New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-28
LITERARY NOTES.

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prince Jmnerial and he has given an interesting
portrait Of his young charge In the FIRST chapter OF
a novel Just begun In the Revue de faris. M
de Blowitz translates the passage and sends IL 10
1.-THE Times" Describing birthday cciFpraioh
Of the Prince Imperial's at Chiseihurst NOT 'ohs
after the death OF Napoleon III, NJ. Filon says;
In their midst well In advance. q youth sill slirn
tail d sr, Wash his red
The glance pure, broad and frank. OF MS ,, pIue
~ at the friendly company, dominated and EN-
braced IT. haired pers31aageii NV ~as Duke " Of
Padua. read address in the name of the conn Sad
1tss Then the FOR Prince hs family Hed words
ial and touching and simple ne Spoke F"imre Which
seemed 10 him so bright. and which God was hid,
ing behind veil And you ieit he sdr me Nothing in
this speech 80 fun of the eusion OF youth ana OF
faith When apropos of poPT miiy be uttered
these words "C'est 10 saut ct c'est lie droit| ms
voice flung out this last word Win 80 afirHma-
Vibration and an accent so energetlcaiiy ann .bo
tive that those present were startled a The a; es
Of srsussd Snd a great up
rEmpereur."
Mr. Barrie like Mr. Kiping, sometimes hnds the
personal propaganda bore. One OF the gum
has been lecuring about the author Oh '.
mental Tommy" and wrote TO him apropos Oh ms
experiences in Nottingham on the stan Oh "e N
press" of that town. Barrie repheo'
IL thank you for your letter, and wish you hau a
better subject for your lecture. ! don't know Oh
any personal article about myself that is not imagi
nary and largely erroneous But there Is le"'y
nothing to tell that would interest any one ies.
was in Nottingham for a year. and liked IL "e''
though was known to scarce any one II W" 80
met an uncouth stranger wandering In the DARK
around the castle. ten or twelve years aso' ms
appearance unmpressive, a book IN each poche''
and his thoughts three hundred miles due hor'"'
II might have been the subject OF your lecture
This extract recalls to an English commentator
another anecdote Of Barrie's personal history i
am always at Thrums,' he once said' except "heh
the papers say am"
Mr.. F. G.. Kitton the bibliograph ical high priest
of Dickens Is preparing volume OF wars ana
strays by the novelist which are almost tota"y
unknown. Tho book entitled TO be fead a'
Dusk" will include stories. essays ana ar',c!es.
There are to be two editions, one English ana the
other American. with such differences that Dickens
ties will want to possess both.
In the October "Scribner' there are some divert
Ing notes on THE Business of a Newspaper Inc
author Mr. J. L. Steffens who IS himself a news
manor man. is disposed 10 regard great journal
as being something In the nature Of factory lie
has the warrant Of experts In this matter he
quotes 1.-The executive heads OF some twoscore OF
> the great newspapers In America" as speaking OF
their papers as factories" According to MI Stef-
fons the newspaper OF to-day is managed just as
banking concern manufacturing plant Is
managed He is outspoken as TO the effect or all
this upon the traditional significance OF the editor
in-chef. He says:
newspaper is turning journalism upside down.
There are still great editors whose PERSONALITIES td,a
the number of them has not increased with the null
pGaon of % ay ano eofh he
of detail that has accumulated under ard about
has business capacities he is attracted downstairs
to the countingroom. If he is deficient In executive
ability he mas to engage man who has 1t. and the
requirements such that the business manager.
If At. is likely t. have peTSonay OF ms own 30
property and the profits and the policy Ihen TOO
the old editors die Their heirs seldom dom Il, inaeT nan
c.al manager to maintain 1t for the income he can
poS fse PRICE IS SIS high that business
have become capitalists in other businesses not
Common mode of transition heretofore. however,
has been through the news department The ex-
fnent OF modern Journalism. till now the news SER
vice is tremendous piece or machinery; Inc man an
dom puts pen to paper, He may have been writer:
to his place because OF his executive ability not
because his style was good. Having to do so much
stinct which is merely sense Of market, it was
natural that he should Tescn out IRON 1ho
One anecdote told by Mr.. SteHens gives de-
lghtfu notion of the way which your sensational
editor looks at his business. New-York 'circu-
la,ion manager was lauding sensationaiism to an
extreme when a protest checked him.
alsm don't mean extra sensatonasm."
Extra sensationalism? What do you by
that?'
I'll give you example One day as was look
ing the cases article that told how
crack safe. kicked to the proprietor about II,
and ne killed IT, The article would have tendency
to teach something immoral, and call that extra
sensationalism."
Apropos of journalism. the English papers
full ~ a he Ia ard
Hutton whose death the other day deprived The
Spectator" Of the man who had been It's chief
editor for thirty years. We call these notices
curious. because Mr.. Huttons conduct Of The
Spectator such TO win the praises of
Englishmen, IL not of foreigners and nine Of the
writer's out o. ten. setting forth his obituary
to have a lurking feeling that they must have ad-
mred him. But II has been the fashion TO patron
ize THE Spectator" Of late years. to find its con-
servatism stupid in the light of such reckless radi-
calism as 1.-THE Saturday" has chosen recently TO
exploit-and the press is timd. Fearful of seeming
oid-fogeyfed. Mr.. Huttons critics admit his ability.
but protest that he was dull. AS matter Of fact,
ho was a cautious editor but this does mean
that he obtuse On the contrary. THE Spec
tator" under his management. Of the
most suggestive. most helpful and most reasonable
Journals in England. 1t might be slow 10 appre-
ciate Mr.. Kipng and precipitate In It's eulogum
OF Mr.. William Watson, but its views political
and kindred questions invariably and
vigorously expressed.
Mr.. Hutton had CROCHET. To young
trlbutor he once wrote: "Our articles cannot be
much over two columns-say one hundred and sixty
lines, or sixteen hundred words. Now (such is the
barrenness OF English speech in sixteen hun
bred words only two distinct points can be
brought out with any vivacity and crispness. and
vivacity and crispness of the Of effect
i've newspaper writing" 1t Is true that. in spite OF
this theory OF his. THE Spectator is neither crisp
nor vvacious. On the other hand 1t is sound. it
is readable and. perhaps best OF ALL IT Is nvaria
bly, in good taste. "The Spectator" is paper for
gentlemen. IL ever there was
complete edition OF the Bah Ballads" is
In preparation. The Messrs. Rutledge will publish
hook which Will be laXishly emhe llshed with