New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-09-12
LITERARY NOTES.

complete and very handsome edition OF whit'icrs
works is announced BY those makers Of beautiful BOOKS
Houghton, Mifiin Co. Three OF the seven No'u"
will contain Mr. whltticrs prose and four his poetry
lie has carefully revised all the material incluuco "
las added many pleasant and valuable notes sc'cra.
portraits will ornament what promises 10 % oi'0 "a
tho most desirable publications of the year
To an Engllshman who lately visited him Mr.
Whittier expressed his surprise that his guest snouu
know so much Of his poetry b. heart "onu0',
he said thou shouldst burden thy memory win al
frat rhvme II IS not we'll 10 have too much OF ~
better get rid of II soon as possible. "hy' can
remember any OF II. once went 10 near "onueiiui
orator and he wound up his speech with poetcai
ouotat,on, and clappcd with all my might some
one touched me the shoulder asd said DO you Know
who wrote thatr said, NO DON'T but IT'S good
n. seems I had written 1t myself The fault is,
: have written far too much. 1 wish half of It was
in the Red Sea-
Francis Parkman has written preface for
rovectte by Mary Hartwcll Ca'herwood which IS to
appear in The Century" The scene OF the story Is
laid in Canada. Mrs. Catherwood has heretofore
been known as the writer of admirable stories for
young people.
vlscount Cranbrook, ono OF the oldest members
of the present British Cabinet, prldes himself on
never having through his long life. read novel
Mr. George W. Cable while he longer has his
early prejudice against novels doesn't read many OF
thcm He is quoted by "Thc Chicago Tribune as
saving that he has not read novel IN year lie
said Of Maurice Tompson, in the same interview
that he thought him the sweetest ana must sn'ca
Of poets OF the present day.
Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson thinks that George
Mcrcdths "Rhoda Fleming is the strongest thing IN
English letters since Shakespeare died; and that II
Shakespeare could have read 1t he would have jumped
and cried Here's fcow?"
Miss Katherine wormcley, the translator of Bazac,
was during the Civil War; an official OF the Sanitary
Commission on the Potomac. OF her experiences at
that time she has made book which Ticknor VIII
soon publish. II is to be called The Other Side OF
the War;
For the volume OF J. W. Reys poems, which is
TO be published in England, Mr.. Andrew Lang has
written a pleasant introduction
Most people Will so straight to the dictionary when
they read that the scibners about TO bring out
Mr. Frank II. Stockton's new book, entitled Amos
Kilbright: His Adscttous Experiences, and Other
Stories"
Leslie Stephen, the English author and sonin-
law OF Thackeray, has broken down under the strain
of editing his Dictionary of National Biography
The labor OF editing has proved to be far heavier
than he ancipaicd-a result which is matter Of
course with all such works when the task is executed
with conscience and tact. Mr. stephen has had to
retire to his country house in Cornwall and will be
forced to take entire He Is tall. spare man.
with haggard eyes and cold face. Everything about
him is thin from the long ridge of bis nose to his
stracgly red beard and taporing legs He wears the
hair long and walks with a decided st0Op. He is
reserved In conversation. But what he lacks in
warmth and dcmOustrativcness he makes mp for by
an open-handed generosity and kindness OF dispose
zion which arc the less real because they are
hidden beneath the surface Though not especially
netbodical, he manages TO get through more work
in the day than most In relgloa lie is a
Positlvist, in politics Liberal JIG was formerly
clergyman of the Church Of England.
The notable volumes of verse now in press Include
Mr. Swinburnc's collection MI. Andrew Lang's
"Grass Of PaInassus,D and Mr. Lcland's revised
edition of his Ballads OF Hans Brcitmann.' This
last volume will contain number of new AngloG
poems
The fifth volume Of "AppletOns' Cyclopaeda Of
American Biography" is neatly ready for delivery.
An excellent edition in eight volumes Of Donald
G. Mchell's works is in the press of The scr1bners.
"Thc Saturday Review sits down upon Mr.. Edgar
saltus 1t calls his Tristrem Va1ck7 " American
shilling dreadful says that everything striking in 1t
as well as the pesslmism and the realism, to
have belonged before to some one else and ends by
declaring that much of modern rcat is bad but
mere imitation of 1t is worse"