New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-18
LITERARY NOTES


LITERARY NOTES
Glass prejudces are said to DO interestingly trcalea
In Mr.. Howells's new Harper Story AMMO All
burn.n
Professor Henry Drummond's tropical AFRICA
volume Of travels Central Africa is TO De paohsneu
,mmeaatriv ,n london. His Natural Law In the
Spiritual wor,d' hss reached sale OF S'oooo copies
Mrs. stoddard's powerful and original novels arc
TO b reprinted by Cassell A. Co., ana "iu IL Is hoco
met with the appreciation they so richly deserve.
arwo Men, story remarkable in many ways and ono
which ought to live, will be issued next month. Mr.
stedman has written for the volume short preface
In which he discusses the story itself, and has some
thing to say concerning realism and romance
Concerning the weeping OF authors over their own
pathos wilie Collins says: u entirely agree with
Mr. walter Besant-no moving situation was ever
yet depicted the writing OF winch oo not cost 'ho
author anguish and tears
Mr.. Rider Haggard, discussing the Same question:
awe Whist no RI asonable person fail to see IS
tr,e: Judging from my small experience II Is ao
soutely necessary to sympathize with character
that character is to be suct ess. mean by sy'h-
psthy knowledge, not necessarily approval mo
person must DO q real person 10 the mind Oh its
creator, as real anybody he knows, or more So
To make character true success 1t ought never 10
be ont Of the authors mind for a waking hour from
the time that the book conceived TIL 1t Is hnshed
Ono of the commonest forms of criticism OF gooo
novel Is: oh, and so is good; all tho rest aro
sticks When this criticism happens TO DO true DC
eye that the cause OF the fault Is that tho "rlter
has failed sufficiently to sympathize or rather denuy
himself with the sticks. They have bored hihi' anu
conseoucntlv tbey bore the reader The man who can
hold all his characters, whatever their Degree III
soual intimacy and regard, will at least produce
well balanced book. 1t is very easy to ailow shsio
pcrsonagc in the history to overshadow all the oho'
and the explanation is that the writer has isiich
under the thral OF that parsonage and cannot snaAo
II off, To write Of MIN her is labor oil loVe'
the rest arc labor only. For this reason Always
th,nk that a book with very few characters has
h.tter chance of success than with many, all Oh
which the authors mind IS not large enough 10 hoiu
NJ the same time. Indeed believe that as tune gus
on the expedlency of dovoting book 10 inc s'uuy VI
single character to which all the rest are confessed
ly foils will be more and moro recognized bu. VI
,ourse this Is only very humble private opinion.
For the rest quito agree with Mr.. Besant that
moving situation must move the author ohy my CA
perence is that It moves him on reading what ne mas
written rather than at the moment OF wriths, "he"
his mind is too strained with the creaoVo 0noi' ~
be capable Of further emotion
Cir Henry TAYLOR once wrote to Mr.. swinburne that
eft had been almost a lifelong puzzle" to hin why
Aubrey De vcrc's poetry, sometimes so graceluly
uch, Of other times so profound, addressing ltsen
IN every variety Of audience, has hitherto met WIN
co little acceptaon from any but tho few lie inish'
have added that De Veres Europa Is one Oh 'no
most charming bits Of verse OF the century
The next issue in Ticknors series of papcr-covered
novels ,s 10 be Mn Howells's " Minister'S Charge"
Mr. Edmund Gosses forthcoming History OF
Eighteenth Century Literature is to be the companion
voiume ~ Mr. Edmund saintsburys work on
Elizabethan Literature
Colonel Higginson has prepared for Harpcrs
Bazaro some recollectons of tho daughter OF Gloer
stuartthe Jane Stuart who died in Newport not long
ago.
DR. westland Marrton's book, "Fifty Years Re-
collections of English Actors and Actng,' Will De pup
lsbed In the autumn
Some of the characters in Henry Jamess new
sscribner7 story, "A London Ltfe," ara Americans
There is said to be satire In the tale
Mr. barrett surviving brother Of Elizabeth Barrett
browning writes concerning the mooed question OF the
poets birthplace: "Mrs. Browning was Dorm a'
Coxheath Hall, County Durham. Mrs. Althahe' my
second sister, born in London The rest OF US were
born IN Herefordshre. 1 am the sixth, ano' as you
NAV suppose know nothing of Coxheath am not
even quite sure I am right in the name. fancy my
father was only the tenant He married when he was
eighteen and Mrs. Browning was the eldest MY rec
elections of tho past all connected with Hope
End, Herefordshire"
An account OF Mrs. Brownings youth is to be given
An edition OF 5000 copies of Miss Grace Kings
"Monscur Motte' is TO be issued in London by Rout
ledge d. Son. 1t is pleasant to add that they have
agreed to pay royalty
Alphonse Daudct, In his forthcoming book IIm-
mortel" takes two academicians for his principal
characters, but he has chiefly confined himself to
depicting tho evolution of modern youth
The Paris correspondent Of The London Tee-
graph says that Daudets obsev alton has led him to
conclude that young of tho present day are abb
solutey ferocious and inscriptions in the race for
wealth. Competition for places-struggles for the
survival Of the tcst-were so keen as they are
now, and In NJ. Daudets opinion all this is due to
the general diffusion Of the 'Darwinian theories
Herein the French novelist believes that he has
opened up fresh ground, and he is probably not far
from the truth"
Mr. Aldrich has written a pastoral poem called
aCorydon' which will appear in the June scrbner"
lola says that he receives 100000 on an average
for each of his novels but that his dramatic pieces,
with the exception of "IAssommoir,' have hardly
paid his copying expenses and cab fares.
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