tartarus, but have long
since been trained in sterner school, He did very
little credit to the school, and through lite deserved
his school nickname of the Whmperer. We may say
with Arthur Pendennis in the novel; that genius does
feel more than common people, ana has right to howl
out loud did howl loud. or did howl low, Whack
ford y said a fond parent. words to that effect
Whackford admitted that his father howled loud So
did Carlyle, and yet he could faer himself IN being
trained in stern school He was physician who,
like other physicians coald not heal bimsef-that is
the sum of what gathered from his correspondence
His tones are in his books"
A. p Snne'ts theOsophical novel, "Karna.' is in
the press of Rand. McNally & Co. They will bring
out also Madame Durand's "reminiscences of Napoleon
and Marie Louise.
The Paris correspondent of "The London World "
butes this interesting ming Nv French
winters: "Daudet has been ill and weak all the sum
mer and unable to continue mis- novel on the French
Academy which he Legau Inst winter; aud lola Will
not be ready until April with his novel on the pea
santry. Notice the curious fact that Daudet, who
work except in copying nature and who cannot
reiran from putting even his nearest friends and
relations into his novels-Daudet, who even notes
down the conversations OF his own Children with
view to putting them into books not considered
to he the leader of the Naturalist movement, even
to be a naturalist while Zola is praised or'abused
universally the great naturalist the great observer
the great student of life Well. it is undoubted
fact that Zoa never single novel from direct
observation; generally he works from the notes of
Others from chic and imagination. For In
stance when he conceived the idea of writing this novel
on the peasants he formed the excellent plan of
going, under the pretext of his wfe's health. aud
living three months in farmhouse with and among
the peasants, and studying them. But he gaze up
this plan rejecting that it might be disagreeabe and
uncomfortable to live in a farmhouse; and so he is
sadying the French peasantry from the dairyman
and the gardener of the village Of Medan, where he
h,es."
Jonn Brave, a member of the Kcnsington (London)
vestry safs that scaven gerng is the heahest Of all
the occE ,atons of the people, and he adds: AS to
the he .lthness of the calling have the authority of
q gentleman descended from long line of dust
trs tors and near relation to Mr. Bomn immortal
led by Dickens in Our Mutual Friend the
Golden Dustman.' He attributes it to some proper
ties thrown off by the burnt COAL and thinks that the
doctors who prescribe charcoal have only stumbled
on small portion Of what it is capable of dong This
gentleman who is still slightly connected with the dust
business will cali Boain. junior; he was well ac-
quainted with the great novelist, made large fortune
IN the ia nily business, devo,es his tme and should
thuk, considerable sam of money. to the study OF
natural history his place is sort Of geological and