New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-21
LITERARY NOTES.

4
In the lately published "reminiscences OF n n.
II. b. there is recorded the queer judgment passed
bv Anthony rollopc on cir Waite. Scott. II was the
opinlon of Mr. Trollope that II "Ivanhoe' or the
Antouary were now TO be offered to London
n,,bIsher that IL would be declined with thanks ana
rightly so. because Of its stupidity Mr. Ironope
and Mr. Zoa soeln to have agreed perfectly IN oph-
ion.
Mr.. Rudynrd Kplng IS 10 be the guest OF honor
-. ,,o meeting Of the Authors Club on Thursday
evening.
Do Manpassant. Il (. said Is better. He Is calmer'
his wound is healed. and he has even asked 10 DC
allowed 20 resume the writing OF his novel; l. AN
celus, Letters he has been allowed 20 write 10
bis friends show no signs OF dernnged ih'e"o''
John inv Knox dnr,ng the last five wears Of his me-
had boon engaged upon History Of Banking IN ih'
rnlt,d States witch nearly ready TOT puDio'uon
NJ the time OF his death. MIS-. Knox Will carry out
the plans Of her husband by an early publication Vi
this his last and most important literary WORK.
Walter Rcsnnt says that II seems to him almost
safe to prophcsy outbur't before long OF genus
IA the United states such England has n"' S"e'
since the tiuo OF Elizabeth. lie adds that all tho
conditions here are honoF
ambition study, confidence matcrials-cvery tmhs 10
here waiting for natural aptitude or genius ana inns
viii not be long. hc thinks. before II shows hse'
In full aud flowing flood
II is known that Charles Duolcy Warner the new
oooupant OF IIarprrS" "Sudy," does not agree WIN
his predecessor Mr.. Howc,, In his literary "HVlc-
,ons In Consideration OF this fact the latter III MS
farewell paper IN the March Harper. gives quaint
and whimsical description OF what he THINKS nay "
lis successors first proceedings In oihce
We Iungne bis booking euron'S al me e0iiecu9n
~ moral br4c bgc the latter. ana ASKING himself
the little ,hlc anr- with the picture, or ne bua's OF
cauonlcd rcal,t, above them. iney .uAo .h nin.
n A Iaiblc ~ unuatuialfed iOlaeh'Is, i'so
literary dvluitles from France and Italy. and Norway,
nnd the Furthermore parts OF SPAN, VINO nave Ions
rn the cult u the study, and he sentences The poor
cls 10 exile with his humorous smile more neN0i;be
than the auscrc,t irown lie has the Christmas 10y
md dusts him or and puts nm up IN eaGh vacant
place TN hc comes 70 that great frst OF all rnn,ts'
linn With the look OF The lOn~ peasant the troubled
deity whose plain sd face IS perPleYed Win in9
Of me fiddle of the painful earth. Before this
august and patheti, masc he pause a moment ,ho
CHRISTMAS Row Take him avny It IS the locoed novel S
,t and the place that has hno%m roi,'T nIws nm
his empty shrine. and al the newspapers think Walter
scott has come TO his own again
A Monnphy OF tho late Madame Bodchon says
that she was perhaps the only person privileged to
invite herself to the o'clock luncheon OF George Eliot
! ard George Lewes. This gifted friend and neighbor,
rang the bell OF the Priory few minutes too soon,
10 be admitted Of coursc-the Grace and Amelia Of
those days understood their duty gatckeeperS-but
| on crossing tho threshold out rushed her hostess.
pac trembling. her locks dlsordered verablc Sbyl,
| disturbed in the fine frenzy Of inspiration.
ooh, Barbara Barbara" she cried, extremely agl-
| tatcd what have you d0nel'
The cvcr-wclcome guest had Interrupted her friend
| I'm scene OF " Romola"
! 81 felt ready to cry like naughty child" said the
| narrator "but from the opposite door rushed Mr..
| Loves who in the kndest manner put things right
| In Madame Bodichons library first copy
~ Adam Bedeo in which the author had written,
n short time after rs appearance, "To her who first
recognized me 10 this work.
| Mr.. mamn Garand's new novelette,. cor Paps
Flaxen." to appear in the next three numbers Of
| &" Tho Century
oscar wilde's oneact play, "saomc,' Is to be pro
dnccd in next month. II Is poctical drimali'
zaton Of the story Of John the Baptist, and Wilde
wrote 1t IN French from the first
II must be confessed that the people rather tired
of the Carlyes: but In II while we find some
! glimpses OF the dour mans character ana opinions
TINT arouse fresh interest. Interest but not often
revcrcncc-and sin more rarely conviction Sir Charles
Gavan Duirys book Of "reminiscences lately published,
OF hi, tour with Carlyle has amusing passages.
Ills quotations VI Carlyle's sighting comments on
| DICKENS and Thnckcray will stir to wrath the
wor,hppcrs Of these nOvellsts Dickens. he said, WAS
a good little fellow, and Of the most CHEEKY, in
noccnt natures lie had encountered But he
lived among a set Of admirers who did him no good.
Ills theory OF life entirely wrong lie thought
men ought TO buttered up and the world made soft
and accommodating for them, and at sorts OF fellows
have turkey for their Christmas dinner. Command
ing and controlling and Furnishing them he would give
nm without any misdvngs, In order TO coax and
sootbe and dellde them into doing right. But II was
not IN this the eternal laws operated. but
| anita otherwise Dickens had not written anything
! which would be found Of much ~ solving the
| nrohlems OF life. But he was worth something; he
WINS worth penny TO read Of evening before going
IN bed which was about what read OF him cost you.
His last book went pleasantly as the rest. and
hc might produce innumerablc such like books I'm time
Ills chief faculty comic actor and 10 would
have had n successful career II he had taken to
that sort Of life How do the lovers of Dickens like
all this
For Thaclcray Carlyle had even more malignant
snarls lie thought Thackeray had reality in him
and would cut up into dozen Dickens; but while
Dickens was doing the best In him. and went on
smiling I'm perennial good-hu Thackcry dcspsed
himself for his work and on that account could not
always do II even moderately WELL lie was essentially