New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-25
LITERARY NOTES.

Mr.. Richard Harding Davis's book, "The West
from a Car Window Is coming from the h'HPoi
press. Anne Thackeray Riches Records OF Kenny
son Ruskn and Browning" will be brought Out at the
came time.
The Ibsepists of London have small to re-
,oce for IL IS gravely stated that their fellow
citizens have steadily refused have anything TO 90
With the "Master" and his works, and even "A
Dolls House. failed, during the past season. to MI
n very small theatre.
The collection OF engravings Of old paintings made
nv Timothy Cole IN Italy is soon TO be published
under the title OF "Old Italian Masters by 1.-The
Centuryp Company. Mr.. W. J. Stinman's text VIII
accompany the engravings, which will be sixty-seven
10 number. portfolio Of proofs taken by hand on
japan paper and signed by Mr.. Cole and the proof
printer will also be isseud at $40 per sell lhefe
are TO be only 125 sets of these.
Mr. Julian sturgis, who may be considered, per-
hxps as almost Engnshman than an Ameri-
can Is about TO publish collection OF reprinted
pieces. 1t Is TO be entitled After Twenty Years."
These are the best verses in Mr. william Watson's
much praised poem on shelley:
A creature OF mpeluous breath,
Our torpor deadlIer than death
lie knew not; wnatsoeer lie saith
Flashes with life
lie spurrclh men, he quichencth
TO splendid strife.
And in his gusts OF song he brings
With OdOrs shaken fiUm strange wlngs'
And unfamiliar whlspeHnSs
From far lips blown.
While all the rapIurOus heart OF things
Throbs through his own
Are there not echoes Of other lines In these'
LowcIl's paper on Chapman, in the september Har-
per-. is one OF the most vigorous and dehghtlu OF
the series thus far printed. We commend 'he i"i-
lowing paragraph 10 all tTanslators;
be- and he truly his Thoughts viii h not s 1ns
In language but their own Ex ke Eprss and
German, the feat is impossible VINO ever saw Won,
translation of one of IeineS songs ln'o fishsh W
which genius mad not uterx va rsnun, trans
cannot translate the music; above all we eaiho. trd
round the poem, giving it more meaning to us per
haps than it lad for the poet himself ell odn
(, foreign to us ior the hst time. Why, we do not
like TO hear one read aloud poem ul. ~ rar a.
because ho translates 1t into something uniamH 40
he reads. But perhaps, 1t IS far, ana is 10 ~ in
times forgotten, TO supie save N ma knowledge Of The
original and whom 1t Will be new poem. Al
ursSuCon TRANSMISSION into the moulds of another
language, with an absolute deieremce 10 ~, - the
tTe metilod There are more mastery llusta-
lions OF this than the versions from we ure I ,
franslatons, however else they may fail, make the
same vivid impression on US thad an Original nor SoII i
ling all else take care of itself and has succeeded
Chapman aimed at the sane s @ Keats . sonnet
on first looking In his Homer
.Tben felt I like some watcher Of the Sides
when "a planet swims Into his KEN"
Whether Homer or not his translation Is at least not
Milton US those in blank verse strive without much
success 70 be. II the Greek original had been lost
and we had only Chapman, would IL not enable us "
dIyiue some the cuef qualities % mat Original
think II would and think this, perhaps the fairest
test. Commonly open a translation Us II We're tno
door Of house Of mourning 1t Is the buIlal, service
OF our poet that Is going on there: i5ut Chapman
roem makes feel as If Homer late In He hid harilco
AN English wife, and invited TO celebrate the
coming OF age of their only SON. The Doy rs our
country people say. and Chapman would have SAID
fayOrs his mother there i very little Greek In NM ana
Vet trick Of the gait and them and certain tones
Cd voice recall the father II not 50 tall a. he ana
without his gnity he Is fine. stalwait leiow, inu
looks quite able to make bis own way In the worlu'
Ses In Chapman's poem there is life. there Is en-
ergy and the consciousness OF them. Did not DRYDEN
saw admirably well that II such a poem as we
might fancy Homer have written before he arrived
at wears of discretion Its defect Is should say hat
in il Homer is translated into Chapman rather thah
into English.
The forthcoming collection of Gays poems Will Ill two
volumes of the Muses. Library These will present
practically everything that Gay wrote In verse; IN
GLIDING the songs from his plays and operas.
portrait and life OF the poet will be found In the hrst
volume. Mr.. John Underhill is the editor