New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-21
LITERARY NOTES.

LITERARY NOTES.
Madame Sarah Grand has been writing an artie,A
with the engaging title. Should Irascble Old Gen.
tlemen Be Taught to Knt?
A book written to prove" that Marshal Ney "a.
not shot but was secretly conveyed to Charleston
and lived In North Carolina for thirty years n
about to appear under the title Of Historic Doubts
as to the Execution Of Marshal Ney.' Its author
is an Episcopal clergyman In the South. He claims
to have fully verified the story that Peter s. Ney
the mysterious schoolmaster OF Rowan County was
in reality the French Marshal; and he reproduces
what he believes TO be Neys marginal notes in
copy of OMeara's Napoleon"
new edition Of 1.-The Life and Death Of Jasons
is coming from Mr.. William Morris's Kemscott
Press 1t is to be illustrated by Sir Edward
Burne-Jones OF the 200 copies which are to b
printed IFS will be for sale at five guneas each
Mr. Morris also announces an edition. prepared BY
Mr. f. s. Ellis of "Psalmi Penitentiales" M.
teenth century 'paraphrdse in English verse Of the
Seven Penitential Psalms" written In Gloucester
about 1920 The edition will be limited 800 coples
Dr. c. Ellis Stevens Is about to bring out new
and thoroughly revised edition OF his Sources Of
the Constitution of tho United States" Many
changes nave Deen maze, duuIiiS u It's 'diue a. .
textbook and book OF reference.
The Macmillans about to publish the "Souve.
Mrs Of the Prince de Jonville-a book OF memoiu
which promises to be extremely diverting.
Two Of Swedenborg's works, Heaven and Hell'
and THE Doctrine of Charity" have strange to
say. been translated into classical Arabic. They
are soon to be published in this form in England,
Egypt and India.
Mr. Rider Haggards new novel. THE People Of
the Mist" is coming from the press.
There Is certainly reason that Froissart should
remain unknown to the average reader OF English.
To Mr. Nuts new edition OF Berners 'Froissart"
Is to be added reduced Frolssart' in the Globe
Library; and a volume Of Passages from Frois-
sart" edited. with Introduction, by Mr. F. T.
Marzials, will soon be brought out.
During the coming year Mrs Schuyler Van Rens-
selaer will contribute to THE Century a series OF
papers on The Cathedrals Of France" Mt Joseph
Pennell will illustrate the volume. The series be-
gins with a paper THE Churches OF Provence"
in the November number This is a particularly
attractive field with its glimpses OF the famous
Romanesque and Byzantine churches at Avignon
and Aries.
When Mr.. Andrew Lang talks about fiction he
shows the hard-neaded cornmon-sense or the SCOT
especially when he advises aspiring young writer's
not 10 try t. produce novels unless they are born
10 the work and a story a set OF characters take
Irresistible possession OF the fancy. The idle. the
initiative and the needy should he thinks uy
some other industry.
Francis Parkman's Journeys TO Quebec were. Il
is said among the greatest pleasures Of his later
life He used to declare that II was for him
sunny heath-restorng, holiday spot; and he visited
II annually at midsummer and always apparently,
with increasing zest. He had many friends In Cana
da, especially among the eminent Catholic SCHOLARS
OF the region.
The two volumes OF Frederic Massons work.
NAPOLEON at Home" in preparation by the j.
b. Lippincott Company; and these VIII be iohowea
ty his book on Napoleon and the Women OF Hn
Court"
Octave Thanets careful and entertaining article
on The Contented Masses" in the OCTOBER
Forum" Is not calculated TO please MI peDs
She says that Mr.. Howels's traveller from Atr'ra'
before he shakes the dust Of our country from MS
feet and goes away TO weep over US. should come
for a brief space to Western town Inere ne
might find me nufacturers who voluntarily aa'ahcs
wages and workingmen who voluh'arH! worn o'e''
time II is founded on the rights OF the IN
dividual rather than those OF the community,
has no sympathy with socalistic dreams IL i Ju''
a Western
decently selfish men and women who are not worn
ing for the golden age OF brotherhood but 70 pro.
vide for their families: yet nowhere do kno" Oh
any nrace where there is less friction between 'ne
classes or where all classes help each other noFe.
along our rough and checkered road.
Nrs Van Rensselaer, Cruger's forthcoming novel.
"ponnaea" is a story of society In Newborn aHu
Newport.
uno,,shmen are beginning to inquire VII: me-
,or,oI m Elizabeth Barrett Browning snould NOT
placed in Westminster Abbey oesde 'ha' '"'
TO her husband.
Mr. Percy Fitzgerald's autobiography ousn' ~
!, an entertaining one, for he has known man.
p' az n.on,e and has had a great deal OF IN
..os,,rr literary experience. The work Is com"s
an, presently in two large volumes. with p''
trait.
A., vuuar, Watson Is still writing-so con-
I'll. ,rdesd that he means to bring out 500"
a new volume OF poems.
s,Sror Crispi the Premier OF Italy. is devo.,ns
~ IT. leisure time to the composition OF his ms.
-, ., tho Thousand OF Marsha tStola "'e
Nule, The work deals with the cainpa's
Carbaldt and his thousand allies against ue -,
dom of the Two Sicilies In the year 1901 t 'v
originator OF this undertaking was Crisp ,''"S
OHIO n.aved an important part in it, The fre''.
will publish for the first time many docu"'e ,.
hearing upon the expedition. and VIII " ' =,
overv important incident, from the prepara'o,n =,
the campaign 10 the landing OF the "thousa"u
Marsala and the conquest OF Gaeta. Cr'sp' 10" u.
Soc,e nen and a command OF vigorous Italian nc
is naturally the best equipped man In the A'"eN
20 write the History OF the Thousand
SONGS OF HIBERNI4.
MORA O'Neill, in The Spectator.