New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-16

system OF anonymous W(W -
criticism What author
,a., Va, anonymity does not mean "satng'; no
critic worth his salt uses it for purposes OIL a0u'e
The second and concluding volume OF Mr. T.. .
Nac,av's History Of the United States Navy Is 70
w. b,,sbad This month by the App.etons. It's
o,.r,ng nages deal with the end Of the war OF Ioi-'
and the book closes upon the building up OF 'he he"
Navy.
volume containing the historical and critical
parts OF Pancoasts "Representative EnglS" i-.'
erature." modified and amplited. IS a''ou'''e' W
Ho,t G. Co The same house is bringing out ~"
and fully annotated edition OF Victor iiugos her-
mani prepared by Professor G. NJ harPe'' w.
Princeton. working description OF 'he sa .'''"
school course Of physics followed in the Camo''ase
ExncrIment" by Professor E. II. Hal, OF Harvard
who devised this course
Mr. zangwill the young novelist. is apparently
emua,ing Mr. oscar Wide as a sayer Of pre'uii"D'
smart" absurdnies. At the recent unVei'ns Vi
memorial to Keats Mr.. IangwiI was hc''u ~
mark in a loud tone to "ei.-Hho"" pu'''''
Il say, H.. who was Keats!
The political correspondence OF BaKuhih WIN u'1
as much as any Of his generation 10 Spr''' ''.
most abominabc doctrines OF Anarchy - SUI" ~
he published. Many Of these letters "','V
siberia deal with his suferngs IN 'na' i''' - ~
hopeless
The History OF the lnlteh STATES !"
,r,ce unon which President Andrews OF brow"
Y.,rsI,v has baen at work for some time IL
nov on the Scribner press. The same publishers
have IN preparation Mr.. Froude.s Life ana Letters
of Erasmus.
beautiful edition Re luxe OF Dumass "Ihree
Nusketears' is 10 he brought out by u. Apple'o"
& Co. by arrangement, with the French puo's"ei
This edition 0iulited to $50 copes) OF the i"''
book is a royal octave and has 20 ILLUSTRATIONS W
nr,ap
ona nina, rasncct Mr.. +. H. williamss sincere
enthusiasm shown In MS estimate ~ ~,
vh,,ran proclaimed in No Of the walt MT
mo, Fellowship Papers" but the reader cannot
win IN. bcs, will in the world, repress sniie al
some Of the positions into whici this enthusiasm
betrays him We can appreciate II not app.au' ''S
andeayor 10 show that -" nitman ieii INV "''
artistic form In spite Of himself AMI 10 prove
how close whitman IL TO those rules which people
condemn him for violating In the e"o'l :" P''
form the latter feat Mr.. Williams says
To, NJ remember that Whitman's poems. beng IN
me nature Of chants. We need only attend 10 me
10y I'm rho ear not the eye is the arbiter. Yet
how ttle change Is required to dress these chants
'oi ~ t' me quote some very familiar lines:
"When nlacs last in the d1oryard bloom d;
And the great early droopd in the western
,,oiyrn 4 and Vet shall mourn with everreurning
Evcr.rctirning spring trinity to me you bring
Lilac blooming perennial and dropping star IN the
And though, Of him love
Now see how little alteration is necessary 10 run
these lines into correct pentareter verse
when llacs last within the doGryard "a bloom Sss, o.
I mournd and shall mourn with returning spring
Rstgrnns spring r saTs TH MSsT Da saT
And thought OF him | love.
This is klni-but it Is not Whitman
Max ORcu otherwise Paul Blouet. devotes some
attention To the United States In his forthcoming
book John Bull & Co: The Great Colonial Branches
OF the Firm making some amusing comparisons
between the American and those colonies who are
still tied 10 Mother Engl.nd's apronstrings I. 10
Webster G. Co will bring out the book next week
Alphonse Daudet is writing novel lie Sontien
de Famile" which deals with the Russians living
I'm Paris Another novel La Petite Paroisse, no
has finished. and It is to be published serially In
Partisan journal.
Miss Frances Power Cobbe's autobiography is
N be published soon by Houghton. Mtln & Co.
The book * f,ll OF "reminiscences Of interesting
people.
Matthew Arnolds Letters are nearly ready for
publication. and will be brought out during the
autumn.
The death OF Mrs. John Forster reminds literary
people that no biography OF Di"kenss posraphsr
Is In existence. and that none may no" De eN-
pectel. For every one VINO tHiSht nave "'''e"
such n book with personal knowledge Of the sub
Zoe, has left this world Forster The
Of a butcher at Newcastle-on Tyne His mother
was the daughter Of cowkeeper
.Nount Ar,fa." IS the title Of Mr. r. u. Black
rore's new story II Is to be brought out
serial.
4 book on China written by foreigner who has
lived there for twenty-three years is coming from
the press Of the Revell Company. 1t is entitled
"Chinese characteristics.
Tho December number Of Harper Is to contain
the opening chapters OF Mr. Thomas Hardy's new
novel
II was nj the beginning of this century that nov
els In England began to rise In price. When Tom
Jones' was nrst published there. In 1850 It sold
az three shings for each OF the four volumes. Miss
Edgeworth's Tales OF Fashionable Life" published
in 1870 brought ak shl.ngs a volume. Scotts
pirate" is believed 10 have been the first three
volume novel published at a guinea and haf-the
price which has long ruled In Great Britain.
or Bowles. poet. parson and pamphleteer." Mrs.
Andrew Crosse has been telling amusing
stories most OF them new. one OF these is of
dinner party at Bowood. when Canon Bowies. then
past sixty, was introduced TO elderly lady. with
whom he sat chatting pleasantly about things OF the
day
Bowles was perfectly oblivious that this was the
very lady to whom he had been engaged to be mar
rled when he had very little income besides his
curacy. The marriage had been broken of in con-
sequence OF their mutual want OF means. The lady.
OF course. was perfectly well aware that she was
talking TO hc- quondam over hut her married name
had in no way enlightened him az to her person
atty After time she said having touched upon
old days:
"Bui. Mr.. Bowles. don't you remember me7" '
mo. ma'am don't"
Then she added, smiling: You used TO know me
and pretend to be very fond Of me. was Miss ="
"oh. what a wreck was the spontaneous OK
clama ton OF the poet. '' ''.i 'Sli t.'r ffr DID .
Happily the lady enjoyed the joke immensely. tor
she remarkably handsome woman for her
age and his burst Of surprise was really only a
compliment to the extreme beauty OF her youth.
the house OF Roberts Brothers. The translation
IL tine work OF Miss Katharine Wormeley who has
shomn In her frans.atIons from Ralxac a uninue and