The morning times., 1897-01-10
Literary Notes.

Victor Hugo was deist, a sort Of Emerso-
nian transcendcntalist.
"A Fountain Seal is the name of Sir
Walter Besant's last romance.
The family of theIate John Briehtare con-
sdering the selection OF his biographer
Turner's house in Twickenham is for
sale. 1t was called SaudiCombe Lodge.
Austin Dobson is at present engaged
upon careful revision OF his Memoir OF
Hogarth.'
John Lane promises new story by
Netta Syrett, the ambitious, ''Nobody's
Fault"
1t is said that there are one thousand per
sons engaged in literature in the United
States.
The secretary of the French Academy of
Immortals has salary of IL, 1000 francs
year.
Harold Frederic thinks that Gladstone
does little more than fuss about in the
library"
a copy of Walton's Angler sold in
London recently for SLIGO. 1t was print
ed in 1858.
alysis, but he is still obliged TO work with
mis- left hand.
Wilson Barretts great religious romance.
The Sign of the Cross, is founded upon
| his play of that name.
The perusal of the first volume of Victor
| IIuso's letters seems to have -occasioned
some disappointment.
A prominent publisher said recently
| his firm retains only about 3 out of every
| 500 manuscripts submitted
| Gladstone has an autographed copy of
Hannah More's sacred Dramas" which
| she presented TO him in 1915
A wealthy American recently visited
| Whistler's studio and insisted on buying
| every piece OF finished work.
Prof. Palgrave of Golden Treasury fame
| has been preparing an anthology OF land
scape poets from Homer to TennysOn.
| The took output for last year has not
| yet been computed, but in 1895 there was
| 3, 5S1 new looks and 935 new editions.
| His recent defeat for a seat in the Acad-
| emy of ImtnOrtals has not moved Zola
| from his resolution TO continue a candi-
| date.
| The leading feature of the January num-
ber of the Outlook is the first nstallment of
Justin McCarthy's STORY or MRdstone' IS
| Life" rrpET
Gerald DuMaurier says that his father
| wIote himself more definitely into Pc
ter Ibbetson'' than into any other OF his
| looks.
The original edition of Gray's ''Elegy,"
| which was published in 1851 for sixpencc,
mounted from $3.50, in 1858, to S3I0, in
1898.
No Americans have yet subscribed to
the Sam Hughes Memorial Fund. The
memorial viii be a rfe-size statue of the
| author.
Zangwill Eotes that the success of ''sen-
| tinental Tom N.Y. indicates that sus-
Yain Gill
appreciation.
william Watson proposes to repeat his
purple East sonnets and his other poems
on the Armenian question under the title
1.-The Y ear of Shame
KipIing pronounces Mrs. Steele's ION the
Face OF the Waters the best story of the
Indian mutiny ever written It will be
published this spring.
Herbert Spencer believes that wise
man changes his mind. and has omitted
from later editions OF his works certain
passages written years ago.
1t is said that c. +. Raimond, the mys
ter ous author of the much discussed BE
low the Salt is Mrs. CrackanthOrpe
mother OF the late misanthrope.
The st. James Gazette is authority for
the announcement that Queen Victoria viii
| dictate and revise a biography of herself &
| appear in the course OF the present year.
The editor OF the Critic and his Lon
don correspondents seem 90 be some
what at skies and sevens in their apprc
citation OF the late Hubert CrackanthOTpe
The magnitude OF the work. and not th'
| famHy's objection to the publication q
| certain portions, has caused the delay II
| the publication OF the life Of Lord Tcnuy
| son.
What feature of the Galy paper is mos
interesting TO women This usSiton wa
pIopounded recently 20 It's feminine reader
by London journal, and the first hal
dozen topics which led the list were these
roiitics. literature, art and scienees, ,leadin
articles, births. deaths and maria ges. LoI
Co7 correspondence.