New-York tribune., 1896-03-29

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pays attention also to nationality as It Is illustrated
by this country.
1t Is now announced that the new Life" Of the
Autocrat will be published early In May. The ap-
pearance Of Mr.. Morse's two volumes Is awaited
with eagerness on both sides OF the ocean. In
England many expressions Of anticpatory delight are
printed. though II may be recorded. by the way
that one London critic has been making a confes.
sion In regard to the lone Hoss Shay" in which
he has never been able much fun" To some
persons he avers good critics. too, 1t Is the stand.
ard In humorous verse But why Is 1t funny?"
Possibly the forthcoming biography will enghtep
this paintive Brit!sher. The books are to contain
much that Is new, and the unfamiliar material 10
said to be marked by some Of the most brilliant
wit Of Holmes.
The life of Thomas Hughes was divided between
polItics literature and the law. He had moreover,
strong religious interests In the Of the
term he was a many-si!ed man, and his death has
evoked many estimates Of his work in half dozen
different directions There has been. OF course.
a unanimous renewal OF the praise which Tom
Brown" called forth almost Immediately upon ~
publication in the late ffties. 1t Is curious fact
however that whether In his best book or any
other milestone in his career the character that
fascnates in Thomas Hughes is neither the author.
the LAWYER nor the active participant in religious
and social development 1t Is always the man VITO
makes the first and last appeal; II Is always his
personality and almost never his intellectual
achievements by which the sympathies are nryt
awakened. TON Brown" Is classic, that IL cer-
tain enough; but even in this masterpiece Of what
might be called mature tuvena the thing that
captures the imagination is the point OF view. the
psrsonal force the Hughesian enthusiasm running
through the narrative.
As writer OF pure literature. the author OF one
OF the most famous books Of his time was para
doxcally OF minor significance. But as tenn
peramen, making itself felt through the printed
page he was and will remain distinguished figure
in English fiction. The spirit OF the man is shown
with beautiful clearness in the following letter.
written to a young American. and hitherto unpub-
llahed:
Dear Boy Gor you must be boy stilD: You k a;k
be so much nicer to think that he was real boy
than to know that he only existed in a story" No
boy Is noun reA Of DD 8uItiudsS He was (ad hope
is still, and so far as old boy Of seyentythres
knew at least that number OF T. BIS at Rugby and
there were no doubt as many at dozen other OF
What wanted to draw the average average English English
Soy who mot op
good Church catechism training. which wo%dnt % .es
masters az THE other side in the education game
and long as they played the game fairy. wou!a
respect and like them as he did the other SIDE
II you want to meet specimen on your side you
Pan Handle Of Texas, where our youngest boy Is
the managing partner Of a cattle rancho. He never
Sa ians k"sy re t sssf ten tss
Ss nest Of tho to
sons OF 1000 years arc Almost all Of such boys get
i0nt t q they so0d ddn .ip al school but deus
whether they would have made half as gooa Eng Eng
'longs and shorts or Greek alca.cs before they
'''' ''''''- '''' 'e'' THOMAS HUGHES
Chester s-ll-'95.
.da ~ Van
They be grievously disappointed In his latest
adventure The truth IT, 1. IS scarcely adventure
at all. but a laboriously contrved episode out OK
which Mr. Davis has made story called "Cin'
derea." This tale IL printed in the current number
OF "Scribners Magazine" and is TO be reprinted In
a volume with other productions OF It's author
Why It should be reprinted. why Mr.. Davis should
have printed II, anyway. VIII remain something OF
a mystery For Van Bibber, he has been known
hitherto has been most entertaining person, ana
now the revived Van Bibber. the new Van Biboer.
IL simply a wearisome young person. who becomes
involved in a series Of trivial events and comes TO
a lame and impotent conclusion. Mr. Davis has
done nothing funnier than the serious" passage at
the close Of the story.
That an author is not always TO be treated With
impertnence after his death, through the meddle-
some enterprise" OF those into whose hands his
MSS may happen 10 fall, has lately been shown
in somewhat unexpected quarter. Years ago Beau
delalre wrote attack upon Belgium and the Bel
gians. He never ft to print It. 1t passed into
the hands OF NJ. Grelot French collector OF MSS.
and after his death while ago 1t was secured by
Partisan publisher He made arrangements to print
1t recently but the heirsatlaw OF Beaudelaire were
In the field instantly and threatened to appeal to the
courts IL the work were brought out. This seems 10
have efec,ualy tied the hands OF the publisher and
the work is left in the oblivion to which II probably
belongs. II is interesting 10 note. apropos OF this
episode and the manner In which an authors repu-
taton Is trihed with by his posterity. that
professor OF Berne has come forward in a German
magazine devoted to such matters. the "Biograph-
ische Blaetter," and demanded that the laws OF
biographical art be defined and established. 1t Is
certainly time thar the duties OF literary executors
at least were clearly formulated. Discretion
ought to be rigidy denied TO them.
A new book Of an odd character is about TO hs
published by the I>ongmans 1t IS written by DR..
Thomas ~ Orchard. and is to deal with THE A.
tronomy OF Paradise Lost.
When Captain Mahans authoritative work on
THE Influence OF Sea Power In History" appeared.
the English reviewers found only one objection TO
bring against H. The book should have been writ
ten by an Engl.shman. they said. since II dealt 50
much with the English Navy and they have been
asking ever since for adequate British nava
history. Such a history is promised now. 1t Is 10
be brought out In London under the general editor
ship OF Mr. W. Laird Cloves; II will cover the de-
yeopment OF the Navy from the earliest times 70
the present day: 1t will be elaborately illustrated.
and II will be the work OF the best known naval
writer's Of England. "and OF America"
The Century Company announces . book on tho
White Pine" by Clifford Pinchot and Henry D.
Graves with the observation that 1t offers the nse
systematic study of any American tree" Would tns
monumental work THE Silva OF North Amer-
ca" which Professor Sargent is publishing "
considered unsystematc?
The unpublished correspondence Of Victor Huso.
which Is being put in shape for the press anu
which will probably be accessible to the pubnc 'hs