New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-21

N4MV -lMIVT/ rs unreleved. There
" HX// are scenes in light
| er vein, none that can
raise laugh that Is not
tainted with bitterness 1t IL throughout hopeless.
sord!d tragedy And sordid tragedy Is far sadder
thing than the tragedy that is great and heroic
Your miserable. ungainly hero with his dosNke
devotion TO a girl who despised and loatned him. -
truly pa athletic figure and there Is an added pathos
in the fact 1t is only by an effort the reader
can really be sorry for him."
Miss yarina Anne Jefferson Davis. the Daughter
OF the Confederacy.' has written novel OF od
times in Virginia. 1t is said to be strong ana or
the emotional type. The Harpers are bringing OUT
the book.
The long promised volume OF Matthew Arnod's
letters written between 1913 and $685. will soon be
brought out Mr.. George W. f. Russell. who has
carefully collected and arranged these epstles says
in his PREDATORY note that For those who know
Matthew Arnold the peculiar charm OF his letters
lies in ths-that they are in word. himself
Some OF Mark Twain's criticisms In the NORTH
American Review on the literary onences OF rehi-
more Cooper are not unjust. Coopers 'oroken
tws' was too incessant an ir.pedent. and some OF
his situations are as Mr.. Clemens points out with
much relish. a little too strong for even the most
creduous OF readers Yet we would fa'n believe
that The Last OF the Mohicans' will survive Tho
will out.ive the foong OF his latest critic 1t is the
romance which this critic 1as not eyes TO see, II Is
the sylvan atmosphere which maintains It's fas-
cination though the authors dicton may seem to US
70 belong 70 era long past. Measured by two
foot rule and tested by the creed OF the pedagogue
Cooper doubtless suffers serious dimnution OF MS
fame But nothing stale the air OF the WOOD
land which sweeps through his pages his most
absurd exaggerations are powerless TO destroy tho
illusion which the broad passage OF his brush
across the canvas creates and his enthusiasm sus-
tans.
Mark Twain mirthful over the snort'
comirgs OF his author. seeming to forget that no
had any merits at all. and unaware. indeed. ihas
those merits included the one which Is most 10 De
prized-the creative instinct OF the poet. one must
get away from details to appreciate Cooper, FOR OK
details he had a poor command. But that is the
way sometimes with a OF imagination. with a
man OF inspiration. and that critic is TO be ptet
who is not qualified recognize the fact. cooper
got what he aimed for the excitement OF adventure
the pride OF manly strength, the strangeness or
romance In the virgin forest. the picturesqueness
OF he in America at time when life was In
fnitely picturesque He put an American strain
OF vitality into his work He holds the reader even
when he is most hammered. COR under his curostes
OF construction and OF style there throos sncer-
ity a depth OF feeling and OF delicate. imaginative
gentle feeling at that. for which writer's even more
polished pure in style. more refined IN numor'
more giilt.ess of literary Offences" than Marx
Twain himself. might we'll be grateful
II appears that certain modern poetry 'that ~
accomplished and refined without being positively
epoch- making" IT, according 10 Mr.. Edmund Gosse'
the very salt which keeps the mass OF our common
STYLE from decay" This might well believe
were IL not obvious that the kind or verse WHICH
Mr. Gosse really means Is the kind which the rest
OF us are content to call minor verse And IN MS
defence OF that. In his criticism OF sundry other
matters at this end OF the century, Mr. Gosse 10
very amusing Taste Is so bad he mourns; really.
he never knew anything like the dreadful way IN
which the many headed beast Is allowed TO have
its say these weary days. The New Woman worries
him especially the New Woman who writes. she
Is given so much attention that there Is none ieit
for Mr. Swinburne for Mr.. Leslie Stephen. Tor other
important names. and. may assume. for Mr.Gosse
himself That, we surmise. Is what Is at the bottom
OF this busy writer's plant. Naturally ne does
not like to see the Minor Poet scored fellow
feeling makes wondrous kind.
But Mr. Ciosse ought not to take II so deeply to
heart Men will stop after awhile making those
distinctions between major and minor poets which
he finds so Every arbitrary and nvidlous limo
deals with these things. Distinctions between TWO
objects Of discussion only be made when poth
exist: and in poetry the minor poet who mates as
tinctons. is certain to avoid them in the one
natural way that lies open TO HIM.
sea power
Mrs Deand has finished her novel. but no
date has been set for Its publication
AIR lie Caffeine Is the subject In The Pail Man
MAGAZINE of some rather sarcastic praises iro"
the pen Of Mr.. Zangwill. The latter takes some
pains to bring out the interesting fact thar tho
Young ''poets'' coming lecture tour In America -
intended to provide ducats for after cultivation %
the Muses. Ono doesn't know whether TO De H'o's
sorry for the MUSES. or America.
General c. W. Darling. the corresponding secre-
tary Of the Oneida, " ". Historical society "n.e
visiting Jerusalem recently found an ancient par'n
msnt scroll containing he book OF Esther ~
Hebrew The persons from whom he ootalheu -
said II was taken from the tomb OF Apsaom
monolith cut In the solid rock and still stahans
in the Valley OF Jehoshaphat; but OF that 'ne'e -
no proof The manuscript. how ever appears ~ ~
old though a critical examination OF II WI"
before its exact date can DC asee''"'
n lola has finished a third OF his long "oVe'
"Rome" He says that 1t Is giving him srea' ~
h,e there Is so much reading up to be oo"e, ~
book In to deal with ali the Rornes-tha' VI
t,ouity that Of the Middle Ages. and that OF vo
day He adds. concerning his new se'es, ,v
Three cities" that "Lourdes symooi.es '"e 40.
OF the Middle Ages with all the smpne''y - ,,
faith Rome" represents the city OF modern e.o'a
,,or and psrs-"well. Paris Is the future" Whe'e'
oh where In New-York and where Ch'eas''
Tho remarkable library collected by MI w.
Pope and his late wife--a library specia"y "a
worthy for rare imprints. unique spec'"e ~
early editions-hAs passed into the possess'o" ,s.
Dodd, Mead q Co. They are having the o''''S'
ella ssifed, and will offer II for SAFE