New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-10-26
LITERARY MOTIFS.


and It's scene is laid In the South II will he pnbisAco
nc a serial In Harper" during the comm. year
OTHER serials promised for the magazine are Dr. a.
Conan Dovle's story, The Refugees "a taIc OF inc
court OF Louis XIV and of Huguenot HE In America
and Mr. william Blacks novel The handsome
Humes."
An Fngishman writing TO London paper quotes
a whimsical little story told 10y rcnnyson. II WIS.,
7 think in the wear 1851" says this correspondents
that | was visiting in Lincolnshire. and my most
proposed that should can on the Turner'S on 'nc
chance OF finding Tennyson there. lie had !us'
arrived. a few days before and was lor'u'"'eN' az
home My friend, a Lincolnshire man. WIS III
ready acquainted with him, and began al oh'e ~
Iraw him out. This no easy task iof' as "e
said afterward 'Tennyson Is just llk" sleeping "o'
who requires a great deal Of stirring up before ne
uiu roar, AT last however the desired roar came
The conversation turned on education and the spr''u
NJ scientific knowledge YES said Tenny>oh' II IS
,preading and 1t is crushing all tie ROMANCE ~
poetry out OF chlldren's lives. II was only yeSe'"S
/ was walking in the fields with one OF my hePe"
. little cham OF eight or tcn-whcn came TO lify
ring Look said look Lcre my Boy n'rr -
fairy ring, A what. unclcr he said Why' "
,;rv ring The old folks wcuh trl you that lnese
,o,rv rings arc 50 called because the fairies were
dancing here last night Oh, uncle he replied qu''e
ersyelv 1T Is we'll known that these fairy rlh=s' 10
Won call them are caused by a species OF luHs".
"rae following coincidence" adds this writer VIA
., ,so,, no considered curious friend of mine, who
had been lifelong student OF Tennyson' al last e'"
an Introduction to him His object In doing so was 10
oh,s, from the poe himself expiration OF certain
.,h,nes hard To be understood in the In Memoriam'
on which he had exercised his poor Wis IN Will "'
MANY q long year. In the course Oh 'ne COW
NV friends copy Of Tcnnyson passed into the poets
hands Turning over the pages he suddenly eNca'n'u
Nv,v d,a ron write Yarmouth against this stanza y
fri,D |
that T., most extraordinary, was the reply Ior
wrote II there's"
Another Engllshman relates little story to prove
M assertion that however unappoachable In the usual
wav rennysop might be, the stately poet could OH
OCCASION unbend. some years ago. when LoFd Uhc"
MR. Tennvson used TO stay with IN old filehd III
Hamilton Terrace. the G0sNd and sl"uc"eu"'e"
figure attracted much attention ~ lie tooh MS o'iiN
constitutional up and that broad 81. Johns "ood
r.,lcyard 80 seldom the Laureate seen III h'"oh
that there WAS even some doubt ana Spe'ui"''"
am.ng te residents Us 10 his identity. To tile N"uhS
ladies especially of boarding school in the helsoor
hood the mysterious stranger was the cause oil auo
little Autter OF romantic interest as thcy piSu nun III
their daily walk. one OF the day Ooarueie' WHO re
,ded In tile terrace, Il young lady OF reniarhaoi7 s'l
,o.sess,on and determined will warmly debated the
ionic OF the hour with her father who remained IN
credulous Confident That The stranger really was ,e
,r,hor q, the Idvll, Of the King the daughter
declared her Intention OF asking him herself TO sc'u
the question. Her good humored parent 'h'h III" =
vacer that She would not dare to beard the Hon cor
p,pulo Next day accordingly as the scho"l hiu past
the poet this daring pupil left the ranks before he
horis.d eves of the lady principal. and rushing up 10
tho a.onished poet interviewed him on the SPOT as l'
t,ws: "iIease would YOU mind telling me II you are
Mr. Tennv,on?, "What Is that to do with Won he
roughly said ooh. il matters great deal TO me /
want TO know This with air Of convincing ioScj
"Vhat do you 10 know for = said the oe''
"why some people say you are Mr. Jenny SUM- anu
some say you not. and father bet me - ho'o
would not ask YOU. And now have asked you ana
-ho,h.r am right or not have won my 60" "Wcil
Won are a brave girl and deserve to know You NAV
tell youI father am Mr.. Tennys'n
Ono n, the striking features q Tie Docemo'r
aur,sr~ vil,eac,lecuon Of draw ings 0y 1lrckerav
Illustrating the ballad Of Lord Bateman Thacheray
daughter Mrs Richie, has added some comments
A thoroughly revised edition, in three volumes OF
pr,on,s ANATOMY Of Melancholy" Is coming from tie
uress OF Messrs Fell. London. The edition Is oased
Am that OF l65l-lGoo. The editor has translated the
quotations and verified the references ior inc
first time Indexes and Introductory memoir au'
value 10 this much-necdcd edition Of famous uooR'
Mr.. Lowelrs series OF essays on the old EnSn'h
arsmststs ends in the November Harper WIN Nv
discourse on Messenger and Ford. In Tvs conc'uo'
paragraphs find these wholesome sentences "'n'''
W. call. bv the way Tcnnyson's snccdote' gwen
above al have an old opiaon," says Lw;h "st'eh u
enng with years, that 1t IS Is important " ho'p
the soul alive as the body, nay that 1t Is the HE Oh
tho soa which gives all its value TO that OF te oS
Poetry is q criticism of life only in the sense N'' 1t
h,rishe. Us with the standard OF more ideal FELICITY
~ c.,ncr pleasures and more majestic pains. am
s,,d IA sec that what tho understanding would stigma
tie AZ useless is coming back into books written Tor
children which at one time threatened to become
moro and more dresrily practical and ddactc Inc
fareS are permitted more to imprint telr rnI'
on the tender svard of the child fancy ana IS Inc
chd's fancy that often Ives obscugcy on to minister
soace TO the .onelier ard less sociabe nina OIL he
man. our nature resents the closing up Of the
windows on its emotional and Imaginative side and
reyengss Itself Is It can. have observed that many
WHO deny the Inspiration OF scripture hasten to re
dress TOR balance by giving everont credit 10 TIC
revelations OF inspired tables and camp-stoos' In a
last analysis 1t may be said that 1t Is to the sense
of Wonder that all literature of the Fancy and Of
the Imagination appeals. am tod tilat thlS sense
IS the survival In us Of some savage ancestor Of we
nee Of mint II so, / am thankful TO him for his
longevity or his transmitted nature. whichever 1t may
BE- But I have my own suspicious SOMETIMES ua'
the true age Of mint Is before and not behind US, al
sge hardening Itself more and more TO those subtle
Influences which ransom our lives from the captivity
O. the actual from that dungeon whose warder is The
Giant Dcspair Yet am consoled by thinking thai
tho siege OF Troy will De remembered whom those o.
yicksburx and Paris are forgotten"
DR.. Holmes declares that Tennyson's brIsQue man
pcr was not 10 he wondered at when thinks how
be was annoyed by visitors who respected nothing
and wanted to peer into everything about his home
1t Is reported that the Influence OF public opinion
70 daily gaining ground In the French Academy, ant
that the institution is becoming, in some measure
RepubHcanized NJ Maurice Barres, asserting tina
II dos not represent the intellect of the country
has proposed that the academical elections should here
afer be managed by a sort OF restricted universe
suffrage composed Of the elite OF the literary world
Dr.. oliver Wendell Holiness poem on Whittier
70 appear in the November "Atlantc." Mrs Eliza
beth Stuart Phelps Ward has also contribut d poem
on the theme and Mr.. George T.. Woodbury.