New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-01
LITERARY NOTES.

NJ ana MIRA W D. Howells about to leave Bunaio
AR new York The noveliat win take GRACEFUL faro
.u az the western In the shape OF reading ron
sis own works to he given tomorrow evening.
=, n in The st. Jamesa Gazette CLondon) that We
end these little verses:
THE AMERICAN MUSES.
vrttsu depression on the fly Of Poets of Amer
icar by Edmund Clarence steiman Boston 1881
Mrs. Allen Miss Perry. Miss Coolbrith, Miss shinn'
%o,, natural ira s sngef Of the s Pubic vim
And so Is Miss Thsxter. who chants OF the seas
Mr.. Dodge, Mr.. spofrsrd. Miss Larcom. Miss Gene
MN, mrs Mss. SSia.y. Miss Bloed. ~ssodous
nv the the shores OF the states
Mira Fields. most objective" OF these. 10 inclined
To fay 1hHnss "ftsn .bseSre il refined.
And Miss Phelps is "a vine from a Puritan stock"
Mira Smith, Mrs. sangster. Miss Dietz. Miss de We're.
They are ladies who sing In slvery tsns;
And although they're ret very much read over here
We've doubt they are poets as good as eur own
But oh, Mr. stedman. consider again.
rhs ou and seventy y.a Civ. to the men,
--ERISNA.
Only the reading room Of the Brtish Museum is
lighted by electricity. and during the recent fogs no
books could be obtained the OF the library vas
IN complete darkness.
@LImmortel" Alphonse Daudet's satire the French
Academy will fnot be ready for publication In three or
four months NJ Daudet NJ. Edmond de Goncourt ana
many friends have undertaken TO correct the
foolshness OF the Academcians They protest espeo'
Tally against the practice of paying visits to the Acad
emicans to them for their votes and they maintain
that the general reading public are the best Judges OF
what is best in contemporary literature.
Tho celebrated Aylesford library, containing among
other things the first four folio editions Of Shakespeare
will be sold in London on February IL.
Boston has q new fashion in bookbnding; the colors
of the volumes In large varied One of the lead
A,.t.t Of 81 N "A
private library in sixteen different colors Each
newell" SAYS Arlo Bates was bound Ia an individual
hue the only duplication occurring where tale came In
two volumes Red, brown. orange, light and dark blue
lemon, fswn maroon brown and black were among the
tnts chosen and with each went harmonious gold line
English paper The effect of this fashion very pretty
and brilliant is used 70 break the uniformity OF
. score OF volumes In single tone"
The remaining twelve chapters OF Mr. Ruskn's Auto
Biography are TO be issued bloc instead of in parts
"a much better method
Mr. Ruskiu In recent letter asks to he allowed to
express OF the increasing dscomors OF his old ago.
in never being allowed by novelists to stay long
enough with people ike, after once get acquainted
with them. 1t has always seemed to me that tales I
interesting persons should not end with their marriage
and that for the general good Of society. the varied
energies and expanding peace OF welded life would %
better subjects interest than the narrow aims vain
distresses passing Joys OF youth felt THIS acutey
the other day, when the author TO whom we owe the
most finished and faithful rendering ever yet given OF
the character of the British soldier answered my quite
fearful suppication to her. that MgOn and Lucy might
not vanish in an into the regions Of Praeterita
ami desoae by saying that she was herse as
sorry 20 part with Mignon could he; but that the
public OF to-day would permit insisence on one
conception beyond the conventiouay established limits
To which dstrust would answer-and ask you as the
Interpreter OF widest pubic opinion to confirm me in
answering-that for readers OF own impatient
time the beautiful surprises OF novelty and the
highest praises OF invention the recognized and
natural growth OF living creation; and neither IN
shifting OF fate If they were lantern Sides
nor tearing down the treses OF our affections that we
pay train the branches elsewhere"
The tardy December number Of The Art Review
opens with Mr. j. Van Dykes account of two famous
Paris collections those of Mr. william Stewart and NJ.
eecretan In spite OF the space which the writer mas
eontrved l II is difficult to carry away clear idea
OF the collections a whole and the laoored estimates
of few painters which form the bulk of the paper are
not remarkable for originality. The statement that
Daubigny never had boon" will surprise those
familiar with the that Paris dealers deliberately
organized boom in the artists work soon after his
death also surprising to find Danoigny extolled as
techncian." something which the warmest admirers
OF his undenabe and poetical feeling have been
stow caim There SEINE notes upon modern Dutch
Influences in water color painting which are character
tzoG as forming new movement" aud Mr. koehier
writes upon wood engraving bringing his extensive
knowledge of the subject TO the defence OF the new
school" There also short papers upon the exhini
tnns Of the month. The five paoiogravures reproduce
PAINTINGS by Messrs Eaton, Weir, Brush and Low and
sculpture by Mr.. Gsudens. all subjects OF much
merit TIE Art Review is published py Mr.. George
T. Kelly, No. 81 East Seventeeath-st
In GaribaIdfs forthcoming Autobiography will be
founa lis account of his first meeting with his WHO;
had need of some human being who would love me-
viz IVA q
,usnpportdbIe Although not old, | knew men well
snouch 10 know how difficult IL is TO mud real friend
Bnt woman. Yes, q woman; for had always consid-
cred them the most perfect Of beings. and whatever
men may say Ii is infinitely easier 10 hnd really loving
heart among them. was walking OH the quarterback
of the lapaca wrapped in my sad thoughts and nav
ing reasoned matter in all ways, finally concluded 10
seak wife for myself, who would draw NE ont OF ths
depressing and insupportable state of things. MY
glance fell bv chance upon the houses or the Barra
tt,e hill thus called at the entrance or the Laguna oi
st Catherine in BRAZIL on which simple but
,c,ure,aue dwellings With the aid Of my glass, which
habitually held in my hand when on the quarterback
I.aw yonmg girl. ordered the men to row me ashore
IN that direction, and disembarkei ana nade ior tne
house which contained the object OF my voyage; pu'
could net lind it, when encountered person OF the
place whom | had known on my drst arrival. lie IN
'vle1 me to take coffee al his house We entered ana
the first person whom gaze fell was the one WHO
had canssd my coming on shore. 1t Anita! The
moth r OF my children. The companion OF my life IN
good aud evil fortune The woman whose courage
kave so often desired We both remained Ia an eostatic
slerce gazing at each Other like persons who do
NOT meet for the rst time and who seek IN each oher
hneanlents sc.nethng which shall revive remembrance
AT last I salutel her. and said. You must be mine
Ispoke but little Portuguese. and spoke these auda-
sou words in Italian However, seemed TO have some
magnetic power in my iusolenoe' had tea kno'
which death alone could break"