New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-10-03
LITERARY NOTES.

Admiral Maxse, popular Englishman who visited
this country not long ago. is said to be the original
q Beauchaup in George Mcredith's novel, Beau
champs Career
4 limited edition of George Eliot's poems, printed
on hand made paper and from new, large type. with
photoctchings on Japan paper is announced by Estes
Z Lsuriat.
". II. Lows illustrations for "Lama' will be
reproduced with the poem in reduced size and price
BY the Lppncott Company.
Mr.. j. t. Trowbridgcs poems arc to be published
soon m collected form by the d. Lothrop Company
The volume is to be called =" The Lost Earl, With
Otner Poems and Tales in Verse;
A fine edition of Wordsworth is in the press
Of Macmillan e. Co. 1t is TO contain his complete
poetical works. with introduction by John Morley,
. portrait the authors notes (still COPYRIGHT, and
hitherto unpublished poem of about 700 lines
Mr. Rider Haggard is by toiler in
garrett The sixth of Squire William Haggarh, of
Bradenham-a place which has been in the family
for four gcneratIons-hc married Norfolk hcrcSs
and became possessed, in right of his wife, OF
the manor Of buckingham, on the edge of the Bath
Hills. Here he writes in pleasant corncrro of
the charming old house, which is overrun with Bank
STA roses, clcmstis and jasmin; and here, at its
door. he may be seen in Jacket and knckerbockers
of brown tweed soft felt hat, thick knitted stockings
and scrvccable boots and between his lips black
ened briarwood pipe His home is full of beautiful
and curious things.
"The number of given ideas,' says Mr.. Haggard,
MS, after all, finite, and IL is now almost inpos-
sible to find which Is altogether new. The
indictment against me about 'Mr. Nelson's WIZ Is,
however, really amusing The tattooing incident is as
old the Greeks. Everybody knows the story OF
the slave with secret message written on his head
but for Mr. Aubert's book, never even heard
of 1t until my reviewers were good enough to call
fpanE
as far I concerned, the idea originated from
hypothetical having been submitted to learned
Queens Counsel by his pupils as practical joke
friend of Mrs Stowe recalling luncheon which
was once given for her in New-York, says that the
Invitations largely accepted, the guests were
duly presented TO her and all were seated at table
The hostess, however, "noiced that Mrs. Stowe
seemed ominousy quiet and that her eyes had that
dreamy, ar-away expression in them that foreboded
scant entert ainment for the young ladies. The
inous silence continued, and to their dismay and
disappointment, when her lips at last opened for
the expected feast of reason and flow of SOUL the
only words she uttered, then and throughout the
meal, were: please pass the bread She afterward
explained to the hostess that her brain at the time
was hard at work on the next instalment of odd
town Folks"
Professor Bryce's American Commonwealth which
the Macmillans will soon publish, will be issued
in three volumes. He will discuss therein our Ma
tiona Government, State Governments, Party sys-
TEN, Public Opinion and Social Institutions.
Julian Hawthorne complains in " America that
novelists pay altogether too little attention 20 tho
wants Of the male portion of their audience 1t
may be- he says, that the feminine novel Is
but a sign Of the times and that there are no longer
any masculine men in existence. II is the womans
age-a soft, vicious indolent, proprety- loving age
TIE wholesome masculine fibre has gone out OF IT,
II has gone out Of literature, at all events. Tho
last man-nove written In this country, with the ex
ception of Mrs. Soddard's, was published full thirty
years ago. II was called Kaooah or the Advent
ures of Jonathan Romcr,' and its author was DR. W.
s Mayo That book was Man from title page 10
coophon; 1t of man, for man, by man. 1t
is true that 'Kaloolah' herself is woman, and
very lovely one But she occupies her proper place
In the story; she is what a woman ought to be;
she does not loaf and invite her soul all over the
hook ON the contrary the book is the masculine
because she is In it.n