The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-09
Literary Notes.

Zola's romance, Paris" will not be
ready for fifteen or sixteen months yet
He contemplates q romance of Venice u
follow.
The septembe Outlook has four striking
features: Ii Hung Chang and Gen.
Grant," by Col Fred Grant; MRS. Moody
and Northfield,' THE Higher Life OF st
LOUIS and 1.-THE Institutional Church v
Two women were standing on the col
lege campus, says the Bookman. ''What
degree are you studying for?" asked
one. why, PHI. D., Of coursep replied
the other. '.You know it takes a year
longer. but 1 wouldn't wear any other
gown for worlds. Those trimmed sleeves
are too sweet for anything"
The original agreement between Gold
ST. Ilii auo Caldwell, the publisher, concern
ing the writing Of the History OF Eng
land" Is about to be sold in London. At
the same sale will be offered the autograph
manuscript of Burns Holly Wiliie's
Prayer" on four quarto pages, which diff
fers from the printed editions of the poem
and contains complete stanza not found
in the II anuscript purchased by the Kill
marnock corporation In 1884.
Jane Barlow is described by one who has
seen her in he n home, near Dublin. as tall
and slight, with a shy, giriish look, and
manner most charmingly unaffected. She
has auburn hair, blue eyes, fair skin, and at
times her face lights up with a merry look,
and she gives you one OF those flashes Of
huInor which recall the sayings OF the
happy-golucky peasants of Lsconnel."
A visitor to Wcssex, says Temple Bar.
inquired OF an old man ir he knew Hardy,
ana received the following delicious bit
oraepEecid tion" inanswer oh, TIE writin'
chap! I've read some of his works. They
says 'Iis gift Seems to me It's just
writeD'-just sitten' down an written and
not doen' uothen' at ari. What do e do.
1 ask zee? Here be l deem more proper
work than Hardy ever did, an they don't
tark about 1, an say, There's great
chap like they do about 'e.'
Uncle Toms Cabin was not the first
anti-slavery novel. There was Hildreth's
"Archy Moore" which got SO far as To lie
reprinted in England, but attracted conf
paratiyely little attention Miss Mar
tIIeau also, both in her little story of
'Demerara" and in her novel, THE Hour
and the. Man." had made slavery her
theme. 1t follows that tie subject did not
wholly account for the looks success. At
the same time the fact lat most mediocre
story published imm ediately after and
called ..The Lanplighter' had an immense
circulation. shows that there may have been
something favorable in the conditions of
the time.
A copy of the Philadelphia edition OF
Burns poems, published in June, lTSS. at
10 cents. was recer tiy sold in that city for
S175. The second American edition. Is
sued a month later in New York. both small
limos. has during the presc mt year brought
81 so Copies CT these two rare prints OF
the Edinburgh editionof 1887 are iHcluded
in the Burns exhibition lately opened In
Glasgow. Scotland, the occasion icing the
centennial of the poets death j ii. 1875.
McClure's for September, with a stirring
barrack room ballad by kipiing, a thrilling
installment of Anthony Hopes -Phroso,
a dramatic sea story by an actual sailor,
and Characteristic sketches by Mrs Spot
ford and Clinton Scollard maintains its
usually inticing aspect. In running through
a table of contents of McCiare's il must tP
acknowledged one never experiences the
familiar difficulty of finding something
one really cares to read