The morning times., 1896-06-07
Literary Notes.


ten promisingly.
Augustine Birrell at distance is said to
resemble Charles Lamb.
Justin McCarthy's newspaper career be
gan when he was fifteen.
The Greek poets understood the humor
OF parody 400 years ago.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox says she plunged
lhto literature when eight years Old.
Eugene Field rewrote the old Saxon tale,
We're Void, seven or eight times.
The fashion i'll London is Tor long, narrow,
rough-edged papercovered volumes.
Chenier, the French poet, suffered less
at the guillOtine than in transia ton.
Pitt first used the expression the power
behind the throne in speech in 1910.
Gerald Massey, the veteran poet, is ILL.
lie is overcome by the less oil his only son,
Gates Ajar" remained in manuscript
Two years before it was published in 1S6 g.
A series of biographies of famous Scots
has pcgun in London Carlyle heads the
list.
andre Chenier is spoken OF as the greatest
French classic poet since Racine aud Boil
eau.
The publication of Stephen Cranes Dan
EIhInOuus' has been postponed until au
tumn.
Partisan publishers are printing eXpur-
gated editions of BalZac, FlauDert and
Gautier.
The bust of Paul Verlaine, TO be placed in
the Luxembourg VIII stand tear BauvIlle
and Munger.
The pearl OF German patriotic poetry since
1870 is Heinrich Treltscke's III ymn TO tie
Black Eagle
The widow of Lidney Lanier is meeting
Win success III her readings from her nus
bands works.
Jacon = stor's Romance ot Other Worlds
into Swedish.
1t is said of the theme of "The Damna-
ton of Theron Ware" that 1T resembles
Robert Elsmcre.'
over eU,u,0 copies of Olive schriener's
STORY Of an AFRICAN Farm have been
sold III Great Britain
The reviewers are discussing The Pa
raIySis OF German Literature" Tins is u
significant and bad sign.
Probably the only posthumous work of
II. {. Bunncr Is the forthcoming Jersey
Street aud Jersey Lane"
When Sir Walter Scott completed his
twenty lifth novel his rPauers were amdZ-
ed al his produCuveness.
Sir Walter Besant says he was offended
when young because he was not asked 10
become "a dramatic critic.
The author of Robert Crquhart'' is an
Edinburgh schoul-teaCher. He knows the
schouimaSter' : trials well.
Theauthor of Young Greer ofKentuCky"
is Il great granddaughter Of the first gov
eTnur OF the Blue Grass state.
John Brishen Walker says that maya
zine with a CIRCULATION or 3o5,UOU has Il
reading public of 100000.
The posthumous Eugene Field publica-
ton, The House not only falls below his
standard, but is downright dull.
Gladstone is punctual in answering let
tiers thai deserve it. Victor hugo possessed
the same blessed characteristic.
Gounud was literary genius rs we'll as
proved this # nothing else did.
The London Athenaeun gives first place
among all American poems 10 joaquin
Miler's The Port OF ships"
CofelHs "A Mighty Atom is selling
10y tens OF thousands ~ England. Her
utulaI adjective was prophetic
George William Curtis is referred TO as
the last OF the group OF Americans whose
ordtory has passed INTO history.
Leon Daudet, a son OF the Frcnchman of
fame, has had the audacity to make
Shakespeare the hero OF Il novel.
No one owns 10 the regeneration reply
TO Max Nordau. 1t - InlsLtd on botn
Herbert Spencer and James Bryce.
Hall CAME ana Thomas h,.uy We're
architects before they lec@uIe successful
noveli>ts. SO was Hopklnson Smith.
The first novel ever written was an
historical novel. The hero was Adam,
the heroine Eve, the villain a serpent.
The Prisoner of Zen la has led the book
sales in each city at the time during the
past season that Sothern presented the
play there.
Charles Lamb said it was Impossible TO
conceive OF any human being. however dull
failing 10 enjoy the Irish Gil Bias, Levers
Con Cregan.
Alphonsc Daudet is in Venice. When lie
read that he had received $50 900 for
SapphO, he exclaimed, What piece of
ina ginatlon
II iu Sif
has III any way distinguished himself forth
with writes his memoirs. Is Ii esotism.
Or dCqulsltlTcnes$?
Windover in Mrs. Phelps Wards "A
Singular Life is but faint disguise Of
Anuover, the New England cenlcr II con
servative theology.
Charles Lamb thought il some Comren-
satIon for growing old that he was born
in time To see the School for Scandal
with Its first cast.
The Baroness yon Eber- Esch cnbach is
not only celebrated novelist, but "a clever
Matchmaker. She has Il remarkable col
lection OF watches.
The small, cheap 16mo style OF books
continues 10 ne fashionable, an many pub
fishers are issuing some or Lleir best sell
ing books III this shape.
Charles Levers and Capt Marryatt'.
novels are beng relsSued in editions de
luxe by Il Boston firm. Richard Brirnlcy
Johnson Is euIJIng item.
a tablet has recently been affixed to
the door Of the house where Keats lived in
Hampstead. THIS tardy justice was done
by London literary folk.
HOpkinSOn Smiths Tom Grogan'' was
the first book ever bound by workmen
wearing kid gloves. The Sensitive, deli
cate process required It.
Speaking of the Comparison Of cpigram. a
Frenchman says that the Italian ,.Tts as a
napier, the Frenchman as Il cavalry sword,
the German with a club.
Howels, commenting on the growth and
permanency OF advertising. suggests .'Ad-
smith as n good word to designate those
who follow the vocation.
1t is significant that three of the most
read and admired books of spring issue
were memoirs of Mary Anderson, of Oliver
Wendell Holmes, OF BarraS.
new unnamed Scottish writer has
come ont OF the highlands. His book is
called "Redburn.'' Another red title,
mind you, for the catalogue.
b. l.. Farjeon, whose novel, "A Fair
JeweSs,' depicts the Hebrew chara cter
in It's most pleasing aspect, is himself a
Jew. He lives in England.
Some one asked Max Marden to define
the difference between genius and insanity,
and ne replied: The Iunatic is at least
sure of his board and Clothes"
In the realms of art and letters genius
is, says Coventry Patmore, in its initial
stage, perceptive reason, the rare power
of seeing self evident things.
Thackery sent a gracefully inscribed
copy OF Vanity Fair to Charlotte Bronte
Immediately on reading Jane Eyre" be-
fore he knew her sex or name.
Seventeenth and eighteenth century elias
sizes are receiving considerable attention
lately. New editions of Walton's Angler
aud Boswelfs Johnson are put forth.
Sir Arthur Sullivans full name is Arthur
Seymour sullivan. No Cnce can blame him
for dropping the middle name. 1t CbviateS
and unfortunate combination of initials.
Jacques L. Lorraine Partisan novels,
of the decadent school, has taken to the
cobbler's bench out of pure desperation
He received no income from his writing.
Coventry Patmore is described as a
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