New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-08-13
LITERARY NOTES.

profsssor Mason who is so painstaking schoir
n,, ho "a sometimes called The Drayhorse OF Let
tersp is thinking of resigning the char OF Enghsh
a, Fa,pburch University. lie succeeded Ayiown
In 1865.
'. r,+ze were to be offered for the discovery of
an omission in "who Wons' Mr.. James e. sum
,er,s Yachting record for 80, is more than doupI
,uI n ANYBODY would acquire it. surely no moro
ooun,cte exact and exhaustive compendium coua
- nrorared II is Indispensable to every one VINO
takes An interest In yachts and yachting us HS'
~ snhiects is an attractive one. shows uesluos
The winners of 1858 and chronology OF yaohtlhH
events for for,y-hve years past, the Names o"hcr'
dimensions builders etc.. OF 1000 American yachts
classified according to rig; coored plates OF l'lVo
yachts racing flags LA club flags; 81 foreign en-
signs and naval flags code anu weather slsnais.
the fastest time record; yacht routine; tiue anu
time allowance tables; list of the Sandy hooA Po'
boat feet charts of NewYork and Boston HarDors ana
Of Long Island Sound; sailing directions ann many
other things of great interest to ali yachtsmen'
Tho article on Mr.. wlfid Wards /" LIFE Of his
father which appears in the current number Oh inc
Nineteenth Century" partly prepared by Lazy
Tennyson. There was some idea OF ailxmg 10 IL '"o
double signature Of Lady Tennyson and oil the HON.
Hallam Tennyson. But ultimately Lady lehnS
whose keen interest and capacity in literature aro
known TO a large circle OF friends, became shy Vi
publicity, and left the subscription solely to her so
Pope's Essay on Man" with MS. correc tons in the
poets handwriting, was lately sold In Lohuoh ior
S16o
Writing In The Andover Review" on The PsychoE
ogy Of the Novel; Professor G. T. Ladd, OF 1ac 'uS
deals with the burning question Of Realism vs. 10
manticism: The romanticst may work the VEN oi
the romantic IN such way 10 begct that very leel
ing of ennui which the ordinary reader OF the mover
seeks TO avoid; the time he surely loses 'ho
goodwill of that thoughtful reader VINO seehs 70
recreae and help himself by contemplating the aiustc
representation Of actual human life. On the othe
hand the realist who males his final purpose the
mere portrayal of the mnutiae of daily experience or
who stops long by the way to indulge hinseh III
the work of mere copying from nature, violates the
rules OF his art He is also to beget in his lcaier
the same feeling of ennui. In detailing external sur
roundings, describing the characters and naTatns
the conversations, I'm work of prose hcuon' srcaV
discrimination and skill needed TO attain just the
right amount OF realism, as it were. The petty ar
rangements and in themselves dstasteful customs OF
restaurant, for example, may be all set before Us
m such way either 10 instruct and please or dis
gust and annoy SO, too, the talk Of common people
may be made intereSt ting wearsome to the ealer'
according to the falthfuness OF the author in depict
ing and at the same time his art in ideaizng, that
which occurs in the speech of everyday lie Ioisiol
makes us feel thai afford to sit through an
entire meal and look and listen, with Levin ana
Stephan Arkadyevitch, at the restaurant but the real
less dstastef and depressing than repeated visits
10 yateidiis in Mr. StOcktOns company. Nor can we
wholly clear our American authors, Howells ana Henry
James from mistakes in the length to which they
carry their realism. What can be more uresome
whether we meet it in real life or in art, than much
of the conversations in the 'BoSoniaEs' or the
Minister'S Charge"
Professor Ladd says, concerning Mr.. Howeilss
GIndian Summer that 10 seems to him the most
thoroughly artistic Of all the works of this author
Tolstors "Anna Karenna' he regards as one of the
worlds great masterpieces Of art, a work to be
placed in the very highest rank Of its kind. Like
every really great artistic product its effect upon the
Intelligent and right-minded observer and critic IS
aestheticaly and officially elevatng and purifying
SO pervcrse does the criticism which Mr. Maurice
Thompson and Others have, in the name of morality
bestowed upon this book appear to me as a pro
fessional student of the human mind that find great
difficulty even in comprehendng the grounds on which
Il Is alleged to rest5