New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-10
MEN, WOMEN, AND BOOKS.

Mr. Henry w. Grady of The Atlanta CONSTITUTIONS
is beginning what promises IL is carefully done to
be valuable work-s history of the Southern portion
Of the Union. Tho editor Is to be assisted oy speoa-
lists and the work win DO illustrated.
Tennyson is said 10 be keeping wonderfully we'll
He IS too setic be idle; and he reads his daily
paper and preserves full freshness OF interest IN tho
events of HIS tine.
new and limited edition of Irvng's Life Of Wash
ingtons win be among the forthcoming publications. OF
O. p putnsm's sons-a timely one in view Oh the aG-
preaching centennial celebration. The nve lafss
quarto volumes WIN be enriched Dy zoo inusuauons'
Each of the 800 sets VIII cost ESQ.,
Mr.. Gladstone rightly holds that In considering
the value Of novels the proper test 10 apply is the
query swhich novel will best bear reading and re-
READINGS He agrees with Wilkie Collins In think
ing Scott the first novelist Of the century The Brde
Of Lammermoors Is Glafstones favofe, and ne roehs
"a every three or four years. George Eliot he hns,
comes next to Scott, her masterpiece being "silas
! Marners OF Thackeray, Mr.. Gladstone has sppari
| emily not heard
IN. n.xt number Of aHarper's Basar' win contain
portrait of its late Editor, the gentle. excellent ana
lamented Mary Booth ~,
This e queer description Of Wordsworth which
quaint old Lakeman gives @wudswOrth for a. DO
had noa pride, nor nowt, was man who was quito
one 10 hissep. lie was not man as folks could sFack
vi, nor not man could crack WI folks But tnere
was another thing KEEP folks OH, he had 'erois
grit deep voice, and va might see his race again y"
long enu I've folks, village lads, and iasses
coming over by old road above which runs from Grss-
mere to Rydal fayt almost to death there BY Wshihg
Gaste TO hear the grit voice groanin and materih,
and thundern' OF stn evening, and he had way oh
standin quite sill by the ROCK there in pain nndee
Rydal, and folks could hear sounds Ike via oeas'
coming from tue rock and children were scared III 70 %
dead a'most.s
Mrs. Mary Catherine Lee, the author Of that charm
ing little book, "A Quaker Girl OF Nantnchet' HVes
In Lexington Mass She Is said TO spend great deal
OF time on the bleak bus delightful island and knows
Il we'll This Is her first novel; her previous literary
work consisting merely of few anonymous Sketches
| published in periodicals.
The sister NJ tho murderer Gulteau has written .
e noyol. entitled Tho stalwarts; or, Who Were 10
| Blame IN She endeayors to show therein that nor
brother was insane. She herself publishes tho oooE
| which IS sold by subscription
aBlooms and Brambles,1 a collection Of poems oy
Edgar Fawcett, viii shortly be issued BY Elliot s'oca'
| Of London. The volume will be composed OF poems
| taken from Mr. Fawcett's three books, fantasy a.
Passion "song and story' and @R0nan'e A's
Reverys already published In this country.
What cannot bumor dot "what . wonderfui . 1Iu
| is humorln says A. Stuart in Macmillan. a,.
subtle and delicate 10 Is; how swift 70 setAo 49,
portunity, and Jet how gentle; how uas " .s na,d
OF iife yet how merciful in what 1t ooneeas, ~ -,
IN It's delineation of character yet how taae'
serve our respect It discovers and Dinos Us "a
things which would otherwise appear unreia'eu -
aen,,ea n Dialects similarity where there seems ouS
fneonert,ity IL finds hidden Rnalogfes IN ta' 80,
m,dst of difference hut IL can also untwlst soa ~
IN opposition TO each other things which ~ 'e'
| appear almost IDENTICAL It Is as QUICK as ns 80.
physician in detecting distinctions; and dsercpsn.
disclose themselves by the mcre force Oh It's
MANY Of the poems from that rare itsie VOLUME,
| q Ioye-foros of which Mr.. W. ]. Linton pi'n -
comics ON his Private press In Connecueu'. 49, -
included In q collection which he IS ABOUT " '''e
IN London.
one English owner of newspapers says ns no,
,,,,s. houcht story without using iei DO uN" ~.
4 his rivals TO have the right of puonsnlns -
payment he secured the exclusive nsn''
Tho literary remains Of Ehp p,,. ,,,,, A., four
which his widow has now begun y Z
largo volumes. - ,D,u,. q, Tara
,as,,rs Addressed like the famous ones 70
s,. s.s.so,a 10 Young relative. LORD oanar'.A'
ranp ,hs original epsties, has consen'ed 70 '''
publication.
-. :, Mrs. purnett's Fauntlcroy' and sara
4 ", s..a,rt nm 10 date, TO $4,000 copies ono
e,p eN' - q Fnuntleroys among the papef-eoscsu
,ovs,u On the newsstands of the elevated reiiroa''
,,.,,,; n mccarthy NJ p..--the younger justin, n0.
49, s,ds,ix about to pablish novel win sn' N.Y.
tito Of Dolly - -.
~. ,.a.re newspaper Of Scotland atey con.
..,ass in ono issue over i've columns OF $3.50 ~
- parps dinners concerts and club mee.lnss, n.s
~ ,nore than hity towns and villages 81 tuA ''''~s
and IN celebration Of tae POETS hirsaasS'