New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-12-18

oscar Wide Is reported 10 have declined nomination
to the >avile Club because he feared he would DC
poor little lion IN a den OF fierce Daniels
II is much 10 be feared that Mr.. james Whitcomb
Riley let his enthusiasm for realism run ahead OF MS
discretion when he remarked In san Francisco I'VE
other day, "Commonpace> are the most beautiful
things I'm tho world after all, and that Is wh're
have attained most OF my success"
A little practical good sense Is apparent IN the
critic Of "The Spectator Qondon) lie talks about
that supreme young humbug, Marie BaSchkirt'eh.'
DR.. Ilakc. in hi, just published "reminiscences, says
OF his friend D. g. ROsScttl. that he had very Just
mind when an author discussed whatever might
h. said AGAINST him. he would Insist on his merits
being remembered. From rlval'ip and It's leaiou'es
he was absolutely free, and his hospitality was WITHOUT
limit Above ALL he was ready at all times to serve
friend and to exert his influence to that end'
Ferdinand Frel igrath WAS the first and best trans
lator Of Tennyson in Germany. Most OF The Enshsh
POETS verse has appeared In German. some OF II III
many editions Waldmuller', translation OF "Enoch
Arden" for example, has gone through fifteen EDITIONS
Mr.. KIping describes. IN some "reminiscences OF
his early llfc the painful shock lie eAperNhr'u
when. a, Il youth on In" stan OF an lhui'" paP'''
hc discovered that sub-cditor Is pnld 10 s"oeo''
and not hired to write verses. Rukn Din, the fore
tie composing -Iopni' h""''''' -
proved Of the VERSES in question: lie was a MoSiem
of culture He would ." Your p'tTy very
lood sir, just coming proper length To-Day ~"
giving more soon nrthisd column Just proper
Always can take third page MI. h'p'ihH
gao, am 10 describe the fashion In which the news
pap,r verse, found their way INTO oooh'o'"'
.om. Of them, We are told. had been SING to the
t,,,o.s r,uud camp fires, and had run As lar
iovn coa,t as Rangoon and MOulinein, ana up 10
Mlndalay. real book was out OF ule fu''uo"'
I'm, the poet knew that KLka-DIn ana the Office
plant were at hi, disposal al price, II Ie uiu N".
use the Office time. - there was punt II SUI u
bo,,S a lean oblong doc hei. wire stitched to mn
tate A u. .. Government envelope, printed Oh ono
side only, bound in brown PAPER and secured WIN
rcd tame It wa, addressed 10 all heads oi Depart
rp.nt, and Government officials, and among P'e
Of paper, would have deceived clerk Oh twenty
,,.,,., service. "Df these hOohs,' says Mr.. klpng,
D." W. made some hundreds, and ~ there "'S IL"
Necessity for advertising. my public b'lhs 10 NY
hand / took repb postcards. printed tn" news oi
The birth Of the book one Side, the blank oru''
t,rn On the Other, aud posted Them up and down
In. Euplrr. Tner" no trad" discount ITO
reckoning twcycs thirie"hs, no c"mnl''Io'' anu
no credit Of any KIND whatever" Every copy SOFA
IN a few weeks, and Oh" ratio oil expresses ~
pron, has ,lncc prevented NJ kiplins "inluring Ills
health" IL he say, by sympaihlhnS with pun
u,l,rs who talk VI their Ii,k, and advertisements.
The readers of Mis-, Willus's play. ""i's CoreS'
Yeoninn." In the current Harper have TooA"N
founc 1t unexpectedly powerful. but II Is rather
trorv ln dramatic form than a drama-a tiihg 70 %"
read and not paycd and it i, question whether II
Iri.it not have been mo,, effective III the literary
mould 10 which IT, author ], accustomed.
To tell the truth We do 100; Hike 10 sec Miss Wilkins
tr,lrr experiments. lir er for narrative Is to-
,rccio,l, 10 b.. wasted ia Wor, OF the sort which othr
p,opc can Il, better II Is 10 be hoped TINT she VIII
,rv "a, more pa,toi,' The pastel j. In English II
fniral and Affected form which has u" genuine pace
In our literature. In france wher" 1t belongs III ,'e
Language whicA Is perfectly adapted to it, delicate
oft colorlue the p.,.i u prose Is CHARMING L''
II remain there. And let not writer oi NIFTY
wilkins, original talent descend to limitations ana
aiuronllue>.
D,,alcnt literature. waich being interpreted means
or,ctntlon run mad. With wide margins and limited
editions io keep Il countrnanc' i -ald 10 be o"""'
Very much t. the 'front.' Ia London. John tray V"'
lr,catcur Mr. salni,bury ca,ti,cd IN" other day i'r
TRANSMITTING Paul Bourgct IN u way To max" tna' "a''
- low view, but nigh art wrthc m hi, boidor de
travail, ha, made a book oi poem, when ne 'all'
>iycrpolnt," showing that be means 70 emlat, VIII
r. r.n an artistic nicthol one man IN ten thousand
can Us. ana IL" successfully. Arthur symonS mas
bound together a number Of ">IhouctieN ana JON"
Nddngton >ymond>. the scholarly historian oil me
,rrc rort, has descended from the adstere 'otud'>
~ with "A book OF verse written III ulr NY
~ Rome The lb,ru has passed writes
>pondcnt from London Macterlnck and l'lorn'
son are also ebblng but crowd OF new scandinavian
Dlirh and Russian bore, crop up 10 succeed me
nrlmai ape, c, - wcirue,,. The press still inter
,ie II cir I'm speculation, about the Laurencship, but
II i, plain tlat >winburnc i, first AMI the rest no
where
Many people will read with regret In the preface
T., Uncle Rcmus AMI Ills Friends" lioughton. Mh'lh
a COZ that Mr. llarrl, has taken his l"av" "t the
ouaiut fabu,t. lie declare, that The old man VIII
bother the world no more with his whimsical stories
IN, pcrhap, Rcms ha, given us all he lai 10 give
The collecting of folk tales t. easy task. aud there
are signs in this volume. notably The Man and His
Roots" Of a ntcrar, influence trcking down perhaps
from the mansion into the quarters.
olive Schrciucr. tie south African novelist. Is de-
scrlb,d "a, bright and cheerful. plump pretty. and
about thirty. She Is thinking u leaving her two
rooncd cottage at Maticslontrn and going TO England
I'm the spring taking with her. 10y the way. new
book
What Is mucn wanted careful and coplouN history
~ Ireland will possibly soon be- AT hand. Two his
Tories, nj least ARE announced in progress In
eleven volumes bv MIR james Murphy, Dublin novel
l,t ana another and shorter one by Professor +. W.
Ioyrr brother Of the author of Dcrlrr."
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