New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-10
LITERARY NOTES.

Tvr ia Ia
volume Of "xxxvI Lyrics and XII sonnets' and
=. 49, nor,a,, bIs own selection Of songs from his re-
-, ,.rosr works A drawback to ones pleasure
In possessing Mr. Aidrich's writings Is the fact mat
the different volumes are OF many Shapes ana sizea
A reasonably uniform edition "ou'n De boon y
those wto delight in his honeyed measures
,,, .A.u,.e Iohn skelton-says OF Dnnss
Gabriel Rossetti that except for the tranquil med
.,,,,a eliminating eve Zone thought OF the ox-eyed
runo, there was nothing ideal about him; ne was
intensely Italian indeed but IL WEE the sieen ana
weI,-fed citizen OF Milan or Genoa that ne recalled
M, the slim romantic hero OF Ferni OF D'nize'u'
..rho Saturday Review" In commenting on Rosset-
49,. ,,gencv In Undressing the merits OF Mr. SWIM
hurne on his friend Shelton. says: 'The generous
enthusiasm OF Rossett his reticence ABOUT himself
and his anxiety to secure Tor younger men tns
meed OF praise are strangely IN contrast "l'h me
egotistcaI and commercial spirit when u 30 pf NH
non, among the so-cal!ed literary classes to-day"
A collection OF letters written by Fanny Bravns
Kea,ss betrothed to friend Is In the possession
az Mr. F. r. Day. OF Norwood, Macs iheSe let
ters which have not been In the possession OF any
OF Keats's blosraphers. have been careiuIy ~
nroduced and are 70 be printed IN an edition @
twenty-five copies for private distribution. lhey are
said TO present this young woman In a mucA
sentler and more am.able light than any IN ~hiel
the public has been disposed to regard hef.
Mr. Day also owns a number OF Unpublished 'es
ters OF Keats. OF which quaint zap
nr,nted bv "The Herald" Of Boston il is ADDRESSED
to Charles Cowden Clarke. and runs thus;
Whereas have Received Note from that WORTH
Gentleman Mr. Hayden to tbe purport OF MS q.
being able to a sse os IN es to
Misanthropos and begging US TO eacnSS o. se ~ ans
1T behooveth me TO make ths '"'''s " wv
for a manifold Reason
So I rest your Hermit, John Keats
NJ Day In addition TO letters, portraits and
other relies Of the poet. has valuable and posHb,
unrivaed collection Of editions OF Keats and OF the
books written about him.
Mr. Nered.th's Amazing Marriage" is 10 end, We
are told in a surprise for the reader Inc conclu-
son IS entirely logical but nobody "oud nave ex-
nected f. II Is an extraordinarily clever 0ook-elas!
that It should be marred by a style which those
who most deeply appreciate Neredi'h powers can
not but call atroc.ous.
A periodical containing sixty-four pages is to be
brought out in Philadelphia in January, under the
titl. OF THE Penny Magazine. 1t Il 70 be de-
voted 70 fiction by the best writer's and each
number will be complete In itself. II might be en-
barrassing to give it the title It's price suggests
for that is to be two cents instead OF one
Mr. Justin Mccarthy does not care for books Of
yavs with US" he says and We have known her
long time We cannot change her much. nor she ia
and therefore I'm inclined to thihk the hoce'n
problem novel q waste OF power
Mr. Mccarthy throws down the gauntlet 10 several
people IN the that there Is no single nove
ist OF to-day who can be called great as Inackeray
was great and Dickens was great.
Mrs Julia Ward Howes new book is to be called
us Polite Society Pol,s?" 1t is collection of es-
says social questions.
William Morris the poet, has written TO Brltsa
clergyman some letters on Socialism when have
lately been printed privately. Extracts from these
epistes in "Poet-Lore" show that the poet believes
Socialism TO theory Of life taking Tor its start
ing-pont the evolution Of society, on OF man as
social being The political position OF Socialism, No
holds is substitute the relation OF persons 10 per-
sons for the relation of things to persons Equally
of condition is the economical goal he looks forward
10 and the habtual love Of humanity IL 10 be the
rule of ethics which shall bring the whole woria mo
accord He admits that before this IDEAL can D. reai'
ICED there must be transitional period when thhss
will be extremely uncomfortable. and TINS tfahs'-
tional condition, Socialists believe, VIII be brought
about in our day partly by the EFFORTS OF 'hes'
Gentlemen and partly by the further development
of democracy 1t is the process or the aooiuoh Ok
private ownership in the means OF production 'has
is TO bring on the uncomfortable time ana ai'et
that Is over everybody is TO love everybody ese,
human nature being entirely revolutionized and
greed envy. ambition and hatred Being ehureH es'
terminated in the heart OF man.
The Chaucer folio which Is now upon MT MOP
riss Kelmscott Press Is the largest book when NJ
has yet undertaken to print. He has himself dra"'
all the borders and many OF the initial letter.
There is 10 be for those lucky persons who can ~
ford II a special binding in oak and pigsKin
The instalment Of NJ. Rochefort's Memoirs whiA
has been published repeats an interesting state
ment made by the writer's father that there never
was a more ridiculous sight than the ceremony d.
the Champ de Mars on June /, 1915. OF swearing
fidelity to the "Acte Additional" OF Napoleon Ihe
Em,eror had scraped together 1000 troops. ana
stood on a platform In the costume OF trouoadour'
OF white SATIN with a crimson mantle and conic'
opera hat. He had long ceased to be the lean Zen.
eral OF Italy. with razor face SO angular 'na'
might have cut any bullet that hit It, A corpuieht
body the rotundities Of which the white satin cast
into relief was supported by pair of small legs IN
silk stockings The high lights OF the satin mace
the fabby bilious face look green. The sublime haa
fused with the ridiculous.
Some new poems OF Robert Burns and many new
readings have been discovered by Messrs. W. H.
Henley and T. F. Henderson, who are edting nv
Century Burns" They were found among somS
Burns MSS. collections not open to earlier eitofs
Mr.. Henley Is preparing an essay on the I've anu
genius of Burns.
The Rajah OF Kapurthala. who visited this couh-
try at the time OF the Worlds Fair has puo'sheda
ponderous volume about his experiences here anu !"
Europe 1t is described a well-written, many
and delightful book.
Rose OF butchers Coolly." Mr.. Hamfn Garlanus
novel, Is coming from the press OF stone & MN
ball. 1t will be read with some curiosity ior nr'
GarIands longest and most elaborate work has been
heretofore his poorest.
The widow OF the late Philip Gilbert Hamerton "
writing a biography OF her husband. Mrs. Hamer-
ton is writing In English although she Is by birth
Frenchwoman.