The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-01-05
LITERARY NOTES

LII Ek.Ak1 N31 10
Max Nortiau the authorof Degener-
alton, lives in Paris above a drinking
saloon The name Nordau. says Cur
rent Literature, was originally used
by him as a newspaper pseudonym-
With the consent of his father. Herr
Sudfcld, he legally assumed it. trans
forming himself from South Field into
North Meadow He is q good deal of
a hermit SOCIALLY in Paris. In his
professional capacity he knows NUM-
berxs of people. but his visiting list is
restricted to only half-a-dozen old
friends. and his life il quiet and an
eventful.
Young Greer of kenturky." by Miss
Eleanor Tabor kinkhead. published
by Rand, MoNalIy & Co. New York
and Chicago. Young Greer is the only
son of an unlettered Kentucky farmer.
His mother is sharp-tongued and am
bilious for her son. He is educated
at Harvard and in Germany, and re-
turns out of harmony with his sur
roundings. He keenly regrets the IL
iiteracy Of his parents and the hum-
gives him an entrance into polite so
ciety, he studies the genus society
butter fly, and comes 10 conclusion that
Kind hearts are more than roronefs
And simple Faith than Norman lload.
Mrs Annie TfnnbuIl SloseoD. he
author Of ..Fishin' Jimmy" hid a
strangely impressive experience.
few years ago, while driving through
the Green Mountain country of Yer
mont She met a 3nan, a waif, who be-
lieyed himself to be the Christ. Under
the title Through Glass Dargly.N
Mrs. Slosson has written for The Sun
day School Times of January a
sketch of her nesting with this
strange character. No sermon" she
writes, mo chant, no learned theolo-
gicai treatise. nag. not the reading of
the Gospel story itself, had ever made
that lonely life of the Stranger, the
man of sorrows and acquainted with
grief. such real thing 10 me-"
The great daily papers, particularly
the Sunday. editions. are giving their
readers such "a large variety of choice
literature, accompanied by snch ele-
giant illustrations, that the reduction
in the price of magazines was q neces-
sity. The New York Herald is now
publishing daily installments OF Julian
Hawthorne's prize novel. a Fool of
Nature" The Herald offered $4,000
in cash for the best novel, and the com
mittee awarded it to Mr.. Hawthorne's
novel. The first installment last Sun
day was printed on superfine paper,
handsomely illustrated. The opening
chapters show that Mr. Hawthorne
has lost none of his originality and
Imagination. He is an adept at coin
ing names. Here are some that have
already appeared: Mergatroyd Whittier
duce, the hero; Pynehepole Whittier
duce. ALBERT Frewin, General Stepyng
stone, Arabella Mergatroyd, Judge
HeyInnge, Rev. Christopher Plucke
rose Agabag, Nerinder Fyse, Isabella
Sharingbourse, Stukely Poyntell,
Blackmore Risdon, Devereaux Sacra-
manga, Mrs Dorothy Tiptoft, Mrs.
Jellicoe, Miss Aurelia Estengrewe. DR..
Horace Maydell.
Frank l.. Stanton pays handsome
tribute to North Carolina's poet in
these words:
Henry Jerome Stockard, of North
Carolina, who has been an Exposition
visitor here for a week past, has re-
turned TO his home in Monroe. Mr..
Stockard's name is familiar TO all
lovers of fine literature, and we have
frequently expressed admiration for
his work, as it appears from time TO
time in The Century and other maga-
zines. We are glad TO repeat here
that no one to-day is writing better
sonnets than those which bear Mr..
Stockard's name--if, indeed, he is
equaled in this. the most difficult form
Of verse Nothing finer than his SON
net on Homer" with its splendid
closing line:
Upon the old sea-cinctured shores of
Greece"
has been written by any poet in this
prolific year OF verse; and the same
rnay he said of his sonnet on shake
scare with its climax:
=, ~ ned with the Night and with the
LJIning stoledi'
There are laurels for this poet of the
Gid North State; the bays are bloom
ms tsr him from far away"