New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-20
LITERARY NOTES.

besn issued appealing for subscriptions. rms ca,
cular announces that the memorial Is 10 an
shane OF n statue bust or medaiiion VIII" aN0'
architectural or sculpturesque accompaniment -
NAV be desirable" TO subscribers OF >iV anu W
,,srd there will be cont by the American COMM
toe az a memorial Of participation in the unu,
taking a special edition. printed LOT t"e Uo"i.'. n
zoe NJ Stevenson's "Aes TripeX, oeariils ''e ~"
ecrber.s name and having as its frontisplece
n-oduction OF the portrait by John . Ha'se"' 49,
Charles FarchIld No IS Union Square, Is '7
chairman OF The committee, and VIII recei,e o.
s~riptlons sendnga receipt. the o'her n'en.' ~
the American Cchmittee are Henry NJ A'or -.
7 Rurlngame Beverly Chew. Char4es d.
Jeanette L. Glider. Richard Watson uAoe'' I'm 1",u
crce King Gustav Z. Kissel John La FARCE " u"
y Low. James Macarthur. S. S. Mcclure, Ausus'us s
s, Sau6ens. Charles scrbner. j. Kennedy 4ou anu
George T.. Wari'g
According TO the prospectus Of the next num De.
y, .vcc,ure's Magazine" the genius OF Edison mas
made another striking advance. and the inVen'oI
long list OF magical appliances mas receNeu an .u
nortant addition. The magazine Is 10 contain d i
ac.ount Of this latest achievement, which appears
IN have TO do with the steel industry. h-o'So" ~
Invented machinery which digs up the ear
dup,ns II into hopper grinds the contents OF inc
home into powder and then. by magnetic a''rs'-
ton. picks out all the iron ore IN the mass
Tho author Of THE Baby's Grandmother, one OF
the rrettiest and cleverest OF modern leii'','e nv"
els has written , new book which Is coming OUT
soon 1t IS to beer the title OF ivy hilua'e'
The new international periodical, Literature
which is 10 be started this month, is 20 nave d
weekly letter on American literary topics. Mr. Oar
re,t Wendell Of Harvard. IS TO write H.
Pre-, Har.e declares that his favorite novel rs
.The Count of Monte Cristo' it Is he thinks
ho
perfect one. In "Munsey's Magazine ne sas'
But Monte Criso' is romance. and as am Ipi1.
of a very antiquated type. am niormeo ~ he
srs pTt Tesd t Rn 'nS' se IN all It's sGTd
rial aspecs relieved only by occasional eAcu,
into ne eOmsp and 0 ypes D that e
study Of mankind is man as ne Is an hD 20 do
that IN him when the first pard the fa" rs story
teller interested him n accents counts o OF hne Pat
beasts and eT win us1 bsn en e comes home
from the city and taxes up noOk i, me % his own
sres care has 10 reSG s Jones' reshened herself for
his coming by seeking transcript or neI OWL ov u
s eye, S Ssy h IN the Sesn fsd ten q
their commonplace surroundings ann nndaavor
Wropgs redressed and faith rewarded and are m
ensd to look little more 0r to e Mrs sG
eissis
Another testimony to the truth Of the opinions
set forth by Mr.. Harte is borne by critic writing
IN "Blackwood.' The general public ne assefts.
must always be regarded as an overgrowh chiiu' -
will invariably give the preference to the genuine
etorv-tellcr over the arrogant pantologist whose
profound erudition and exhaustive analysis VIII
mostly be reckcned a poor substitute FOR the 'a'e
ne dlsdains to give This sage adviser continues
such IS h0sS Se aoa 'S yet
uarty after nearly thirty years OF neraig
a an yruent abuse have BEEN
him than upon any oahe aoa u be o corrnpter
Of his ase which his enemies have declared nm 10
be- yet because Of his being sgns the o com
pleely new French literature as VIII e9 Ja
i renans To-Day s What he was nearly quarter Of
century ago-a public fsvoIite-but for the simple
an age when the art OF storytelling has consider
ably fallen into oblivion
Vernon Lee In her most rocco mood Is a singu
larry divevting writer. though not. perhaps. IN
way that she herself intends. Here at any rate,
for what It IS worth. we give her description in
1.-THE Fortnightly' Of those decorations by John
Sargent in the Boston Public Library which form
an Impressive though battling landmark In the his
tory OF mural painting in America
one OF the rising, gradually vaultcd sides OF the
sreh is ed up by wonderf Collar OF cowbes
and with terrible white empty eyes. lie Is being
carried in paanquin on cushion OF crushed Pee
I The R%snq%R Is a'q S
red gold 1t is being carried by black Egyptian hg-
golden. spearke rays with little gold hands at the
sn pr ro Of srrs asSh human which go Willing
about his head except the black oh silent eaTIers
tightening and roaripg. But the ~, Bull sit sits sesPIy
and that snsshns and roaring Of gold hons
the An tG b s rnS ow
down. beneath the Bulls palanquin the dreadful
bird, slowly. silently. escapes.
There is something mul-colored and gorgeous
and herophantic about this. There Is something
funny, also. Mr.. sargent's apocalyptic bull, sleep
fly sleeky fatty implacably crushing the worlds
inhabitants into Jam is figure to stir ones
sense Of the comic.
The Putnams announce novel by Anna
Katharine Green. whose ingenuity is unfaggng.
She goes on undaunted frora one problem Of de
tectye literature" to another. Her new book bears
the suggestive title Of Lost Mans Lane.
Edward Maitland, who is remembered oftener as
q "come-outer' than ns the author OF THE Pill
grim and the Shrine and other novels. has just
died "The Atheneum." noting the occurrence,
adds:
He was the SCR o. a Brighton clergyman. and was
ensd al but Ss Views hsnsa He
spent time in Mexico. in California during the
reSn deSoied TO lie On
OF fine feeling ard much Intellectual power,
but he lacked balance. and gave way TO various
whims He gradually relinqushed the society OF
his former friends. became vegetarian, and
finally devised. alonx with Mrs. Anna Kingsford.
whose life ne afterward wrote. new and strange
religion.
Hawthorne once wrote letter about the
Pyncheon family. which vii! be found In the new
edition Of 1.-The House OF the Seven Cables
Mr. Robert Bell. writing in "The New Illustrated
Magazine" Justly observes that Il you ask nine
men out OF ten who Joe Miller was they will tell
you he was a kumorist an6 ar author The fact Is
that he never saw Joe Mer's Jest-Booh."
Furthermore, The famous epitaph In which ne IS
described as "a facetious companion is pretty we'll