New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-08-27
LITERARY NOTES.
~,.,s pusserI IS writing a life or Lord Nelson

ryart RUSSELL is writing life or Lord Nelson
ar,. London Globe. says that considering what
.orc. Eliot theological opinions are, 10 Is amusing
- ana the Rev. r. Chadwick using her name as
means of conjuring 200 pounds out OF the pocke's
:, che publ,c for tho restoration OF "Shepperton"
church. But Miss Evans was one of the few people
who after undergoing change OF opinion, are aole
No maintain a certain amount of reverence Tor what
they have left
Mr. Henrik Ibsen, whose works are popular iad
IN London Just now. is man of solitary life. FOR
tucnty-fye years he has lived in selfimposed exie
nom his native Norway. No lands call him master
no household calls him Its head. In his wanderhss
nver Europe he goes into society, and in hs many
temporary abodes he takes nothing with him 'hs' ITO
rails his own friend charged with messages 10
him I'm Rome could only find him after much PARENT
searching. and. though well known TO many by sight,
he has no intimate friends Up to the age oil lhrN-
six Mr. Ibscn lived ordinary member oil society
ho e now noar.y sixy-two. The first part OF MS
uta was not happy. His father became inSoNcn'
when Henrik child eight years DID, anu us
carly youth was clouded with extreme poverty H'o
srt start in life was made at the age of sixteen as
ehemists apprentice; IL was not a soothing career
for fiery and disconnected youth. He wrote
,acedv I'm his hours Of leisure and had printed pseu
ANONYMOUSLY at his own expense. II was On Tue SUI
,ect of Catina. lie came 10 be glad 10 sen inc ouo
for what IL would fetch waste paper anu 10 guy
a dinner with the proceeds. lilo always loohcu ii
ward 10 going TO the University but Chr1suaiia VI"
not greatly please him when at last he got Unoio'
He read hard bit not for any course In paf'ou'"'
and when ole Bull, tho violinst, offered MN Pos'
On his new theatre at Bergen he gladly TOOK IT, ITO
was there for five years In 1857 he marr'eo Gus
Tboresen whose mother was a Norwegian au'noi "
note and settled In ChHstiana with post Ill cio
theatre similar 10 the one he had held in Bergen IN
1854 he left Norway. His life, uncVeh'iul up VIZ
then. has remained for the outside world ana @par'
from his work equally uneventfl down to the present
dav But his life cannot be separated from his lapos
His writings are his life. They are not any
autoboraphc but literally and desigheuS 81
aFycrything that / have written" he says Is mus.
Intimately connected with what nave eApo'ioneos
or have not experienced Each new poem has SorVeu
sa mo The nurpose of purifying and enlighenng me
IND for one IS never without certain share ID an"
responsibility toward the society TO Which ono po
longs"
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