The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-06-01
LITERARY NOTES.

In his preface to the latest volume OF
his new variorum edition OF Shakes
peare's las You Like IL, Horace How
ard Furness says: 1T is through and
through an English comedy, on English
soil, in English air. beneath English
oaks. nowhere else on the
habitable globe could its scene have
been laid but in England, nowhere else
but in Sherwood Forest has the golden
age. in popular belief, revisited tho
earth. and there alone Of all the eartha
merry band could and did fleet the
time carelessly." So entirely English
is il, indeed, that he regards its pleas
antry rs typical Of that tongue, and
perhaps adapted to the appreciation OF
no other. To the German mind 1t IL
substantially incomprehenslble, and
this almost 1awless chry solite OF a
comedy, glittering with Rosalinds
brightness and rejecting sermons from
stones. aud glowing with the good IN
everything becomes in the eyes OF
German critics 1.-The almost sombre
background for Shakspeare's display
of folly one Of them suggesting, IN
deed, that the professional fool IS the
most rational character Of the play.
Literary competitions do not always
turn out as their promoters wish. The
Judges chosen by the ID. Lothrop Com
many 90 examine the MSS. submitted
for their prizes were :sE. Il. Hale, Jas.
b. Angel aud Maurice Thomson. They
have been forced to report TO the pub.
fishers that they were unable 10 hnd
among the material anything OF tho
quality or grade of excellence demand
ed by the offer made by Messrs. Lo-
throp. In place of the ninety-four
prizes that were to have been awarded,
the firm has generously distributed SoO0
among the competitors who stood high-
est on the judges list.
Parents believing ia honest dealing IN
literature as in other matters OF lie
should teach their children Loweils
lines:
In vain we call old notions fudge
And bend our conscience To our daring;
The Ten Commandants VIII not bulge.
Aud stealing will continue stealing.
Or il this is mo- brief enough the
words of Paul 20 the Ephesians: LET
him who stole. steal no more" or 40
tho Donay version has IL, lie thss
stole. let him now steal no more. A
a nation we have stolen more than Is
good for our morality aud patriotism.
Let rs now resolve TO steal no more.
The wife of the Rev. Joseph Cook has
been adapting Tennpson'5 "Crossingthe
Barr to her favsrite tune Ratio, and
her husband il Obliged to confess that
he does not think 1.-THE subtle measures
of the original are improved by the
omissions necessary to see IL to music
Then why did Mrs. Cook not leave the
beautiful verse alone? :,
Prof. Ely's Political Economy"
and Mr.. 7. Ii. Wigmore's work on tho
Australian ballot are to be published In
japanese.
The portrait OF Washington, an en-
Craving of which appeared as a frontis-
piece in the May Century il the proper
~ of Mr. Gideon L. Mexican, of Chi
cago, and was painted By Joseph-not
James Wright, as enormously stated
in the Century.
Mr.. Froude's Life Of Lord Beacons<
field" in the Queens Prime Ministers
Series. =" will not appear before the au.
tumn, although Mr. Froude's Ms. ID
now IN the editors hands.
| t1lE I.lNlU hlnOiu. tUt VI NV
Light of Asia. is busy in his issue ae
Toxic with the composition OF new
epic poem to be called The Light OF
the WoSd. ~ the subject Icing the life
aud teaching Of the founder of
Christianity.
An interesting complication exists IN
the publication OF Whistler's book. The
Gentle Art of Making Enemies, which
has been arranged for with Dir. Whist
Ter by the John w. Lowell Company.
An American journalist collected oil
the letters Whistler had written 10
newspapers for several years and with
various lectures sought TO publish them
in book form in England. Whistler
restrained him on the ground oil prop.
erty in the letters. The journalist He'd
10 Belgium, aud again attempted the
publication. Whistler followed and
again enjoined him. The Journalist
now thinks OF Paris as field Tor MS
third effort. but Mr.. Whistler proposes
TO again thwart him. Whistler is in
disputably the first etcher in the world.
and one OF the most widely known ar
lists. He has developed most enter
tanning STYLE OF writing in the last few
wears. and the material for Tine Gen
tie Art Of Making Enemies" mostly
nersonal. wilt be widely read.
The issue of French edition OF MAJ
rion Crawford 3 novels has suggested 20
n firm of Italian publishers like enter
prise in that language with the WORKS
of Hawthorne, The House OK the
Seven Cables has appeared and has
loo, xarv auecoseful