New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-28
LITERARY NOTES.

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Mr. uovells,s new novel in Harper" opens quietly
! this instanent being significant only III SO ia' a.
defines the motive Of the story-raceIeehns % W
tvocn hack and white The heroine there Is reason u
c,os hoe in her veins the drop Of negro blood whlcf
| nov Give 10 this work a more tragic coloring thar
u,o are accustomed TO find in Mr.. Howellss DooSs ~
mav be surmlsed that his plot Will develop some
uust raton OF these assertions to be found III Tic
| Editors STUDY: No people ever presented as We
| do the beauty OF the ideal and the ugIness Oh "'e
material but there are very few observers VINO 'ee
us in BOTH We are founded, cast shaped In the IDEAL
cot most NJ onr uses are frankly and brutally material
| We are cynjcally selfish, are magnanimousy gen.
erous: the anagonlsm felt III each Is expressed Oh
continually widening scale from the citizen up through
the town meeting to the government OF the whoie
| republic"
| We do NOT know that Mr.. Du Mauricrs novel
Peter Ibbetson. IS autobiography; yet surely mu'
OF the record Of youthful sentiment ana penei SCI
forth IN It's Second Part has the air OF reahy i"c
distinguished draughtsman may be an inexperehceu
writer but it must be acknowledged that experience OF
no his work has What would have pleased Matthew
Arnold-dstinctiOn.
An Amusing mistake by Dr. Smiles IN me
"Memoirs OF John Murray" is mentioned oy
a correspondent OF "Notes and Queries" Shortly
after the publication of "The Pleasures Of Hope he
savs "Campbell went 10 Germany and from the
scottish monastery Of ST. James's the battle OF Hohen
lnden.p AS the monastery In question, notes the
Garner "was I'm Ratisbon, in 40 degrees ~ lat,
while Hohenllnden is in lat 4SS the occasion, on DE-
smiless assumption, must have furnished rare In
stance Of the poets eye in fine frenzy roilins'
Mr.. Edgar Fawcett says in an interesting article
IN "The Arena that men and women OF intellectual
fame shrink from contact with our noble -Four Hun
dredo because they encounter patronage at such
places and patronage from ones interiors can never
be pleasant mode of passing ones time. MIS-. BART
writing in "The North American Review" takes another
view of the matter:
The tr1le writer gives his whole intellect and his
whole time 10 his work. and he Is satshed 70 40 a.
lie has no time and no interest to spare tor tnueGS
wnks and donkey parties nor even Tor pr3gresslve
enChre II does not amuse him 10 say so nice, ana
so pleasant and -thanks," fifty times an hGnr ana
bineS made a lion Of to writing bis autograph for
pnshnc girls TO playing games he abandoned with his
snort js Scb is unapDrecave Of literature in len
asS ont Of ten IL is literature which cannot fold Itself
rr ~ Is great thing to influence public opinion,
10 inform the ignorant. TO solace the unnaPpy anu "
give to unknown multitudes high and pure ENJOY
ment.
"For many can talk, and more can an,, agghts;
But few give myrlads Of hearts dehght'
The Editor OF The Arena" sums up much disputed
philosophical anarchy impracticabe," he says, " as
each seems to presupposc an Ideal CIVILIZATION"
Exactly there is nothing TO add to this.
DR. Briggs concludes his article In "Tho NORTH
American Review the theological crisis with a
thoroughly cheerful optimistic passage. He thinks
that the fruits of the crisis sure TO be good that
Christianity will become a more vital influence tnaI
in short a new Reformation is coming-a movement
whose goal Is the unity of the Church and the re-
demution of the worldthat ideal civilization perhaps
which is not yet
Ouda,s new book, "The Last Of the Carencieux,'
is study Of different types Of Hebrew character. IL
is said to show entire freedom from prejudice
Next week the new Copyright law goes into action,
but whether II will be in the least effective or not as
regards the EnglslAmerlcan interchange, no man
can say. The laws Of the two countries do not at
present seem to fit together very we'll, and only q
test case can decide whether the discrepancies viii rem
der the new act imperative far as the English su-
thor is concerned The officials Of the State Depart
ment and of the Library Of Congress have been bonn
barded lately with requests for Information as 10 the
probable working of the act, but they have uniformly
refused TO construe the law.
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