New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-06-24
LITERARY NOTES.

MIR Charles Eliot Norton has prepared for the next
number OF The Ner princeton Berier some persona
"reminiscences OF Carlyle which WILL 1t Is reported
correct some of Impressions to Caryles nature
and temper conveyed TO the world by Mr. Froude is
10 he boled that this paper will cali forth an answer
from Mr. Froude 1t is long srce there has been any
refreshing controversy in what Mr. ielowplush calls
the littery sulkles."
TIE British Historical MSS. Commission have Just
issued report in which is to be foundquoted from Lord
Westncrel ands papers amusing story OF James l.
There was long discussion before the King concerning
the creation the title of ba,onet and the questions
~ rank and precedence involved His Majesty to
have heen somewhat provoked by Olde Fynche the
lawyer" who argued at great length the case OF the
ba-ones. and who interspersed "philOsoplicae
preamble" With 5 m1Dy Latin quotations that the King
said: Thouche am Knge of men. yet am no Hinge
of TYNE for grow oldc with this, and bade Mr. Fynche
SPEAK to the PORT. Then Mr. Fynche raised so many
objections the King pleased TO tell this tale:
that there two advocates OF sos contrary facions
as whatsoever the sayed the other ever cODradiced
nsonucn that once of them being asleaT, and sud-
dealie his opinion being demanded his answer was: |
an asainste what the other sayed and being answered
that the other had yet spoken. be sayed Why Them
am againsto that which he shall sage" The Kings
tale suggests threadbare story of the Ishman
WHO was aginst the Gov ernmint.'
Mr. Frank II. stockton is the subject of biographical
Sketch 10y Nj. Clarence c. Buel in the Forthcoming
Cenf,ou The first chapters OF Mr.. Stockton's latest
novelette, will appear in the same number.
series OF vew Of sssconset have been reproduced
In . quaint little Picyvre Booke" by T. I. Underhil
co. 1t will he pleasantly suggestive possession to
company of summer oilers who are under the
saity spell of Old Nantucket.
An English translation Of Felor Dcst pefskys novel,
"Crime aud Punishment" has lately been published in
England. 1t tells the story OF student who has left the
ST. Petersburg University six month, before the story
opens being without 10 parsne his studies. Since
then has fed the society Of men, has broodel over
many questions has written article in social
paper crime which he declares that crime though
g. is punsha lie ia ordinary men and women, is per-
mittcd extraordinary beings. This lea has become
mOrhdy attractive and in order to experiment whether
he belongs to the extraordinary PARTY. he kills an old
fem Insurer and her half dIOic sister Circumstances
him. in semdelirium. which shortly after grows
into dangerous brain fever H. commits the deed with
being discovered but lis punishment he at
OF DostoeGsRy. Tostoy and Tnrsenen. The PaH Mall
Ga:cne says: Between the Russian novelist and the
ohsc brood of pseudo realists which rooss in the
Cioaca marina OF France there is great gulf fixed. The
three kr san novclstS whose fame Is Europcan were
men OF ideal aims OF strange sweetness Of SOUL AMI o.
subtle personal fascination. compared with which the
personalities of the called realists but satyrs
TO ANGELS Turgenief. Tostoy and Dosioensky were
thought is distinctly purifying, inspiring
no longer q novel writer's now Living what he
be tho Christ life in cobong shoes Dos-
t0efsky died four nve Tnrsepiel only the
other day. bat the works OF these three mon Will not
speedily pass into oblivion
The Famiiar Letters OF Peppermint Perkins" Tick
nor Co ignt properly he described in the language
OF the modern youth as a~fuv jolly. don't you know"
Miss Peppermint is REP rcsentative of girls
OF the peTOdsly, cxtravagan impractical. absorbed
in having good Time, nav and then taking up rad
OF serious work vr self improvement. Occasionally the
fair letter writer hibts streak OF shrcwdness which
Is quite charac her foO.shness The little
book ought be popular with the watering place young
people for in they Will recognize many acGuantances.
The late DR.. Jaues Hinton's Mystery of Pain" a
book discussing human suffering from the metephys
and religions points OF view as just been reprinted
by Cuppes. Upham Il Co. The work first published
in England twenty years aud small edition
that time sold in this country.
Mr. b. f. Peixotto is the Editor OF The Menordh, the
new monthly magazine which is to he published the
official organ sf the Inder endent Order B'ne Birth,
the well known Jewish phlanthropic society. The first
number will be brought out July l.
A second edition-enlarged and improy ed-of F. II.
Elliots Handbook OF Practical Landscape Gardening"
has lately been issued by d. NJ Dewey, OF Rochester
This hook is useful to the of small lots in
town and village