New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-06-22
LITERARY NOTES.

The quick response OF men 10 Bioc 'cho"i"e a..
is noble and simple rather than doctrina Is SHOWN ~
a., o,,.r,ah,e nonuIar1ty df Professor Drummond 5
hoou,fI sermon on "The Greatest Thing IN INC
World More than 10000 copies in English nave
been circulated and It has been translated INTO various
other languages. No modern man mas gwen d "oi'
no,rerfnl lesson in Christian living and the meaning
Of the Masters teaching.
Dr Smiles SAWS al never studied the art OF com
postion / read a multitude of the best books ana
from that ! suppose learned to compose
George Macdonald observes II man has any
thing 10 say he will manage 10 say IL II he mas
nothing to communicate, there Is no reason why ne
shonld have good style any moro than nc shoulu
have good purse without any money, or good scab-
bard without any sword. For my part always scorned
the very idea Of forming style
Before Stanley left London his last expedition
sir John Pcnder gave him copy OF Burns's poems.
Sir John in recently writing to Mr.. Bryce says Nheh
met Stanley in Egypt in the spring had not been
I'm conversation with him many minutes before he re
minded me OF the little copy Of Bnrns's poems ana nc
said il had been great Of comfort 10 him. he
had read it many times and liz believed thelc "aN
no better thumbed book In existence than that little
volume He said that Burns such child OF nature
and that he was so much In sympathy with him. That
many times he not only deeply touched. but greatly
encouraged by the per1isal Of the poems
No COPY Of the ten guinea edition nc lliAc OF Stal-
Ley's forthcoming book be obtained from the
trade I'm London for less than fifteen g1neas and II Is
cxpccto TO fetch ego By the time the work IL issued.
Mr. Stanley will himself sign each Of the $50 copies Of
the edition dc luxe.
The Shakespeare Society Of Ncw.York will I'm
mediatcly begin the publication Of a second series
10 consist Of incorporated reprints Of the old English
miracle PLAYS mysteries and moralitie- illustrdt
inc the growth Of the drama M 10 shakespeare
besides the least known and edited Enslsh plays con
temporary with shakeSpearc's own work These and all
other publications Of the society VII hereafter appear III
the scholarly and attractive style OF the Bankside
Shakespeare. TWO hundred and nifty copies oiN OF
TIL, srro, viii be- printed and the type will then be
distributed The first volume 81 the series will bc
Iackc Drvm- Entertainment. or the COycd" of Pas
OWL and Katherine. as It hath beene fundry times
plaid by the children Of Powcs. Newly corrected
| London. printed by W stanfby, for Philip knight
aud are to be sold a his fop In Chanccry Lane ouer
against the Roles. 1916. with notes, and Intro
! duc;on touching the origin, growth and dccadencc
! u the Chldrcr's Conpaniesj.7
| Who IS ready 10 pay $4,000 for n sct Of books
That the price put upon each OF the few existing sets
Il John Gould's Birds The forty three volumes oil
each set are elegantly bound and fitted into carved
cabinets.
some Juvenile effort Of Brownlnc's which we're lately
SON III LlhvI, "tIc d'''HpfhI'n " dil> tAt'l
| his father
| Bank March II. ie43.
lie ha not the slightest suspicion that Of his
very juvenile performances in existence. | have
| several Of the originals by me. They arc all extern
| porancous productions nor has any one single al
teratlon. There was one amongst them On Bonaparte
remarkably beautiiul-and had not seen 1t in his own
handwriting would have believed It to lave been
| the production Of a child II 10 destroyed
Mr.. Robert Barrett Browning has given the Mss.
Of his father, poems TO Balliol College II IS
thought that Mr.. Browning IS settled for life in his
| Venetian palace. lie like, the climate, and his Amer
lean wife has made his home a CHEEKY and charming
abode much requcntcd By all interesting artists and
writers.
At the recent meeting of the Massachusetts Historical
| Society, Dr. samuel a. Green. in referring t. tho
valuable gift of early printed books that had recently
| been made 10 the Boston Public Library. said The
collection formed by the late John Allen Lewis
Of this city. and given u that library by his widow
II includes many early Boston imprlnts and is par
| ticularly rich In Mather publications. The collection
was much used by our late associate Mr. Slbley. when
he prepared his Mathcr photographers. and, for IT,
rarities. mentioned at meeting III this society
| In January. 1884. Among the books is fine copy OF
"A Narrative Of the Troubles with the Indians Boston
1677 by Rev. william Hubbard containing the Whit
| HIS map. OF which only few copies extant
The Wine Hs map. which is OF less rarity was strcl
from the block first made. while the White HIS copy
| was taken from the second block which corrected
numerous errors. particularly In the names Of places
| Both these maps OF New England, In their titles
contain the statement Being the first that ever was
here cut aud at the meeting Of the society in Novcm
Der, 1873, gave my reasons for supposng that they
we're engraved by John Foster. the pioneer printer
| Boston,
a monument TO Richard Jenrles. the wise and
| gentle naturalist, Is TO be placed In Salisbury Cathe
drai by a few OF his guild.
The Respondent critics OF contemporary poetry TIL,
| Pail Mall Gazette says, "scan the horizo,
for the dawn Of the poet who is TO lllumno the ma
| nvity of the twentieth ccntury-hitherto in vain
Well suppose the worst. suppose Mr. swinburnc is
to prove the last English poet That IS not likely
perhaps; but 1t is not absolutely impossible II
history shows few ages unvvihcd by any intellectual
creative effort IL does show long periods Of deartl
| In special domains Of production; and after on
splendid poctcal record such period NAV possibly
lie before Us. Possibly one reason that good poetry
is not plentiful is the fact that the poet OF the day
doesn't WOO his muse in profitable solitude lie
PUSHES straightway into the current of city e and
expects to make that shyest Of swcethearts listen
amid thousand unpoetical distractions
| Mr.. Rudyard KipDng 10 writing a series OF twelve
| Barraci- Room Ballads
And another book about "Carmer
| SYLVIA The Queen Of Roumana is an excellent lady
and who does much good, but as a literary light
| she amounts 10 very little. Her poetry, to speah
after the OF her peasants. is very sinai
| potatoes and painfully few in a hill.
Through the Santa Clara Wheat" is the title o
| Bret Harte's new story.
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