New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-11-21
LITERARY NOTES.

II IN said that Father Adams whose recent oe-
oarture from the Protestant to the Roman Church
has caused sensation, is writing plays. Ihere are
no signs of constructive ability IN MS oooh o, SCI,
WON. .srhe Ter Life" but those who heard
these discourses delivered say that from the puipt
th.v came with unusual dramatic effect. Father
Adams has an actors fire in him. and he may sue
ceed In transferring some of 1t to paper ana the
stage.
This extremely def paragraph comes from the
Pail Mall Gazette"
. Does not Mr. Robert Buchanan's vindcation OF
his conduct in the matter of his notorious CRITICISM
OF Rosset go some way to be vind,carron o ," Wr s
Buchanan attacked Rossetti pseudonymousy The me
Of the a M
Rossetti the fullest retracons In prose ana d
Nov that Is aeSs ne ho are also dead
held the same views that he hmse his dpinion
they were Silent he spoke out-pseudony mously.
The success of Madame Grands novel. Ine
Heavenly Twins" remains the most notable literary
occurrence of the year in London Another three
volume edition is coming out there-the third III
this FORM This is circumstance In Eng
land.
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy. who was about to lose
his sight has had some successful operations per-
formed upon his eyes. and Is again hard at WORK
upon his autobiography. He is also preparing a
new edition of his history of the Young Ireland
movement-an edition which is to be Illustrated
with portraits of the most notable persons men
toned in the work.
The tower in Perigord in which Montaigne had
his chapel. his bedroom and his library still STANDS
much as the essayist left it, A visitor says TN
s'Temple Barr that Montagne shared the &C.
csntricity of Louis X1 in keeping himself out Oh
sight when he attended the religious services In his
chapel ''In the vauting near the entrance is
small opening communicating with a narrow pas
sage by means of which Montaigne could leave ms
bedroom and hear mass without showing himseii'
but in order to do he had to grope along rls
rabbits burrow almost on hands and knees. 10
reach his bedroom from the ground he climbed
lid the spiral staircase like the visitor To-Day. Inc
steps are much worn in places. and the ooots OF
the essayist must have had something 10 co WIFI
this for he probably used the tower more than any
other man. The room nearly circular IN shape
with brick floor and small windows. looks to mod
ern eyes more like prison than Dedchaihper
betting the lord of manor. In the room ABOVE
he Installed his library and wrote his esays' thi"-
ing them out while pacing up and down the uneven
floor Numerous lecterns were distributed over
the brick floor Of this circular ROOM ana upon
them he placed his favorite volumes. He therefore
read standing according TO the very general custom
Of his time, which was doubtless better than Our
own Of making our backs crooked by sitting ana
bending over books. The room is bare, with the
execution of the wreck of an armchair or uncertain
history, but upon the forty-seven beams crossing
the ceiling are fiftyfour inscriptions In Latin ana
Greek written, or rather painted. with brush by
Montague Their inter est has suffered little from
the restoration which Of them have under
gone but there they are. the crystals OF thought
picked I'D by hermit of the tower In his wander
inss along the highways and byways of ancient
literature and which he fastened as 1t were to
the beams over his head. just whers the peasants
to-day hang their dry sausages, their bacon and
strings of garlic. BY the extracts that man makes
for his private satisfaction from the authors who
please him. the bent Of his intellect and cast OF
character can be very accurately judged. II Other
testimony were wanting these sentences would
prove the gravey philosophical temper OF Mon
taigne's mind, Notwithstanding the fippant con-
fessions of frailty which he mingles sometimes so
anonymously with the reflections of a sage. Most
of the extracts are from Latin and Greek authors.
but not a few are from the Books of Eccesastes
and Ecclesiasticus and the Epistes Of St. Paul