New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-11-06
LITERARY NOTES.

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American author than his countrymen have tr.,
The English publisher OF ypecn and "Omoo 49,
Murray, whites that these two works OF Herman MAJ
vile have never been Out OF print in England sinc.
they were first published BY his father and that The,
continued to have steady sale.
Has Mr.. Rudyard Kiping reached and uasssa ~.
zenith Of his genius Unless he gives rs nex, roe,
prose much Letter man ne has bestowed upon us dur
Ing the past year one may begin to fear that hi.
abilities meteorc than lasting
"Fortunatus the Pcssimlst' Is the title o, Mr. A.
fred Austin's new volume OF poetry
II Is said Tennyson considered that tho he,
line he wrote one In The Gardsn...
Daughter:
The mellow ouzel futcd In the elm
NJ. Mariner. the late academicIan used IN srorA
many hours I'm searching for treasure among IN.
second hand book-stalls In Paris One dav vhs.
turning lot OF shabby books he came upon IN.
OF his own works. containing the first page a
dedication In his handwriting 10 one Of the ead,oo
critics OF the day. Nothing daunted, the author
bought the book and had 1t cxquisitely bound and
stamped with the initials OF his friend. lie then
It to its former with this simple remark:
"You will perhaps keep this time because Of the
binding
There have sometimes been Indications that the
getting ready to take all his philosophy
history and fiction In the more flexible form Of prose
THE London Athenaeum,' however apparently con-
siders that happy contamination still far off, The
drol dea," IT says, that the greatness OF poem Is
measured by the quantity Of printers ink used In
working 1t of IS strong ever. Nay in these
happy newspaper days OF ours 1t is stronger. To
a poem by its length first, and By It's strength
afterward, has always been favorte method with
M fore Inns al
recommendation to the parsonage who nowadays Is
said by an American hum0rst 10 exercise the CON-
bined functions OF poeca critic for the newspapers
and printers devil Moreover. this ambidextrous
personage crlt.tsing while he dats has lately been
much fortified in his critical principles by brilliant
II paradoxicol writer b The Nineteenth Century and
he has lately been chirruping with accession Of
uvcIiness about minor poets. For
mart however-belleyhg we do that In
virtue OF one short ode sappho was n major poet,
while the bard of that great epic, Mr.. - twho,
the ambdextrou parsonage assured the world. took
A place somewhere between Homer on the one hand
and Milton on the otherD should properly be called
mnor-we do not ask ourselves with great search
ing OF soul whether Dean Afford right wrong
In affirming Of the 'Idys Of the King that one noble
design warns and untes the whole Perhaps there
wa, more profundity OF criticism than Is generally
supposed Poes saying that there no long poems
that Paradise Lost u.s. and must be- by force OF the
However, be- this as It may. OF Tennyson's Immediate
predecessors Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley and
Keats the great poetry. separated from the mass Of
second rate In which Il Is embodied. would take 80
little printers Ink to print II that the ambidextrous
parsonage before mentioned would at once. In re-
viewing IT, head his article Another Volume Of Minor
Poetry"
The admirers OF Heinrich IIeine in Germany are
rejoicing over the decision of Nine. Charlotte Emb
40 - 1tnr to of
imprinted letters. In her possession. The letters
were written 10 Nine Embden and her mother
BEGINNING In the poets university days and ending
Few weeks before his death, forty years ago, they
said to throw a bright and favorable light upon
his character and to show deep love fol the members
OF his family They will form, In sense, continue
ton Of the poets memoirs. Nine. Emblem intends
also 10 publish at the time volume OF RENT
nlscences OF her brother and TO correct therein
Der OF mistakes In existing biographies OF IIeine. AZ
Nine. Embden is now ninety.two years old and cor
respondingy feeble. she will be assisted in the im-
portant work by her son, Baron Ludwig Emblem
The books will be Illustrated, and will contain among
other things a portrait Of FRAU Mahide,' the poets
wife, so we'll known TO readers Of his poems No
portrait of her, 1t is said. has been published.
Only n few weeks before Tennyson dieo made
many additions 10 and corrections OF The acting version
OF Beckett, Among these additions long. new
speech by Beckett.
Colonel Richard Malcolm Johnston has written
novel which, under the title OF Pearce Amersona
Will" IS 10 appear In the next Ippincott'
lit said that TO few the Bible more familiai
than 10 the late f. a. Freeman the historian He
had evidently studied 1t diligently Il child. and 1t had
become so completely part OF himself that its words
and phra continually appeared perhaps unconsciousy
10 himself In his conversations and in his writings
When a. home he regularly read the lessons In his
parish church with excellent vigor and emphasis.
The earliest manuscript OF the 3" Poems Chiefly
lyrical" TennySon lost out OF his greatcoat pockeo
one night while returning from neishoorihs
market town This was enough" writes Frederick
Tennyson, ito reduce an ordinary man 10 Despair
but the invisible Ink WAS made TO reappear-au inc
thoughts and fancies In their orderly series ana
with their entire drapery OF words and lived
again such Is the true poet Thoughts thas
breathe and words that burn wonder what,
under such circumstances. would become OF inc
mob Of gentlemen who write with ease Oh course
IL would not much matter as they could easily ihnite
something new"
The amateur author certainly does not as rne'
fail for lack of seltapprccatIon James Payh s''s
this example OF letter received by puoiSh'r'
" What I now send you" for he had sent something
bcforc) "is it is hardly too much TO say, reveal
ton: 1t will also. upon the most interesting anu
sublimr subject known TO the human mnd erect
"A evolution. DO not suppose am phhdeo !"
vanity or the desire OF gain. am giving you ah
opportunity such as never before afforded 10 an
editor Upon this priceless work being declined
a different description Of letter was received from
the disappointed author; fou have never rena
my work After the first eighty pages hae
cummed the manuscript together. and II has oeen
r.tnrn,d sill gummed. This is not the hrst ums
thIs has happened and 1t shows why books OF sen~
remain unpublished In this country
Mfr. Aubrey de Vere the Irish poet, has been nen'
TONED as possible of the laureate's cro"n'
Mr. de Vere who Is now seventy-eight years oid i
reoluse. living near Adare Limerick. Much beau''m
and true poetry has he written not inc least oean.
fl of which Is his wildly musical EUROPA M
elder brother Sir stephen de We're. also inherited muca
=, ,,. ro.,lc Gifts Of their father and Is an accom-.
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