New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-11-20
LITERARY NOTES


LITERARY NOTES
-, r.,.,at, do Kovcn. composer of Rop'h
,d, and DThc Fencing Master Is 10 Nv VI,
EDITOR Of the new department OF Music anu D''"'"'
in "llarper's Weekly
vr ruskIn's forthcoming book. zine i''"'
Architecture will contain "A COLLECTION Vi ,,",c
! u c, ,o,, describing the cottages OF fnel"''"'
| t,onc. Switzerland and Italy. ana giving "
ulcturesgnc cottage building ana NV 49,
! treating Of The villas 81 laN ara r''s' ,.,o
! concluding with a discussion Of the laws VI "'''''
composition and practical surc' suonS VI .' 40, -
th. huIacrs " country houses. tn" t'N' VII. "
,c,n,paried iy fourteen pilates IN photoRrVu'c N""
i.hcd drawings by the author p'S'u'H "'"'
,,illpaee and other new woodcu'S.
Nors r,ro,o who Is now living In Italy. has sent
home a story for the Jdnuary century " J"
entitled The cl.oOO.0Co BankNo'e
Mrs. oIiphanrs forthcoming history OF the VIC
,orlnn nge of English literature will have an "n'
,onl, interesting feature In the shape OF htherto
,,nhu.h,d letters from dl-iin Zuishcd authors dlS
,.sinr their own works. Mrs. ohphant, 1t Is s'h'c''
DOE, all her literary work at night
Their. +. a rumor that Mr.. Elizabeth Phelps ward
ls +, write sequel her qunlat and in'rry Ooo"'
. The Ola Maid, Paradise
David Christie Murray the novelist. writes " EIGHT
40 ,, y.,r, neo I VIA. sitting In the savage 'lnb
In ,c company Of four distinguished men OF letters
! one wa. the editor OF London daily, ana ne was
talking rather too humbly, n Thought about MS
own career Il DO not suPpos".' lie shn' ''h"' any
man I'm my present position has cApefich'cn III 10"
don the priynuons | knew when hrsi came h''''
I went hungry for three days. twenty years o"'N
ard for three nights | slept Ia tho park On" Of
,f,, PARTY tlrncd - me. 'iou cup that Christie
I ou,scr,,l four nights on the cnihan!m"nt. fonF
DAY, hungry ny icit hand ncishbor Nhs poet
! and he cLlm.d IN mconcally, mvr.' In erect !"
| proved that there not one OF rs VINO ma ho'
,lcpt I'm that Hotel Of the Beautiful star which Is
lv,l,s omen 10 every body We hid all been frequent
/ ri..f. there and now were all prosperous ana
had fani other and more comfortable lodgings. There
I. , r,uter brotherhood % De- found among men who
Inv. tut ND In that great caravansary than can be
looked l,r elsewhere lie losts ~ scars that never
felt a wound. aud fellow feeling makes rs "ondrouS
Kind
Tho G,p., Trail" Is the title Of the poem which
Rudyard Kpllug has contributed to the next
"Ccrtury.'
Paul Llndan. the brilliant II somewhat pcSSImiNtc
German novelist. has lately written story which
dcils With he In this country we'll rs In Berlin.
4 translation is to be- published by TIA" Apple
ton,. Herr Lndau has spent t." past year or two
I'm Ia, United state, rs the travelling respondent
Of a Berlin Journal. and his PICTURES Of American
life will probably De- tulhful ones.
Mr. Lowcils letters to Mr.. w. J. stillman are 10
appear In the next Atlantic" The volume con
tn!nng Lowell's lectures on the "Od English
| Dramatsts' Is nearly rcndy for publication.
Tho choice Of George Meredith Tcnnyson's
successor In the presidency OF the English society
Of Authors las dispensed certain critics who think
that Mr. Ruskin ought To occupy that position. AS
The pres,dcvt OF the jcIcty Is not much more
! than an eminent figure head Rnskn's fran health
would have disqualified him for the post.
Thacheay's drawings Illustrating the famous
| ballad Of q Lord Bateman--tho drawings which are
to appear In the holiday lIarpcr"-werc discovered
| BY accident Mrs. Ann Thackeray) Richie gives
| this account OF them: =" never knew that my
father had made pictures TO the familiar baInd, nor
was It until the other day when Mrs. Leslie stephen
| sent them TO that | ever saw the sketches.
This lady happened To De nursing her children through
infantInc Illness and In their nursery stood
table which had also stood IN my 'Istcr' nursery
before ~ accident the table wen; with
| a crash and an unsuspectcd drawer fell out. all
| stuffed full of papers and odds aud ends. Among
| them we're these present, pictures. which had emerged
into the daylight aitos over quarter OF century OF
| scclusiOn.'
| An album OF autographs the subjects OF Column
bus and his great discovery has Just been brought olt
abroad by Count de Gubcrnatis and sgnor Cecllo
| Nalardi. The leading authors Of all countries have
contributed 10 the album. which contains among other
| verses these by Tcnnyson:
on my first voyage harn,scd by the rights
OF my first crew. their curses and their groans.
| The great iamc-banncr burnt by Tcnerlne
The compass, Ike an old friend false Mt last,
In our most need. appalled, them. and the wind
| still westward and the wccdy ScaS-at length
The landbrd, and the branch with berries on Il,
| The carven siah-and last, the light, the light
on Cuanalan!
| TcnnysonS first book, Poems by Two Brothers "
and his last book "Tho Dcati OF Ocnone are the only
| works Of his which have reached In England the dig
nifty OF large papcr' editions. The "Oenone" I;
limited to five hundred copies and will contain Ave
steel portraits Of the poet taken at different periods OF
his life.
Mr. Thomas IIardy's new novel. which Il coming
out In This country. In the pages Of IIsrper's DaEar
Is 10 be- II IS reported. entirely rewritten BY Its author
before being published IN book form.
Mr.. Francis Darwin says concerning his father's
| method Of work: 1T his habit 10 work more or
less simultaneously AT several subjects Experimental
work was often carried refreshmcnt or variety
while books Involving reasoning and the marshalltng
| Of large bodies OF fncts were being written"
Snlvini has been writing his autobiography and n
part OF IL. describing his struggles young actor Is
20 be printed In the next "Crntury."
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