New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-09-01
LITERARY NOTES.

General Grccly has written for scribncr" paper
on Winter Climate and Winter Rcsorts'-a companion
10 his summer article. 1t viii appear IN November
Mr. browning is in Italy with HIS sister His son,
Robert Barrett, Drowning, has just bought bcau'iui
old palace on the Grand Canal Venice, where nc pro-
noses to take up HIS abode with his youns American
wife.
"Thc OWLS Nest" novel by the late F. Mariu'
has been translated BY Mrs Wster and Wi! soo "0
published by the LippIncott Company
There is some good criticism in these commons Oh
sThc London Academy" on Miss s o. Jewc'ts 'a'es.
volume: at contains, I'm addition 10 Inc N'"s VA
Folly Island seven elaborate examples OF inc nc"
American story, which Is not story at all but
rather an episode In a story of which the beginning
or the end or both, remain untold our chi'ureh may
,oa 70 delight in this kind OF thing-and unless rumor
crrs VIZ have among us living adults who at any rate
pretend 70 delight but there are those OIL us VINO
arc too old to learn tricks OF appreoiauoh All"
10 whom the game Of prctcnsion Is not worth INC can
die Some people object TO the doctrine art TOT
arts sake because they consider IT dangerous 10
morality but VIC may fight shy Of It on the ground
that II !. all but fatal interest. The finish Oh
theso stories for such default Of another name We
must call them, delicate and pcrcct tha' coh
no'sse,ms OF craftsmanship Will probably be thrown
into ecstaces OF admiration but one commonplace
middle arcd critic feels inclined ASK the brutal quc'
really not bcgun7 a mere episode or situation can
ne treated with effectiveness and ntcrcss-has indeed
been treated again and again by great iVh5 poet
but then. Mr.. Browning always gives us h'n's "hion
suggest ancccdcnts and conscGucnts-the "c''o "H'"
has come before. the action VIII oh must Hollow MISS
Jcwctt gives us such hints, with what result may
be imagined The feeling that one ought to admire
4, rcor suhs,,tute for the consciousness Of enjoy
mcnf-"
1Na1S a
fowl, NJ many Of our best writer's Of shor, stories The
s,vIc may be charming the oharactcrpaintlng acute
md delicate but the story's tho thing and that IS
too often lacking.
The house IN Lonlcn-No II Piccadilly Terrace
where Byron passed the wTctchcH period oil MS mar
,,cd ~, where Ada was born, and where he wrote
some of his earlier poems. IL now being aleicu' al"
will take on an entirely changed appearance.
\ volume on Western China' Is coming from INC
nr.ss az 1iclnor & Go. Therein tie Rev virgil <
Hart describes journey made i's' yea" W '"' s'N'
Iuldhisi ccntrs of Omci
Can writings which are works of gcnius and deepN
,.,,n, IN subject ard treatment be spoiled for Tx
sensitive reader by the after pcrusal of clever par"
dics1 What does the reader say walter Aho'"
hurry. the poc once declared that Wien he wa
y,uns "Eokcby" quite spoiled ior him oy '"'
parody "Jok-5y"
"a Marriage Of Shadows" volume Of poems by fh'
late MARGARET vclry. author of For fcicVai' Is 1t
be reprinted here by Iippincot
The new volumes Of T.cknorS Paper Series OF novel
arc Ar,o Da,cs's "Tagans" aud Julian Hawthorne
"FonWac's Fool
,v,ir burrc being asked 10 send TO magazine D'
tt yclsc O. not moro than sixteen lines ahs"ocu
al fear can hardly undertake to supply verse u
oder I'm pon, o. length or otherwise ana III any
e2sc should certainly not think It worth WHO Il
let a magazine have the first fruits oi an! th"ie u
uinc for less iAan $50