New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-10-01

Mr.. w. II. Hcrndon, the friend and lsw-partner of
President Lincoln. hes written lecture on Lincoln
which he intends to deliver during the winter
Robert Browning's Essays and Poems on Shelley
have been included In volume which will be pub
ishcd by the Shelley Society. The book will have
portrait of Browning and an introduction or Fore
Words" by +. j. Furnivan.
Miss Frances Baylors story, " On Both Sides" has
been added to Mr.. David Douglass lis Of American
books lie also announces Mr. Howellss book The
Minister'S Charge"
The neat and useful little Pocket Atlas of the
World published BY Rand, McNally Co.. is said TO
have had a sale last year of 100000 copies This
year il has been revised, sixty pages OF maps ana
texts have been added and 5000 miles OF new rail-
roads have been inserted.
Mr. Ruskin has been acquitted ct the crime OF cut
ting lis namo the top OF the CamPanio az
Florence A distinguished literary person says tha'
the legend that he did so has had natural growth
ont of the fact that one of the Asiatic horde named
IL Bruss;nsky.' or something like thai, has cut his
barbsric appcation there and time Tor an American
humorst, has partly obhtcrated the beginning and the
end of the inscription"
An English critic who appreciates the humanitarian
purposes Of Walter Besant's forthcoming novel. The
Children of Glbeon says that it touches the deps oil
human nature and points way to free the wh'e
slaves of the nineteenth century.
Il lie said that Alice Cary in her realistic and
pathetie series of stories entitled Covernook drew
much of her home life and surroundings CORE
spondent of The Louisville Courier declares
that in Mary Milford she sketched herself. y
Relic Of Ancient DAYS. Il How Uncle Dale was
Troubled and Tho Old Mans Wing are episodes
An the life of her paternal grandfather. John Dale
represents he father OF Alice and Joseph Dale, her
uncle With The Ssters.' Alice commences her
own story and il continued to the end OF The DOOR
ELLA is herself Rebecca' Is her older sister
Rhoda and Zoe her sister Phoebe doubt very
much IL the sisters would have received more
sympathy In their literary aspirations from their own
mother than they did from their stepmotnef. Inc
fact ia n farmers daughter in days got no sym
patty from any one ii she wasted her time reaa'ne
books or writing verses and the universal verdict was
that Alice had better be making butter or spinning
wool than writing poetry. It's generally the ms
fortune of genius TO make its entrance into the worlo
both out OF time and out of place There Is ono error
in the general belief concerning Robert Cary ano
that Is that he was door, On the contrary, compared
with the times and the people about him. he was wei
10 do II not rich Whatever pinching ana hard worS
there was came from greed for broader possessions
They had the necessacies of lite and many OF It's com
forts and knew not nor cravcd its luxures; and bad
the sisters never known the luxures of city, they
never would have felt that they bad been poor IN th'
country | know that there was desire Tor hhe'
clothers as the girls grew toward womanhood. ou'
their plain and scanty wardrobe was not the result
poverty. but from habit OF economy Like 'h'
farmers around them their parents thought they nae
ali they needed The Cary sisters live" two oistnc
and contradictory lives, the farm and one II
the city, This is why 1t has been so dihcuit io
strangers to III derstand them"
An English writer admits that America is ahead O
ENGLAND in her readiness to publish and read trans
lations Of famous foreign works.