New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-06-18
LITERARY NOTES.

$1,000 ,os contributed to the July Atlantic
Dr ,,,,n, his visit in ENGLAND fifty years ago. Ii
Y,, could consoe his American 'riends III h's nv
q "a the prospect Of reading something from 'n"'
ever delightful pen'
,, NJ Josenh Jefferson as Bob Acres, from
,,,, nv l. w. Alexander. will apr ear III inc Angus.
numt or OF Horpn's Magaene IL VIII DO "''o"i
~ hogranhical sketch written by the actor ous "'
friend William Winter
,,,o- pom. perlev Poore, who has spent as journal
lat more than fifty Industrious yesrs III "aShhs",
.et forth Ia two volumes his "reminiscences VI ' rn
,entnrv of life politics and society III INC o"p'.'
nerpd has been one OF starting e|e'''' " as,r
,or,es. II has borne great, original, ana Vec"A"' NC
." =, hos hoen full of tragedies and iolies' sror
- hos heen rs writer and oihciaI part OF 'u's wn
., rfc and action. and he has known in'S' u III.
celebrities of the time. He mas so'" ',''o' ,oos
n, bnuor and pleasant epistoiary s'.ie' a"
ausnancr readers already know HIS "Reminiscences
promise 10 be :" aruhhlhS iA'0' 0'
n, nautical aud social history
Mr.. Arthur s. :;ardys novel The Wind OF Desu"!
has already gone into its sixth thousand
THO new illustrated edition OF the Vicar OF "aRe
eold" is condemned by The Ahende"m on Tue ero'n'
emo, the drawings represent tho text III sp' UT III
h,orcal accuracy 1t holds that the typcai eotoh Is
.,, ., ell md adds: Mr. Caldecott. We THINK, might
~. co,opassed It. Bit Mr. Caldecott is gone; anu
ro,eover no had liking for the task wul'h vas oio
than once suggested TO him. Who VIII attempt H-''i'
r1vi, Abbevl Mr.. Frcde ick BarnardF' me Amenaem
d not 90 far for an artist. 1t has Mr. Hugh thomson
ut hand the very for the task. Ills eish'ech'n
-, s,c,chcs show not only all the finish and dain'l-
49, ., ,horouch technical skill hut also an lrIcss'ioe
,,r I'm which no modern draughtsman. approaches
BIN.
Nice ,mee Rives the author Of The atlantic story
p,othcr to Dragons" aud OF poem in tnetiasl
"a only twenty three years od ma she yer! oea"'
o., Mics Grace King the other young Southernei WHO
has lately appeared writer OF snort ''oilo'' '
sretch entitled Bonnie Maman III the July HaTPe''
Here ia an entry the register OF marriage licenses
p,eserved IN the Consstory Court Al "orocsci' H"s
land: 1852, November ~. NiIiaui 0""Af0'0 CIV
Anne whaeley of Temple Grafton the latter sur hnno
- s,,nosed to be "a metonym for Hathaway. Ihis
singularly bewilderinc notice. was di'co'eie" ~"
,. oro hv lie Rev T. F. wadley. OF Pershore, who'
in assuming that entry refers 10 the poet WIN was
riel ON tbe day folio wing the above date, remarks
,h hcre 10 no other record OF the grant OF hcehsc W
any one of the name Ill lna' year ~
Tempe Grafton are missing.
American publishers have no to complain ofun-
,esnonsvepess Oh the part OF their puph" III Is acau!
announced that Messrs. HoughIon. Miilhn Co. new
1a,epape1 edition of Ioneellow has been suoserOec
for far in advance OF IT public atom
NJ Frederick Arnold in his recently published book on
rohsr,son OF Brighton says OF Roberisons rcnd ana
po,ishoncr Lady Byroi. that she had accumulated
ore mass OF documentary evidence papers auu ''ois
which were supposed 20 constitute case cohPieei! "a
cnlnaory OF herself and cOndemnatory OF Byron She
,,aed alt this printed matter in TIE hands OF we'll
knnwn individual who was then res'den' at brsn'on'
,d ,erwar renoy ed into the country This gentleman
,ron, ce,e,uy through the papers aud was utterly as
touished at the utter want OF crnnatory mater against
byron was.not Indifferent tohe ec'"' OF
~ editing such memoirs, but he fe thiS "asa piiel
which ne was unable hold, ADD accordingly returned
all the papers to Lady Byron. Robertson was 10 nave
,r her liter .ry executor and whatever may nave Dcen
Ms views about Lord Byron he would have been ape TO
render fun Justice to the many eooc points anu 'lo s'
loss cureer Of the ilustrious WIFE, After tue ue'" Va
Hoher;son, tho papers were handed over 10 aho'ner
clorrvman who was then the minister of the Pfesoy-
teran Hanover Place Chapel but who Is now peheuoed
In tho Church Of England 1t Is rem"rNaoe "i'ho"S"
many years have ELAPSED and the interest oi the papers
continues uuabated that this gentleman mas ho' seen
III, way TO make any literary use OF them
Romance and Revery" Mr. Edgsr Fawcetfs new
volume of poems, will he brought from the l'ess OF
Ticknor & Co next week. 1t has been beautifully
rriutsd on imported hand made paper
topaas last story Don Gesnaldo, discusses the I'M
coufor able question of what cus lrIes' 10 40 VINO
sees ONE OF his deck sentenced ior murleron the very
nimsest evidence knowing ali tie while through INC
confessional who really the criminal
vrcr for Tie Boston courier bees that characters Ill
stories should lie speak from their own knowledge
and not from tat Of the author The moro annoying
and more frequent form of tine fault, lids TINS writer
Is that Citing characters with Supernatural III
si.ht iuto tie minds of their mtoTOcutors' nan inc
conversations i'm Mr. Henry James, clever novels wouid
lose some OF tei telling passages II II were ins'sc'
that the takers should speak only upon such knowledge
of each others thoughts vonid be possible 10 Ie'
ueo,e In Iced Of MS most frequently uscd melnoa
OF pIoiucins quant dialogue Is the Simple an" i"so"
on device o. iGyerng the Conversations as things were
,u,s,ea alt in Through the Looking Glass, and hav
ius The answers come first and the questions ioIoV
after"