New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-10-09
LITERARY NOTES.

Mr. Ruskn's forthcominG new book IS new III u"
sense of matter which has never been puDhShe"'
although not new to those who have hsteneu 10
his lecture on Verona. 1t is these lec'uiea "'
will form the bulk of the volume on 'he "'on
Of Verona" Many of his drawings made !" '"e
ITALIAN CITY will be used In Illustrating the "oIh'
Am Ancient Ancestor" Is the title OF a ioi'n-
oonng English novel which will contain II II
said many new facts about the authorship oil 'ne
poems Of Ossian-a matter IT must DE coi'iesu.
which people are not sitting up O nights to worry
over.
Mr. Owen Wister. who Is the grandson Of Fanny
Kembe. has tried his youthful pen in humorous
prose and has prepared for Harper SNe''" u
wyoming life called En- ly
Mr. swinburnes hobby is waking-a wise one
for a literary man. and more stimulating IMAM
that of a certain Homeric scholar al oNlo'u WIN
seeks repose and recreation In blowing soap puo-
bes.
The late Phillips Rrookss Letters OF Travel
are TO be brought out by f. p. Dutton d Co., To-
gether with a volume OF the late Bishops poems
and carols.
A new edition of "Queechy" illustrated by
Frederick Dielman. is TO be published by the LIP
pincotts in a shape uniform with their last years
edition of 1.-THE Wide. Wide World" Children
never tire Of the pretty. oldfashioned book or It's
simple religion and its episodes Of country fe ana
the new issue will be welcome one.
People who are interested in tracing Inherited
tendencies will find food for argument in the notes
on Charlotte Emily and Anne Bronte's grand
father given by DIR. Wright in "McClures Maya
zine" This Hugh Bronte. an uneducated ulster
man of good brain. novelist by nature. AS
ne sat at night keeping up fire in his corn-Kin
ne would relate to a crowd of neighbors imaginary
stories so tragic that his hearers would he AFRAID
to go home through the darkness. They would lie
on the oat-chan round the kiln all night; and were
ready when the next storytelling evening came 10
listen to tales equally terrifying. However grew
some these stories might be. they always
ended with an excellent moral 1t was not until
late in life that Hugh Bronte learned to read and
always after that when alone at his Kiln. ne READ
with book upon his knee by the light Of the fire.
Patrick Bronte is said to have had much OF his
fathers storytelling power. and his young daugh-
tiers have been described by their friend MISS
Mussy as sitting spelbound around him as he told
the thrilling stories which Emily at least after
ward utilized in her writings
Mr. c. A. Platt's beautifully illustrated book on
"Italian Gardens &" is coming from the press of
the Harpers. 1t will contain colored frontls-
piece
Mr. Charles Morris has undertaken to complete
Charles and Mary Lambs Tales from Shakes
peare' in two volumes. dealing with the plays I'M
touched by them 1t is rash attempt Inc LIP
pincotts will publish the set of four volumes the
first and second containing the work OF the LAMBS.
That clever English novelist. Mrs. Alexander, has
been lame for two years from curious cause She
suffered serious hurt to the knee, owing TO her
cramped position in the dress circle of London
theatre one evening, and she is unable to walk
without a stick.
Colonel Dodge in his delightful paper in liar
per's Magazine" the "Riders of Syria does
AWAY with all cherished illusions concerning the
Arab steed Of romance He asserts that while the
exceptional Arabian is fine fellow. he does not
think that the best Arabian aside from certain
atractveness) is nearly good as the best huhter
the best troter the best racer or the pest sauue-
horse of England or America And | am quite
sure adds this accomplished horseman. that l
would stake my money on hundred broncos Oh 'he
American plains against a hundred Arabians Of the
Syrian desert on pull of one or TWO hunored hiieS
under conditions fair to each" The average Ara
bian he notes. is small as to be useless for any
but light performance.
In the October Harper" find also the open
ING article Of the series in which Mr. f. L. Weeks.
the artist proposes describe a painful journey
from the Black Sea to the Persian Gulf III was
on this tourney that his companion. Theodore Child
died and as one reads of their progress through
dreary region cholera. smallpox. dirt and preci-
rsces one can only wonder that Mr.. Weeks lived TO
tell the tale and finish his clever drawings This
a his description of the average night in Babourt
.sKhan' THE noise and uproar of the bazaar con-
tdnued till a late hour. Two feas had found an en-
trance somewhere. and Keatings powder had no
terrors for them. The efuvium Of the stable be
low rose through the cracks in the floor an Injured
puppy lamented plaintiveiy all through the night;
and there catcalls and occasionally the ear
piercing bowls Of pack Of street dogs hunting
down an intruder the death. Rising above all.
the long drawn groans and shri shrieks of distant
oxcarts."
The author of "Alices Adventures" has written
a new book. but hardly hope for repeti-
ton of his early success The forthcoming volume
is a sequel second part to 'Sylvie and Bruno'-a
story which had its merits but which was not TO
be compared in any way with that OF the charming
Alice.