New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-07

n E@ a gift OF epigram and re-
HSSN 25QN tort which many defeated
%NM& ~ antagonists In Church
strategy have had 10 ac-
knowledge: and his SYM
,.,hv md kindI,ness are OF most winning quality.
7, Z. .a.d concerning Anthony Hope" that no
had occasion the other evening. 10 take In TO dinner
a lady who knew him only as plain MI HAWKINS
The hostess afterward asked the good lady whether
she had talked TO Mr.. Hawkins about The Prison
err o. Zenda" and The God in the Car" Certainly
not" was the reply: II don't think Mr.. Hawkins
the man to be interested in that class OF book
In recent after-dinner speech MI Rider niagara
mentioned odd literary condolences that had
occurred in connection with his works One OF these
concerned his invention OF an incident on the lana
River where a mission station was attacked by mo
Nasal and the mission people were killed strange
10 say after his imaginary account had appeared.
some missionaries did found station on that river
were attacked by the Nasal and some OF them were
killed In his book. THE People OF the Mist. ne
had fixed upon unknown part OF Africa ana naa
described region from his inner consciousness;
and only week before the speech was made
company In which the author Is a director. had sent
out orders TO take possession OF the very tract no
had in View and far the reports OF the native
agents who had inspected It went. he believed his
descriptions fairly correct
James Morier the author OF the famous Hail
Baba' (of which the Macmians have lately
brought out a cheap edition.. Is reported to- nave
left a mass Of unpublished material which viii soma
day be put into print. HAIL Bahia hrst appeared
seventy wears ago. and its author has peen oeao
forty Ave years.
W. H. Mallocks Heart OF Life" is on the press
OF c. p. Putnams Sons. together with Voiume OF
ESSAYS by j. Ashcroft Noble. NJ. Anatole Leroy
Beauieus book Israel Among the Nations ana
several volumes OF tales
A volume OF political sketches Is to be published
by T. Y. Crowe Co.. under the title OF southern
Statesmen OF the Old Regime" The author Is Pro-
fessor W. p. Trent the southerner who wrote the
biography OF William Gilmore Simms. published IN
the American Men OF Letters Series.
The British novelist. Mr.. David Christie Murray.
has said II will be remembered. that after nve yea"
OF discovering America he Is going 10 write NOR
oushly homogeneous NOVELETTE, hrst OF the knd IN
our literature. For correspondent or the writer
he has defined this proposed novel as "a oooK EN-
bracing all sections classes. and conditions IN your
country: and. considering them socially. moraus
politically reigously showing their inter-reiauons
II is novel, not Of any particular locality, but OF
all America. Now. thus far your noveliss nave
taken only corner OF your country. and hed away
at that, and only that. Take Bret Harte. Tor IN
stance He selected ono little corner OF Calfornls
and has continued 10 le away at that corner unt'1
AS some one has said OF stevenson. he has fitted IN
his inlaying 10 a hair Another instance Is the case
| OF Miss wilkins. who has selected. not Ne" Eng
| land whole but simply bits OF local town "'s
| here and there as In the case OF pembroke Asan'
Mr.. Howells. though he tells me he was porn ~
Ohio has selected Boston as hts particular corner.
| And so We might 60 through the list OF American
writer's or course. II Is a vast suhject-per-
haps | may find It too vast to treat completely IN
one book And yet have met with several crcun-
stances In American society which served to anora
/ 10 fron "
az interest might radiate TO the limits Of the whole
Wheel
The correspondent suggested that somebody else
might forestal him; wbereupon the NOVELIST an
swered: There is man now in this country VINO
is pretty certain do He is living quietly down
| In Vermont very quietly that 1t seems 10
prophesy something He is keen student OF human
nature and he has the rsrest faculty for the s"1s
assimilation OF unfamiliar detail OF any man no"
| living So far as the sudden appearance OF homo
| geneous novel OF American life is concerned iooA
for 1t, Just now, only from Rudyard kiplng
| Few people who know Besant believe that he can
| be ffty-seven years old. His plump face ana e'eAA
complexion. and his very thick and very brown "s~
and beard make him look much younger man.
The Sketch" thinks that The Tenth Muse ths
| title poem OF Sir Edwin Arno.ds last volume "hen
was composed for press anniversary a "o'N
which might be described as worthy OF the ocs@-
| sion, ana II proceeds 10 nave Jun WIN t'e 800
ErandIoaucnt appeals TO Clio and Euterpe 70 InAAs
| room for the tenth muse, who is named Epheme's.
| Those who have wondered which OF the Nine haa
| taken Sir Edwin under her protection VIII De ss~
| to have the difficulty solved BY the discovery y.
tenth and will concede that she Is rightly ha"e0'
IMAGINATIVE Man Is the title OF the ne" wv
which Robert Hichens author OF The Green 49,
nation" has written.
of fha
dAumales "Histoire des Princes de Conde ma
gone TO the printer.
| Olive SchreIner now Mrs Cron Wright. Is thirty
three and a tiny creature, II Is said. Win wv"
dark eyes and very bright face. She |" w.
years older than her husband Her STORY Oh -
African Farm" written before she was se'
enteen-a marvellous performance for so youns
| AN author. 1t Is added that she Is one Oh '"e,
| children: and never perhaps was there ian''s
30 acutely divided for conscience sake The INV.
was a German missionary. settled IN sou'" 80
| rlca; the mother, born Presbyterian. Is no" "
| a Roman Catholic convent; brother and sister -
ardent temperance reformers another brothe'
IN English clergyman Olive herself finds he' ~
| In the religion Of charity. Those who kIo" ~.
| best say that she Is angel among the p
| and suffering. Children she has Always spee""
loved: hence, It 10 doubly hard that lar hrs'SS'