The morning times., 1896-08-23
Literary Notes.

Maurice Maeterlinck will be married ne xi
month.
Thomas Hardy's next work will be an
historical novel.
The English public is reading extensively
In financial literature.
The earlier name of Weir OF Hermeiston
was the Justice Clerk. oh
Shan +. Bullock isa new author destined
to popularity m this country.
A three land six PENNY edition of Dickens
is to be issued presently in London.
Leon Daudet. who. through overwork has
beenquiteill, is sCcnvalcscing at Champrosay.
1t was Carlyle WHO declared that we'll
written life was as rare as well-spent
life.
A Chicago man took a complete set Of
Herbert Spencer's works to read on fish
ing trip.
new semtmontlLy literary magazine
is projected for early publication in New
York city.
Politics do not monopo!ize John Morley.
He is prepa ring another volume OF essays
on literature.
Olive Schreiners many articles on South
Africa are to he collected and published
in book form.
Guy Bot;,by will in the autumn publish
new volume of short stories TO be called
''Blshigrams.''
Quiller- Crouch is very popular in Eng
land. bat he has never been extensively
taken up in America.
Maarten Martens. who is at present on
a visit to England, has completed u short
story OF 22.C00 words.
London Correspondent says that the
works ot Dickens, Scott and Thackery are
declining In poDul larity. -
John MorIey's father said that it took
Carlyle thirty volumes in which to com
press the gospel Of silence.
1t is reported that Max Becrbohm is
engaged to Miss Grace Conover, OF the
Haymarket Theater. in London.
There is an actual vacancy in English
periodical literature or anything approach
ing the style OF the Century or Harpcr's.
Shakcspcarian volumes are actually scarce
in London. There IS an immediate and I'M
accountable demand FOR the bard's works.
The late Lady Tennyson was a daughter
of Henry Sellwood ald was married to
the Late poet laureate OF England in ! $50.
In the early sixties Kate Field wrote
editorials for the New YoIk Herald at tie
then enormous salary Of $1,000 year.
One of the new maya zines has paid a
popular story writer $3.50 for The serial
words.
Ethel Reed, the ina .inative poster
arts, who spent part OF the winner ia
Washington, Is spending her first summer
in Paris.
Rudyard Kipling can't be going to desert
US while crops justify new and more cunI-
modious barns for his farm. That's what
he is building.
There will be 900 sets OF the new thirty
four volume edition of George Meredith's
works. Mr.. Meredith is doing his own
blue pencling.
From IA recent photograph OF the English
author John Morley is made to look like
Sol Smith Russell He was born in S3s
Christmas eve.
The library in thc mansion OF Prince
Roland Bonaparte's new Partisan mansion
is constructeI so as to accommodate l,-
SOC. 900 volumes.
The English reviewers have not yet
fathonied Mark Twain's little joke in sad
ding the Joan OF Arc recollectiOns TN
Sieur Louis lie Conte.
Booksellers say that in spite OF August
being the lazy season that books Oh birds
and flowers nd guide books ha We held their
own with paper back fiction
On the fly leaf Of cne OF the four issue &
OF the first edition OF the POEMS OF ECmund
Waller. 1645, has bcep discovered in auto
graph a hitherto unpublished poem.
Mrs. Meynell. who is looked upon us n
recently discovered poetess, wrote and
published volume OF verse 80 early as
1875, when She was Miss Alice Thomson.
Maria Louise Pool, the author Of "In a
Dixie Shanty" and Mrs. Gerald" made
her first move into literature twenty years
ago, and the Atlantic Monthly was the ave
nue..
Bicycle literature has assumed the dig
nifty OF a separate department in some
publishers catalogues. Under this head
the principal publications are maps and
charts.
The use of burnt wood In decoration,
which had its origin as far hack as tie
sixteenth century, has recently hcrn
revived in America by the artist. j. W.
FoSdick.
Harold Frederic Is at work upon a new,
novel which he Us will be ~ iOng as his
Theron Ware."It will be his first sto:y
to deal exclusively with English people and
subjects in fiction.
George W. Cable in a recent article
makes this entertaining remark: Il will
venture this as an axiom IL ] never venture
a second time-that the true story teller
is always good lover" "
Dr. Holmes was asked during the last
year OF his life for an interview by a
popular magazine. With prompt wit
he declared that he refused to he lured
Or Maclured into anything of the kind ''
Mr.. Gladstone remarks that 'his expe-
rieDce leads him to believe that the supply
of poetry, or of verse assuming to be poetry .
is more egregiously in excess OF the Co.
mand than any other description of lite5a.
ture''
William Black forgets his books as soon
as they are written. II told him an anec-
dote the other day." said his wife, land
he laughed quite heartily and asked where
l got it. 1t was from one Of his own
books"
Walter Savage Landor was devoted
friend of Mrs. Lynn Lynton, who VIII
shortly issue her Literary Life" and called
her daughter" She 8 the last OF the set
which included Landor, Hunt, and George
Henry Lewes.
Charles Dudley Warner very seasibly
says, in referring to the prevalent propen
sity of every one who enjoys literature TO
have try in making 1t, that the capacity
to enjoy and the capacity TO create are twc
quite different things.
It Is not generally known that Rir Edwin
Arnold. u an artist OF much skill. He has
recentiy beeaaCting gnsspecialc0rrespOnoen
OF the London Telegraph Ia Moscow and