New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-02-02
LITERARY NOTES.

~ Sna =, polvnssi,n stories "The Beach Of Falcsa >
"The Bottle imp and The Isle OF VOICES are III
cluded In this volume. The period OF Mr. stevenson
rev novel which Is to succeed "Davld Bailour' Is
tho close OF the last century and It's scene laid near
Edinburgh.
There Is much that Is historically valuable as wen
As picturesque In the story OF the HE OF lhomas
Hutchinson the Royalist Governor Of Massachusetts,
The exile Kicked his heels in King Georges an'efoom
4, very little purpose finding his loyalty not more
pleasant than ii profitable. IutchhSohs career
Is TO be dealt with in volume by Professor DE- NJ
Hosmer the biosrapher Of sir Harry Nane 1t is sid
that Professor Iosner has found some available IN
published material. .
A poem by Charlotte Bron,c. which has never yet
hoo, publishcd Is TO appear In OF the forthcoming
English magazines.
Professor st. GeorSe Mvart contributes to "The
American Catholic Quarterly Review various enter
tain,nr "reminiscences OF English Catholics In some
notes on Cardinal Ncwman's gift OF dry huhor Nv
soys: When invited by the Protestant controversial
fst wellknown as 'Tril ulaon Cumming 10 dispute
with him before the public at Birmingham, he replied
10 the effect that he had small ability In controversy
and could not venture 10 meet So redoubtcd an OPP
ponent In that field but he added, MY frlends are
kind enough 10 say that l have some SIKH on the
VIOLIN and II agreeable shall be happy to enter Into Il
contest with you that instrument on ano'hcr oc-
casion dining out al friends, one OF the guests
noble lord who wished to draw him ont with respect
TO the uphot of political contests In the Roman States
said Things sadly disturbed just now In i'nN DE-
Newman. Staring into the distance in an apparently
vacant manner, he replied yes, and in emma NO
one presnt dared 10 say word more on that SUD
ject."
Mr.. George Parsons Lathrop, who Is now an ardent
member Of the Catholic Church. presents In The same
number OF "The Review" rather fnc-spun Illus
tratons Of what he declares TO have been Tennysons
Inconsistency IN Christianity Since being so largely
imbued with the thought the feeling ana cohNlcuoE
OF Christian, lie missed becoming wholly one, and
drifted toward the vaeucness OF an eciecuc anu "s
nostlc religion
In q paper on Tennysor in the new Century
written by the Rev. H. van Dyke, we find this glimpse
of tho poet: lie held 4 volume OF Mand In DIS
hand and was talking about 1t ms lie loved to 90
al want to read this TO you because want you
t. feel what tho poem means. IL IS dramauc' !. -
the story of a man who has morbid nature, with
touch OF Inherited insanity, and very selfish. Inc
poem is to show what love does for him. The
war Is only an episode You must remember that II
is not / myself speaking. 1t IS this man with the
strain OF madness IN his blood, and the memory OF
n great trouble and wrong that has put him out with
the world
"Then he lifted the book close to his eyes, and
began to read
81 hate the dreadful hollow behind the little WOOD
at was the strangest reading in the world; ig-
TO the heart of the matter yet unconsCously creating
his own form and art Obedien to the inevitable Ia"
of all true passion. which always makes the sound
fit the sense. The voice was raised little higher
than the speaking tone sustained at the same level
through line after line; almost monotonous In ts
measured chanting 1t was not melodious or heAi-
be 1t was something better, 1t was musical, as
tho voice OF the ocean, rs the sound OF Inc VIVA
I'm the pine-trees, Is musical. In the lmpassioncd
lines II rose swelled like the roar OF the tempest
through the woods; in the passages which expressed
Grief and Loneliness broke and fell suddenly like the
sotbing Of low waves on the beach"
Professor W. NJ Sloane, Of Princeton, has finished
his book on "The French War and the Revolution,
and 1t will soon be published by the Scrbners as the
second volume Of their American History Series.
"The Life and Letters Of Douglas Jerrod" is the
title of a work now In course OF preparation by W.T.
Walter Jerrod. He has just sent TO the printer the
first volume of proposed "Bon-Mot SERIES con
tanning witty sayings OF sydney smith and sheridan.
Other volumes will offer "mots" Of " Charles Lamb
and Douglas Jerrold" and of "Samuel Foote and
Theodore Hook"
Professor Doyesen, II Is reported, has resumed
editorial relations with The Cosmopolitan Magazine
General James Grant Wilson has succeeded Mrs.
Lamb as editor OF "The Magazine Of American HIS
tory" and that periodical las. while retaining lis
name, been merged into one with "Tbe National
Magazine" The February number Is the first 10 be
published under the new conditions. and 1t shows
careful editing and keen sense Of what Is at once
interesting and useful.
A Scotch clergym named Lawson las lately pub
Nsled book containing among other things some
stories about the Carlyles The Rev. William Corsop,
parish minister Of Girvan from 1s4s 10 1887, was
the Every stupid" young who was wont to
"come and bore, the Sage OF Chelsea In the old
Ecclefechan days. Mr.. Corson told Mr.. Lawson that
Carlyle offered 10 teach him German, and that he
was IN the habit Of laying his disused pipes In a
Granny OF the dyke for any needy passerby 1t was
Mrs Carlyle, however. that Mr.. Corson's special
fayorite. Now, William" she said TO him when nc
was about 10 be licensed probatiOncr. "don't be
going about seeking for church. but so out to the
highways and hedges. and preach away Ike mouse
ON fire.. The folks about Ecdefechan II seems.
rather looked down on Carlyle because, In their
opinlon, he mad married for money; and they even
went tho length Of shouting as the sage and his
wife drove past al say, Jean, II had been gaun 10
buy a man, wad hae bocht Drawer man than that
Mr.. j. A. symonds's forthcoming book Is Study
Of Walt Whitman"
clover of Books" writing to an English journal
makes a vigorous and much needed protest against
what he calls the ridiculous practice OF allowing
some modern litterateur 10 advertise his name as
Hedtors upon every reprint Of a standard work
offered 10 the public. He asks why these modern
editors should be allowed to annoy In this imper'i-
nent fashion a classic read and beloved before Trey
were born and be scorns the ridiculous. fussy and
artificial ceremony OF editing things which only re-
qure TO be left alone TO the care OF any sensible
printer" Here is slap for Andrew Lang: "o'
Mr. Lang-Editorn- Chief TO the British Nation-lt Is
too late TO speak. Tie admirable and exhaustive
index now to be appended to Sir Walters novels
will give one stimulus to the prevalent vices
OF the age-aimless quotation and pretcnce OF
familiarity with great classics. And 1t will re-
main n marvel to many of us why the publisher could
not simply have reproduced, unaded. the MS yet
unr1valled forty eight volume authors edition."
Nem Dnbllratlons.