New-York tribune., 1886-05-26
LITERARY NOTES.

;ss Craze King OF New Orleans Is the author OF inc
s,yikine story Monsieur Motto" which appeared IN
recent number OF he New Princeton Rer'er
Matthew Arnolds son is said 10 have set 20 music
some OF his fathers poems and Will presently po"ilsn
them Mr. Arnol6 has written very true and beautiui
poetry hut IL is hardly OF the sort we would suppose
susceptlble of musical treatment
writer for The Boston Home Journal says OF Mr. l.
b. Adrich's editorial fastidiousness: AldIch Is Z"
e,ickler for style, and though he does not at"sc'c
believe that the way you say ii is OF more h'p"'""'o
than what YOU say he certainly exats treatment "9
cardinal virtue T. believed. and with reason 'n "e
has comried black list OF words and phrases any one
OF which. If Il does not absolutely condemn 'n'""P
TO the waste basket will greatly imlerll Its "ccep'""'o
or q, least hiring doEn the wrathful blue pencil anu
critical note TO the auth0f
good style Is great virtue In your writer nut 700
many American authors and editors are given to"N ~
the excellent OF things which are not "or'n tue
effort II is not worth while TO dress corpse In Jewels
Aud ounce or original tnouSh o' scH"'"o i00"- -
worth a pound OF good style.
Marshal MacMshon doesn't intend to publish His
mcmoirs lie is writing them for his descendants. to
show them that his conduct has always been guided by
his conscience.
It's the opinion OF Ths AncToQn BookSecT thst the
magazines are killing tie books and the newspapers ara
killing the magazines. A sunday paper to-day Is
magazine and "a review
That the immense general advance OF American cult
ure the enormous u reading public has not
rroduced writers eminent those who cultivated the
Muse on Sufficiently slender pittance, is considered
,iueaar by an editorial writer fol Ihe London Do'y
Noes Where" he adds, were the great wealthy
magazines. The century and Hdtpe IS. and the reSt'
when Poe was writing the CasS oi Amontiilado' ana
Hawthorne was busy with The House OF tho Seven
GaDes'i There no patronage then, nothing worth
naming could made IN the profession OF literature
Poe once received pair OF boots in ayment for poem
Probably he did get mnch as three guineas Tor
I've Raven His short stories were pad for at Gr"o
Street ~ hack work. II he we're living now ana
would shnn the bowl AMI old Bourbon, lie might he as
rich as-we. as several other modern American
aut1nrs He might cover all his chars with violet
velvet lining and buy the Domain OF Arnheiln ana
furnish DRAWN; room according to MS depIoialie
ideal OF upholstery. Hawthorne, greater even 'hah
Poe found his really unrivated novels brought MN
but a mo lest income. Mr. Longfellow, happily, had
lrefessorslp and u fortune OF his own Yet so poorly
pajd so ill-equipred with wealth. these men. in
smaller poorer America than that OF oday
exceled their comfortable successors. Er Holmes
was Of that great and simple generation. MI Lowell
WAS one OF its later recruits like Banvle among the
men OF 1880" The reading American. who Is an IN
rreludiccd man, Will not disagree with the English
editor.
The late Mrs Arlo Bates's charming papers on the
ou,iut phases OF salem, that quainest OF old New
England towns to be collected and repubsAed III
neat volume by Houghton, Mniin & Co. There are
five OF these papers aud all published originally
over the pseudonym Of Eleanor Putnam"
Captain Temple, of the English FOLKLORE Society
recently rea before members interesting paper on
the science Of folk lore giving at the cOncu sion some
criticisms on terminolosy Folk lore, lie said is fine
English compound but there is sad want OF an ate"na
tive II only Tor tho sake OF useful and necessary
derivatives Folk lorist and folk lOc not pleasant
foIns but students have been driven to use DOth lie
eu,eests some classicay formed synonym, such as
deoiogg dInosophy demoHocy-the last for choice
cal abe easy deveopment into passabe derivatives,
as bcinc practical Dogma has been appIOprIaed
already. dog,poogy might, he thinks, answer ara
dCmodooOiogy is too long DJtcoogy and doItSlot0g,
as the study of anciiul opinions, arc also suggested
A ralid British critic declares in Ihe Loidon alone
that Nj Andrew Carnegie has in his " Triumphant
Democracy " written about much perniclous
nonsense could well he compressed into 800 ortavo
rages"-"a Il very foolish boos wloh might be very
mischieyous if not eOrspcuoCsly absurd"
perlssl OF the rest of the criticism reveals the
fact That this loyal subject OF Queen Victoria considers
any statement concerning American prosperity and
aonls IA al