New-York tribune., 1894-04-29

os ia also HIS translation from Old French. which
he calls THE Story OF the Emperor Constance
| He announces for future publication an edition OF
| Cations translation OF 81. Jeromes Vitae Pa
trum" only one other edition ever published
that Of Wynken de Worde.
| Nine Sarah Grands favorte Amusement Is, she
declares. Indulgence in reflection while her least
liked employment IL going into society. And her
idea OF happiness is dwelling In peace and quetne9s.
Some torsc "reminiscences OF Mr. Edmund G. Sted-
mans early literary He appear In The Californian
| Illustrated Magazine" in letter answering the
| editors question. what were the circumstan noes
which encouraged you 70 write your first book
There NJ circumstance says tho poet and
critic (which gcd me to write my frs; book
| IN the yea just preceding our civil war. II you
were 70 ask me- what there was TO discourage me |
could tire YOU with replies There was scarcely any
literary market FOR an American author. publish
crs were few. and more afraid OF poetry than they
now are afraid of verse Marazinsts and nev-spa-
per men ~ paid. Nv first hook was n little
collection of Lyrics and Idyls'-pieces which had
| composed from time 20 time because II was natural
! for me to DO so. Some of them had been written
| In ny youth. anl all o; them before I made any
literary acquaintance. However thr % long ballads
- mine were published by Mr.. Dana in The Trib-
une. n" Ballal ~ Lager Bier. How OLA Brown
| Took Harlcrs Ferry and The Diamond Wedding.
These gained me the friendship Of Bayarl Taylor
and Richard II sto3dard. ard II wa on NJ. Stod-
dard's recommendation that the late Charles Serb
ner. % gentle memory. brought out my little vol
| Lfnc
For The Diamond Wedding a socia! satire.
| / Was challenged by the father OF lady who now
! for many years has been my cordial friend The
| corrcsponlonc" got INTO tho papers end much fun
| and iumult cusucd This greatly abRshed and dis
! CouraFcI mo. for I had notions OF high art. and
| dh not with TO sol my book on the strength OF
what rightly considered trivial and passing jeu
| dcrarit I'm this respect was too priggish. II
had been wise IN my generation. and more man 81
| the world. | would have pushed my book. as my
| friend Bret Harte DID hts Heather Chinee.' aHd
| would hive accepted some ~ the offers for popu-
lar work which The Diamond Wedding brought
me
"As Il was tried 10 1--we down my record as a
! satlrist ani stfrvcI AMI went 20 tho war And [
stnI have notions of high art: And after all.
am no longer starving"
Daudcts now book. Memories OF a Peasant" Is
his only by right Of translation. In II he presents
version OF long poem by provincial writer.
Haptiatc Bonnet who laborer and at
twenty years ~ ag ura5le to read or writ, or even
10 speak French
Darie'. by the way is very nearly as popular In
France aS i- IoIu- -thnt T. II we may Judge by
statistics 81 sales Zoa's are rated at an average
OF 5000 copies. while Daudc, follows FAR behind
win 5000 Octave Feulllct comes next with an av-
eragc OF JoeJ copies
In his "Atlaniic' paper on Francis Parkman.
Mr.. NinsOr mcntions tie historical writer's who
had subjected historical documents especially II
the contributions OF actors In the scene. TO the
revision OF the pedagosue." and adds: 1T a
fashion never stronger anywhere than IN New
England. whore the characteristics Of ancestors
have always been viewed tenderly The treatment
OF such material test in Parkman's mind OF
what MAJ be called historical Integrity. re-
member hearing him once make n strong protest Gin
way which was always more lncsivc in his talk
than in hts books against this misuse OF revision
lie believed that the actual record made in the
thick OF n conflict. and not n dccorous paraphrase
OF IT. was the true one. In mending the style and
orthoGraphy even the grammar he said one
may rob passage o, It's characteristic expression.
TN II ceases to mark the individuality OF the man.
the nature OF his antecedents and surroundings
Speaking again OF editorial CLOSES OF the letters OF
Dinwldde. Parkman referred to their good English
without character. while = written they bad
English with great deal Of character. The blum
ders themselves. he adds have meaning for Din
widdie a blundcrer. and should appear such
II he IS to appear truly. y"
Among tho volumes OF poems announced are those
OF Coventry Patmore and Theodore Watts. Mr..
Patmores will appear In Collected Ed
ton. while Mr. Wattss book viii contain Sc
lectons from his sonncts and sonnet sequences
must d. acknowledged that tho appearance OF Mr
Watts's careful. nbored. poems does not
promise 10 excite the nations to demonstrations OF
JOY; but he IL OF n small audience OF friends
Another forthcoming volume OF verse Is number |
OF the Golden Treasury series which Is 10 contain |
selections from the writings OF Arthur Hugh |
Clough.
There Is n pleasant glimpse OF Edward Lear. the |
author Of nimltabe nonsense rhymes. In the May |
Atlantic" "He a warm-heartcd. afeconate !
man" writes his Old friend Strachcy. with
Ing for sympathy expressed IN his whole manner. |
and which doubt heightened by his having |
Of home life than was afforded him by |
his old Albanian man-servant and his tailess cat !
Foss. lie loved children. as his nonsense books
abundantly bear witness; ard rany Of his songs |
and stories were either written for this that |
child given TO him or her written In his own |
handwriting and with his own inimitabe pictures.
one OF my n.eces had his The owl and the Pussy !
cat and one OF my sons The Duck and the Kan
garoo and Calico Pie. In what may be called the |
originas-one OF them In "A letter signed Yours af
fectionately. Derry y-down-derry dumps; anl my
daughter has series of herndic representations
OF Foss. proper. couchant. PEASANT. rampant.
gardnnt dansant. a'ubtn. drawn for her the
backs OF letters His letters to his grown-up friends
were embelished In Ike manner. When he wrote TO
ask me TO inquire about "A new hotel above the Lake
OF Como. where he had thought OF spending the
summer til he heard report that there was small
pox there. he illustrated the inquiry by sketch OF
himself covered with spots. And when writing to
ask where he could hear OF some friends who al
ways travelled with n lapdog. he represented the
dog overtoppng the whole OF the party