New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-07-06
BOOKS AND WRITERS.

| large boulder has been planted at Cooperstown
on the site OF Cooper's old home which was bnrheo
I'm 81 II is surrounded by an iron fence ana on ono
polished face Of the stone this inscription mas Dccn
cut: on this site stood otscgo Hail. thc nome W
| James Fenimorc Cooper, where he lvcn from i0"f
| % tho dav Of his death. September 1851. Butt III
| ZOO hv Judge william Cooper DESTROYED by Ire
| October 1e53s There is other monument 10 'ne
novelist in the town which he made famous pn'
there Is movement progress to erect one Dy Poio
subscription.
Mrs Alexander. the author Of one Of the mo'I
nopular Of the modern novels, Inc "ooins W.
| has written novel for the next number OF LPplh
| cottr Its title Is what Gold Cannot Buy UT
pudvard Kinllng too has given the number ske'ch
of Anglo indian life.
A Boston girl whose were always "dechncd
with thanks hit upon n unique scheme Tor having
| nicrn published She would send llne or II verse
from one Of her poems TO the query colnmh vi S'nc
uapcr and ask from what poem such lnc came Tue
| name ~ the poem and that Of the autlor. friend
| also q rhymcSer. would send the qncriSts OWL p''"
% thc popcr with the desired Information ana OF
! coprso II would appear in prat. The qneriSt woud
do tbc same for her friend and on, until between
! them they had most Of their illusions printed
| Mr. KipIng remained In this country about two
| months last year accommodating material iof pooh
to bear the From shore to shore IN amer
| can who met him describes him a. "a SNORT ps"'"
cheSted man, brilliant taiheF' a"u al '"''
| person generally
Miss Molly f. scawcll the author Of "Throck-
norton" the southern novel Just published hy the
Apnlctons Is niece az president Tyler. and lives
in Washington She IS the author OF several clever
stories
| The centenary Of the York street Chapel, dis
scntlnr church in London to which Robert brown
ngs parents belonged. has Just been celebrated Inc
poet his younger days used to sit with his parents
and his sister I'm the gallery on The right mana Oh 'e
prcachcr-'a bow - fellow worshlpper describes
him, with marvellous cOuntcnance and black nash
| ing ewes" Mrs Browning Of the first mem
bcrs Of the church. her name standing In the roll a'
NO Is. Her husband Joined subsequently, his nun
her being 42j In the baptSmal register this entry
occurs Robert. son Of Robert browning and Sarah
Ann lis wife. born In the parish ST. CHESS.
Camberwell on the eth day Of May, 1912, and wnS
bnptiscd the I4h day Of june 1919, by me- George
Clayton, minister
The Pied Piper poem which Robert Brovning's
| father wrote begins thus:
There Is at a moderate distance from Hanover.
| On the Wcser Of singular fame
town which the French and the rats often ran over;
| Bat though report varies
! Yet sag antquaric>
Arc all in one story concerning It's name
i is liamen- Dml yon Lad id, bo ., e., t.!l"p''
Tho place. without 1attery.
vor tho S r',n one t ra1' ia mortal coald saw
the nest nlglt'
And for ton overnight there we're twenty next DAY.
VIII gG9G iaG naec GS c TaJS SAy w MGrS
| Inlcss these intrudcrs were driven awnI,
| The rat, and taxation
| Would bring OIL Starvation
And they shouldn't stay
The elder Eiovnng sent these lines 20 lis friend
Powell with TIN, L0te al hope YOU will pardon the
liberty take Ia sending this TO you-but the case Is
| rather finsiiur Ecforc ] knew hat Robert had
began his story Of the Rats had contemplated
ialc on the subject aud proceeded with a. iaf
a, YOU see lie goes on to say that. finding his son
had similar tale IN hand. he dcSisted aud should lie
sorry II his con knew anything about u mat ~
dcpcndcd on Towcll- silence. and hoped that when he
had read 1t he would throw 1t in the fire lie must
have soon altered hi, Mind about fortnight after
| ward lie Powell the complete story 'abont ""o
lines, written amidst all the bustIc and n'"rrnp
ZION ~ th- Cosoi Ofloc Uauk 81 England. March L.
! L. 10, 15i3."
Professor Arthur Shcrlurnc Hardy, In his Views on
| pealsro doesn't altogether agree with Mr.. Howel~
! q No Two mirrors he SAYS, give back Inc ~ihlc II
ncction: photography itself Is not literal rcpF''in'-
ton: and the human eye IN Us Noberest a"mp'' 10
| observe the data, Views them through mc"'"" ~
feeling and emotion that the note books of -eparac
o,.crvor. NJ thc .,me fact or the sketches by scpa
rate ncurs Of the same face. different - nid
.c,pr under different skies Far mo" dh'un thh' IN
& NJ the scientific observer this Of the reporter Oh
thing, incorporeal whose eve. Itself clouded by iju
IL fixed motives fcclnHs hhu I"'-'' -" 'H"''
difficult and far more Sat his report Is not
false TO NATURE because It's clemeru have not been
seen in precisely the combination under which he
nrcscnts them and the justification OF such pe'eh
atiou Is found in the effect which IL produces for
il IS mans privilege 10 teach In better fashion whi'
nature tcachc, mpcrccy, to so charge his work with
the truth Of beauty which naturc but nadePiateN
nrrcsts that II will not let US 60 ill these brought
home 10 u.s. \ hundred photographs may be Gcce'-
sary 10 represent completely the man We know: but
the artist il condemned to 80 aborons process
and can seize and imprlson in n single portrait the
spirit Of those hundred moods whose outward signs
, arc the despair Of the camera one never sees All
this The philosopher, the poet. the Inorahst, the
pr,ctca man, will draw up for H. different accounts 81
the same phenomenon without eXhausting the facts or
their reach Nature Is an ocean from which each Ills
his inv cup with what nc may. The liberty 81 The
artist +, his power choice. It's exercise charms rs
becausc We seem to ia his work product not Of
nature but of that mind TO which We refer nature 10
set bound to hi, idcalizine process Is to Sct bound"
! 20 our hopes. aims ana desires. We persist ia
| living IN tomorrow. though tomorrow never comes
our desire f. for the beauty nature never attan5; our
aim /, the sum of truth whose fmgmentary and often
| contradictory manifestations cannot detaih Ms 10
dccy the process because u sometimes lthhs lis a'tay
i, t. Gccry our modest Instincts
The anthnr Of "Naturai Law In the Spiritual
, World and Of The Greatest Thing in the World
has been travelling IN Africa, and has encountered an
amusing instance Of Portuguese ofhcalism there. NJ
a custom house ne ndu' eTthS 10 MS hI"! an'o W
surrender tho rifle which necessary to him IN Ills
travels, but he got out OF the difficulty by purchasing:
another and proceeding quietly and without molcsb
: ton his way.
I Echoes from Niagara: Historical Political Per
sonal7 Is the title Of the book which the widow Of
Richard Crowley Of Lockport. has Just published.
The larger part Of the volume is filled with political
and personal "reminiscences.
IL Is pleasant 30 note that Miss WlklnS's keen ard
touching stories OF Ncw-England life and charactcr
find appreciation among good critics In old England.
5 "Thc Academy says OF recent British edition oi
. her sketches that great literary power may be dis
cerned throug hout; indeed. only a tine artist IN
letters could have presented such subjects these
5 cficctually'
a Mr. Du Maurler has finished his NOVELETTE, novel OF
society whlch Is 70 nppcar In Harper next year.