New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-06-26
LITERARY NOTES.

A portion Of the personal history Of some two
ucore or more Of German citizens OF NETWORK
prominent In social, political. mercantile ana probes
sional circles is told in pleasant manner by lheo
dor L@mke In book entitled "Geschichte ues
Deutschthums Won New-iork.'
Tho apopu,ar Edition. of william Blacks works,
vbioh the Harpers are bringing out, is one which Is
pleasant to handle and TO read, and Is cheap "hai'
No one in these days, heaps audatioh AT 'he il Vi
Mr. Black but neither is It denied that his books oer
most cheerful, harmless and agreeable entertainments
A translation Of NJ. dc Varigny's admirable paper OH
the American woman Is given In "The Popular science
Monthly" for July-an unusually Interesting Huhip'i'
by the way, OF an always Interesting pcrouc'i' W.
de Varigny takes a scientific and serious We" o ''e
fair American. finding her to be the most n'hoh'"
work OF the country's two centuries OF civnzatiel
aFew women I'm Europe" he says, possess Ill 'ie
same degree as the American woman the 1acni'S Vi
Identifying themselves with their medium, OF changing
country, climate and surroundings with so wohueru
suppleness. More perfectly than others she acco"
modates herself to circumstances, While she preserves
her individuality In a strange surrounding wherever
we meet the American wOman-and We meet her
everywhere in the ranks Of the English peeraec and OF
Tho highest European arisocracy we'll as In more
modest conditons-we are struck With that marvellous
adaptability In which wise men see the sign Oh 'ne
superiority OF q Of species. III the American
Union Is to-day Of the first countries IN the "oru
Il owessthe fact to large extent 10 the America"
woman who was and still IS an important factor III
its astonishing prosperity. The United states owes
10 her that II has preserved the religious faith, the
prnciple of vitality imported by the Pilgrim fathers
to the American shores She has been the enicacio"s
artisan the work She has maintained It, extchoeo
and enlarged 1t In the church and the school, III
hours OF difficulty as during the War of Independence
tho ofi m nj
sustained the courage Of the man, Under all circum-
stances she was his companion and his equal. AS
such respected her, and that respect winch she III
epired in him by her selfdenial and her courage III
the beginning, by her intelligence and good breeohs
afterward by her charms and her confidence In Ms
protection has fashioned American manners ana mas
strongly impregnated them with the Idea that respect
for his companion was for the man one OF the prime
conditions Of moral life. This moral life Is hcr own
work She created and she maintains IT, In 'he CUT
of which she Is the object, in the homage whch man
renders 10 her, there is than the mysterious at
traction which sex inspires there IS rle hhs'ic,e
recognition of great and salutary influence hooS
exercised"
An INQUIRY lately made In France as to the popular
ou,nion OF the rank OF distinguished authors hau 'nc
moro or less curious result which generally 1ollows
such inouiries The consensus OF readers nXed upon
Victor Hugo as the king and crown OF all the WORLDS
writer's Shakespeare is placed third on the list ana
Homer Twefth-bclOw Lamartine. lola Is not men
toned at all, and Goethe comes before Noalre.
An amusing Impossible Correspondence appears
In a. The Nineteenth Century" 1t purports to ne
series of letters rejecting manuscrptsa series Written
nv .Ed. Whechapel Magazine" and scattering satire
IN MANY directions. An epistle to J. Milton, ESQ.,
reads thus Dear Sir Your 'Lycdhs IS "h-
fortunately long for insertion IN THIS maeazhe'
end I venture TO suggest that 1t would be greatly
improved by the elimination Of the classical element
Our readers care little for that kind OF thing
w. Wordsworth, ESQ.,, Is thus addressed: Dear
SIR should recommend YOU TO forward your lines
on sooody Blake and Harry CLIP TO the Editor OF
the Baby. They entirely unsuited to the
rases of this magazine. Miss f. NJ. Barrets share
of the correspondence is this MADAM nave
received the manuscript of your poem. lady Geral
dimes Courtship' 1t IS an interesting story, nut
allow me to say that poem II l. lntolerame IN
Its present form. do not allude to the lofty but
somewhat uuntellgibe rhapsodies In which the lover
and lat tines the lady are too prone to Indulge.
! refer TO the rhymes. An occasional bad rhyme
u permissible to every poet who writes in language
like ours. VIGOROUSLY POOR in rhymes. Mr.. Andrew
lang for instance, who IS very severe on cockney
rbymes such rs 'dawning' and warning permits
himself the singllary Scottish rhyme OF 'wot ana
Thought But systematically to indulge ones self IN
the atrocious rhymes where there is no absolute
necessity for rhyming at ALL is an insult 10 the reader
and Oct add 10 the poetic art II is unnecessary
to travel far into Lady Geradine's Courtship III
search OF an Illustration. In the third stanza You
make eagles rhyme with .visils' and IN the sixth
doorways' is matched with poor was
AT YOU will consent TO alter abOu 90 per cent OF
the rhymes In Lady Geraldne5 CourtshiP' substi-
tlting either respectable ones or else words which
cannot be suspected Of being meant TO rhyme at ALL
and II you will cut the poem down to about half It's
present length shall be most happy TO print II some
time next year. Believe me. madam. very truly
yours Ed. Whechapel Magazine
"P. S.-Could you not get rid Of the word 'ccrtes?
dislike 1t and. besides, it makes shocking rhyme
to virtues Ed W. NJ
A new London edition OF the :" MOrtc dArtEur'
from Cations version Is 10 have the spelling MODERN