New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-29
LITERARY NOTES.

LITERARY NOTES.
Elghty-thr familiar letters written by Rousseau
to Nine. Boy de la Tour soon to be published
In France for the first time. Many Of them sN
said to be delightfully."- witty. ana they present Ia
author in his home life, leaning over the kitchen
fire, as quarrclng with his neighbors, and a. re-
turning from market with packet Of candles in
one arm and n pound Of cofYee In tho other
Mr.. william Morris Is at work upon another long
medieval romance. .r s5s.
one OF the most graceful and humorous Of recent
books dealing with dogs Mr.. J. Yates caTingons
"Teufel the Terrier Those who heartily enjoyed
the work when 1t came out last winter win be sorry
to hear that Mr. Darlington. the owner and historian
of "Teufcl,' is dead.
In his opening paper on the old English dramatists
now first published in the June "Harper,s Lowell
has Iamented that the taste for English poetry. q
least IN Its older examples. Is declining. Il DO moi
think this is healthy symptom he says, for poetry
frequcnts and keeps habtable those upper chambers Of
the mind that open towards the suns rising. II
has seemed to mo that life was running more and more
into prose-" % .s
Sir Edwin Arnold's son, Lester Arnold, Is also
literary In his tastes. He Is about to publish novel
Of the Crusades called The Constable of St. Ncholas
The first folio 1923 edition OF Shakespeare Is unds,
process Of reproduction by means Of photography. y
An order recently sent to q bookseller by Mr.. Glad
stone Is noted showing the English statecmans
almost appalling range OF reading. In twenty vol.
umes he has included two books upon the history Of
the waldenses two upon Irish affairs. and upol
the mode Of settling parishes in Scotland; Lord Ronald
Covers "reminiscences, lives Of Arefn and Lord Bacon
books on solar physics, myths Of religion, political
economy and EIzabethan England. narrative of the
Russians on the Amur, and volume OF Eton verse;
Walter Besants book on "Lundon, Is now on IN.
Harper press. Mrs. Ritchie's Light Bearers Mr.
James Lane Aliens Blue-Grass Region OF Kentuckys
and Mrs Grecne's "Vesty of the Basins, are ready
for publication. The last VIII recall the authors
Cape Cod Folks" 1t is the story OF New.England
fishing village and Is full OF incident.
The first chapter OF r. L. stevenson's History q
Samoa will appear in The National Observer
The University Of Chicago is to have university
Press organized by d. c. Heath &
Co., who will leave Boston for Chicago
for that purpose The university press
"The Chicago Tribune" says. viii have three depart
ments The printing department will own its own
type, and will own queer selection, too, fonts Of
Hebrew, Syrac. Arabic, Sanskft. German, ard matfA
NAUTICAL and scientific type being among the neceys.
ties. The book and apparatus department will buy
al the books, material and presses necessary, and
the publishing department will publish one daily,
two three weekly and any number Of monthly
ard quarterly papers The idea that President Harper
Is working Is 10 make all the professors producers
TO let them make books, that the world by
their writings that they making progress and am
up with the times.
DR.. Berdoe writes thus TO The Pail Mall Gazette'
.'In Lord Tennyson's new drama The Foresters' ths
following passage occurs:
Pity pity There was a man OF ours
Up in the north, goOdlv fellow too,
lie met stag narrow ledge
a precpicc above. and below
The man lay W S delicate 70 Creature
Came stepping 0er HIM. not TO harm him
The hunters passion flashed into the man,
lie drove his knife into the heart Of the deer
The deer fell dead 10 the bottom, and the
Fell with him, and was crippled ever after
fear | had small pity for that man.
Readers OF Browning will Of course at recognize
this Brownings Donald abbreviated. Ny attention.
has been called to this curious coincidence by
spondent who states that he has always understood
that Donald true story repeated to Mr Brown
ing By some one who had It direct from its hero. I
have i'm my 'CycIOpacdia adduced evidence that the
story was true one. and was told By Sir Walter
Scott In the keepsake While the poor parsons arc
being severely handled for sermon transference'
it would be interesting to inquire to the original
source OF this strange story. Has Lord Tennyson In
the above lines given his recollcctions Of Browning's
or OF scott's story, has he derived his idea from
some anecdote OF the same class in another forml
There are not uncheerful echoes from Chicago b
respect to Mr.. Rudyari Kipng's structures on New,
York The sparkling Field says that there is much
truth in what the young man has 10 say and that |.
is under that truth that Gotham winces He adds
"of his Intellectual kccnncss and vigor and Of The
res chsrm NJ nc Stvta
tent critic will make question. think. Ncw.Yora
herself Is Jus; caddsh enough to have govelled and
wa!owed In worship OF kipling II that cad had only
opened fire upon some other part Of the county,
"Thc Chicago News Record says that II will not do
to deny that the young has brains. and plenty
OF brains at that. Most OF his countrymen who have
criticised Us have done in stupid. heavy way
have poured their inky adulations out in
manner. Kiplng does neither. and most OF his
roasting is reasonably clever. Wherefore il behoovs
rs TO admire this Young mans brisk ability and let
him have his fling"
Mr.. KiplinG's temper was tried. perhaps BY hc
efforts not to be "inicrviewcd.7 81 never had such
trouble in my life.7 he declared "as in the past few
weeas Keeping out of the OF American newspaper
men. They not a bad lot at all. and / would be
very glad TO meet them were it not that my time
would be entirely taken up His good luck with his
Vancouver property might have modified his wrath.
An investment made there iree years aso has lately
gone up in an astonishing manner.
The English Browning Society has reprinted the
poets Life of STAFFORD tho volume which Browning
wrote for John Forster when he was H. and which
has heretofore passed under Fosters name. Mr..
c. H. Firth. Of Oxford. has written ntrpiucon fot
the now edition. bringing 1t up to date; and he has
added an appendix giving divers letters of strafoN
which llave been found in late years.
Two women are the chief characters In the new
novelette, which Mr.. Fuller the author OF "The Cheva
Tier Of Pcnscrivani' has been writing for The Cen.
iury.' One OF these is charming American gin tho
other is the lady who gives her title TO the story,
The Chatclaine Of La Triniteo
Gustave Droz, the FreiiCh novelist gives some ex