The morning times., 1896-07-05
Literary Notes.

The Janviers, though Americans. live il
| Provence.
Hardy is mentally, as robust as he !.
| physically delicate.
Kipling's '.Barrack Room Ballads" wi
be ready in the autumn.
Alfred Austin is the latest addition to
| to Nine. Tussard's Wax Works.
| Transators are beginning their depre
| dauons on japanese literature.
Poe said of Tennyson: Il regard him al
| the Dobest poet that ever lived"
Harold Frederic is an instance of an Amer
| lean author discovered in En- gland.
| Mrs. Oliphant has written every one OF
| her twenty-eIgnt novels ut night.
Tomas Bailey Aldrich was made master
| of arts at Harvard commencement.
| Queen MarghcritI is about to publish q
book about her Alpine experiences.
Judith Gautier resembles her father. He
| has an enormous physique and dead, white
| face.
Mrs Kennedy, the original of Little
Eva. is still alive-gray, hut attractive as
ever.
The only four-line poem by Tennysor
ever printed is not included IN his complete
works.
Marie Correni's sorrows of Satan is
the subject OF Father Ignatius' sermons
in London.
Oliver A. Fry is 1.-THE womans IA vorite'
among the London editors. He is editor
of Vanity Fair.
All Dickens references 10 jail life have
been collected in Il volume called In Jail
With Dickens"
Dante Gabriel Rossetti was early a reader
of romantic literature mucn III vogue IN iis
boyhood days.
clever Western woman speaks OF
Cranes Red Badge" as grim, ghastly and
ungrimmatcal.
Dpillpr Il,
Adventures in Criticism that his name
does not rhyme with"vouch.'
Col. Thomas Wentworth HigEinson is
now doctor OF laws by virtue of the recent
gift of Western Reserve University.
The only complete Browning now in the
English market costs f4-S2O. Augustine
Blrrell is editing a cheaper edition
George Ebers, the Novelist, who is also
one Of the most profound Orentalists OF the
day, is u recent convert to Buddhism.
The unartistic name of the locality in
which is located Academician Watts ar
tisuc home is Hogs Back. SGrrey."
1t is estimated that it takes from eiihtto
nine minutes To secure any one of the $50
600 volumes OF the Bnston Public LIBRARY.
George w Cable undertakes in the July
Atlantic to tell the secrets OF the story
teller's art. These ''tclliDgs' US usual
reveal nothing
Anna Katharine Greene re-enters the field
, of detective fiction with a story which Is
10 De punished SnOTJly- IL is called 'ihat
Affair Next Door"
Tolstoi is conscious that he is ageing, and
is Fastening to finish great work, which
he says -in broad Characters gives the im-
preston or moments
Mr.. George Moore is known as The
English Zola.' and since the advent nf
Jude. the Obscure Mr.. Zola is known
as The French Hardy
f. F. Benson of Doio fame is in Egypt.
He is writing Romance OF Greece's war
or independence, and fills up his spare
time eXcavatlng temples.
1t is one of Francois Coppee's del ghts TO
feed the birds in the Jardin du Luxembourg.
They know him intimately and dip into his
pockets for secreted crumbs.
The German empress has betrayed the
expenses of trip to Italy undertaken by
Johanna Ambrosius, the now famous peas
ant poet, for the benefit of her health.
Prof. RoeBtgen's grandfather was
a cabiDetmaker, whose works We're SO IA
nous that Goethe alludes 10 them in his
New Melusiana," written in 1870.
A T. ris review has recently broken from
precedent and publishes a Provencal poem
in original text. The pre- udice has hereto
fore been strong against the Felibriens.
Three statues OF the three generations
of Dumas stand in the Place MaIherbes,
Paris, and it is suggested that the name
be changed to Place des Tros Dumas"
An English novelist, in one of bis recent
works, pictures Scottish highlander sit.
ting on the roa dside singing a favorite song
and accompanying himself on the bagpipe!
Boston spends annually on her public IL
braries SlIo.uDO: Chicago. 81 20 900: New
York, $4,000. Newark, Cincinnati, St
Lou,sand baltimore each spenus more tran
New York.
Jean Ingelow, the poetess, though ad-
vanced in years, is not in imminent danger
of death, as has been reported. She is fair
ly well and devotedly attached to her two
hobbieS-hirds and flowers.
Walter Besant, the popular author, is a
large, portly, good-looking man, with a full
beard, worn in the uDtrimned, English way
"a beard in which the silver is beginning to
fight successfully for domination.
A newspaper proofreader at Hereford re-
Gently wrote to Rider Haggard, pointing
out two grammatical blunders in She"
Mr.. Haggard sent letter ofthanks, inclos- |
ing Il check for a guinea us a reward for
vigilance.
The London Atheneum declares that
Lowell was never, in proper sense q
poet, and that he should have seemed to be |
SO to American critics is the severest crit |
icism on itself that the American nation |
has ever made.
Henry b. Fuller, author of 1.-The Puppet |
Booth and "Cheyaiier Pensieri- Vani," is |
suffering from Judgment by the standard OF |
an imitator of the same name. who sells to |
the cheap magazines. A single line should |
denote the distinction. |
1t is said that Emile Richbourg, tie writer
of sensational novels, published serially by |
the Petit journal, has earned $500 900 in |
twenty five years. Daudet earns S24, ,OCO |
a year. and Zola's ann ual income from his |
works is about $4,000.
DR.. Holmes, writing to.Motley in 1861. |
at time when Howells was sending letters |
on Venice home, said: This is a young man |
)f no small talent. In fact, his letters |
from Venice are as good travellers letters |
as remember since EOthen."
Olive Thorne Miller has Just ended a |
most successful course of bird talks ac.
by field classes, in PittsfieId.
Mass, under the auspices of the Kinder.
garten Association, which netted a hand.
International literary fame is a peculiar
saying: Julia Ward Howe is a veteran in
the cause OF Liberty: She made her fame
by the publication of that well-know anti
slavery book, Uncle Toms Cabin.'"
Longfellow received the highest price
probably ever paid for poem when he was
given $4 900 for THE Hanging of the
Crane Five pounds was ali Milton re.
ceived for Paradise Lost, and EGO was
Heidi VI ""Ae-
The royal library at Teheran, Persia, is
IS filled with priceless manuscripts. The
writing OF the late shah's most famous |
Mir is valued at two tumariS |
! line. at which rate the contents of the
library must be worth many millions of
iollars.
According to a writer in the "Krai."
Polish paper. published in st. Petersburg,
Count Tolstoi Is descendant Of a German
family which went to Russia in the fifteenth
century. The original name was Dick.
fat. which was translated into its |
Russian equivalent. Tolstoi. TOlstoi's moti,-
r died when he was only two years old.