New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-29
LITERARY NOTES.

| Mr. Lowell, it IS noted, read proofs OF tue hrs'
volume of Professor Norton's translation OF the DIVINE
Commedia and also those of the first cantos OF the
| second
| "Darl. is that window where the scholars lamp
Was used to catch pallor from the dawh
and Adric lingering at the gate of Elmwood SihHs
mournfully OF that scholar now far away -
90 autumn wind among the sombre plnes'
! breathe you his dirge, but be 1t sweet ana lo"'
| With deep refrain and murmirs OF the sea-
| Like TO his verse-the MT is yours alone.
| His once--you taught him. NOW no 'oce ou'
yours
Tender and low. o wind among the pines
| 7 would were mine Tyre Of richer strings,
In soft scclan accents wrap his name"
T,,.. /; a quaint and pretty Characterization by
AId,irl OF TIE tawny squirrels OF ElmWoou-Lo"-
ellis friends-as those little rcd men OF the elms'
In Lovels beautiful address on Shakespeare's Rich
ard H. which first appears In print In the Decemner
Atlantic" the critic says that in shakeSpeares Des'
and most characteristic work the very verse Is ne
| penetrated by what is going on in the MIND OF the
sneaker and its movement fastened or retarded py
his emotion rather than by the and choice OF the
poet Yes single verses but Of other men,
| might be taken for his, but 10 considerable Sc
| ouence of them and no one OF his undouhted
plays take mas whole, could ever by any possibility
be supposed TO be the creation OF any other poet
II the play of Cymbeline had been lost. for example,
and the manuscript were to be discovered to morrow
who would doubt It's authorship Nay, IN this case
thorn are short passages single verses and phrases
even that bear the unmistakabe mint mark OF MN
who alone could ascend the highest heaven OF inVen
lion: OF that magician, OF whom Dryden SAID so
truly, within that circle none dare tread put me-
And II Is really curious, / may say In passing-that
verse OF Dryden reminds Of it-that almost all
the meets who have touched Shakespeare seem to become
Insplred above themselves. The poem that Ben Joson
! wrote I'm his memory has a spendor OF movement
about II that is with hlm-a sort 81 rapture
| and DRYDEN wrote nothing finer than what he wrote
about the greatest Of poets nor Is any other play Of
his comparable in quality with AN for Love- COM
| posed under Shakespeare's immediate and Obvious
| influence
lam stIu pmming a Httle,n wrote Ruskin to the
collector OF his youthful prose " feel read the
| old hits as / fancy wise old goose would feel
who had come to think the meat on her was OF more
general use-for roasting, etc.-than the quilts but
who suddenly saw the Oveliest little gllded shuttle
cock made of her feathers dropped when gosling"
translation into English Of Hans Christian
Andersens letters Dickens coming ont in London
! H. is said that five unauthorized editions OF Mr..
| Remnants collected articles on Siberia have appeared
in Germany.
| .The real and the realistic are very different
things, says q character In one Of "Q's' sketches.
" Can you illustrate the dlference!' asks his inter
| locutor II think can. Look" said the constable
poInting down toward the gray facade OF Whitehall,
now bathed in silver moonshine. " You remember
| what happened outside those windows two centuries
| and n half ago?'
| Il do
lie nothing common did, or mean,
| Upon that memorable scene'---.'
| quite so: that's because 1t was real scene. If
King Charles had done anything common or mean he
haya mndp liSti m
time at Marlboroughst"
A curious thng-smollett's Frederick Random"
revised, expurgated and secured for general and
family reading Is to be published serlay In foreign
periodical.
| In the suppressed Byron volume 80 interesting to
collectors is this extraordinary passage from one OF
the poets letters:
| Il am married at last, and no disrespect to
| Lady b.. who though she may be seraph to her
friends and really is, believe, good woman, is a
devil TO me-
sheeys Centenary year Is to be distinguished by the
offer 10 the British Nation on the part OF the widow OF
bi, son OF monument of the poet In marble and
bronze II Is thought that the complete concordance
| to shelley's works will be brought ont In '02.
That most successful Of plays "The Lady OF Lyons,
received its at rehearsal. For some time 1t had
| no title and nobody knew the authors name. Miss
| Helen Fauct, aneIwaId Lady Martin, was preparing
| herself for the role OF Pauline, and stood upon tie
stage while titles for the play were being discussed
| "Loye and Duty" and " Love and Pride"-two OF the
tentative ventures-were discarded being too Hike
the titles OF a novel; The Gardeners Son" was con-
sdiered wanting in sHggestvencss, while "The Mer
chant OF Lyons suggested too much, for there
| a Merchant OF vcnee"1 Suddenly Mr.. Barley, the
Colonel Damas OF the piece, with soldierly bow to
Miss Faucit said 81 think my young cousin should
give the play name. Should 1t not be called The
| Lady Of LyonsP"
| A critical biographical essay and general blb.
ograrhy accompany the first complete translation OF
| Poe's poems Just coming out at Rome.
4 book on the Gillian revolution Of this year Is
| already IN print. IL Is the work OF Maurice H.
Hervey special correspondent of The London Times
"scrbners Magazine /, shortly TO print some
recoectons and letters from the pen Of Washington
| Allston an American artist whose comments on IN,
dongs In his special province sixty seventy years
| ago ought 10 DO extremely entertaining. Allston
who Ia be called the American Titan. bOrr
a. lar back 1870 and Gourished at time whcI
| huge Biblical compositions were the JOY Of the
American public. lie has bsen cheermlly forgotten
withstand the changes OF atmosphere and OF taste and
his pictures OF "Mi1am,' "The Witch Of Endor,
Jeremiah" and similar subjects longer charm
Yet while Allston Is unknown now, lie was q per
sonage In his tay. lie was literary man as well n,
an artist, lived In Rome and London, and knew many
celebrities in both places besides occupying a hgi
place In his own country as representative d