The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-31
LITERARY FOOT NOTES.
John Burroughs, Author and Fruit
Culturist.
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actual business detains him there. A few
days ago he arrived here for the first time
in over six months, and had an hours
pleasant chat with him He was on his way
with the artists connected with one of our
leading magazines to do up" together
with them a picturesque region in an
adjacent state. His literary work, Of late,
has not been abundant; for be has about
fifteen acres Of grapes to look after, and his
hands, instead Of being colored with the
| stray ink-spot. were a trife tiuge1 las he
showed mel with the metallic solution with
which be had been spraying the singular
but formidable "black rot" that has lately
proceeded over the vineyards OF this country
from west TO east, and which has only
recently reached the vicinity of the Hudson
Mr.. Burroughs, when he writes, has Sc
| clusion Of his own, which he finds In bark
/ covered cabin on the slope Of his dooryard
| overlooking the river. II is a much more
picturesque house than ThOreau's OF Walden
Pond fame; and, being among the trees IF
teen rods away from the family house, is
well fitted for silence and communication
| with nature. The birds, the butterflies, and
all winged things ind it; and, l presume,
| the colony of q hornets nest, among
the shelves of books, could live amicably
| with their owner whose secrets be would
be sure, however, to share, and, IL they
were OF Importance, communicate to the
public. This cozy study, if it were round
| instead Of square, would look like a section
Of one OF the Yosemite trees-such a one
| as the Chicago people hope to / ut up at the
| grelt Columbian fair.
Douglass Sleden, the distinguished Aus
| tralan poet, who, with his family, has been
1 in cit fba yufs in
| pleasant fat, has lately left for Europe, and
| will make his home for year or two now
| in London. Mr.. Sladen is q very genial
cosmopolitanized Englishman, who has lost
| his insuiarity by extended travels through
China, Japan and India, as we'll as in other
parts, which countries he pursued with
| an authors purpose on behalf of the
magazines and their eager readers. He
is q graduate of Oxford, Is about IS years
of age, has dark brown hair, very black
| eyes and short mustache and beard. He
| is said to resemble, to some extent, r. W.
| Glider of the Century; In other words, is an
Anglicized copy of him. He has a brother
who, as the English express it, has good
| living" near Rochester, England. Mr..
Sladsns best knownworks here are his own
poems, The Australian Poets,n Literary
New York; and younger American
Poets.n He will write next about literary
London.
The gayety or our country Is soon to be
ecllpsed for the season or longer by the
| early departure of the humorist Mark
Twain for an extended residence in Europe.
bis home on Pennington avenue, Hartford,
Conn.,, Is as unique as the one he described
in the Galaxy" after the lightning rod
man had exploited it, though not 10 the
same way. He told me once, when had
its Inequalities, that he found it difficult to
write in the winter. but when summer and
the birds come, and vegetation is lush and
booming, then his mind is fluent and
he can unravel strange stories of the death
OF kings" or anything else He will be
missed from Hartford and E!mira. where
his society is most frequently to be had for
in this city, he rarely fingers longer than
| imperative business demands. As he has
| long got past the necessity of playing the
literary man for pay it is doubtful if he
| will favor the world with any very elabo-
rate work during his sbsence
One of the prominent and close friends of
Walt Whitman is j. Fl. johnson of this
cisy, who has himself impressively poetizsd
| the Rocky mountains. He has, in his
| library, more and more various editions of
the LEAVES of Grass" than, think any
one else in the world can boast. He does
not speak favorably, Just now, of the health
OF the "Good Gray Poet" who is too weak
even to ride in his wheeled chair with ad.
vantage. Mr.. johnson is soon, with his
| wife, TO j)in the stream of library and
| other tourists who, for this season, will visit
the far shores Of Alaska.
Julian Hawthorne Is vigorously at work
on an exhaustive history Of Oregon, which
| will appear in two volumes He ought to
discover some Economically colored facts in
his studies that can be made available for
future exploits in fiction.
Gross Currents" is the title of story
| from the pen of May Angela Dickens,
daughter of Charles Dickens, which is very
| appropriately to appear by and by in the
popular English weekly once edited by her
| father.
Oscar Wilde, who has recently Joined
some English reformers, who advocate what
they call reformed dress for women is to
bring out book son. titled Intentions :"
| IL is a series Of essays, and is announced for
| publication in this city. Robert Buchanan,
the English poet, who Is good fault finder.
| titles his now volume OF essays, soon to be
offered, 1.-The Coming Terror" This also
is to be published here and its spiciness can
be safely predicted
The Mitchell library book auction sale
| just closed brought prices that in the main
were considered high, as the books were not
OF the most famous quality. The figures
| ran for the rarest OF them from S25 to $27O.
IL was Banoroft's History of the United
States" extra illustrated. that brought the
| lhtber prlce. Inc DinulngS or the most OF
these books were of the best, and some were
by such rare binders as Matthews and Tout
Nothing in a purely literary way has ex.
cited more spicy and various comment than
the question as to anonymous criticism, un.
less 1t be that other question as to realism
and romanticism in fiction. William d.
Howells, more than any one else, perhaps
has been the cause of this commotion, ano
now he is to bring out, under the title Of
Criticism and Fiction ;" his whole body OF
doctrines on these topics.
Louis j. Jennings, the editor of the New
York Times from 1868 to 1876, but now q
member Of the English parliament, calls his
new novel 1.-THE Philadelphians.n A previ
GUS successful novel of his is entitled 9Th,
Millionaire
Walter Crane furnishes the illustrations
for book of poems entitled "Renascence,
to be published here as Will as in England
The name Of the author of the book is with.
held
The full name of du Maurier, the artist
is George Louis Palmela Busson du Maurier
} lie Is not only an artist for Punch, but hs
was also illustrator of two of Thackeray'
books. An interesting facs 60 those who
have enjoyed his graphic work will b.
found In the announcement that he has be-
gun story for serial use In Hdrpei's tina
Will soon give us q chance 10 test his literari
quality. IL Ia entitled "Pster Ibbettson."
Edwin Arnold's next book will be hi