New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-24
LITERARY NOTES.

Mr. r. L. Stevenson is one of the most fortunate OF
modern writer's so far the sales OF his books 60 AT
least. The record OF his English publishers SNOW
that Treasure Island" Is in its forteth thousand ana
@The Master Of Ballantrae" In It's twenteth' Inc
plock Arrow in It's nineteenth and Kidnapped" IN
It's thirty second "Thc wrecker," as we have SAID
hefore s in IT'S fourth edition Concerning his other
hooks We have no present information nor DO we
know what has been the sale of his works IN ths
country.
Here is a pleasant predlc:ion-in The L ndon
spectator"-conccrning Rudyard Kiplins: 10 our
mind he will represent better TO posterty, 1ar ana
away better than any Of his contemporaries inc eA
traordinary movement of the Anglo saxon In TINS cen
mry toward the opening up Of the earth The movement
WILL nay must, pass away, the saxon VIII DC "Sa"i
lated let ss say dgestcd, by the other races ""o
M doubt for a hundred years so Will ma MN q
tough morseD but the fate OF the Roman VIII De
his he will rcappear In half dozen ioi"is a.
different from himself are the frehch, uc spar
lards and the Italians from their cohquerorS nu.
10 whose pages will the historian ana inc geliei'i
reader turn to get the picture the widest OF AL
plctures of this particular opening upf 10 huoSaru
Kiping's."
william Archer thinks that Henry James mace d
mistake in allowing himself to be persuaded. asans,
his own better Judgment, make his first tpa'r'cai
ASSAY In the shape of dramatizatlon OF novel
aFor my part" adds Mr. Archer, look for"aro WIZ
the uvelcst interest TO untrammened orauia'o "o'A
from his PEN"
Mrs Talbot Coke In "The Gentewoman at Home
rrhe Victoria Library for Gentewomen se7es' siVo'
many excellent suggestions for the beauti1Sins Vi
home and for dignihed and sensible management Oh H.
Some of her ideas for decoration are uhcomMo'i' s
some arc atrociousas when she advises LOT 'ne une.
toble stiff silk sashes knots and bows. Her chsP'er
nm Madarn's Garden and her directions 1or niaHhs
q pretty little conservatory are adhhiFo"' anu "'i
aRecolections OF Rooms" present some loVeIy p0'uo
~ Quaint old English interiors. Apropos OF the ar
ranrcment OF rooms sle says: Il lehehloer on'o IA "
house with but four spare rooms the hos'ees pu '"'
the prsttv thought Of arranging yellow-ahd- green
room as Spring; one gay with PINK walls anu ~
M summer; cOrn-colorcd one WIN popPe' ,,
.Autunon, and a red-and white one Tor Winter Al
,.s beautifully complete; but when she confided she
xras going TO put elderly guests into Autumn anu oi
ones into Winter l confess l scented trouble Hoi'
afar."
The following odd advertisement comes from an
English paper: g.
HOME wORK.-Good Plots for Novels for Sale.
Apply Miss smalwood The Lees, Great Malvern
handsome Illustrated edition Of Emil Souvestres
Attic Philosopher IN Paris" is announced by the Ap
pletons.
How two hooks may bear strange likeness 10 one
another and vet neither be pagarized may DC seen III
,o,,or addressed 10 the author Of All Sorts and Con-
sitions of Men.-a letter which shows how ideas
floating in the air may take root In different mihds'
and produce similar fruits:
How, did this idea come into my head when was
IN The hack blocks OF New south Wales some hVc
or six years ago. and when had never heard OF your
hook or the writer? Your book Is said TO nave orgl
mated the Peoples Palace, and my book Is entlieu
.The Peoples Palace" and l never heard OF tnat
building or It's name until l came back TO LONDON
tbrne Years ago When i heard the name thought
that was coincidence enough, but when my CURIOSITY
led me to the book In which the idea was mrs.
mn forward-but you cam perhaps, imagine my leeI-
fnCs You have even named your hero Harry 'he
same as mine.
The late Dean Burgeon once told FRIEND that ne
on one occasion, when young man, spent the night
on an oaken settle in the bedroom OF Shakespeare
birthplace, expecting to be haunted with creams oi
the great poct but that he awke in the gray october
,oorninr half dead with cold and fatigue and com
plctely dislulOnzed.