New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-11
LITERARY NOTES.


he privilege of seeing all the original dravns.
fr that novel gathered In one place. They, Wa.
to have been exhibited at Mr.. Ayerys gallery a.
Fith-ave. The catalogues were In press and N.
dat, of opening had been fixed. Then came
ca0lgram from Mr. Du Maurier announcing TIA.
the e,.ire collection had been sold to one buyc,
and Guild rot be shown. This deprives the publlo
not onk Of the pleasure OF seeing the illustrations
but Of the possibility Of owning the best a.
personal ,ouvenirs OF Nj Du Maur.er
VIC are Il last to have an adequate biography -
Dante Gabsel Rossciti. his brother. Mr. w
Rosset,i beng now engaged upon It. To this btoe.
raphy will be added interesting collection OF N.
poets family etters. from his boyhood to the lass,
months OF his life These letters addressed IA
seven relatives. principally his mother and brother
The work will c.ntan nine portraits eight OF ths..
being from paintings or drawings done by Dants
| Rossetti himself and representing himself and m.
relatives msntioned above The ninth nor
trai. Is OF his wife, her own production
| little story which gives striking testimony a
| the alert quality Of Dr. Holiness brain Is told bv
j. \. Trowbridge in THE Writer" ''0ne after.
noon some years ago. he says Il CHANGED IA
call upon Mr. Longfellow just after he had received
a visit from the doctor. What delightful man hs
| Isl said he. But he has eft me. he generally
does. with a headache When l inquired how thar
IA 50 much more rapid than mine that / often
fnd it difficult to follow him. and II keep up the
strain for any length Of time headache Is thu
usual penalty.
Dr. Hale sends to the same periodical merry
letter addressed to him by Holmes in 1862 1t DE-
scrbes that always interesting production. The
| Great Unwritten Article:
! I shall keep your note a reminder that hops
some time or other to take up the pen which have
popau funa m fhat
one commits 70 paper is ever half so good as hs
great "Unwritten Article"
Like an Easter egg that unmatched production
its unbroken she'll | msanN lis staned-by the
every Brilliant hue of promise Break it and YOU YOU
! have the usual albuTncus contents; keep II whole
and s1 mS e Soush rs a s
possibility OF Phoenix
Say, then: that you have the promise mi q an ar:
Of our native writer's, and II VIII be like signed
check with the amount left blank.
Prophets and priests may desire IL long and dc
without the sight, but VIII die saving When the
Seer and so turn their faces to the wall
Let us leave 1t unwritten. then for the present.
s sRs Of nnde a than any py p.
Torrance or transient fruition.
The Chap Book Is hardly main tanning its stand
ard. 1t has become. sorry to say, a vehicle
for literary affectations and especially for sumo
OF the shallowest and most unpleasant afectations
satirized in THE Green Carnation." Some OF these
immature writer's Of the 'Chap-Book need to b
reminded that vulgari,y is not one Of the marks
OF genius.
Froude Il Is chronicled, nursed in Eliza
bethan tradition, for he was born in that portion
o. Devon which has most carefully preserved the
monuments and memories Of the days OF the Maiden
Queen. At Darlington Hall, which was close BY
his fathers house. Darlington Rectory, the mother
OF Walter Raleigh lived and II Is still in pos.
- harf a,pi he m m
away IS the splendid old church OF Totnes, built Of
| the beautiful Devon.an sandstone and standing
now as 1t stood when Raleigh was little boy.
Mr. Anthony Hope has written a new novel called
| CHRONICLES OF Count Antonio Those who have
been more or less bored by the successors OF the
| Prisoner OF Zenda' will hope that the new story
| will rival tina, delightful book.
Mr. Barrie has been obliged to give up his plan Of
spending the winter in his beloved Scotch Thrums'
and is on his way Italy 1t is much to be feared
that the novelists health Is rretrevaoly broken
| A biography OF Mrs. Wood, the author OF EAST
| Iynne"-a book OF which there have been many
thousand editions and over which countless women
have wept-is coming out in England n M
| work of her son, Mr.. c. W. Wood
Ian Maclaren." the author or Beside .n'
! Bonnie Briar Bush" Is the minister OF "es''ny
| PRESBYTERIAN church in Liverpool He Is IN eA'
life the Rev. John Maclaren Watson ana - ~
| imposing looking man OF forty-tour years
Tho memory OF the eloquent young Philadepnian'
| Henry Ornitt Brown, has never faded FOR tnoss
| who knew his powers. so untimeiy quehe"eN -
| death; and all who lamented him VIII De i"'e''
! es.ed in hearing that his daughter IS showing uH'
usual literary abilities. She has written Among
colt"
In writing OF the late Professor Darmestetsr
splendid translation Of the sacred DOCK Oh H0'oAs'
! ter the Avesta Professor Max Muller says Nv
doub, some OF his interpretations and some OF a's
theories have been contested but people are 'o' ap
10 forget that in the translation OF rather '"e
| cipherne of ancient texts like the AVesta VI VI
| hlerogyphic and cunelform inscriptions We "a
the men who are not afraid to scale the "a's VI .
fortress although they know that others VIII 'has9u
over their dead bodies, 1t Is easy TO criueise u.-
cinherers and to find fault With them because '"s'
| dec,oherments vary from day day and from year
! ., vear What does that mean? Ii means 'ha' o"'
| studies are not stagnant, and tha' true s'
/ nevcr rest and know more to-day than they h"e"
| Yesterday Those who have never worked az p''-
| nae-s but only retail what others nave ofous"' "
! hight NAV pride themselves. Ike soldiers tha' ia
never been In the thick OF the battle their sni o
without a scar. but the true scho!ar Is ho' as"
of his scars nay, he Is proud 10 be counter '''''
the fools who rush in where angels rear 70 80
What would become OF ali attempts to rea' 'he -.
scriptions of Egypt and Babylon or to master Wv
ancient literature of the East IL scno'ars w..
| afraid TO p.uage into deep water TOT rear vi w." .
/ the,r feet? There are critics VINO cannot SWIM 49,
| .,o mink Il very clever throw stones al '''
swimmers.
An ~. characters in Mr. Kplings forthcomins
Century" s,ory are horses, and Vermont Is ~
scene
An exhaustive history of Socialism, worh VIM =.
10 70 be issued In eighty parts--S co'''s Wv
Stuttgart
Mrs Ellen Olney Kinks new mover I'm. =,
from the press 1t is TO be called i"e 80, -
Lawrence Garthe," and is tae oil ''e Ps'''