New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-21

Miss Mary E. wilkins is said 10 have put mucn
comedy into her new fveact play. The scene Is
laid in New-England.
This queer sentence Is TO be found In ho.e "
"St Bartholomew's Eve" the poem by j. H. Ne"-
man and J. w. Bowden, published at 'Aioiu III
1921, Newman being the author OF the no'c az -
In his moral philosophy, supposes that 'he npp"'S.
OF the lower and sedentary orders Oh aii.' q"
oysters perwinkles ETC., consists IN perfect ne,i
should prefer 10 say consists In the silence uey
enjoy This poem is extremely rare. Inc niiu ..n
Museum lately acquired the copy from WHICH '"''
sentence is quoted
An exhaustive history OF the Caesars Is the WORK
upon which Mr. Barring Gould is now engaged 1.
is 10 be called az The Tragedy OF the 'aesaiS an"
will contain a quantity OF ILLUSTRATIONS
r.prnt Of George Eliot's translation OF Strauss
aI,,e NJ Christ, is coming ont In LONDON Dr
ps.,d.r has written an introduction for the worA
Concerning the question docs the Higher hi'eiu
trra PAY ~ Walter Besant says "What mas haPPeheu
with poetry, scientific research ana all the various
departmens of science, letters, archaeology ana o
Ike BY which a man cannot live Is apPre"enu
this: II is now well known that a man cannot i've
nv nractisinc certain arts crafts and pursuits NO
one therefore tries to live by them. Where Is your
starving poetl Where is your starving numlsmaus'f
Where Is your starving physicist? 1hey 10 ho'
exist, Those who take up these INES Deeih ny "'
surfing for themselves the daily bread. lneS are
civil servants professors teachers. persons OF private
income, Of them In business some hoiuns
in museums some are librarians or secretaries
None are starving because none are so foolish as 10
trv To live by what IS nevertheless, their only real
and serious occupation
Mr.. Whittier once said that when he was boy
Of home there was only one poor novel in the family
hook belonging to an aunt of his. This he secured
hut when he had read it almost half through ne
was discovered and 1t was taken away from him.
Tb.re ts a curious revelation Of Carlyle's state OF
mind while writing his " Frederick in leuer re-
Gently printed for the first time. NO DOCK ever
undertook has been such misery to me- he SAYS.
81 have literally motive to proceed, except 'ne
conscientious reluctance to be quite beaten :
have little real love for Frederick and for his century
and It's works ana ways cohtemP''o"s "o'o'i'
rather than love-
Another OF his lately printed letters IS Interesting
as showing his somewhat contemptuOus estimate OF
certain great work OF genius. 1t Is addressed 10
a Young man who had sent him an essay on " Hamlet
IL looked over the copy you gave me (for which
were silently sent many thanks when 1t arrived here.
i had much to praise in the gentle. assiduous' ana
pious spirit with which the task had been under
taken and performed: really careful Industrious
lucid and umiDOus reading of the play OF 'Hamiet
and pleased myself with the hope that your literary
tendency would yet lead you into stu riitfuler
fields towards the reauihe anu iceiPie' VA '''9O
much more in need of being read some OF them) and
better worth reading too, than the play OF Hamlet
Amlethus' / find from old Saxo, is nothing but
Morse myth. adumbrating the course OF the sun ana
annual seasons: dream OF the human brain, In
stead Of a created fact of the Almighty Maker; to-
ward which latte: class of objects persist In be-
Nevng the thought aud reading faculty of all serious
men decidedly directs itself. What say you now TO
taking up biography Of some noble man, unknown
or misknown TO the vulgar, much to their damage
some bit OF authentic historical narrative and denea
lion worthy of a human souls taking trouble with
III Such things your eye will discover If 1t look
earnestly such things the real poems and dramas
(God himself the author which 1t best Of all bescem5
@ man TO try II he do little toward Interpreting