New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-12-11
LITERARY NOTES

The first instalmcnt of Mr.. Stevenson's David
Bafuurr has Just appeared. In "kldnnFpea Du"o"'
vos lef, on his way to bank In search Of his fortune
the new story takes him up again at the pahH ""u
introduces the lady who is to be the heroine.
We are told by yoyaecr from the South He'.'
TINT Mr. and Mrs. stevenson conform with frank
simplicity 10 MANY OF the habits and fashions OF 'he
region There Is pleasant glimpse OF Tue pun
wandering on lovely Tahiti with bare feet ana dressed
In the graceful flowing garments worn by the hae'es
Mrs stevenson, who has good deal OF apih'y Us
IN author, has been writing story with 'he u'ie
/" Under sentence OF the Law The hero Is cog
condemned to death by court OF law IN s"i']eriahu
lut preserved by petition OF the villagers 10 suner
perpetual muzzlement
count T,Istoi has learned q little reason ana
Justice and has at last been persuaded to se,e us
estates on his wife and children Up 10 'ilis "i"e
no had absolutely refused to do this contendlng tha1
n, all land belonged to the patc ut large his property
ought to be divided among his poorer neisho'fs'
Alfred Austin says that Tennyson once told him
that he found the idea Of the famous coupie1 III
"Locksley IIall"- --t.
slowly comes hungry people, as lion creeping
c,orcH NJ one that mods and wnlts behind slowly
dying fire
in Methodist magazine containing an account OF
hour African travellers kept OF lions from their en-
campments at night By lighting great bohhres'
The ouadr Centennial Edition OF Irvings "Colum-
bus, TO be published by the Ptnans is limited 10 gu
copies the first OF which, numbered " liD2' mas Dec"
reserved for President Harrison.
uo,hort spcncer has been writing for more than
forty wears and partial estimate of the prohS rom
the sale OF his most important books SHOWS 'hat 'eS
have brought him less than thousand pouhos year
Decidedly philosophy docs not pay the philosopher III
cash Whatever 1t may give him In intellectual sa"S-
faction.
CARLYLE once begged Tnnyson to translate sophocles'
aUc,. a wonderful mon for dovctaihng words To-
gcthcr" he said aftcrwaTd In speaking regrcuu'y Vi
this entr,Aty but Alfred wouldn't bite
Browning is quoted rs saying once upon n'he'
"Tcnnyson's poetry Is 'par'ait amour ana mine Is
broiled bones and brandy
Miss Katharine lyman says OF william MOTIFS inc
mot that he never clothes his burly limbs In anything
but blue serge In which he looks for al the world ,h'
4 bluff sca-captain II he be asked to dinner INC
first thing he sipuatt5 Is foF bis serge garments 'hu
no swalow-tall.
"Tlos. who knew Mr. Emerson best" said Miss
Ncott-as quoted in The Boston Transcript - were
assured that what seemed the decln" OF MS lac"iu"
I'm his later years was larcly but seeming II was
only words he could not command at Will. HIS very
forcntuln,.s OF the names OF things would often give
occasion for a flash Of his quaint shrewd W.T. re
u,u,,.r once ne started for his usual walk when A
ugnt shower came and he returned Tor Ms nhhrena
H., conn not remember the word umbrella, and We
who had not noticed the shower. had no clew TO whIt
he WAS searching for Another walking STICK was
brog ht him. another hat. fresh kerohiei only 10 De
refused with that pcrplexed. gentle shake OF the mead
Il want said ne last, Il wan,-that thlng-that your
friends always-horow- and Lever bring back! Gould
any one fail to recognize that description
ME-. Marion Crswford's 2oloaster" has been trans
lated into French, German, Danish, Italian ara
Russian
Miss Harriet Waters Preston and Miss Louise Dodge
have written, for school aud college use book on
The Private Life Of the Romans
The original autograph Ms. OF the Poems by
TWO Brothers, Alfred and Charles Tennyson, Is 10
be sold Mt auctIol In London n fortnight hence ~
Is principally In the handwriting OF the Laurea'e.
Tho lot includes several autograph letters auuresSN
I'm the publishers also the original receipt gwen
70 them for goo the amount for which the Iennysohs
sold the copyright
pr Jessopp's Doris" It'll, dyl OF English
peasant llfc Is OF the literary successes vi INV
season in England FIVE thousand copies Of IT were
sold IN one week
Every COPE o. tie Macmillanss large paper edition Of
Tannyson's CenOnc" was sJld II /, reported, long
ago.
ono or two entirely stories Will be included III
thc volume which Mr. Rudyard Kplng VIII soon pup
fish, II will probably contain. also. his forthcoming
magazine story called "rhe Legs Of sister Ursula
Mr. Klpllng has lately acquired the copyright IN his
carly contributions to The Auahabad Pioneer"
on,e OF them are travel sketches. ana these he intends
,o hiring out In a volume with accounts OF his late
wandcrngs.
A set OF the first editions Of the Wnverley Moves
was sold In London the other day. for 80
Some OF the English printers. II Is reported, are
finding their business unplcasantly affected by onT
ConvtIeh. act 4 number OF the important books
Of the season hi been printed are being printed IN
this country, type bcnG sci for them In England
Mrs Ella Wheeler Wilcox In a symposium on the
su,lcc, az poet laureate for America. says: The
cr,ud,st pocm in literary construction and richness
Of language written hy American poet, Is, to my
thinning Her and MarIImi e., b. Amolle R!ves.'
Saint Sacns who has promised 10 come over 10
America to be one Of the conductors of music at
the Worlds Fair has just sent article TO The
Century, on List, which vii appear In an early
runhc- The remembrance Of his playing writes
sintsac consoles for tcirC m Longer young
rho article contains critical estimate OF the musical
rorsonalty and influence OF Ilszt, and includes some
unnubiIshcd letters OF Liszt regarding Wagner.
THE DEIDTRiST.
From Atalanta
As l went by the harbor when folk were abcd
| saw my dead lover In his boat pulling IN