Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-05
LITERARY NOTES AND PERSONALS.

LITERARY NOTES AND PERSONALS.
PRoF. JOHN FIsKE is writing q biography OF
Theodore Parker
RuDYARD kIPLING is said to be engaged to
De but that is another story.
WASHINGTON IRvING's rambling little cot
tage at Tarrytown, on the Hudson, is still
occupied by his nieces, the Misses Irving
BRET HARTE is in London and will probably
never return to this country. His hair Is
onowy white, but he still retains all his old
fire.
hENNAN says he has great hopes that his
disclosures OF Russia's convict system have
killed the e1tradition treaty with Russia
which is to come before Congress this
month.
THOMAS NELSON PAGE is as well known at
the bar in Virginia as in the bookstores. and
ne IS said to have very sound knowledge of
the law. He looks like gentleman of the
old school,
OSCAR w 1LDE IS writing n new story which
is intended to be study of Christianity from
the point of view of Il man who regards it
as great world-force, and Independently of
any doctrinal bias'
THE late Governor Hoyey of Indiana, was
poet, and the verse he wrote may some day
be printed in book form. Most of this verse
is initiative of the Scotch and Spanish ballad
poetry. of which he was extravagantly fond.
ROBERT LOUIS STEvEEsoN's ability to make
use of his powers of observation in his fc-
ton, is well illustrated in "The wrecker,' -
the novel from his pen now appearing in
Scribaer's Magazine. This is in different
vein from anything he has yet written.
STUDY three months at intervals to find the
meaning of a Browning or a Whitman poem,
and when found, if it happens to have any
thing of that kind, the question is newt
able, "Wasn't this good enough to be ex-
pressed in reasonably plain language"
THAT the love of literature is growing in
Texas is shown by the starting of q new
magazine in San Antonio. nearly ali the
pieces in which are written by native
Texans There is surprise among the Texas
literati that the first number of the magazine
does not contain a complete and blood
curdling narrative of the Fall of the
Alamo"
DOES literature pay has been answered by
the husband of well-known literary light.
WHO has himself accomplished some fair
work in that line, says the Boston Herald
He says it does not pay and. to prove the
truth of his assertion he abandons the pen
for real estate business. Poor literature,
how many crimes are committed in your
name! But be thankful there is one honest
man brave enough to throw you over, before
it is too late,
Brdins is a new semi-monthly hailing from
Boston. 1t is devoted to literary matters and
the literary side of journalism, presenting
line of matter fresh, original and entirely
outside of the beaten path in which so many
literary papers have Travelled. Photogravure
portraits of authors form feature of the
journal, and the leading literary contribu-
ton, "Glimpses of Authors continued
SERIES is by Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
Other writers who will apper in Brains are
Colonel John A. Cockerill,. Edward W. Box
and B. o. Flower, editor of the Arena.
THERE has been no publication especially
devoted to the interests of American clubs
and club men, but the place is now taken
and in manner that indicates it will be per-
manently held by The Club just issued in New
York, an illustrated, handsomely printed,
crisply written little monthly. News, COM
ment humorous paragraphs and light phi
losohipzing are its features. and it's editors,
Edward B. Phelps and Joe Kerr, are, judg-
ing by the initial number of The Club, well
qualified to furnish the best of things in this
line and to do the work in a taking style.
FAMOUS rides have formed favorite topic
with poets and prose writers. Here is list
of productions which a st. Louis Republic
compiler believes to be the fullest vet
brought together on this subject: Sheridan's
Ride, Thomas B. Read; Tam O'Shanter's
Ride, Robert Burns Black Valley r. r.
Ride 1. n. TarboN, d. D.; John Gilpin's Ride
William Cowper; Charlotte Churchman'S
Ride, A. A. Preston; Collins Graves Ride,
John Boyle O'Reilly: ErI Kings Ride, Will
helm Won Goethe; Ichabod Cranes Ride,
Washington Irving; King of Denmark's
Ride, C. E. Norton; Kit Carson's Ride.
Joaquin Miller; Lady Godiva's Ride, Alfred
Tennyson: Mary Buffers Ride, B. F. Taylor;
Parson Aliens Ride, Wallace Bruce: Paul
Revere's Ride, H. W. Longfellow; Ride to
AK, Robert Browning; Skipper Ireson's
Ride, j. g. Whittier; The Radical Ride, A J.
Walker: Warren's Ride, E. II. Weston: Young
Lochinvar's Ride, Walter Scott. To the
above may be added Grayson McArthur's
Ride, Israel Putnams Ride, Wilheln's Ride
with Lenore, News from Flodden Field,
Pythias' Homeward Race, Ride of the Light
Brigade, Ride of Commentators, The Ride
for Life and Dick Turpin's Ride.