New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-10
ABOUT BOOKS AND WRITER'S

Mani Dclan0
mus@l 49, S-r,,tre through tentative efforts IN
o..1 .ho mayor even wrote short story ului
~" ~ ~ MI, - John WARD paper she Is no"
,,,,c = now novel In spite OF inc aPpato".
,nor,hodox tendencies Of John ward MIS- Deianu
remains herself stout church"oin@h
rIovd G Brice has written new novel; when
nrcntsno win soon publish under the tue Oh iHo
Romance Of an Alter Ego
Tho documents relating to the United states whlsh
Ar Tobn purand found in his researches annons 'lo
Frorcb aehyes will soon be pubhsheu III Fo'u"o
nr Holt 4 Co. Many episodes OF the American
Revolution are made clear therein
The Scotch songs which Mrs. Rlves-chanler con-
tributes IN Harper are not good enough 10 A'oo
for their dialect; and their dialect Is not accurate
enough 10 carry their poetlcal unimportanee' MIS-
C1anleISs groupings for her forte" arc interesting III
way. but they arc not literature
Mr.. George Moore declares that he intends 70
ayepee himself upon the American publishers VIM
bropqbt out an unauthorized second edition. oil
bis . Confessions of Young MAN. and to that
end be is going to publish here an ediuon Oh ms
~, containing sixty pages Of fresh matter In
tho preparatlon OF these pages an American iHena
colaborates with him. and this VIII secure an
American copyright II is much 10 be feared that
Nr Moore viii find, when his edition comes Out,
that the American market has already had all IL
wanted Of HIS book
Mr.. Clark Russell has long been a suffering cripple
from rheumatism Ho has tried all sorts OF remedies
even a long voyage 20 tho Cape-and has AZ last
found relief at English therapeutic estaohshineh'
where the Pine treatment IS given Here INC suheIef
nhaIes. swallows battles In and is rubbed with inc
essence Of tho Pine.
It IS vehemontiy stated by "The Atlanta cons'itu-
tions that no Southern Congressman OF mtei'seh0o
A. f.affu nj fnnV
what about the unlnteIlIgent congressmen both
Northern and Southern
aTbe Romance Of shop Is the title Of novel
which cupples a Hurd shout to publish. i Is
the work Of Miss Amy Levy, an English Hebrew
pretty, gentle brunette Of twenty-five. she was
student OF Newman College. where she Is said to
have distinguished herself by wearing wondrous
aesthetic dresses and stlll more BY writing some
charmiaE TRANSACTIONS Of Hclne and original poems
soon after leaving colleges her father suffered soHn
serious money losses and she determined to earn
her living BY writing Besides poems, she has
contributed many short stories TO Temple Ba" and
other magazines.
new writer. Mr.. Harry p Robinson. appears IN
The Atlantic with clever story having clever
uus, "qhe Gin Of Fernseed' The little plot Is
worked out with unusual artistic power. and tho sense
OF intense life Of the spirit deprived Of ia corporal
envelope by a dose Of fern seed7 Is admirably con
veyed.
Rosamund olIphant, the widow Of Laurence
olphant win continue her husbands work at Haifa
and viii be assisted by two scotchmcn, who have
become converted TO Scientific Religion
It appears from Miss wheeler's portrait Of Mrs.
E. II. Burnett, published in The Literary News
that the latter lady Is dark eyed person about
eighteen years old.
Pun OF the freshness and sweetness Of summer WOOD
AMI field and stream IS Cordons Song" IN the over
/ dear and winsomo angler Of old Walton. Hugh
Thompson has put into his drawings for The English
Illustrated Magazine all the most iractve spirit Of
tho song and IT'S period
The scene Of Mr. Robert Louis stevenson's next
novel Is said 10 SHIFT from London to the South
Seas lie is thinking OF calling II The Gaol Bird,
| and he VIII publish Il In the autumn
Mrs. Mona Caird, the originator Of the crazy
! question. Is Marriage FailurcP has edited, With
NJ. osca= Wilde, curious htue book Of sketches
A friend Of Mr. Wllde's, while this question was
raging in THE Telegraph" amused himself BY
making imaginary sketches Of the writer's OF tho
published letters these now form an amusing col
lection, and fow Of Mr.. Wlldes epigrams added
A COPY OF tho first American edition of Robert
Burns's poems bearing the autograph and book
plato Of Washington, has Just been sold In Chicago
for $50.
Miss Margaret Lee tho author Of the novel Faith
full or Unfalthful,n which Mr. Gladstone has beer
writing about, is a sister-in-law OF Mr.. Alfred
Brennan, the artist