New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-02-24

uumphry Wards new novel. 1t Is a tale OF Eng
llsh village life Serial publication Will precede "S
appearance in book form.
Young Mr. Zangwill thinks log-rolling isn't so pad
As indeed one might reasonably expect MN 10
think considering his comfortable progress
along the literary path. II myself have log-rolied.
he says. Il am glad to cay nave olscoVe'eu "'e"-
that Is before other people have. and maven oeen
ashamed TO say H. There is so mucn praise that Is
intudicious you see that when one wants 10 INTRO
duce something really good to the pubic, one mas
sneak in mysteries and italics. What doht noo
with IL one man writing six diherehl opnhons
anonymously In six different papers goihs o,i Inv
a six-barrelled revolver" Why. why ooesh vi.
Z,ngwll give the name OF this revolving gentleman
whose versatility certainly deserves wha' an '
little budding poets and cssayists call recosh'''o"
Mr. lie Caffeine, another young writer VINO 'anes
amiable views OF practice with logs Is eho '''''e
defiance at his critics in the title OF "oin nc
preparIng for the press. This is coi'ecuoh VI us
newspaper reviews and criticisHs-a ~
which he playfuly calls Retrospective Reviews
Literary Log.
The American edition OF the English 'Bookn,an
as issued by Dodd & Mead Is. 1t must De achno".
edged an Improvement upon its original Much
Interesting matter specially addressed 10 Americas
readers has been added. and the form VI the maya
zine is particularly attractive. It's pages p'easaS
combine news, criticism, biography ana h'e''''
tory and 1t promises to become welcome
10 reading people. The American CONDUCTORS "a '
nerodical will have an opportunity to weed out
paragraphs relating to nonentties wnich oi'e' us
figure the English edition, and 1t is to be hopea A'
they will improve IT, ,S,.,
We learn from this number that MT. arthur '
burne Hardy's novel. "Passe Rose, Illustrates w
Mr. A. r.. Steiner. is TO be one OF the ho"uaS ~
~ next season. and that Miss Katharine pearson
,hnr Of Sn0efndheT,
wr,tinr novel OF the First Century which Is 70 IN
vove the question Of Christianity and social REFORM
High poetics take funny tumbles occasionally
case in point comes from Venice. On the 'ra"u
canal there a certain Iordy palace now o"ned
bv Mr. Robert Barrett Browning Is regarneo
with peculiar interest by English ana America"
travellers as having been associated with MS IA
Tiers fame II hard not TO grow sentimental d. you
mass in a gondoa. hard not TO think 1ne Things oi
the celebrated poet But now see what prose WIN
do There Is A kitchen on the first floor in the 'front.'
OF the house. and its lofty windows are scree"ed
only half way up Pass but few boa; lengths
further on and just you begin 10 quote IN
Gondoa" you see the sash a glittering array
n, pots and pans a double OF shining kettles
tina; calls up the whole aroma OF modern ieAs"
But where does the poetry of association go?
Tho American Congress" a history OF National
legislation and political is coming from inc
Uarper presy Its author Is Mr.. J. W. Moore
Mr. Bgeiows Life OF Samuel }. Tilden" VII! soon
be brought by this house
The entire series Of English Men OF Letters ID
70 be ressued by Macmillan. Each OF the thirteen
monthly volumes will contain three OF the orgihal
books
Some one rushed into print the other day win me
observation that OF all American writers OF hetioh
Hawthorne was the only one who possessed genius
Mr. Dana neatly capped that sweeping statement
Thackeray once said TO him. it appears. mat no
thought Cooper greater genius than Walter seo's
and an immortal story teller
This * queer An English writer says that tho
sw edes are OF all European nations. the greatest
lovers OF humorous writings, and that the MOST pup
uar British author in Sweden IL MT Jerome N.
The second clause or THIS sti'e'"e"' WYNN
seem 10 contradict the first
There is a truthful portrait of Coleritge in one OF
the letters OF his period recently discovered IN
birmingham. Here it Is; III he Is excited os re-
mark in company. he will pour form IN an e'e","s'
without the least apparent effort what wou'u 'u'
nsh matter for a hundred plays {? pagesC Out the
moment that he is to write. not from present III
ru,ss hut from pre-ordsined elaboration, his pow
crs fail him. and believe that there are times "hen
he could not pen the commonest note lie Is one
~ those minds VINO, excep, in inspired moods, can
do nothing
Mr.. Charles Godfrey Leland is making new col
lection O, "Breitmann's Ballads, which will soon %
published here and in London.
The indefa tigable Mrs. Oliphant has written an
other novel which Is announced for publication this
spring She calls II Two Strangers
"Ciala' Is the title OF a story Of modern society
which the traveller in the Carpathians. Miss Memo
Murel Dowie (Mrs. Norman), is about to puoIisn'
The reception OF NJ. Albert Sorel at the Academic
Franchise has taken place. and his 'eioge OF rams
e causing tho mild discussion always provoked by
a thorough capable piece OF work without 'hsp"d-
ton or epigram though Tame Is not oadiy MI o"
as "a man Of science who saw nature Win ''e eso
Of a painter a dalectican who wrote IKE poe'
All through his discourse NJ Sorei te'ea.e' "ee"
appreciation of his subject. and what ne had 10 say
has ir,r,,s,c v,lue: We, 1t must be confessed that
tho occasion revves more interest In Taine than IN
his eulogst NJ Sorel we know as an e~oe'ie"'
writer whom the Academy mas AZ ''''
y,isbed Taine must be remembered as man VINO
distinguished the Academy. as the master OF
critical method which commands increased aumrA-
tia, as time goes on To be sure he preached
pospcl which Sainte- Beuve preached BEFORE hm ana
as a literary critic the author OF "Causeries sur
M ssed on the whole. the man who wrote do
rInt.lgence." and the author OF one or the most
curious histories OF English literature We have.
But Tainc gave a significance TO the 'peuts
faits' OF which he made so much. and he lent sucn
a charm to his own handling to them that future
writer's are bound be tempted into following MS
lead.
II was Mr.. Andrew Lang We believe. VINO saio
that when NJ Tame had found out all ne so..~
about English watersheds and other matters OF s,.-
tistlcal knowledge he was prepared to pass )uds-
ment upon Shakespeare Keats. This SOUNDS "e'''
but. a. a matter OF fact. Taine often went 10 ,"e
roots OF things in his patient study OF Facts IN MS
reconstruction OF a writer or a movement oy p'o
cess OF accumulation not unlike that "".'" ~
mosaic worker gives you In his completed pa'
he has that he GlNe9