New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-01-15
LITERARY NOTES.

Reprints of literary masterpieces. TO be sold at fa
sonsble price, are more less welcome they woud DC
ALWAYS moreS and never "less"n publishers "ouu W
more generous IN the size of their type Inc tehue9 Vi
tbe best houses IS undoubtedly toward the lhSc'
clear type which Is pleasure and not an irrcpa"oie
injury to the sight; and this promises u become oo
of the distinctions between a great firm ana cheap
william sharp's Forthcoming book "Ihe Lie.
Fr,endsA~s and Correspondence Of Joseph severn
Is 10 have one particularly Interesting ius'ia.on' III
the shape OF silhouette portrait OF Keats m'he''o
unpublIshed and indeed almost unknown IL was
made In London In 1919
Mr. Brander Matthews is reminded by the "arheu
edition of Ben ur" of the fact that Roscoe COMBINE
and Garfield had at least one liking IN common
O. senator Conkngn says Mr.. Matthews IN 1.-The
Cosmopolitan,, used frequently to read ana ol'eh
to quote from the works of two authors and one worn
OF a third author, and apparently he held all three
In equally high esteem. The two au'hois WIZ
shakespeare and Ouida. and the work OF the thrd
author " Ben-Hur"
Thackeray used TO say that IL novel-wring failed ne
would try TO earn his living at calgraphy' Nha' he
couM do in this direction IS 10 be seen at inc Ncoa
Exhibition in a remarkable Bit of wi1uhg-a shoo' Va
notepaper with the Lords PRAYER written h'Suo
circle the size of three penny piece lci"S Oo"
for the crown and the figure j..
Mrs Gaskeu by Marian Evans George Ehot' III IL
is TO be found this passage: g WAS conscious ""''
the question of my power was SIN uhoeclueu io'
me that nv feeling toward life and art had some
affinity with the feeling which had lnspfen OEaiioiO
and the earlier chapters Of Mary Barton
Mr. swinburne has written little during 'he past ''r
the death of his only brother ana 'he u"lSe'ou Ia
ness of another near relative having greatly hio|eu
him.
Mrs Mona Card. who is not at all particularly
brilliant writer, and whose celebrity reaN Ec" ou'
of a catchy phrase. us Marriage f"lio -
about to publish novel. 1t is to deal with socialism
She is also collecting fOr puDDCduoh /" oo
her essays on marriage
Highly tightly Mr. Rudyard KpllnG! lie was
onered while in Melbourne $500 by local journal
for a paper embodying his impressions OF lhe hei
bourne Cup-and he wouldn't write It,
In England Rudyard Kipng is name 10 conJure
with. IL was used to gain the public ear ior ms
tatber,s hook On Animals in India"-littc as That
work needed the help-and ii is being invoked u"
lift another member of his family into notice. Inc
Albcmarle," a new siXpeDpy monthly aIhou''oo9
AN original story by Mr.. Rudyad hipilhg SISTER
Mrs Fleming" There is suggestion Ill 'l'S io
he gallery folk who have striven more or less Ill
vain to bring the painter Of THE siN Days VI
Croatonp into the consciousness of the people. At
,her next exhibition n signboard bearing the leecd
9 new pict,re by Mr. RudyaId Kplings uncle tMr'
Rurne Joncs)7 might be relied upon to rouse uo
sleeping British lion from his co>iest och III
Kensingon to his furthermo>t lair in the cry
The late Mrs Charles Kingsley had large and beau
tfnl ewes and an expression OF geat sweetness ad h
illness. An old friend and pupil OF her huspalu' wiz
spent nearly two wears at Eversley RactorY: eSs Ia
his wife he never shrank from admitting III oeep anu
humble thankfulness he owed the whole tenor Vi HIS
had rorth GV
her the most tender and chlvalrous de'o'ioi'