New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-02

with thin futy voices and wishy- washy limitations
Of the real poets. and absurd pretensions to intel
lectua smartness. Jowett used to wlther them
by telling them that II they were not careful thsy
would end by writing a second-rate novel Which
many OF them do-only I shouldn't fatter them 10
far as to call them second-rate."
| Oh world, Oh time Oh. ye gods and little ilshss,
They say at oxford, some OF the graduates DO tss,
they can't bear Matthew Arnold. Why? oh =.
are brought up to feel that way now. You Gee m
the first place he couldn't write English; In Tie
second place, he poet; and then. finally \.
was a dreadful prig. you know"
| The late Francis II Underwood with xAos
| name the founding OF The Atlantic" must Il
ways be associated. finished a novel shortly beiaS
his death This book, which is to bear the tia
| OF "Dr Gray's Quest" is to be published soon.
The English Omar Club having learned that the
noets tomb at Naishapur is neglected and falling
- decay has petitloned the Shah OF Persia To
restore 1t.
MISC Braddon's forthcoming novel is to be called
"sons OF Fire" It is said to be intensely power.
| full"
The wife OF Representative Blair OF NewHamp.
shire is about to publish a novel OF New-England
ufe The book is &c BE- entitled. "Lisbeth Wilson"
THE Song Life OF a Sculptor Is the title OF 4
volume by Mr. w. 9. Partridge winch Roberto
Brothers are about to bring out.
The eminent London firm OF Smith. Elder ca.
has been publishing some notes on amusing blundes
made bv customers in ordering books. one person
asked for a copy OF the "Hawarden Horace by tia
funny title OF Hard on Horace. Another called FOR
The Crockit Minister by Stickett; and third de-
manded a copy OF sheep that Pass in the Night"
The papers on La Mancha, the province OF Don
| Ouixotc. which announced TO appear from Inc
pen OF Mr. A. F. Jaccaci In "Scribners' VIII re-
| fleet the enthusiasm and knowledge OF writer VINO
has before this shown his familiarity with the South.
They will also bring forward a remarkable series
OF dra wings in the illustrations by Daniel VERGE
| tho celebrated illustrator Of Pablo de Sesova"
That gifted artist is still suffering from stroke or
naralyss that has rendered 'ie entire right size OF
! his body useless bu, he employs his left hand now
| with equal skill and goes on in the quiet OF
| p,rls,an suburb producing the most amazing black
and-whtes which modern art has brought FORM
r, is interesting to how he does IT, His sketch
books filed in Spain n few months ago. contain
little fragments OF scenery architecture ana hauonA
ufe done in water-color pencil and apparently
formed OF only half dozen touches eacn. but e1'
amined closely these half dozen lines are seen to
ho all that IL necessary for the construction OF de-
sign. thew tell the story with perfect opulence
color expression and light and shade Verge akes
them home falls back upon his memory ana spuu'
,rappngs for minor details, and turns out inc mar
yellous little pageants OF Spanish lie WHICH
know He is a delightful. wholesome man. fuh or
enthusiasm and a sweet modesty that are 10 'nem'
solves captlvatng His energy Is unbounded ana ne
"a working away now continuously as thoush NO
we're not handicapped by n misfortune winch "'1"S
kill most men outright
The author OF The Leavenworth Case mas WIZ
ten new novel OF mystery which she cans pi'
lizard" IL is to be published as sei'"' Al" wv
American Agricuturist."
The Woman's Club OF Richmond Va mas ~
ranged a series OF meetings at which Southern ao'
,hors are {, read original papers and poems. MI.
Gordon McCabe gave some pleasant "reminiscences OF
Tennyson at last weeks meeting, ana MISS bas'o..
author OF CLAUDIA Hyde and ION Botn Sues
read The Innocent" clever sketch of chevahsr
dndustrie.
Poor LITTLE Mr.. Hall Gaines imperial proclams'
,ion of his opinions about the art OF fiction hss
no, been received with awe in Great Britain e.
cent by the log-roers. The Saturday kevieN
has fun with his claim for the greatness OF 'io'o'
Hugo "Th. art OF Victor Hugo In ncton says
the saturday" was the sublimation OF the Aae'
NH melodrama Ii Is the art which Is Always
nopuiar with its own generation and always io''
gotten by It's children or Its grandchildren ="
France at the present day. no one reaus wv
novels OF Victor Hugo, or only the suosoripe's
the Petit Journal And why? simply oeo""
Victor Hugo built his novels on the shiftins sahus
OF Romantcism; because. while he deat WIZ"
great human passions. he dealt with them always
as so much decor; he apprehended the human pas
sons as the Romanticsts have always appie-
hended the human passions by their spec'a0u
qualities 1t is this spectacular view OF hie "n."
leaves so large a proportion OF Scott IN the oo""'-
of mere anecdote: II Is the opposite qua''',
patient exact observation OF things as they reAiv
are which exaits SO much OF Jane Austen aooVs
all but the very few very best things In Scott 'a'
big bow-wow' OF Romantcism is easily heara'
rousing to the sluggish. responsive to the a'"T
but II dies away into silence"
Miss Rhoda Broughton, the novelist VINO
books have lost something OF their early 'osuS
is described in oxford letter as the sh'W
lady with the grlish figure who was drinking "
upstairs"
Amid all the comment on Froude which his des'n
excited. 1t is curious that no one has said any'"s
about one OF the most striking things IN MS no's"
character. his demonstration Of the difference "
tween what De Quincy used to call the literatueo-
knowledge and the literature OF power rrouue
literature is OF the latter sort. and the reaaer W."
wants to get a good conception OF 1t should turn "
the historians study OF Caesar. a book not ma" -
we'll known as 1t ought 20 be. There Is nc inner p~
ture OF the great ruler In all literature, unless
De Ouincey's own rather ford rhapsody. No' -
Momsen, not In Niebuhr, not even In u'oo
though he came near to it's there to be iou"r
warmer more vivid glance at the apex OF tne Is,
man power. 1t is only a glance. The empire ~,
too magnificent a structure for any OF It's ~"
torians to give an absolute comprehensive suiVe' ~
1t In one unit But Froude's glance III 'nis 49,
was animated by the most extraordinary auA.''syy
~ vitality and the book has a fascination to wn''<
no one could refuse to yield. -
Mrs Lynn Linton. the most carpns ana ses =.
sive of all the feminine writers Of the da'' .