New-York tribune., 1891-08-30
,LITERARY NOTES.

Mr. Charles Francis Adams's Forthcoming book,
Three Episodes In Massachusetts, History, deals with
The settlement of Massachusetts Bay and the struggle
| between the royal party and The Purtans; with inc
! Arunom,an Controversy, now first written from
modern or agnostlc point OF view and with the gradual
development OF typical Massachusetts town from
| ,s40 TO 1890, the material being drawn from local
records DIARIES letters etc. Of Brainrec ana quincy
A volume which promises 10 be valuable to many
reoplc is the Australasian Encyclopaedia now IN
course Of preparation. 1t will contain an alphabeic
description Of all places In the Australasian colonies
careful history of the region biographies Of Ill It's
notable explorers and coloalsts and full accounts OF
It's laws and constitutions, with all available statistics
A new and remarkably elaborate edition Of tho
% Diyina Commedia" Is shortly TO be published III
Freiburg. It's three volumes arc to contain over
600 Illustrations in the text, and It's scholarly edor
| Professor Berthcr, has added wealth OF notes-on
many pages appear hfty lines OF notes 10 io '"0' y"
! texts
! second London edition Of Mr.. james Whitcomo
Riley's "OM-Fashloned Roses ns just been prongn.
out II IS beautifully made and we find but one fault
with ii-that I'm too many OF the poems which II con
tans Mr. Riley has refused TO do what he does oe''er
than any one else and has tried his hand at inc So'
Of rhyme which almost any verslfcr can prouuoe'
Ills simplest verses in the old-fashoncd indiaiia
dialect are poems, indeed; but his enOrs III se"u
mental poetry In the Tennyson or Lonefeliow vel"
arc OF small value and make the iudiclous greve.
Edmund Gosse, In paper on Lowell In "The ot.
Jamcs,s Gazette makes o suggestion TO which, IL
| Is TO be hoped, the people Oh Lowers o"'
| State may give heed. "His heart says Mr. uosse'
awas not with our monarchical tradtons 1t was
always sternly Republican. Lowell In England was
always looking ongingy backward 10 the vast wooueh
mansion under the terrace Of Mount Auburn where ne
was born and bred and where the great writer's OF tne
world laid their hands upon his youth and dedicted IT,
II IS much to be desired that the American Govern
ment or the state of Massachusetts, may 1nd some way
Of preserving Elmwood as II stands, or as ~ stoou
when saw IL six years ago, as Natlonai properS'
More. perhaps, than any other single puhu'ns III
America It is relic Of the literary life soha piece
of the intellectual history of tho country Mr. Lo"e
| though ten years absent from Elmwood. was always
thinking Of H. and especially of the famous trees tfit
deepen the secuson Of its lawns remeinoer' wnen
saw him first after brief visit to America IN 1850
| he asked me Immediately about the erns OF Mount
Auburn. Did they send me message = ne asked
Long may their venerable shadow be thrown across
his household gods ~
Mr. Gosse does not care for Lowells verse. but de-
lights in his prose. of which he says That It's main
quality is that it reflects its author like mirror
|
public occasion and retain clear memory OF his voice
and manner. The sQuare head, made more square by
the odd growth OF beard Il do not know wnether his
personal likeness to that noble compariOt OF MS the
Eagle OWL has ever been n0ted); the serene eyes
sweeping the audience: the belike voice low Mt first
then gathering in volume, though not In speed tho
slight but effective gestlculatlon the sense OF absolute
competence to the task. and sort of eated satsfac-
ton in the performance all these are reflected In his
host nrose In an age when the love Of
literature for It's sakenot that professional cup
boardlo which shreds literature into the pot. but tho
genuine passion-grows and rarer his life was
splendid example. Wcrld-worn as he came to be. that
love stayed with him and grew. His appetite for the
best books steadily increasing almost to the last
Not long ago. In letter to nc referring TO the poet
GRAY he wrote in his delightful fashion, Il don't
know how IL NAV be with others. but as for me- grow
Grayer as grow Older In his youth his great func-
ton had been 10 stimulate those around him TO study
in advancing years he showed them the reward. and
persuaded them 10 persevere America mourns HIM to-
day rs one Of the foremost Of her citizens We. to
whom America lent him for awhile may stand by her
side and reverently partakc her sorrow"
A new volume Of short stories by Mrs. Rose Terry
Cooke Is announced BY Houglton. It Is to bear the
characteristic title of Huckebcrrics Gathered from
New England Hills'
Mr.. Arthur sherburne Hardy has written memoir
OF Joseph Hardy Neesma, the Japanese boy, who was
the protege Of Mr. and Mrs Alpheus Hardy. and who.
when educated by them. returned TO Japan as mis-
sionary and founded q university which has been OF
wonderful effect in the progress Of his country.
Mr. swlnburne contributes the following poem on
| Browning TO THE London Athenaeum":
NEW YEARS EVE. 1850.
mo Enrlishman will need be reminded of the date
which Westminster Abbey was honored by the funeral
Of Robert Brownng)
All the west whereon the sunset scaled the dead years
glorious grave
Fast with seals of light and fire ana cloud that liglt
| and fire llumne,
| CLOVIS at heart and kndlcs earth and heaven with
Joyous blush and bloom
Warm and wide life, and glad Of death which only
slays to save.
As tide-reconquered sea rock lies alush with the nfu
| ent
Lies the light aGush with darkness lapped about VIII
lusirous gllOm,
| Even as life with death and time with fame, and
memory with the tomb
Where dead man hath for vassals fame the serf and
time the slave
Far from earth heaven the steadfast light with
drawn. superb. suspense.
Burns in dumb divine expansion Of illimtable flower
Moonrlse whets the shadows edges keen as noontlde
hence and thence
CLOVIS the presence from us passing. shines aho
passes not the power.
Souls arise whose word remembered is as spirit within
the sense
All the hours arc theirs Of all the death ha
but his hour.
It seems already doubtful whether the Car vii
keep his promise made recently to the Countess Le
Tolsoi that he would asst the Imperial TO dea
more lenicnty with her husbands writings. Tn
entertaining Sock. Conversations with and Crit
q
many by II. LOewenfeld. has been suppressed In Rus
sln IL Is dIfcnlt for the most eXacng critic 70 d.