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

have been collected by Mr. @. W. Cable and will be
published in The Century, during the coming year.
Some of them Mr. Cable has Transcribed or translated
from the original MSS. others accurate narratives
by him Of actual occurrences He has been occupied
for many years in gathering together these true
stories, and he has apparently treated his material as
Charles Reado did the trlo stories of English life
with which he dealt In his later days
Mr. Cable opens his series with chapter In which
he tells How Got Them,' which is sad to be In
Itself strange true story The next Is called Tho
Young Aunt with White Harp story Of Louise
Cheval who captured by Indians and rescued by
Spanish soldiers I'm 1882. Then follows the story,
dated 1875 and called FRANCHISE in Attakapas' then
FRANCHISE Bosscrs account of her journey with her
father and sister and some others, including mys-
FERROUS lady who turned out to be French countess,
a refugee of the Reign OF Terror. Mr. Cable says:
The charm Of the story is in the wdness OF the eX-
perences falling TO a young and impressionable girl,
who sees the world entirely with her own fresh,
Young sensuous eyes, Then comes the tragic a'i-
photography OF tho French Countess herself, trans
lated and edited by Mr. Cable (as IS also the previous
story) Next IS the story by Mr.. Cable Of saomo
Mulers an Asatan Redemptoner who was sold al
five years OF age, disappeared, and at the age OF
thirty was found and recognized by her family like
ness and was Identified by brthmarks, after having
spent twenty-five years mulatto slave In Loulsl-
ana. The next story is a Union Womans tx
perIence, in New-Orleans and Arkansas during tho
Ciyll war After this will the droll story OF
Attale BrouIllard--how pettIfogglng mulato per-
sonatcd q dying man and dictated will for man al
randy dead so as to secure the succession or his
estate 10 a yellow woman to whom 1t rightcoisy,
though not legally, bclonged-not forgetting gener-
Gus slice for himself Finally comes the story Oh
The Haunted House in Royst"
Mr. w. ST. John has made about sixty illustra-
lions for the holiday edition of Keats's Endymon''
which Messrs Estes & Iaurat preparing. These
drawings are to be reproduced in t'nts The volnrno
win probably be the of the edition of the odes
and sonnets' illustrated by Mr. Low and brought out
by Iippncott
"Mr. Greys the university professor who Is ono
of the most attractive characters In Mrs Waid
famous book Robert Elsmcre,' was in real life the
late Professor Green. The portrait Is said to be
drawn with fidelity. The twelfth English edition OF
Robert Elsmere' has just appeared
Mfr J. II. shorthouse's forthcoming novel is to be
called " The Countess Eve
General sherldan's first "ScrIbner' article, which
Will appear In November, presents this incident OF
his ride with Bismarck after Gravelote Our route
led through the village Of Gorze and here we fouhd
the streets so Distracted with wagons that feared 1t
would take us tho rest Of the day to get through for
the teamsters would not pay tho slightest need 10
the cries OF cur positions. The Count was cquai 10
the emergency however, for taking pistol nom DC
hind his cushion and bidding me keep my seat, he
Jumped out and quickly began to clear the street ei
feet vely ordering the wagons to the right and left
Marching I'm front of the carriage and making way Tor
us till We we're well through the blockade, he then re-
sumed his seat remarkng This is not very dlgh-
fed business for the Chancellor of the German Oo-
federation, but IT'S the only way to get through
General 4. w. Greedy has written for publication
Oh, ,fpfr t-cap n
count of his experiences in the Arctic regions IL
viii be entitled How We Made the Farthest NORTH
and promises to be fascinating to youthful readers
Robert Browning used to say how heipiW Oatiyc
was TO him as a youth, and ho still has so great an
on for the scotchman that he glad to en-
,rust TO Mr. Norton for the purpose of publication
the letters which he received years ago from Car
lyle
What should be delightful article has been con-
tributed by the artist Holman Hunt TO The Contem-
porary Review" lie sets forth therein MS recor
ectons of one of this ccntury's most charming hui
morlsts In art-John Leech.
Mr.. Charles NordhoG has written a book on PENN
sular California which tho Harpers are about to
publish.
4 handsome edition Of Victor Hugo's Notre Damc
do Paris, I'm two volumes Of 400 pages each is In the
press OF Estes & Laurat Partisan artists have MADE
l75 drawings the edition, and it is to have twelve
fulLpagc Illustrations in color. limited edition
Will be printed Japanese paper
The discussion between the British publisher and
the British author is still I'm progress CORE
spondent Of The s.. Jamcss Gazette says u am
quite In accord with Mr.. Bcsant as to the evident
fact that publishers grow rich and authors do not.
This IS no doubt part Of the everlasting question be-
tween cap tai and labor, but yet is so far peculiar
that authors are like no other workmcn They are
manufacturers OF very special and important wares
out Of nothing; they require something beyond the
mere technical training which turns out competent
laLorers in every ohor profession and they are In
less favorable position for judging what Is the mon
ey's worth of their work than any other workmen,
and consequently are more dependent upon the good
faith OF the dealer Another correspondent of this
paper the Old Hand who objects to certain state
mens of mine on the other side Of the question: up
holds the equity of a transaction by which pub
! Usher accepts, without acknowledgment, double
amount Of profit work of an author in order
! TO recoup himself for previous losses This may be
true but the losses were stated very distinctly,
| while OF the profit not a word was said | don't
think that this equitable Is likely TO rcassure
! the doubling author. II establishes a doubt which
IS to the disadvantage of both parties Losses are al
WAYS Insisted upon In fact scarcely remember, In
an experience which IS Of respectable duration, ever
! 10 have heard publisher acknowledge that he has
| made anything by any bOOh-tAcept, lnueeu, one Ol
such remarkable success that profit was
| evidently inevitable. l do not suppose
that Dickens, Iha, kcray and George Eliot made so
much money of Their genius as their respective
publishers did but still they made beleveD, each Of
them certain something that could be called fortune,
and had no complaint TO make against fate'
Mr. Marion Crawfori's new novel is evidently an
addition TO his list Of Italian stories. 1t IS entitled
SAINT, Iarlo,r and Is to appear In The English Illus
trated Magazine during the coming year. Tho
lovers OF this pleasant periodical Will look forward
with special interest to series OF drawings by Hugh
Thomson, suggested by old Isaac Walon's Complete
Angler
Miss Katherine Wornley, the brilliant translator Of
! Bazac, is mentioned by Tho Hartford Courant' as
the daughter Of Rear Admiral Ralph X. WOrmlcy, Of
the British Navy. Her maternal grandfather a
brother OK the American Commodore Prebc. Miss