New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-06
LITERARY NOTES.

LIIEilAItL NOAAp'
Basil, Isabel and the other leading characters VI
Their wedding Journey" coming to live in New
York Their experiences here will be related by Mr.
Howells in a new novel; the first chapters OF when
will appear In March in Harpers Weekly
So strong a feeling has been manifested In THIS
country against the publication Of cheap pirsted e"
,,ou Of profes cor Iryces noble work on 1.-THE Amer
can Commonwealth that IL is hardly possible 'ha'
any publisher will undertake 1t. Tine Boston H'
ycrtisers SAYS: professor Bryce's netenas "ero
gathered by the most patient, candid ana acu'" ~
ouIry in this country. and represent many years VI
labor on his part and that of IDS American ASSISTANTS
rIc has made admirable use OF them in the prepare
ton of a work universally recognized as monument
to our Common wealth and OF the foremost
IN ALL students of our institutions and people. for
such a monograph the Nation cannot aitoiu 10 sho"
Itself ungrateful II publisher attempts 10 put a'
edition Of this work the market TO deira"o 'lr
au,hor and discrcdit the Nation his attempt should DC
plorted IS peculiarly disgraceful and the edi"oh
should DO boycotted by honest book buyeis'
Toward tho end OF his lifo It is said, Charles Reahe
wac accustomed to dictate his compositions TO Sec
retary while he paced the room, suiting MS ae'o"'
his words In Love and Money 4" the remark oo.ui'
In tbe dialogue, There's a smut on your nose Inc
oo, dran,ati,t gave the original exclamation on win
such pefect information and gesture mat MS seoio-
s,arx was for once deceived. He rose, went 10 inc
mirror, handkerchief tn hand only TO DC iausn'u
by his employer
The library building of Cornell will provide storage
for nj least 900 volumes. with facliues ior
indefinite extension Of the bookstacks.
Mr. Froude is writing about :" Draks'; "ater
posant about Captain Cookn and Tom Hughes about
| q T ,v,nrstone, for the forthcoming series OK hhs
| lish Men Of Action
william Morris, the poet, says IN his JUST
hook: at found that the causes OF tho vuisaies VI
,u,,or ,.v dcener than l had thought, and little
by little was driven to the conclusion tna' al U.s.
,g,nesses ARE but the outward expression OF ING III"
| nate moral basoness into which we are f"ioed W 'u
nresen form of society and that It is futile 10 'ehp
| IN deal with them from The outside Whatever "a
written or spoken on the PLATFORM on 'nese oo.'~
subjects IS the result OF the truths OF sociaNs ".
Ing nv earlier impulse, and giving 1t dehhi'e S'o
much serious AIM"
All ,rbo a,. Interested in Thcosophy, Oriental mys-
,csm mr. any of the occult sciences and studies anu
would like to see them brought into line Win "cs0'
thought and science, should read MISS "or'no"' >
forthcoming translation of Balzacs LOUIS Lahioef'
Robert brothers, with the elaborate lnloouo'o" u
Mr. G. f. Parsons. Louis Lambert" has hi'noi'
been sealed mystery to most readers II Is HOW ior
n. erst time explained and in the fullest manner
Tho connections and anaoges between modern sc'eh-
udc hypothesis and the Kabbaiistic ana Hnou 'neo-
sos MON which Balzac founded HIS philosophy, arc
| cxb,bited by Mr. Parsons with completeness heSe,
before achieved and the least thoughfW Will nlu
| something suggestive in this curious BOOK
@rbe Last Assembly Balp is the title of novelette,
bicb Mrs Mary Hallock Foote has contributed 70 ih'
| cept,,rvn 1t will be begun In the March huaioef
The Romance of Dollard' will be finished III 'n'
February number. Thus far this story mas no' iu1'
| eued the promises with which 1t was introduced
| Mr. Gladstone says, In letter to De rouho III
newly published Life of John Stuart MILF NO Ano"
| ~, >TIrs intellectual eminence before he entered
| parliament What his conduct there principally ois
closed at least to me, his singular niora eieV
remember now that at the time, more thah twenty
wears back, I used Familiarity call him the oaii'
- Ratonalism a phrase roughly and parraIy OK
pressIne what now mean. OF all the mooVes '''"e
and stimulauts that reach men through their esouo
j., p.r,ioment no part could move or even touch him
Tic conduct and his language were, In this respect
sermon Again, though he was p'iosopn'' "
as NOT think man OF crotchets. lie hah'
,birL the GOOD sense and practical tact Oh politics
torether with the high Independent thought Oh ie
clusc I need not tell you that for the saAo Vi Ia
House Of Commons at large, relolced III IA. '"'
denlored his disappearance. He did US all gooa u
whatever party, whatever form of opinion sorrow
fullv confess that such men are rare
George MeredIths new novel is nearly ready 10
publication
Mr. Desant made a funny mistake in his last nove'
.ror Faith and Freedom he described one Vi u
characters Is going :" on board steamer n0uho ~
: New ngland" in 1857
new novel by Mr.. F. Marion Crawford VIII 500
bs published by the Macmlans. 1t Is 10 20 el
{ titled "Greifenstein." The same firm VIII orins W
"Neighbors on the Green" Mrs ohphanrs ne" oooi
The author of AS Common Mortas' has wr't'eh
new story The book deals with life In kome' oil
o Mrs Coombes calls 10 " The Garden OF Medara'