New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-27
LITERARY NOTES.

Buffers Analogy" has lately been translated into
Hihdoo by English scholar
A volume Of Military Misce,lsnes' by General
]. B. Fry, U. S. A.. viii shortly be published by
prentano. 1t IL collection of papers on technical
and historical subjects
Miss Blanche Willis Howard, the author OF The
Open Door and other popular books, is round faced
woman with pretty eyes and quantity of waving
fair hair.
Concerning that nlitsrature which rests It's only
hope Of popularity on s nsstiness' W. NJ Cattle says
In Toe Fornighuy Review: against this evil
criticism is powcress. and worse than powerieSs Tor
such 10 the psrverstty OF mankind that an exposure
Of the mpropeties Of book of this type Is toerably
certain trcbe it's circulation and in fact decrylng
novel the of its indecency is avorte form
OF advertisement This is truism, OF course, yet
It seems 10 be one unknown 70 great many reviewers.
Vigorous denunoiaton of the ephemeral nasty novel;
20 donbt relieves the outraged intellect OF man of
taste: but n sends hundred or more idiots 10 the
booksellers mastery letting alone" is the wisest
treatment TO give to the current bits Of ierature"
As 10 a HING for poor fiction EnglishmoO have no
reason for Growing over Americans. In the course
Of tho last eighteen months fewer than $4,000
copies Of wretched mass Of trash ealed "The Mys-
tery Of Hanson Cab" were sold in England.
"sbakespeariana" reminds a public which iOrgetS
Its scholars easily that when Mr.. Colder produced
all Letters ID All American warrior who stepped
into the field and took that whole field for his province
Out Of that war OF pamphlets and pampheteefs it
honor belonged OF demonstrating, finally, that VILLAIN
Shakespeare and the Perkins readings were not con
temporary Armed cap a-pie, with a perfect equip
ment al every point nerVed 10 a great effort with
presumption against him as combatanS at all, from
an uneApeeied Quarter OF me unlaess mr. w W he
piece OF Victorian PalIed of Of as piece OF Eiza-
betlan EnCllSl y
effort would be an effort TO satisfy comparative
anaomist like Huxley with Barn m mermaid or
New sea-sorpent OF lath and cavas The ds,
Hsbakespeares Scholar Ginder which title Mr. White
collected his magazine contributions upon Perkins
Folio matters. and how speedily the name OF the
book transferred itself 10 its author Its great merit,
and its shrewd postIlates of fact and of logic were
Immediately conceded. AS rule, wndfall appr3-
drawn from its preface or its binding; or from per
sunday suburban newspapers But, in this case, the
first approval of ShakeSpoares Scholar became us
Deliberate valuation. And when. finally, Sir
Francis Madden an expert in chrOgraphy, and
Mr.. N f. s. 4. Hamilton, chemist vent to work
with his microscope and the other with his acids-they
found the marginalia Of that notorious copy Of the
Without an peoon but from pathological testimony
alone, had referred them.
A series of articles all interesting matters con
nected with the discovery Of gold IN California and the
romance and adventure of the goldhunting period is
in course Of preparation for 1.-THE Century Ihese
papers to be richly illustrated.
aThe Pail Mall Gazette is wroth with Mr.. Gladstone
because he recently proclaimed the right Of Amer
lea to be the great organ of the powerful English
tongue" This surrender 30 the Americans" says
the critic, OF tongue which few of them can speak
correctly which fewer still Of them can pronounce
and IN which not half dozen of them at most have
written any great work, struck me at the time
curious proceeding from a literary standpoint" How
cruelty cutting and conclusive!