New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-20
LITERARY NOTES.

mont with very good grace. and gave his pub !
lie the impression that. haVint, made his pa per
all that he was well able to make IL. he stopped |
modestly and spared that public the excess OF
nonsense which, with the best Will in the world, |
IL was i'll prepared to stand But ne has thought !
wei to invaiidatc the effect OF his graceful exit
ny publishing what he chooses TO call The Ep- |
Lark The very title speaks of n rather cheap
wit. and the text in this number protests too
much For example: And so these pages may,
perhaps. have something, of the verify of life. II
the theme has been sincere and spontaneous and
iaithtui 10 an honest motive. played as clearly as
We could flute it-not without discords and false
notes-for the eye Of youth oft wanders from
the score-this phase OF life may fall in with the
deeper truths and find it's place in the symphony.
Never book had happier title and if we
were ourselves in some doubt as to the double |
meaning Of the name. The Iarks' flight has |
progressed now through Il measurable SO
was spoken in The Lark's' jest Its appoint |
ed office was to refresh and gladden.. to pipe the
flowers afeld. This is the mood that cannot be
forced ana Wheh the pace Tags ana tho thoughts
stray inward must have done with Maying
and be about the worlds work"
This is all very well. and it is nice of MT Bur
CESS and his colleagues to so busting about. do
ing the worlds work; but venture to think
theless been forced in The Epi-Lark' if not in
The Lark Having come to a conclusion. it
would have been well If these young editors had |
been content TO conclude. But alas! their sense
Of humor is not quite so keen it might be. and
h@y n that they have not taken
valedctory that they have taken themselves
very seriously indeed. Unwilling TO leave The |
Lark to make its own record, they want to set
| the record forth for us in cold type and to con-
/ q
pretty thing. indeed. The saccharne and tor
tured prose which was amusing up to a certain
point is Il bore when ii is rubbed inland The
Epi-Lark' rubs it in.
Miss Grace DEMO IAtchfeld. who left very
pleasant impression some years ago with her
knight OF the Black Forest" has written a
novel Of life I'm Washington. II Is called In the
Crucibe." ara will be published this summer by
the Putnams.
The sequel to tho Prisoner of Zenda." which
was mentioned in this place not long ago. is to
be published in "McClure's Magazine" beginning
stable OF Zenda'
! Probably thousands Of travellers who have
taken the southern route to Europe have had
of Gibraltar out of the Mediterranean. Probably
just az many thousands have wondered where
they could turn to find an adequate account OF
the great fortress. They will be pleased to hear
that Miss Mary Anderson-not the Miss Ander
titled Tales OF the Rock" which deals with
some of the episodes in the history of Gibraltar.
Whether it is TO be at all n comprehensive work
! or not is as yet unannounced. but presumably ii
! will fill agreeable half-hour for the tourist
who passes the fort on his way to the Riviera
For some time the photographers in London
could not make their minds whether Fiona
Macleod was actually the person she called her
self or not 1t was gradually becoming an ac-
cepted fact that the name was pseudonymc and
| Mr.. William Sharp Mr.. w. b. Yeats and other
were a, VARIOUS f '1me s to be the
But IT turns out that Fiona Macleod is really
down for the benefit Of those who have been in
| the pangs of doubt.
Vernon Lee. the very critical and somew hat
affected writer on themes relating to the Italian
Renaissance, is soon to publish new book n
titled Limbo, and Other Essays"
There is something depressing about the per
sstence of high prices in matters relating to the
late William Morris. The book about him entitled
The Art of William Morris which the Bells
have been publishing in a limited edition of DO
copies. is already disposed OF to the last copy.
The edition brought the pretty price of eight
Suineas n copy. BY the time any of these reach
the outside public, they will probably be worth"
anywhere from ten to fifteen guneas, and just
why any should want TO pay that amount
OF money for a book Of the sort it is difficult to
comprehend
Mr. +. Marion rawford. who has before this
given public readings from his novels. is next
winter to branch out into n new field He is
the same time reading from his novels.
Ouda's latest book is said to deal with the
problem OF social equality. 1t is entitled THE
Altruist."
There is to be a new collected edition of the
novels of Lord Lytton. and of course there will
be no end Of fine writing about his woful errors
AS a matter of fact, the new edition will be well
come, for IL there is any one thing than
another which the reader of I-ytton can always
| he Of iS hal he will no dahl