New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-09-25
LITERARY NOTES.


Three expeditions Norwegian. English and Amer'-
can. are making this year for the awful sontuoes
of the North Pole. DIR. Nansen is gong IN u! ""'
of the Kara Sea to the New S.verian lsahuS' u"
tending to drift thence with the great ocean 'Oe
pack across the pole to Greenland; C. X Jackson
the Englishman is taking the route ID ana 'hrouF"
Franz Josef Land: and Lieutenant Pearys plan pro-
vides for a Journey across Greenland WIN q l'r9'
BILE sea Journey to follow If the ice pach p,''i''
Who will learn the great Arctic secret or i"i'iis
that make the furthest northing? we hO'c "''i'
interest that General Greeiy's opinion az S'"'eu
IN 1.-THE North American Review leans toward
the route followed by Jackson as preseh'ls "ie
most promising field for reaching either Vne ->oi'"
Pole or very high latitude Greedy opJec's 10
Nansen's scheme Of drifting in the ice pack across
.be noe in the course Of three four years as uh
Sise imnractica bile and little short Of suicidal he
believes that the Norwegians strong SNIP fraih'
can hardly BE- strong enough TO resist the sIsd""0
pressure Of the polar pack, the suddeh anu odi'Se
nus rush OF the foes. Pearys plan Tor a winter
ramp At Independence Bay and Journey thence
oortheas,vard over distorted ice foot and broken
Hoes Greey regards with doubt as hardY poSsipie
10 carry out. but with admiration for the courage
OF the young American.
"Byzantine Architecture in Greece Is the tue OF
nm ,mnortant work which will soon be brought out
In London IL will deal with the existing examples
6f architecture and iconography IN Greece Prlhci
nally ecclesiastical from the fourth century onward
md will be illustrated by over 200 plates.
Mr. A. F. Bandeier. the archaeologst, has pre-
pared for the press collection of stories se'ohs
,or,b many romantic episodes Of the early Spanish
explorations of the Southwest 1t is TO be callen
s"The Glded Man" this title being derived rom
The first story which embodies the legend OF ri
Dorado and which is the only tale IN the coHe0''o"
not belonging to this country.
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy is getting ready ior 'he
New Irish Library volume u be called Roger
O'Moore" other books TO be part OF the library
are "Iatter-Day Irish Poetry, by W. - nea'es'
the Young Irish writer whose verse has uncommon
beauty: "a Guide to Gaelic Literature by Dr'
Douglas Hyde and What Small Nations Have
Bone for Humanity" by =. W. Roleston
rbre. illustrated volumes will hold collection of
English Scottish and Irish fairy and iolK lales'
0Lounced for early publication III LONDON
rhr.e Interesting volumes of dramatic essays are
eoming from London press. The irst contains
Eelections from the criticisms OF Aeish hu'''
which have never been repubshed; the secohu con
tains selections from the dramatic essays OF VIII
Gr Hazlitt many of which have been inaccessible
Soye IN collectors; and the third includes hitherto
0ncolected papers by John Forster George mem!
tewes and others. William Archer and X W.
Lowe have edited the volumes.
Walter BeSdnt
0on Times" i'm response to Robert Buchanah re-
rent attack though he does not trouble hinsch
10 mention that irate persons name lie merely
wrestles gently with the 'literary man VINO Is CON
finually inveighng against the baseness OF connect
Sne literature with lucre." \ book, rightly or
wrongly Mr. Besant holds may be a thlng worm
tnoney-a property, estate. 1t is the au'hor
property unless he signs it away "and since any
hook" Mr. Besant adds lin the uncertainty Oh
fhe popular judgment. may become Valuape
oroperty IL is the authors part to safeguard MS
nronerty and not to part with it without due con-
Alteration and consultation with those who nave
considered the problem -, . :. ..o
But as for the questonis it sSrdd Is II pase5
Cor an author-a genius-to look after hloiiyy
Nell a popular author is not always GENUS, , du,
nven those who are admitted TO have some C,iIIn
n the possession of genius have geheraIy p.eh
vary careful indeed with regard 10 the money ~
6uced bv their writings Scott, Byron Moore DIN
ems George Eliot. Thackeray. Trollope IcnhEsoI'
Wiikie Collins Charles Reade-almost every niiIl,
or woman Of real distinction In letters can ~.
shown 10 have been most careful about the HoHHeNS
aide of his books 1t is left for the unsucSessi1i'
for the shallow pretenders. or for some shaay pup,
fisher's hack, cry out upon the deerana.uon oI
istters when an author is advised TO look after ms
nroperty Let us simply reply That what mas not
degraded the ilustrous men who nave gohe oel Un
will not degrade those smaller men, t'eii SUI
cessors.