New-York tribune., 1893-12-24
LITERARY NOTES.

~, ,r,hr,. Wards new novel is to be published
In America late in Jenuary or early IN .,ie .
month certain interest attaches 70 the iac' '''.
a well-known critic who has read the ihan"sp'
pronounces II n great work destined 10 h0' ''''e
Mr. wards fame A more deflte and therefore
more satisfying bit Of news Is that the story - ~
have this time a heroine instead OF n nero "''e
having added a genuine man 10 the S''"' S"''''! -
fiction in David Grieve. she Is 10 loiio" TIC i'0'
and Katherine of Robert Elsmere' and the l'ouie
OF her later novel with woman whose deVe'op'"e"'
she will trace from school days 70 womainoo.
Louie showed perhaps. best Of oil. Mrs. Nard
Gift in the analysis Of her own sex; Dut several
other of her women Lucy and the young frehch-
woman in David Grieve,' have the marks OF an
artist on their portraits. and It will be interesting
to what kind Of fun length VIII De Piou"O0' III
the forthcoming story.
What Mr. ITOwells has recently written concern
ing literary style ought TO be traced in gold above
,he dask Of every Young author "Kindness ana
gentencss" he says "are cut of fashion, II IS
these I'm Goldsmith which make him our conteinpo-
rary and IT Is worth the while OF any young person
presently intending deathless reaown 10 take niue
thought Of them. They the source or all rehhe-
mcnt and 90 not believe that the best art in any
kind exists without them The style IL the man.
and he cannot HIDE himself in any garb OF words
50 that shall lot know son'what wrat manner
Of man he Is within It, his spec betrayeth him. not
only as to hls country and his race but more subtly
-
heart As to Goldsmith. | do not think man OF
arsh and arrogant nature. of worldly and selfish
soul could ever have written his style, ana DO
think that In far greater measure than criticism mas
rccognlz H. his spiritual quality, his essential friend
lneas expressed itself in the literary beauty tha
wins the heart well az takes the fancy IN MS
work | should have my reservations ana my AMI
,nady.rs,ons If II came TO close criticism of his
work. but am glad that he was the first author l
loved"
SIR TIowes has lately writer a farce called
~ Masterpiece Of Diplomacy" II IS 10 appear In
the February Harper"
Mr. yize,elly says that In lsi3 he called upon
Thackcray - ask him 10 write for THE Pictorial
Times" The journalist found the great novslis'-to-
be- IN a bare and ch"eress bedroom. having little
comfort and no ornament; the table was a break
fast Of a cup OF chocolate and some dry toast The
tenant OF this urlovcly apartment at once undertook
10 write upon art review such books as he might
fancy ami 20 contribute occa sOral article on the
opera mere with reference jts frequsnters he rc
marked than from a critical point Of view. 50 salts
nel was he with the three guineas offered him for
couple ~ columns weekly that he jocularly ex-
pressed himself willing to sign an engagement 1or
M. upon these terms II can only suppose" adds
Mr. Nizctely. from the eager way IN when ne
closed with my proposal that the prospect Of an ad
dltlonal f6) to his Income was at that moment any
thing but matter Of indifference"
Ade.la Louise stowe Of omaha. Neb.. asked the
local courts FOR permission - change her name -
Kohnsiamm. the plea that she could better
achieve literary fame with an uncommon name.
rhc Court considered her grounds frivolous and re-
jcctcl her petition.
Goodwin Smiths new work on the political His
tory Of the United States has into its fourth
oliti1n-thls edition having new preface by the
author lie cannot send II 70 press he says, with
on, specially acknowledging the kindness OF his
American readers and reviewers. whose reception or
a book which In some things contraveres cherished
traditions is proof OF American candor and lib
erality Perhaps they have discerned. beneath the
British critic of American history. the Anglo-SaXon
who to the Republic which he regards as the grand
est achievement Of his race. desires to offer no
homage less pure or noble than the truth
Mr. HamIin Garland. Il poet. will hardly start
the Hudson into lurid flaming. whatever he may do
with the mlller river Charles. We find in THE
Arena" this extract from his forthcoming book OF
must We call II poetry?
The sl,y was like low-hung purple disk.
The plain It's counterpart. Eastward. between
These infinite disks OF variant purple. the train
Rushed steadily. entering belt OF orange-colored
Wherein the spring time sunlight grew in power.
Agains. the glowing band.
4 tooth OF purple sod uprcared, 10 notch
The otherwise unbroken, splendid sweep
OF in,ersccting sky and plain. From 1t
\ thin blue smoke arose.
1t was human habi,ation.
Resonnds ~, With songs. yells the crash Of gates.
The click OF locks and grind or chains.
Voice shouts TO voice. g t9 hs'S no "o' 'N0'"'e
''' This was solitary confinement!
The sun upsprang:
Us light swept the plain like sea
OF golden water and the blue gray dome
That scared above the settlers shack
Wns lighted into magical spiehior.
To some worn woman a
Another mODotonous day WIS bora.
Professor Tvndalls Hours OF Exercise In the
Alps" 1871. and his Glaciers Of the Alps. 1860. are
now exceedingly rare books-so rare that the author
WAS himself for several years anxious and unable 10
procure a copy OF the former. Il am told by a
friend" he wrote 20 a certain bookseller who makes
books on Alpine subjects a speciality "that You
have two copies OF my book The price Is high. and
this * In way very gratifying to the author And
as. unfortunately. have no copy myself shall be
glad II you will send the books to me AT the price
named"
lola says that IDEAS only come TO him when. pen
I'm hand he is writing that he could never evolve a
single idea by sitting still In his chair and thinking
The complete edition OF the writings and speeches
Of Abraham Lincoln which Colonel Hay and Mr.. J.
g. Nlcolay have prepared will soon be brought out
by the Century Company
The first published work OF Robert Louis
Stevenson was "A booklet in thin paper covers.
titled "1he Portland Rising" and brought out In
Edinburgh In 1856. A copy OF this small and now
rare pamphlet was lately purchased by biblo-
maniac for $40.
The ever-rrcurring reports concerning Mr.. Steven
sons ill-health have undoubted foundation. He Is
very far from being n well man. but probably the
out door life he le,ds I'm the delicious air OF Samoa
means a much longer lease Of life than could other.
wise be his. Here Mr.. Stevenson and his family go
about IN flowing garments and berefooed like the
march through fire and water for Stevenson