New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-10-16

The curtain falls, I only pray
That hope may lose itself IN truth
And age In Heavens immortal youth.
And all our loves and longing prove
The foretaste OF diviner love!
So sang Whittier In one Of his last poems-ohe
which is 10 appear In the number of 'st. Ncho-
Mr. Barrie who has vet, 1t Is reported, begun MS
new srrbnerp novel, Is finishing a play. Mr. irving
is 10 bring ID ont and Is to represent lts nero III
elderly professor who falls in love without uhder
standing what has happened to him.
Dam Stanley had An extraordinarily illegibe hand
wntr which he could not read himself sometimes
IL is related that on occasion Charles hihssie'
received letter from the Dean-i was at time "heh
Mrs Kingsley lay very Ill. Kingsley opehed anu
carefully examined 1t for many minutes but IT VAIN.
Al last I've said IL have every reason TO believe that
this Is very kind letter Of sympathy from Stanley
feel sure 1t Is Yet the only two words can even
c,ess NJ are .heartless devil! But pause-I pause
to accept suggestion, scarcely likely one under
the circumstances
Mr. Darr OF 1.-THE Detroit Free Press has edited the
volume on American Humor' for the International
rumor SERIES, which will be- brought out in London
The continental countries represented in the series VIII
be Germany, France, Italy and Russia
". C.. Brownel's volume on "French Art' will be
brought ont Immediately by the Scribners.
is interesting 10 note that Rudyard Kiplinss father
Il making number OF illustrations for new edition
OF " The Nauahka.'
One OF the holiday publications Of Estes Laurat
,s IA be an Illustrated edition. In two volumes, OF
ecott's "Ivanhoo.n NJ Lalanze has made the e'o''
ings for the work.
A letter written by Mary Anne Evans George
Eliot. to a school.friend. while both were young
women has lately been published for the nrst uiue
In England In this she says she has heard an
oratoro where" she adds Il think said fare"en
to all such expenditures OF time ana money. 'h'hh
nothing can Justify the using Of an intensely interest
ing and solemn passage Of scripture, rope dancer
uses her rope sculptor the pedestal on "hi'h
he places the statue that IL alone Intended to elicit
admiration. | think, too that II Is the duty Oh
Christians individually throw their weight, how
ever dustike Into that scale which Christians they
must profess to wish To prepondeate not In take the
low ground OF considering things merely with relation
to existing circumstances and graduating their scale
OF holiness to the temperature OF the world; but TO
aim MS perseverlnely at perfection II they believed
II 10 be soon atalnable. And II So ask myself can
IL be desirable. and would 1t be consistent with
mennal holiness for human being to devote the time
and energies that barely sufficient for real ex
ieences acquiring expertness In tris. cadences
etci The only argument that seems to me to have
any spcciousness In favor Of such exhibitions OF skill
IS that without them should never have an OPP
portunty OF approaching the beautiful powers OF the
human voice when carried TO their highest point OF
Improvability. But by once admitting such reason
Ing we dIsarm ourselves OF every weapon against
opera dancing. horse racing. nay, even against ntem
pernnce. which have heard Justified on the plea that
since Providence has sent lxures We are contemning
them by abstinence"
Mr. Quiier Couch Is coming out in a new chnrac-
ter-as poet He n about 10 publish a ltt,e
volume Of verse.
There Is in the current North American Review
a humorous suggestion which is worth noting. II
is TO the effect that there should be tax slor.
stories the production OF which ais growing Mt such
a pace that man can view 1t with unc)ncern.'
The SCALE says the writer. might well be graded
according to the nature OF the stories. For
example dialect tale u tho first
class practically unreliable BY nine men
ont OF ten, ought TO bo worth than a story
IN plain English and should be taxed accordingly.
A study in morbid psychology should yield
tho National Treasury than simple o'd-fastioned
love story. A line also might well be drawn between
work of the realistic and the ideal
stic schools" by OF such legal
provisions humorist says: Government
could impose saluary check upon the production
Of inferior fiction. protect the people from the effects
OF over-indulgence, and reap rich harvest from
hourshng, growing Industry No doubt many a
weary editor IL almost ready to wish that Mr. Howes
fun might be serious fact for the How Of The stream
OF impossible stories the Offices of mn gazine and
Journal is ending. Many writer's complain
that the magazine editors do not read their Mss.
| The truth is tint six lines of the first page are
usually enough b prove the quality OF contribution.
II there is anything hopeful about that first PAGE most
editors read to the last one.
"The London Bookman' says that many OF the
principal English publishers "aS holding back some
OF their best books account OF the delay expert
enced in securing their copyright In the United
states" and 1t adds that experience has shown the
working OF the American Copyright act Is full Of diff
cules to the English author. and altogether OF less
value than WAS at first hoped This should set at
rest the fears OF those who ut first Imagined that
our copyright passed more In the interest OF
the foreigner than OF the American.
or Coventry Pamore's wife, the heroine OF his