New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-12
LITERARY NOTES.
@Lyrics and Legends" is the title Of Miss Nora
Svrry's forthcoming volume Of verse.


The realistic drama OF the future as lately per
formed I'm Paris under the direction and for the beno
at of NJ Paul Verlaine "the modern Vnlon," can
hardly have been wildly entertaining. Composer u
is said in accordance with the tenets Of the impress
sion,st school and played with the lights half down,
~ presented the audience with the shadow Of picture
sThe actors were deliberately inaudible. Their re-
lationship was obscure. But so it Is In lhe Here
We have logic pure and undcfled. Realism has gone
far beyond the romance Of such bunglers as boaa'
who after all, conceived a novel WHICH was
inartculate and ineligible" The house WAS
crowded but not apparently with profitable au-
dence For a reporter who sought out Verisinc ne1'
morning found him in a far from pleasant mcoo'
.well NJ Verlane," said his visitor, are you saus-
fed with your benefit" "Une mlsere, quoli
shouted the angry poet, showing bit OF paper ~
was check for a hundred francs-twenty DOLLARS
One of the most dramatic Of ancient ARABIAN 10
eendsthat Of the dead youth still guarding the pass
through which the women of his tribe have nowh
from their pursuers-has been used by Coionel nis
ginson as the subject of poem In Inc Audnu''
II is theme such the poet does not oiten nho-a
picture which makes ones heart beat
ouida is exceedingly unhappy about the n'erary
biddleman or @syndlcate' organizer; she is, indeed
unhappy TO the naughty extent OF describing MN d.
q pg-dealer, q maggot and toaostool'
Putnam's pretty little series of Literary Gems
will have this season, the following aooluoie :.
Browning's Lyrics" Legend OF Sleepy Hollow
Rusldn,s SPre- Raphaelitism;' Coleridges Rme Oh
she Ancient Mariners speeches on America" by
Iobn prtght and Montaignes essay the Education
NJ Childrens A volume Of "Stories from the Ara
bian Nights and another containing selecuon Iom
the HDiscourses Of Eplctetus, together with the
Encheiridon,s will be added to the series Of Knck
erbocker Nuggets
There is an interesting paper in the current Az
lantics on speech as barrier between man anu
beast-a paper so full Of ingenious arguments anu
comparisons that it leaves the reader WITH he"
sense of relationship to "our brother the horse anu
our sister, the hem" We won't repeat ue IacVs
which lead Mr. Evans to believe that the barrier
between human and animal intelligence, once deeemeo
impossible, is becoming more and more impercepuDie
and with the rapid progress Of zoopsychological re-
search will soon disappear altogether" but we COM
mend his paper to all those not averse to recognizing
q cousinship 10 Towser.
Apropos OF Mr. Evans's paper it Is worth While 10
quote what Professor Brinton says Of aboriginal
American poetry. He declares that in every native
American language which he has examined for tS
purpose he has found the existence of poetic dla-
lect of form OF speech markedly distinct rom that
of ordinary lfe phraseology conseerated to the IN
spraton of the divine afatus. great many OF these
American songs he adds, wholly without intenei-
bic meaning; both verse and refrain are merely ln'cr'
Iectional: they are sound and fury, sgnying moth
ing. Such are the warsongs Of the lroquos and
many Others which / could name. But In defence OF
these / would ask You to remember that they are
sung not written to be read and they must be
Judged by the laws Of vocal music. These
broken syabes, these choked utterances, these In
arculate cries are the emotional outbursts of senti-
ment and passion, the Oldest the most heartfelt the
most untutored language of human feeling, the spon-
taneous revelations Of that common nature which
makes the whole world KIM
Again Mrs. Yonge Surely never pen ran so
consistently as hers. Her new novel, called "The
Constable's Tower deals with the times Of the
Magma Charta. 1t will be published here under the