New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-08-06
LITERARY NOTES.

The reader may like to know what two books
have been translated into more languages than
| any other volume except the Bible. They are
| Or. Smles's "Scf-Help" and Samuel Warrens
| Passages From the Diary OF Late Physician
Mr. Han,iln Garland Is about to bring out his
first volume OF poems He proposes TO call II
J "PrarIc Songs " and has arranged for n quantity
81 illustrative drawings from the pencil OF west
ern artist He intends 10 issue with the regular
edition n special one OF n hundred copies. printed on
etching paper and numbered and autographed
pier on the Thames nj Chelsea has been named
after Carlyle \ suggestion TO autograph collectors
Is 90 be found in tho story that one or the trlDe
once wrote TO the author to ask whether he might
call n ship the Thomas Carlyle thus obtaining
| the autograph he had long wanted II IL probable
however that In these days distinguished authors
are too wary be caught upon such hook
In connection with sketch Of Guy de Maupas-
SAINT, lie Figaro" 81 Paris. has published In
,eros,lng letters from Gustave Flaubert 50 long
the famous authors mentor. to Nine. Guy de Maui
passant regarding the first essays In literature
Of Der son. You cannot know. he writes no"
charming I think him. He IL so Intelligent bon
enfnnt' sensible and sprltual-in brief, 10 us"
word now I'm fashion sympathetic Despite the dif-
ferences in our ages I regard him as friend
Il envy the serenity which you seem TO enjoy
my dear Louise. because am becoming mehh-
cholv My epoch and existence weigh heavily on
my shoulders horribly 80. ! am so disgusted with
everything and especially with the militant itera-
turr that ! have given mp publishing There Is no
longer ANYTHING for people OF taste to live for.
'Iut DESPITE all this IL is necessary to encourage
your son In the taste which he has for verse
cause II is a noble passion. because literature con-
solcs many OF the unhappy and because he may
perhaps have talent. Who knows? Up to the
present time he has not produced enough for me TO
draw his poetcnl horoscope. and then who Is able
10 decide upon the future 81 man? | believe
that our Young man Is little indoent. and not
over eager for work would gladly him
undertake Il larger work. All that he mas SHOWN
me s as good as anything published chez les
parnassens' with time he will become original.
and will have his own manner OF seeing and feel
ing O,ecause everything is there) As to the
result-succcss- does II matter? The principal
thirg In this world is TO keep ones soul In a high
region far from the bourgeois ana democratic
mire. Tho cultivation OF art gives prize one can
not have too much Of that. That Is my system
OF ethics"
I, would be well for critics in their enthusi-
assn over the perfection 81 De Maupassants lit
erary art no, TO forget that 1t was often neither
more nor less than "A cloak OF exquisite brocade
thrown over "A hlthy savage Of the Paris Sums.
Much ~ his work. IT ought to be frankly said, Is
morally base and UNIT for discussion "tnfort-
unately" says an English critic. THE best-equipped
French writer OF recent years cannot be read by
many people who ought to know him. \ publisher
once said that he esteemed his style and power
50 highly that II Maupassant wer" to do II clean
book he would publish 1t with notes for schools.
Maupassant remains unread in schools
Professor Goodwin Smith. In his article on Anglo
Saxon union in THE North American Review"
hut fart for he ed
the incorporation of the Canadian French cle-
mrnt. They good people. he declares. kindly
by nature courteous. emincnty domestic. INK" the
country people Of France. frugal and generally
moral. "Politicay." he says they have been the
victims Of systematic corruption which has not
failed To affect their character. But they free
from any tendency to political conspiracy or cabal
They are also free from the tendency TO Industrial
wars. and make. it appears. good and tractable
workmen In the factories OF New England. Though
the forces Of Canada are inadequate to the
assimilation OF the French. by the forces of the
United Continent they would probably be assimi-
lated for all essential purposes not less easily than
the French OF Louisiana more easily, perhaps,
since. they closer to the centre OF influence,
and ar. not estranged by any peculiar institution
like slavery"
A careful inquiry into the literary organiza tons
of Indiana shows that there are los womcns
clubs twenty mems clubs, and forty clubs in
Guiding
Some Of these literary clubs maintained by women
have records touching In what they reveal Of
tosome struggling toward intellectual improve
n,ent one Of them Is organization Of farmers
wives and its meetings held at the different
farms OF the members. 1t is often very difficult
IN attend the women having sometimes to walk
over three miles to the meetings. And Indiana
roads I'm the winter-the leisure time OF the farm
org wiie-are not the most comfortable prone
nadcs in the world
Aack, What does 1.-THE Spectator mean by
talking about the "too-cleverby half. and annoy
i,cIy sef-depreciating way In which In these lat
ter days Mr., Henry James condescends to be
entertaining?
The much-lauded fine manners OF "A certain ROYAL
nersonage set in their proper light in the
lately published "reminiscences OF Lady de Ros n
brilliant Englishwoman who lived to great age
Nothing could he more dignhed an well bred"
she SAYS, than the manners Of Charles OF
France When he was In England as Monsieur
I had opportunities OF seeing him In the company
~ George ". and with all the acknowledged
pretension Of the latter to fine manners, the con-
trast between them was striking Charles was
everything most gentlemanlike and refined while
the other from his flourish and display, might have
passed for his valet