New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-08-20
LITERARY NOTES.

| Mr.. whittiers literary executor contradicts pun
| Iished statement that the poet when disgus'e" W
| the publication OF the Carlyle correspondents
| stroyed all OF his own correspondence WIFI n''
friends that he could obtain. To this executor MT
| Whittier intrusted. about dozen years ago. sew
eraI portfolios filed with valuable material. inc'uu
ing many letters from distinguished authors anu
| statesmen. Whatever passages in these papers ne
wished to have eliminated he pointed out 10 MI
Pickard and In the preparation of the forthcomihs
volumes strict attention has been PAID 10 ~,
wishes. Many hundreds OF interesting letters WI"
be found in these volumes-among them nuihoe'
OF the poets early letters to DR.. Claiming MIS-
| Slgourney and jonathan Law.
| The old Whittier homestead at Haverhill has
| been made to resemble as nearly may be the
| home as IL was In the poets boyhood and the num-
Der OF pilgrims who visit It is daily increasing
| Mr. Edmund Gosse is making ready a new ed-
| ton Of Hazlltts Conversations with Northcote'
and the volume, ornamented with a portrait OF
| Northcote. will be brought out in the autumn.
| Richard Blackmore, the author OF Lorna Doone
| Is said to look in his old age like one OF MS own
West Country yeomen. He has strong and rugged
| face not without traces Of humor.
The biography Of the late distinguished compare
| tive anatomist, Sir Richard owen Is nearly ready
for publication 1t has been prepared by his grand
| son.
The late f. T.. Bynner novelist whose work
was carefully thought out and emnently correct IN
STYLE IL Is agreeable reading and will probably
| find place In all American anthologes; put we
doubt il his books long survive in any other FORM
This is an age OF pleasant STORY books'-books
which are interesting and credltabe in many ways
| but which nobody wants to read second time'
The official documents relating TO the fleet COM
manded by Lord Howard OF Effngham In loSi-oS
will form the first publication of the new Ehghsh
Navy Records Society
The Macmillans have announced their intention TO
print hereafter more large paper copies OIL any
book than the advance orders call Tor.
Is Boston ceasing to be consciously or aHec'euiy
q literary town? Professor Arlo Bates seems 10
think So for he notes in letter to Ihe booh
Buyer that the city has given itself over 50 ehtrey
TO music that 1t begins to be doubtful whether she
will much longer have any literary affairs to write
about II the literary man. he says "is"e' "
mako q real success In Boston. II might be a goou
plan for him write musical romahces ia VIM,
the heroine Is a musician who makes d "'u'"p'
first appearance at the symphonies
one of the most famous child's books In the worid
#. the "Struwwelpeter" ("Shockheaded Peter y,
DR. Hoffman, OF Frankfort. II has been Uahs'a'e'
into English. Russian, Swedish. DANISH DUCT" D
French Italian and Portuguese; it has gone al
o,cr Eurone the Americas India Africa and Aus
trolla rs author now a delightful old man oi
eiahty-three is sometimes lured into telhhs
friend as n good joke. how when hrst "I'''"e MS
noted pcturc-book. he never dreamt Oh h"''ns d"
published
II was about Christmas time and he had been
oh
book for his little boy Of nearly three years o nj
instrofed 40 scientific or artistic that they wouii
not do at all. At last In despair , Nv 81 ore goinr
To- make a picure-book for the boy-one tha' . ne
can take in. and in which the tedious tno' h,ob1
ob~lient!' he clean" be INDUSTRIOUS are Drousnt
home In n manner which impressrs the i n
Of a young child Or Hormann was head p ny
stefan OF the Frankfort Lunatic Asylum NJ inc .iir'
NJ. knew nothing 81 drawing. but II" s"t 10 "ctn
in his rare free hours and on christmas eve 'i'y
nv naughty boys and girls which everybody knows
lay under the chrsm tina ire as Sas 9erhed 20 with
H. and a few days after christmas at a family
gathering the wonderful pcturepT%K NV wa ho tc,
f. these counselled have IT printed The author
laughed and asked II ne looked IKE the writer OF
Just at that tine Dr. hoffman, belonged to a
called ''Th, Baths In the Ganges one OF the
ih~ BOOK Was delighted and offered at once to
bring n out II late at night the literary
though earlier In the evening he had refused the
orer said laughingly. VERY well then Give me
w gtilden about ~ and try your fortune. The
Youthful owner OF the original howl"d AT the ldea
ths his picture book had been taken away from
him but his father comforted him with the prom
Use that h. would get two books back presently
better 'hnn the first. go . < -,
Don't make II expensive" Or. Hoffman, nd
yised his publisher. ''and don't make II too strong
children Ike to books as well as 10 read them
and nursery books ought not 10 be heiflooms
They ought 10 last only time" The publisher
agreed and a first edition ~ 100 copies was sent
INTO tho world They vanished does drop OF
water on a hot stone 40 more surprised
than the author himself The publisher made a
more generous Offer TO Dr. Hoffman,. and edition
after clifton was printed I'll some years ago there
had been rs German and a. English ones
Andrew Lang declares that OF all literary forger-
les the one which was best led up to- was the
pseudo Waverley novel "Moredun"-the MSS
brought out In 1865 by T.. de Saint Maurice Cabany
"Dlrccteur General de Ia Socetc des Archivlses
de France" The story which this man told con-
corning the MSS most cleverly put together
and his dates were accurate beyond question But
"Moredun' bears not trace OF SCOTS style.
The first volume OF Professor Pagqunle Nillarrs
long anticipated work upon the political institu-
lions OF Florence has just been published. 1t Is
to be translated and published in England.