New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-01-13
LITERARY NOTES.

The yacni,Iaps are bringing ont an edition. nicely
bound and admirably printed. OF Mr. Crawfords movers
AT tho low price of a dollar Il volume MT is"''9
has just appear d.
Dickens had a whimsical dislike to being caheo
"Grandfather7 and t. being regarded IN that hsh'
In letter TO Mrs. Miner Gibson. now IN t"e
Victorian exhibition he says: can never Imagine
mys II grandfather of four. That objectionable +.
lauonship Is permitted in my presence
make the mites Suppose that my lawful name Is
.WcnerahIcs,' which they piousiy believe
Mr. Lowell's essays on the English dramatistS
ere to be published in book form next autumn oy
HOrighton Mfin.
IL Is solemnly stated in France that since SO
the date Of Victor lugO's ath-hs countrymeh have
paid a rough net average Of 100000 year ior
the different editions Of his works This statement
was made In answer to divers assertions that Hugo
wa, overated and his works were out of date
An Englishman says of Carylc-is it CUTLER
Couch 1T is strange that the greatest English
man Of letters of this century should have found 1t
indispensable for his conentment to belittc almost
every of real Importance whom he met
Bret Horte has written a new story, "The Con-
spacy Of Mrs. Bunker"
Why will Mr.. James whcomb Riley persist in
doing badly things worth doing, when
he can do beautifully things 80 well worm
doing There is a semscotch rhyme in the current
see his name attached. 1t is not poetry ana IL Is
certainly the queerest scotch that was ever seen IN
Oh out Of the land OF Burns,
The statement that TennySon wrote his first poem
at sixteen is corrected by The Dookman.' He was
Only eight years old when he covered both SIDES OF
his brothers slate with poem on Flowers uone
!, ,sin,e,c habo meter His brother had said 10
him. see ii you can write poetry; and wheh nc
read the verses on the slate merely said "youve
acme ~ Ketvecu the ages of eleven and twelve
the young poet wrote epic of over four Thousand
lines in SCOTS octosy labcs mingled with
lteroics These. says The Bookman." "werc
the only finished poems OF Tennysons boy
hood, but when about fourteen or hfteeh lie
commenced drama in ianbc metre WHICH, we De-
Heve stu survives Thus he practised himself In
three different metres before he began seriously to
write or publsh There is no man. however, who is
40 careful OF his poetcal reputation Lord Tennyson
and it is not likely that he will permit TINS carry
drama ever To see the light Of day. The number OF
his own poems which Tennyson has suppressed during
his lifetime would fill bulky volume
book on the Philosophy of Aesthetics" wmch ~
Is said will be by far the most important ana
brilliant treatment of this great subject In the EhsSh
language is coming from the Macmillan press llS
authcr is Mr.. Bernard Bosanquet author OF :" Logic
or the Morphology Of Knowledge" and transa'of Oh
Lotzc's system Of Philosophy
NJ. Here Lott has begun the publication Of new
story Fiantome d'Orient'
Miss Rachel A. LIZ FoItaine has edited and illustrated
a number of pretty and rythmic Songs Tor CHRISTMAS
which, however, may be appropriately read at any
season Of the year. They Written by bishops
Doanc and Coxe and the Rev. Drs. W. r. Huntington,
J. W. Brown, Alexander Mackay smith and others. and
the volnme which is artistic in makeup Is dedicated 70
the memory Of the late DR.. W. F. Morgan. Of ST.
Thomas's Church. in this city.