New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-30
LITERARY NOTES

BrOWnlngS 'ASOldnuO, forming the seyeNtae>ss
and concluding volume In the Macmillans IJh,.s
Edition Of the poets works. is on the eve OF nuts.
cation by that house. 1t Is to be enriched by v.,,.
historical and biographical notes. The SAM -
fishers preparing to bring out another No.
edition of Browning in nine handsome crown oct.-
volumes. The workmanship is to be as perfe., w
possible and the edition will be absolutely comnl...
That most indefatigable Of verse-writers ~.
James Whitcomb Riley is bringing out anoh..
volume entitled "Armazindy."
The Rev Arthur Bell Nichols, who was Cha
lotte Bronte's husband. is now living quiet M.
as a gentleman farmer in the south OF Ire,srS
One who recently visited him there describes h,,,
as cultured. charitable and manly The mom.r,
felt the hearty grip OF his hand was at HON.
with my host-a genial, we'll built. healthy ruddv
faced. strong-haired gentleman. in manner nina
and matter different from the usual portrav.I
Of him as cheese from chalk. 'Suavlter in modo
fortiter In re- is the description / can give OF bs
hearing" The visitor adds: Mr.. Nichols has
borne obliquy with patience and courage: In The
long run ne will be duly appreciated"
II is reported that Mr.. owen Wister seldom IN.
vents the main incidents Of his striking stories Of
Western life. All are taken from the real life n.
has himself
on his first Western trip in 1885. says a chronce,
in THE Writer" 'he had a great deal of liss
among the cattlemen. for the cattle era was A
that time still brilliant and booming On his nex,
visit in 1887, he went to fort Washable. typical
frontier post, $50 miles from railroad where he
first studied western military life and Indian rec.
ervations, and again INDUCED in mountain hunt.
Ing He went west again the following year. and
has been going west ever since. sometimes twice a
year. exploring the whole country, from the Rio
Grande to the British boundary, becoming familiar
T.1f nrhn
camps together with the peculiar characters Of
the mining regions and the small towns
He always kept a journal with detailed note
OF what he and heard. and a striking charac.
terstic Of all his stories is their fidelity the life
OF which they treat"
Uncle Sam should take off his hat TO Goliwi,
Smith. Resenting W. T. Steads sensa tiona strict.
this country, thrust over the shoulders Of
Chicago. the Professor says that 1t is unfair to
take Chicago any great city as a complete spec.
men OF American life and character or trust.
worthy index of the probable destiny of the Amer.
can commonwealth. 1t is in the great cities, he
adds. that the thirst OF money. the vulgar luxury
the municipal corruption and most OF the special
evils prevail. Let him who wants really to study
the United States do what few writer's on the
subject seem yet TO have done. Let him spend q
few years in a country town, and in Intercourse
with It's inhabitants and the farmers Of its neigh.
borhood. He will longer regard Chicago or
New-York $ an adequate measure Of the habits
Of American people. or OF the sinews and safe.
guards OF the American Commonwealth"
The fourth volume OF Professor McMasters His.
tory OF the People Of the United States" is now
coming from the printers hands. The Appletons
will bring 1t out shortly.
The poetical collection which Mr.. QuIller-couch
has been preparing Is called by him The Golden
Pomp: Procession OF English lyrics from Surrey
TO Shirley"
W B. Yeats the clever young Irish verse-wrter.
IS about 10 bring cut an Anthology Of Irish Verse"
"A book which is much needed. for most collections
OF the kind have been made with too little dis
elimination.
The book by the English academcIan. Stacy
Marks in which appear a number OF FREDERICK
Walkers drawings. il coming from the Lippincou
press Those who have delighted in Du Mauriers
Little Bilee" will be curious to see the work q
the dead youth who suggested the character
The leading woman OF letters In switzerland b
Mile Adele Huguenin. who writes under he name
OF IT Combe." and Is native OF Jura. Her fon1
Is the writing OF clever short stories OF honey
nfe-she IL, indeed. Swiss Mary wilkins
The best piece of original work in the octooe
"Iippincott' is We are inclined to think. the shors
story by Margaret Langdon, called - Tragedy
OF Trade" II is a terse and graphic picture OF .
certain type OF commercial mind
The octogenarian George f. Ellis contributes
70 the October Atlantic some very pleasant
"reminiscences; and among them is concerning
Dr. Charles Lowell and his more famous son. Dr.
Lowell and Nj. Ellis together in Rome in
1893. and both had missed the commencement day
at Harvard which the son OF one and the
brother OF the other had been graduated James
Russell Lowell writes Mr.. Ellis, was OF the
class but under discipline for neglect OF studies
and forbidden to read In Cambridge class poem
which he had prepared. on one day OF my time
I'm Rome with DR. Lowell the mail had Forwarded
10 me quite a number OF letters from home, while
the doctor had not one, adding to his usual de-
preston You must read me some OF yours No
said, which. to some extent from those known 70
both OF u.s. did. Among them was one from my
brother which. on glancing at Its contents iet
would greatly please my revered friend. IL savs
a full account OF commencement. and stated that
the disappointed young poet had been invited 70
read his pages at dinner of some OF his class
mates away from Cambridge My brother had bor'
rowed the manuscript and copied some OF inc
pungent passages which l read. Anything oa'
grati1cd with the hearing the doctors gravity
deepened. and with a nervous earnestness he sa'a'
L do not like that James promised me before
left home that he would give up his poetry ana
keep TO his books.
Jane Barlow. whose Irish Idylls, puoIsnea
two years ago, brought her to the attention OF
the reading public has lived all her life in lreiahu'
though she is Of German and Norman descent
Her father. the Rev. DR.. James Barlow is inc
| Senior Master Non Regent OF the University u
! Dublin and well-known Greek Sc ~ Ing
! young lady shrinks from notoriety, ana hen nv
| walled Out appeared anonymously in Inc ''o,
| lin University Review IN 1885, she resis'eu a'
efforts to make her reveal her identity AMONG
her other popular sketches may be named nos
land Studies" "Hiberna" and "kerrisahs quo.
ity." She lives In a little hamlet called ha"s"''
| near Dublin.
| Mr.. Theodore Watts believes that the '''ne 80
gone by when English poets. save very le"' ns,
hope to write for any other generation IMAM Wv.
own I'm order to be forgotten" he says "
| not necessary for a poet to die let MN ca "
write for FIVE Years. and he VIII pass out on lIe