New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-06-05
LITERARY NOTES.

LITERARY NOTES.
Rudynrd Kipling has contributed some cnn'a -,
rhymed chapter headings TO the ei'''o y. viii
CT Tho Nauahka.' This eui'oh 'i"'"
hiring ont early In July.
n yoo has finished his big book on the Franco
prussian war He has been at WORK upon ~ M
nfteen months and considers 1t his most 'n'i"i"n
story He has made all mapncr vi ,
stud,es. visited the battleheds Questioned snr'Noi,
:, ~ aha and consulted 800 volumes historical
and military.
In tho delightful Emerson Tporeau letters ."e p"D
uc,tion OF which Is continued in the June A'iah'.
-. a.. o,or,, amusing comments, at once kindly
and satirical on Bronson Alcot MT. A''o'' se',"'
IN have sat down for the winter says Thorea IN one
latter lie has get Plato and other books 10 re'u'
lie Is ms gcfeaurcd and hospitaole 10 tr''e"lns
thourhts and thinkers as ever but WIN inc ''',o
Connecticut philosophy as ever, mingled WIN WIN, "
letter II he would only stand uprsht anu W. Wv
nrc,-thongh he we're to put OF several degrees "a
,orrcncss and put on considerable deBrcc vi h'"'
ness"
Mr. Clark Russell In telling the story OF his literary
beginnings says that his taste for wriuns nrs' .''
10 him nj sea II WINS n voyage nome iro" "'"'o''
and when abreast OF the Horn that he was "aSn''e
down the decks when n hen-coop was discovered ~
20 missing The captain told him to look ior IT, ou,
he could not find II. The captain grew angry "''"
Russell got saucy and was ordered bcio"' ""
brcad and water and irons and imprisonment says
Mr. Russoll for the rest Of the Voyhse hh''"e
nothing e,.c 10 do took 10 reading Tom Moore, ana
that started me 10 the writing OF poetry hii not 20
n ga again. ! wrote n drama In 1855 wmch was
c,oornv to,Iure After a while wrote John Iiouds-
worth Chief Mate' and that was my hrst hhutcn
novel A well known publisher asked me ID "iic
hook for him. md the Wreck OF the "rSv4por was
my response However, that was re,ect~o oy MS
render with the remark that II was merely ca"ios"'
OF ship furniture
Referring TO the including Of Henry JameS's mono
crnph on Hawthorne IN the series of English Wen q"
Letters--a thing which greved some Eng'lsh cr''"s
Tho St James's Gazette says: ANY wrter WIN
IL n master In the literature Of the English hhg""Sc
should be accounted an English Man Of Letters. VINO
acni,s tbc Latinity o. Apucius because he was born
IN Africa or OF Quintan. who was born In SPAN
Tb. first volume OF Kossuths memoirs upon
which he has been engaged for many years-will ap'
non, in the summer IL Is worth remembering In
noting this fact Of active intellectual work on KOS
suth's part that no has Just passed bis nine'ie'h
birthday.
In nm editorial reference the death OF Dr. George
IT, Moore The Library Journal "a wehkno"h
authority on the subjects Of which 1t treats WyS "a
high and deserved compliment 10 Dr. Moore's eminent
scholarship and his service 10 historical htcrnture'
n then adds comment on DR.. Moorc's career as u
librarian which we quote matter Of lasting interest
and warning II members Of his profession As u
Nhrarianu says THE Journal Dr. Moore was
,ruo failurc The rensO OF this is perfectly obvious
Dr. Moore rernried books and knowledge ms personal
properties \ photographer who hns made one Oh
our most complete bibloernphics one day mentioned
10 the Doctor, In the lnttcrs study that for years
he had been looking for certain pamphIef. me
Doctor opened his desk. pulled out the pamphlet III
onestion held It up for the 10 see and returned
IL 40 his drsk This his nttitud" tovnrd all In
vestientors. A fact a book was not to be gwen
10 whoever needed H. but was 10 be jealousy gnanea
against the possible day when he should wish 70 usc
Il himself In the two libraries In which he passed
the major part Of his life. n careful guardianship
was no doubt necessary. but under his charg, TINS
was carried to m extreme most Irritating TO all who
vi he'd 10 use them md has saddled the two insti
mtons with. an unpopularty which has lost them
money and books and made them the butt Of laugh
ter and criticism. Undoubtedly both these inStitn-
lions are controlled by conservative trustees but Ia
neurnte this force IS OF the most essential OF
librarians duties. And Dr. Moore not merely failed
10 do this but on the contrary was responsible Tor
Increasing and encouraging this tendency
The three phys written By Mr.. Robert Louis
stevenson and Mr. Henley, Bean AUSTIN Deacon
book form.
r. lie Gallienns, writing Of the immuntlcs OF
genius SAYS that II "docs pay the world to allow
genius 10 do its pleasure: Its victims even hive little
10 complain of they wear the martyrs crown, and
II n few tradcsmen few women are tho worse. II
has been deemed 1T. time ont OF mind that such
should suffer for the people. But the one whom II
does not pay either In this world or the next Is en-
phntically the Of genius himself 1t Is really Oh
his behalf that the protest against his ancient I'm
mnnities should be made. for
Whether God or his own within
Matters not much the end - any but him."
one Of the Pnrisan critics has lately praised Lord
Lytton's posthumous verso as being superior 10
lIcne's.
sIr. Hall Cainc has rewritten his novel THE
Scapceoat.- changing IT, strang, TO saw, from three
volume 10 a one.vOlume length. Most authors would
hesitate long before such n self sacrifice.