New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-13
LITERARY NOTES.

"A Cnristmas Fantasy with Moral" Is Mr.. T. B.
A1drieh's contribution to the December Century
Mr. Stockton has written for the same number story
called sThe Christmas Shadraeh'
Browning looked on the English Browning Society
with amused Indifference and ignored 1t as much as
possible Nobody has wept its passage from this
world Of windy gabble.
DR.. Josiah Royce's Cambridge lectures on "The
Spirit Of Modern Philosophy" to be published In one
volume by Houghton.
Tennyson Is often mentioned as being impatient Oh
all afectations wTiter for Land and Water" says:
asRaIph' to rhyme with 'chafe,' is oonverssuohai
stumbling block, and young lady was lately staying
ut Aldworth who had this Ralph craze badly Ih's
aiction sore long time the poet bore but at last
human nature could endure no longer 'Raiph'
Rabbi Ralphp he shouted, punctaaans Win
clenched-fst thuds the table, 1T rhymes Win
and chan."'S
Mr. George Parsons Latlrop who with his wife mas
lately Joined the Roman Catholic Church. oontnouoes
10 sThc Catholic World" poem in blank verse en-
titled A Strong CITY, It's theme Shows two Dlgrims
"farng forward" undeterred by SCORERS 10 tne Ioru
fed City men had thought so frail'
They PASSED the gates; they stood upon hill
hneiosed but in that strong enclosure iree
on came the turbulent multitude in war,
Dashing against the clty's walls and swept .. .,a
STo9 ;.s ii the streets and robbed and burned and
The the sne x wer er sSay' OPEN
But sudden. in seeming triumph the enemy host
Was stricken with death and still the city stayed
steward the souls OF its defenders rose,
Rcturrng soon in mist Intangible
And those who stili assaulted though they crept
Into the nmost p int v wss Gh sss
Even as they shouted out, The place Is oursl"
4ho~o &xro y;rc,In,e dyveIf there fortified
In that strong city men had thought 50 trsil
They died and lived again ,b neres ss, attack tack
Their souls : closer So %ntS SH ASS e Tss
Though hostile horde rushed over them in blood.
a incense ss5ll sn mingled with music q their hearts
For Christ was With them; angels were their AID
T %sat e Of sHf s T
Their conouerors shifting them with the pure ngm
That shone in that strong city fortified
sThe Fortnightly Review" prints dissatisfied
paper on Rudyad Kipling 1t declares that such
style as he has is "nere ephemeral and Journalistic
smartnessn The author Of the article is writer
Of short stories.
The hundred and twentieth thousand Of Mrs. Bur
netts "Idtle Lord Faunteroy" is on sale in London
The cottage in which John Milton wrote q" Paradise
LOST is still in good repair, and is now within TWO
the place recently and writes thus concerning 1t:
sWhat will the pilgrim see? First, vllage-almost
a little tovn-lying retired a quarter OF a mile rom
the high road with a few old houses and good many
new houses; these backed by trees and garoehs'
il has lovely church filed with brasscs ana moni-
ments Of ancient worthies-some Of them OF tho
thirteenth century. The church old even then,
for this is one of the villages which stand on the site
OF an East Saxon settlement. planted here what time
the Britons were being slowly driven westward. For
twice 600 years there have been farms and ploughe
fields rustcs and milkmads In this quiet corner out
of the main track forgotten and passed by IN AL
times OF civil war, plague pestilence, aud famine.
Hitler came John Milton when the plague was raging
In London. He chose the last house on the south
side Of the village so as to be quiet 1t is four
roomed cottage On the ground floor is Kitchen
which In his tins a living room, and little
parlor' which was his. Perhaps he slept in II as
well as worked in it.. Here are two tables at
which he wrote here two or three stools on winch
he sat; hero is the fireplace arranged as he left 1t:
here the closet where he kept books and things; the
window is the same, with its diamond panes and
easement: it looks out under thick vine upon
small garden now gay with many -colored dnhlias; In
Iiltons time IL had herbs-sage thyme, fenne borage
lavender boysove, and the country flowers which still
are cultivated by the cottagers outside, the cottage
is pIastered and shows the black mbers 1t has low
gable and q porch covered with climbing rose. Be
yond the garden Is an orchard. Indeed, it Is
peaceful and a lovely pace-a place where the only
disturbance the poet would be the lark singing In the
sky and the note OF the blackbird from the wood.
There Is a visitors book. looked IT through. Very
few great names here; very few known names; very
few Americans Art thou then forgotten. Miltona 1
think that few of us read him more than once, that
Is read him through"
F. Anstey,s new volume Is entitled "The Talking
Horse"