New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-05
LITERARY NOTES.
second edition OF Joel Chandler Hnrls's On the
Plantation is on the press

A second edition of Joel Chandler HnrTs's On the
Plantation is on the press
Mr.. George F. woodberry deals in "The Century
with Shelleys work, not so much In It's relation 10
the divine art Of poetry with It's influence on the
ccntury's social advance. Ills words" says MI
woodberry. are sung by marching thousands IN the
streets of London. No poet of our time has touched
tho cause OF progress In tho living breath and heart
th,ob OF men so close that. Yet remote as the
poets dream always seems. II is rather that no
long singing OF the golden age, In poem after poem
which most restores and n6ames those who "hether
they be rude refined the chocer spirits OF man
kind and bring, with revolutionary violence or ideal
imagination the times TO come. They hate the things
he hated; like him they love. above nil things Jus
tee; they share the passion Of his faith In MANKIND
Thus, were his life dark as shakespcares, and
had he left unwrtcn those personal lyrics which some
who conceive the poets art less Dobiy would eAalt
above his grandcr poems h. would stand preemlnent
and almost solitary for his service to the struggling
world, for what be cid Quckener OF mems hearts
by his passion for suprcm. and simple truths. IL
these have hold in society now than when he
died. and II his influence has contributed Its share,
however blended with the large forces Of CIVILIZATION
he has in this sense given law TO the world, and
eeuaod the height of the oftiest conception OF the
poets significance in the spiritual life OF man.
"The educated insoence OF Arnoldr-hnt is phrase
which MIR. Arthur Cation presents TO us IN Tine
Academy"
In the current number Of that pleasant maSn-
sne "TMe Californian" Dr. w. F. Claiming gives
q striking instance OF Andrew Jachson's Formally
not to say stiffness. 1t was during Jacksons ircsi-
dental tour in New England that the DOCTOR then
q small boy, caught in the crowd In the Massn'
chusetts Senate Chamber at the Presidents reception
OF the people AS the supreme moment OF ap-
proach arrived, the next In front OF him sprans
out OF the line with outstretched arm and salc
" General want TO shake hands with you.
Sir said General Jackson. cannot shake hands
with everybody, but can bow 10 everybody ana ne
bowed This the precise uterance OF the
President whose echoes have outlasted sixty years.
The proposed English photographed Society is
now In process OF formation, and not before IL IS
needed, for England has fallen far behind other
countries in reference photography. The objects
OF the society Will be the acquisition OF information
on subjects connected with photography, the pro
motion and encouragement OF photographed re
searches and the collection and publication OF works
connected with photography.
Here IS a well-made list OF fifty books, which
Librarian Stanley Of Lake Forest, suggests On The
Library JournalO for American who conld not buy
large library, for the first books In any Americans
library:
Webster. International Dictionary.
Bartholomew Library Atlas. -
Ciamberss EncycOImedt new edluon'
Bartlett Familiar Ou0tauohs'
Shakespeare.
Milton.
Tcnnyson.
Browning, Selections.
L0ngfellOw, Poems.
Lowell, Poems
American Poems Scuddcr.
Golden Treasury Palgrave.
CARLYLE sarjor Resartus.
Irving Sketch Book.
Holmes, Autocrat Of BreahastTaole.
Emerson Essays.
American Prose, scndder
English Prose Garnett.
swift, Gulver's Travels.
Defoe, Robinson Crusoe.
Dickens, Fichwick Papers
f H.%5sorSc. ' Marble ' fadn.
P0e's Tales.
Bunyan. Pilgrims Progress
Kempis Imitation Of Christ.
Tarrar. Life Of Christ.
P 5ste's Republic. Vaughan.
Dante Longfellow.
Goethe taylor
Moliere. selections.
Cervantes, Don Quxote
McMaster, History Of United states
Green, Shorter History Of England
Mahany, Pictures of Greece.
L %s History o, Art
Cooke. New Chemistry
Langley. New Astronomy.
S Iha S;ory OF p the Eartx
Wallace, Darwinsm.
Professor Edward Card has this penetrating pas
sage on Dante in his volume OF essays of
Dante was give poetic expression to the conscious
ness OF the Middle Ages II necessary for him
10 live In two worlds ut once as for Homer TO live
in one What characterized the Homcric age was It's
fresh sense of the reality OF life and It's Interests
hence the poet of the Had and the Ody ssey couh IN
troduoe the world Of the dead only as shadowy and
spectral existence at the extreme verge OF his picture
of the living world. But to the highest Consciousness
OF the Middle Ages II might almost be said that the
parts were inverted, and that the world OF the living
was but shadowy appearance, through which the
eternal realities Of another world were continually
betraying themselves The poet who made himself
the Interpreter Of such time must draw
his picture, 1t were. windows lightened by
sun"
Literary excursions TO Cintra and other places OF
Interest in Portugal and TO Coidova, Seville and
Granada in Spain will follow the tenth Interua
uonal Congress Of Orlentalsts In Lisbon The dates
for the congress September 90 to October and
these, with the dates Of Its excursions, have been
so fixed 10 enable members 10 attend the Amcri-
canist and other congresses, exhibitions Columbian
festivities that will take place in Spain between
September IL and the end OF October.
The first volume OF the History OF the New World
Called America" by Edward John Payne Of Oxford
has Just appeared In England