New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-09
LITERARY NOTES.

Professor Bryce has revised tho whole Of his Amer
can Commonwealth" and has added several entirely
new chapters 1t Will probably be published next
month In Its nsw form.
"Theodora," the long poem which Bodenstedt LEFT
behind him In MS. has Just appeared In Germany
The scene OF the story Is laid In tho Harz Moui'~''
near which the poet born, and 1t Is null Oh oh'rH
Ing descriptions Of these mountain regions
II 4. said by DIR. Conan Doyle that the man VINO
suggested TO him the wonderfully intmuVe "u ~
servant character sherlock Holmes, was Dr' Joseph
Rel, NJ Fanhurrh "Ilis intuitive powers" Dr.. DOYLE
saws "wero simply marvellous Case NO. wouia
st.v M Il ,cc' said Mr.. Ben. you're suffering iroii
drink. You even carry flask In the ihsse oi0a''
pocket Of yeur coat
Another case would come forward
"sCobbler, / ses.' Then he would turn 70 'he s,u,
h.,,s and point out to them TINT the INSIDE Oh inc
knee OF the mans trousers was worn. lhA' "uS WIZ
,he man Ind rested the lapstOne-a peculiarly Only
,onnn IN cobblers All this impressed me worry hiuoh'
q. w.s continually before me-his sharp piercing gray
ewes eagle nose and striking features Ahi' 10 "a"
personality which Is embodied In great measure Ill
In current fiction. The Harpes are soon 70 o''hs o'
aThe Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes"
c,.,,.s Warren stoddards sparkling and poetic
"south Sea Idys" are to be reprinted by the
There has been no new edition of this book for twenty
years.
Well Weul 1.-The Daily Chronicle" Of London ap-
v>ars TO he of a humorous, satirical. turn Ii
would not be easy otherwise to explain TINS statement
found I'm recent number: 1t Is not oiteh uiae ono
finds the circulation OF great literary paper hnuce
nv a poem the author Of which docs not happen u oc
lord ,rennyson or Mr. SwinbuInc This rare but happs
fate however has just befallen The Spectator INC
,.<ue which contained M William Watson's poem on
Shelley was completely sold out, and so great was e
demand that fresh American edition had 70 be pFieu
off to satisfy the demand across the Au"htic'
Tho Introduction by the Austrian Government o.
Eolas "Debacen-on the ground that IL tei'aS ~
disturb the public peace"-is said 10 nave iIS 'e'
motive in the idea that prompted tne "ernian W"
mani tn forbid all soldiers 30 TO see the iepus"e
battle pictures Of Verestschash Nea'ner po'h 'N'
potures inspire men TO be soldiers
Mr. George ssintsbury. being an essaNst OF renoNh'
II Is interesting note the three rules WHICH, nc
al have always tried to keep before my eyes, "Nee
In writing the history OF literature or In cnuclsis
-,o,,orm speech for next days paper. These rules
a.. Never TO like anything old merely because IL Is
o,s ar ANYTHING new because 1t is new never 10
,uAee ANYTHING in literature politics except 0i 'e
historical and comparative standpoint, ana AWAY "
MI, the exposition Of the subject before inc display VI
personal cleverness."
Intending versi6ers ought to read this letter. once
written by Browning TO some UNKNOWN rh'"ei
Iii its enclosures reached me-lct THIS excuse Ve
delay in replying to It, have read he poem: va VA
ora good enough to care for my opinion "oV1o 80
sill at ieast deserve your kind feeling by pduiieSs
and truthfuiness. You know that have siVeii a
nv ,fe 10 poetry-not a short life, now and nav
bhseryed the procedures OF my contemporaries, -
md small The result Is distinguish uarhtoN W
tween the good OF having the poeucai teihPela.e,e
and the good OF attempin. 10 nuhu - tbere ,s
self except in the extraordinary cases wIGo tt,s
orainal creative power added to the merely sohsioVe
ami appreciatlve, valuable and dlsun gushihe as M
sre + have never an instance OF success AZ
someihing absolutely new, for good or even loT oau
was no prominent in IL. can hardly nope 10 Pu'.sse
ron by tits frankDess, and after all inchhe 700 u
berhais 10 severity In cr1tcisIn-aias "nst - "a
6e to continue publishing In periodicals uhui sonc
thing moro decisive is effected. The amount Oh W
hcjty obtained in this way which Is suppose "'c
object in view will be inlmensurably greater.
Mr. paxne,s inst published "History OF the New
1.-THE Saturday Review" 1.-The modern so0ooseal
be scientific, and must know the why Of everything
goes along explaining with explanations winch arc
restatements of the fact when they are not mere
strnys Of names Mr.. Payne abounds In these sulhgS
10 an insulfersbe degree There are passages OF MS
hook which remind Of the famous process verbal
we found upon the manclpiece,' said the french
LAWYERS clerk neither clock, nor ornaments, nor
i calendar nor q match box, nor a loohnggass nor
INV O. the things usually found on manteipece.
There was nothing on the manelpece." This Is a
very attractive method for people who are PAID by
the folio but in an historian 1t only be accounted
for by natural. though corrupt love OF verbosity