New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-25
LITERARY NOTES.

@The Country Parson"-"A. K II. B."-the Kew
erend DR. Bovd you may take your choice) tells
delightful story against himself in his ]ustpuohshen
"reminiscences II IS of the Senior WangHr' WHO
when the parson told him OF his intention 10 ie"Nc
Edinburgh for the highly desirable ihcunoehcy VI
St Andrews-naively said Bless me! arc yon gong
there? Why that's place for one Of the first men IN
the Church"
The FIRST number Of the new "Ficton. Fact aud
Fancy Seres.n to be brought out by C. l.. webster
& CO. is TO be a collection of {" Merry Tales by
Mari, Twain, This forthcoming series Is to be hauc
I'm Of pretty little volumes Of fiction ana OF essays
correspondence, poetry and the ike -prihcipaiH
by American authors 1t is TO be edited by Mr.
Arthur Stedman, of the poet and an ed'or hin'
self OF proved taste and experience
The second number Of the series Is to be coliec-
ton Of Mr.. Poultney Beelow's articles on The ger
man Emperor and His Eastern NeighboFs"' the tnifu
volume will be selection from Walt whitman :
poems: and the fourth will contain group OF stores
Of Italian life By Elisabeth Cavazza, under the tlc
of Don Finmondone: Calabrian sketches MIS-
Cavazza is New England lady whose brilliant parody
on "Atalanta in CaydOn" VIII not soon be forgotten
by literary men and who Is the author OF orc OF the
most dainty and charming bits of contemporary verse;
"Alclas Bonnet
DR. George Henry Kingsley, brother Of Charles
and Henry Kingsley. and writer Also has Just dici
ut Cambridge f. gland lie wrote among other things
the greater part Of that fascinating and successful
book OF travels "South Bubbles, by the Earl ana
tbs Doctor--a record of journey taken with the
yolrg Earl OF Pembroke between 1867 and 1870.
Librarian Spofford says that national library
now contains nearly 900 bound volumes and eOo-
600 pamphlets and that the yearly increase Of books
Is from Is 900 to 10000 The library is now ahoin-
1hably crowded, space allotted to it IN the Captoi
Building having been full fifteen years ago. Probably
the new building Will not be ready for occupancy
for four years 1t is to cover three acres and
will hold 100000 volumes.
Carlyle-according TO Sir Charles Gavan Duffy
had an unpleasant thing TO say OF the United states
apropos of border Justice. Lynch law, said ne. lynch
law was the invention of people given TO loud talk
and selfexhibon who had done nothing considerable
in the world that he had ever heard Of
There is clever character drawing in william Nc
Lennans Canadian sketches; yet we venture to say ,
that few readers OF Harper" look forward with
enjoyment to the perusa of many more. In truth
fbe dialect Is nuisance and hard to read that it
does away with ones patience and dulls ones interest
in the plot single tale of this kind which shall
show us the strange tongue OF the French habtant
is worth having; but more than that certainly pau
upon the taste We doubt II the author could
initiate Mr. Thomas Nelson Page and make his dialect,
while troublesome TO read, living and delightful
language on his own lips.
something new IN periodicals is the "Lons
Quarterly, In which Mr. Eliot Stock Will publish
every three months. new novel by promNeh'
writer 1t gets title it's oblong shape and rivals
1.-TWO Tales" in descriptive and prosac naming
aWbat can the University do directly and Of in |
tentio1 for Literature ?" asked Mr. H. W. Mabie. In
his Johns Hopkins address the other DAY. "lhe
literary impulse is not scholastic but vital it issues
out OF life. not out OF books 1t Is powerful ana
pervaslve only when thought. emotion ard imagination
are profoundly stirred When its life is full ard deep,
the University feels that impulse and can impart IT,
It Is not scholarship. it is not nsructlon-t Is the
mower which vtalizes scholarship and makes the
bare fact glow with the meaning which it conveys .
when 1t shes a great truth home to the m'ld thaO /
sets the imagination afame and lbeFates the creative
spirit When education in its highest forms Is dis
tncively critical, 1t may produce Literature Of the
second rank-the kind Of poetry for instance which we
classify as academic; when scholarship Is distinc-
lively constructive, it is in the way 10 produce Liter
at,re of the first rank. The critical mood has It's |
high and necessary functions but is the constructive
temper which creates. When the life Of university
Is in touch with the life which surrounds IL; when
1t holds the human spirit above all the WORKS trone
which il expresses itsef when is open on all sides
to fresh currents of thought it becomes an inspiring
teacher to the artist 1t becomes the channe through
which the vital impulse flows
Dr. Rolfe has been obliged to postpone his study
OF Much Ado About Nothing serious illness having
STONED his work entirely for a time.
Walter Bcsant writing Of collaboration declares that
there Is one kind which may be recommended very |
strongly TO every Young literary workman. lie advises
him to find among his friends-ccusins, siste's-a |
girl Intelligent sympathetic, and quick; girl who |
will lend him her listen to his plot, and discuss
his characters. "She should be girl Of quick mas-
ination, who does not cannot, write-there are
MANY such girls. Merely by talking with this girl |
everything that chaotic has fallen into order
the characters dim and shapcless have become alive
full grown articulate. As in everyday life. so In !
imaginative work. woman IS mans best partner |
the most generous-the least eX0cting the most !
certain never to quarrel her share Of the work.
her share of the glory her share of the pay"
1.-THE Athenaeum' truly says that IL will interest
the admirers Of of the DJrberviles' to know
that the opening incident. which some critics de- !
nounced as unnatural, took place under Mr.. llardys
ewes He was standing mt the corner OF street In
q small tow in DOrsctslre when pSy man stag |
ccred past saying I've got great family vault |
over at -" Mr. Hardy's curiosity was reused, and
he found that the mans statement was true lie
represented one of Oldest Norman families. The
novel grew up from this incident, supplemented by
other facts