New-York tribune., 1888-08-25
LITERARY NOTES.

pr,,eesor A S Hardys forthcoming Atlahtlc'
.oso, q passe Rose Is story of mediaeVal franoc
fuu Of monks and barons The title OF nc s'o' 10
the name |of the beautiful heroine
Mr. Edmund Gosses volume on " Eighteenth cent
IVY rdtcraturcr Is coming from the Macmillan press
vc.ts,s q Belle Dame Sans Merci" is mentioned oy
cdrev colvin as the most beautiful thing OF It's Au
IN the world Matthew Arnold didn't as'co VIZ
him no wrote to Covin a year ago. ino '''
attach 70 La Belle Dame Sans Mercf Is 10 "o s'"'P'
omazjngs Coventry Patmorc ranges 'hniSei 80 %
Colvn and calls IL probably inc Ne'! '"0'V -.
tnc English language The lovers OF real Poo"S
,,, doubtlcss always believe with the TWO admirers
80 ,hix fascinating fantasy. Mr.. GOWN mas us
oorcrod what was not known before. that 'ho poo"
ras written in AprilMay 1919, the ua'c d''o Va
Keats's masterpieces in another s'yle-.he QUE
psvcbo. IN "A Crecian Urn,' and " TO Nleh'''r
gale"
ao,,,uos &c 20 be III. next volume In the Banhs,oe
edition OF Shakespeare. Professor fTioc' W ,,,on
College Is editing the play, and "ritihs d" NV ,o
IN which he claims the discovery OF al eAeo' s'
of Prosody with which Gentle VIII haue A.. ~
In oar,icr pIavs and which he finally prought u pei
.a..ton IN - Othcllon Professor Price, by the way
,,oo rres,dcnt Of the New-York Shakespeare society
Mr.. Benderson's novel, Agatha Page u 10 -
rin,ed in London by Chatto & Windus
rb. English magazines blossom with ooes .nu
,uods celebrating the destruction Of the great hr'di
oa' ~ htoh IN It's commonplace dulness and pre-
.orsior certainly does not inspire the resoer "i'N
,,,.;or for the poets Of modern England Mr.
! svinburnes Armada" is the only poem VIM" ''sN
ohov. med,ocrity 1t IS full of all his oio laS a" .
! ,oe,. n cannot be called great but IL mas h'A"'
! noble and stirring lines.
Jobn Morley is writing the biographies OF Waipoo'
~ Chatham, and of Pitt for the series Oh Twelve
English Statesmen
Tho Poval Library OF stockholm, The Bookworn
eavs contains remarkable literary curiosity canco
The Devils Code which is said TO be inc iarses'
manuscript in the world Every letter OF 'n's sSa''o
niece of work IS as beautifully formed as IL "'io
minu;oIv and carefully dawn, and u see'"S "''io,
.,o.sih,s that II could have been done by snge
human being. The Devils CODE was '"''"
Sweden from Prague after the Thirty Years "ar' anu
M .nou,echc uauspraucn Zeltung' tells the following
tory of IFS origin: A poor monk who had ooon 'o"
dcmncd TO death told that his sentence "o"u ~
commucd If he able TO copy INC VINO ~
code in a single night. Relying on inc ''npo'''D -,
Of tho task his judges furnished him WIN pc" n
,d ,st him in his well-barred prison Like drown
, ING man catching az straw, the poor h'ouh ooe
~, .as,, but quickly discovered It was utterly ipo'
eb,c His nature srsnk from the cruel dea'h a"al'
,c him and he invoked the aid OF the Evil one' in
enemy appeared. and agreed TO execute 'no 'a'n -
1T
condition OF receiving in payment the Soul Oh 'no
AS soon as the bargain was struck the DARK sp' 80
r down like a regular copyist, and next morning IN
: sDevils Code was finished
L Tbs seventh thousand Of the Life ana hct'ers
I c,r,os narwinn are now on sale in England
9 u W. Story IN his pleasant paper OF N"'"Ae ~
.rce,o in Blackwood." declares that 'ne sio"
Il I.oi,.n would not have been great In any one
= lie arts as sculptor, painter, architect poc' az
n .o,reer had lie not trained his MIND 10 all rO
C oil the arts. says the American poetsculp'cr' di
# but fine various articulations of the sesamo pow
c . tbe fingers arc Of the hand and each len's al"
r | tho other Only by having all can the mino nov
10 &c fnu crasp OF art 1t IS too often ihsiseu ia "
~ dovs that a man to be great in ono art must ue'o
himself exclusively to that; or II he be sohci,eo
y nr other he must merely toy with 1t. such W.
n, the doctrns of the artists Of old, either IN ahco
l. dove ~ Greece or at the epoch OF the Rehassaho
phidias was a painter and architect az wen az
= ecu,ntor and so were nearly all the men Oh
" ,imc Ciotto Leonardo Ghiberti, Michel Ahsc.
S, ycrroccbio Cclinl, Raraelle,-in word all Il
III rreat men OF the glorious age In Italy were aoco'
ID nIished in many arts. They moro or JOSS 'rdi"'
in themsclves in all. 1t might be said that ho'
- s,rc,s treat man was not versed in more thah o
ort Thence It was that they derived their Po"e
II does not suffice that the arm alono IS strono
% whole body strikes with every blow"