New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-19
LITERARY NOTES.

SIDNEY Page will bc tho tltls OF tho novel on
,sb,cb Narcare, Drland is engaged. Though
not dealing directly with theology, II VIII have
RELIGIOUS motive II will be published next year
wb., IA said to he an uncommouIy interesting
collection OF waShingons letters will soon b" printed
for subscribers by tho Long Island Historical society
Tn these letters about $50 in number VIII DO pre-
nxcd portrait Of Washington by Charles PcaIe
which has not before been engraved.
II =. lopg since Mrs Fanny Kcmblc has boon men
TONED AZ An active wr4ior and Il will therefore be with
little surprise as will a. pleasure that the admrcrS
Of the brilliant old lady will welcome novel rom
her pen Holt Co will soon publish her story, The
srcne Of which Is laid IN the Borhshire hills Mira
Kemblc who lived for some time In that REGION OK
plorcd IL thoroughly in tho saddle.
Mr. Ju-fir II. McCarfhy's new translation OF omar
Khnyyan7 Is just coming out In London
Thomas Hardy. tho novelist, belongs 10 ono Of
tbc best county families Of porsetShlr. one Of his
,rc..,ors founded tho Dorchester Grammar School,
and in the aims Of another Ior Nelson died at the
ha,,, ~ Trafalgar The characters In Far from the
NaddIug Crowd and the scenery arc reproduced
from tho people and places TO bc found In tho neigh
bnrhoOi OF Max Gate tho house he has butt for him.
sen lust outside Dorchester BathshchS EVoricno'S
hor,cs,cad f. close ~ hand, and "CAstorordge' Is
Ior,bsster itself Mr. IIury Is Justice OF tho peace
% norchostcr As a writer b" Is thoroughly system
attic Once seated at his desk after breakfast he does
not rise til the days pile Of copy IS completed
Although of A sociable turn, when he has serious
work IN hand he shuts himself in his room and for
bids any visitors to como near his dwelling
An engraving Of J. T. sargents portrait nf Ellen
Terry As Lady Macbeth is TO appear In the next
number Of Iaper's Weekly
Arrccc htatnrnS Is the title OF the volume Of
chart stories which Mr. Edgar satus Is about to pub
llsh
Tho Marchoness Of stafford has Joined tho ranks o;
literary women with volume entitled, How Spont
NV twentieth Year being short Record OF Tour
Round the World
Those who do not tho charm Of SCOTS novels
may take I'm any sense they llko a saying OF Samuel
porcrs: when I am old and bedriddon shall be
road 10 by Young pcOple-Waltcr Scots novels per
haps'
.1ho stalvarts--tho book described on the iltle
nara IA By the only sister OF Charles j. Guteau'-
has INF, passage good President feIl-assassinated
by monicd political, monarhca ring, too cowardly
On mcet the Issues OF their scheme or even per
,ctrate I'm person their last desperate resort To
the trembling hand Of weak and nSanely religious
fanatic. workGd upon until he beloved himself
msplrod and directed by Deity to consummate their
ynIany be- removing the President out Of The way,
WAS lntrusted tho execution OF the final dIaboli'm'
AN Ambitious Woman tho clever story wSltton
nv Edgar Fawcott and originally published In The
Tribune has been translated into the Du'ch'
The celebrated novelist Count Leo Tolsroi, as Ia
vol known has given up HIS literary woik TO a
,rcat ., trrt and busIes himself chiefly with manual
labor and the spread Of the gospel OF brotherly
love 4 short time ago when driving IN the streets
| Of MOSCOW no saw a policeman arrest peasant DO
cause Of some slight offence agaln't tho police resu