New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-04-14

Intime" II Is to be a quarterly periodical. where
In the author md artist pleaseth himself How far
anv one will be pleased outside the circle Of friends
| possessed by the author" and the artist Is
doubtful From the finding list prefixed TO the
| lttle book in lieu OF what ordinary folk call a
! table of contents we gather that Mr.. Howard Ere
| mont Stratton has provided a verse called Dead
| Turning to II one learns that 'she kissed me with
her cmollent lips. and my senses did not stir Now
! this may have been because her lips were enrolment
| but we suspect that it was because the kissed one
had no senses left The whole mass OF twaddle
nrnted between these covers gives this impression.
! "Well let us be epgrammatc, And subtle and pithy
and terse" exclaims OF the rhymesters; and I'M
| mediately cheerful cock robin Of criticism, who
thinks Mr. Lowell didn't properly appreciate the old
dramatst Greene observes that the latter is almost
az full Of promise Shakespeare Is OF perform
ance" Which is u course very epgrammatic
Sometimes the lecadent young man has the gi!m-
merngs OF ceverntss in him. but the scribblers who
appear In Moods" are incapable OF amusing even
by their ahsurdtty.
Young Mr. Benson has turned satiris and not
without effect in the little verses devoted TO the
| modern poet:
He came; met him face to face ~
And shrank amazed dsmayed; saw
NJ prophet Of the eternal law"
Bn, weakness fretting to 70 great.
Se.f-consriousness with siie'ong eye
The impotence that dares not walt
For honor. crying This is l.
The tvrant Of a suien hour.
He frOwnei away our mild content;
And Insight only gave him power
70 see the Sights that we're not meant
Tha, Mr. Clemens MARK Twain Is the author OF
tho Joan u Arc serial now running in Harper Is
Insisted upon by many literary men and by the
plragrap piers Of the day.
AZ regards Vanity Fair" says correspondent
OF Notes AMI Queries" has not the author de-
c,ircI dear Oh SIR Pitt Cr,wley 70 have been the
. only character drawn fun length from live mod
el?" But "resemblances have naturally been traced
/ ,s Of Colonel Ncwcome 20 Major Carmichael Smyth;
Ethel Newcome Il Misc I.ie Baxter. afterward
Mrs Hampton. OF char. es'On; Fred Bayham 10 Will
lam holland; Warrington TO George Nenaoies 20
polland. with a dash Of Thackeray's self. or Ed
u,rl FI,zGcrall with the same FOker TO Mr.. Arce-
de-knc. The O'Mulisan 10 Morgan O'Connell; Cap
tain shannon o. William McGnn; Captain Sumph 10
Molwyn. Ecatrlx Esmond 10 the Duchess OF Kings
ton. Lord Steyne II the eighth Lord Hert'ord;
costigan TO a Captain Fairfield; and Bardolph OF
R.asenose % IN elderly topper OF the Garrick But,
"a - obvious these attributions must be made
with reservation The only useful key to Thacke-
r,vs works Is the master-key that he himself used
70 disclose ,he secrets not OF this or that man. out
81 humanity. not without occasional unlocking OF
the cupboarls In which humanity Is wont TO keep
i,s skeletons
TIL. (;roller Clubs committee on puoncatlons an
rounres A work Of considerable interest 1t is 70
be a catalogue Of the engraved plates made by
Asher Brown Durand. a whose memory Is as
ISOLATED with a picturesque period in our literary
and artistic history His lie and work brought
him In contact with some interesting figures and
this catalogue Will he valuable adjunct to the
biography published not long ago.
T. Mr. Henley's interesting series of Tudor
TRANSACTIONS" there has just been added fasci-
mating work Of the sixteenth century. Sir Thomas
Norths "Plutarch." In Itself II Will be splendid
production. for Mr. Henley puts 1t. Norths YER
SION Of the Lives" which he made from the
French of Bishop Amyot, us done In the nooiest
manner Of the nobcst period OF England The
translation Is little known. and students of old liter
ature will delight in the six handsome volumes IN
which this edition Is to appear That edition
IL further Of interest calling attention once more
To tn, whole series being edited by Mr. Henley. He
has already done Foro's "Montaigne." Aiding
toms "Apuelu-" Underlownes "Heliolorus," and
Mabbc's "Celcstna," picturesque surv!vals from the
wreck OF an old time; and there are In preparation
such valuable works "a Fentons "Bandello' and
Sheltons "Cervantes" Few enterprises Of late have
been more in line with "A healthy appreciation OF
English literature. II recognizes the Importance Of
going to the Of that literature and in spread
lng the means OF an acquaintance with them among
contemporary readers u downright service is per
formed. We hear none too much OF the early Eng
lish classics nowadays
The sequel To the prisoner OF Zenda." upon which
Mr. Anthony Hope is engaged is approaching com
pe,ion. The reader will wonder II in this volume
the author condescends make his engaging hero
and the lovely princess man and wife: and lie will
wonder with more interest whether Mr.. Hope can
repeat that first success.
A collection OF the late Robert Louis Stevenson's
letters is to be edited by Sidney Colvin They
uncommonly clever epstles exhibiting the quail
ties found In the writer's books with others as
agreeable II less familiar.
Mr. Balfour's Foundations OF Belief" is the most
successful book OF the season In London. About
5000 copies have been sold already.
Ian Maclaren. the author OF those quaint and
touching stories Beside the Bonnie Brer Bush" Is
writing novel.
We are told by The Anthenaeum' that there have
lust been sold In London half dozen letters OF
Jane Austen each az good as anything In her nov
els. one Is that IN which she recounts her search
through the London exhibitions for the portrait OF
Elizabeth Bennett In yellow gown. her disappoin,-
ments being soaced by the discovery OF the unmis-
takeable presentment of Mrs Bngley. excessively
like her." In white picked out with green ornaments.
which convnces me OF what | had always sup
posed, that green was a favorlte color with her"
Two other letters belong to 1901 the year in which
the handsome proctor took his family to Bath,
and are full Of spring walks TO Weston. and stupid
"tny parties consisting OF card-tabe and six
peope to look on and talk nonsense to each other"
English versions of number OF the late VI.
Darmesteter's essays have been included In a volume
which Houghton. Minn q co. TO publish. The
subjects of the essays are The Religions Of the
Future" THE Prophets OF Israel" Afghan Life in
Afghan Songs" Race and Tradition" Ernest
Renan." AN Essay on the History of the Jews and
The Supreme God In the ILdo-European Mythol-