New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-01-26
LITERARY NOTES.

"The Shadow Of Dream is the title Of a short
serial story which Mr.. Howclls has written FOB Har
pcrs Magazine The opening chapters will appear
In the March number. The same number will contain
paper by Mr. II. E. Krehbiel on a specially interest
ing subject" How to Listen to Wagners Music"
Here is a clever scrap from letter written John
Lothrop Motley by Oliver Wendell Holmes Il sat by
the side Of Emerson who always charms me by his
delicious voice, his fine and wit, and the deli
cate he steps about the words Of his vocabulary
II you have seen cat picking her footsteps In wet
weather You have seen the picture Of EmersOns ex
qusitc intelligence feeling for its phrase epithct
Sometimes | think Of an anteater singing out his in
scots, as him looking about, and at last Selling
his adjective, the best the only one which
would serve the need Of his thought
Mr. Du Chalu, It is said. is thinking of writing a
biography Of Gustavus Adophus.
Mr. John Addlngton Lymonels. who is still in
valid, has finished his Life OF Boccacco."
That DISCONTINUED critic The Saturday Review"
says that IL really cannot help it that American his
tory is dull. consisting for the most part OF easy
victories won by rather commonplace men, and fol
lowed by intensely commonplace prosperity" As for
the first President, it declares that Mr.. Lodge, in his
recent work. has only made Washington look like
what many people have thought him all along-an
Engshman who happened to be born in Virginia. and
had his interests there, whose local patriotism and
OF his personal dignity strong. and who was
always glad Of chance to show that he was ~ good
as a Kings officer, who far "A general that he
understood the need OF organization who could recog
nlze fact and not easily led away by phrases.
All that is respectable but it IS not greatness, nor
will any amount Of easy prosperity nor any chorus Of
applause alter IFS essential character" An American
need DO than note this criticism with radiant
and indulgcnt smile.
Mr. Edward Bcllamy's Looking Backward has
been such a in England that his London pub
Usher about issue edition of his former book,
Dr. lcidenhon's Process
OF James Whitcomb Riley Tho Indianapolis Jour
nal playfully observes "The father Of young Riley
was lawyer of large practice. who used, in moments
Of deep thought. TO regard his boy the worst case
he had. This may have been the reason that.
in time. he insisted his reading law which the boy
really tr.cd to do; but, finding that Political Economy
ana Blackstone didn't rhyme, he Slid out Of the Office
hot. sultIy afternoon and ran away with patent
medicine and concert wagon. from the tail end II
which he discovered, by some relatives Of his In
the next town, violently abusing has, drum. Thi,
a proud moment for the boy: did his peculiar
presence Of mind entirely desert him TIL all the county
fairs for the season Then. aiar of, among
strangers I'm "a strange state, he thought 10 would be
fine TO make a flying visit home But he couldn hy.
Fortunately I'm former years he had purloincd some
knowledge OF a trade. He could paint sign
housc-or tin roof-f some one else would furnish
him with the pant-aud one Of Ricy's hand painted
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