New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-24

ha ,o,da tho moor leg feel much better. And
after that seem to see the pretty room
my aunts-fu Of people. | conclude that
all the people staying in the house must
have come to vis; the small sufferer. Ana
ont Of the mist of faces distinguish. most dis
tinctlv that of Mr. Marcus Stonc-a great friend or
mine in those days-as he stood at the foot or the
bed contemplating me with the deepest sympathy
The unfortunate little leg was long time getting
well-at least suppose II was long tme-iiiu
.Venerablcs' was the only person in whose treat
nent OF 1t | felt any confidence. remember how
,,onnv | was when his absence for n few days
loft T. TO the care of the kindest and NEST loving OF
aunts."
rho ACCOMMODATING drawing OF 'Venerables" rep
ros.nts him as he was when he gave his reading III
tbs countrywith tho slight difference that he de-
lighted Americans with Il much larger ana moro
startling watchchain and lockots.
...n rho,koravs In India is the title OF forth
coming work which will interest the wise lovers OF
"W NJ T." There Is. ny the way. glimpse OF the
rovellst's stcpfa,hcr Major Carmichael-Smyth. IN
Mrs st.els new novel. ION the Face OF the
Waters. .
This story Of the great Mutny. it should be said
a. o,e Of the notable books of the year. The Mac
uian have been forced b. delays in press to post
ronc tne pub, cation of their American edition for
week.
TIA. Matthew Arnold not always the image
OF austcrity which people Ike TO think him Is
amusincly proved Nv ~ anecdote when mas Just
seen the light IN the English Journals A. schooi
irsnector he was examining a class in geography
one day and holding up the poker with when he
was abou, TO stir the fire. he asked ''if any child
could fell him where 1t was manufactured There
r,,s long silence broken by the schoolmistress,
who rom rked ncrvously that such information was
not mentioned I'm cornwers Geography. NO.
eoid Arnold, "Cornwcrs an ass
=, ..Contributor'' to the February Atlantic Of
fcrs an cndearfng picture of Tennyson drawing his
wife in an invalids chair uo Freshwater Cliff i
,s,,eved hin, for short time" says the visitor.
..but though did not hetray myself. found the
effort A tremendous one. lie was. however. "A very
strongly built mar. There was something mfinitcy
touching IN the sight Of this great poetic my nina
thc third greatest Of our race. after ShaH'spedrc
ard MiI,on-fulalns thus the homelier Offices of
oniuca, affection. Although for those Few weeks
| was with the Tcnnysons on roofing almost Oh
intimacy I never saw either Of them again. One
evening ut Macmillan's when was in the drawing
room some one told rae q think IT was MT hushes'
that Tcnnyson had come. but that ne was III Il very
had humor would not leave the anteroom ard
seemed determined to con'rauic' '!"'"S'
STAYED where was!
rh,s uritsr mentioning the poets anxiety TO I've
occuro,e says: His intimate friend George Ven
ables told me That Tennyson had once come to him
in high dudseon at having been served with wrt
for debt which he did not really owe. Nenabies
aa,sed him what TO do and his advice was justified
Ia. rho event But several years after he found I'm
one of Tennyson's poems reference to writ en-
bodving the very terms of the one which had been
served upon him. the form Of which had I'm the
mean time been superseded Ncnables said he must
have carried the terms OF the writ In his memory.
"a no was not 1t all likely to have preserved H. for
no WAS living at the time in lodgings with as few
impedimenta possible
Mr. w f. Norris has in his later years become
ore of the most industrious OF stcry-tcIlers So
constant is the flow OF his books from the press
thai the reader looks up from the last page OF one
to see the fresh title page OF another. The new
conner. brought 10y the Applctons. is called
..Marietta's Marriage
Mr. Norris's novels are prc-emnertly those OF IA
man OF culture" They are all readable but Mat
rimony" the hrst one. he has never cqualicd.
Mr. George Gissing has completed new novel,
but il will no, be published until the spring. IL Is
entitled The Whirlpool"
Professor Moses colt Ty,er's wcll-known history
OF Colonial American literature IS TO be followed by
another work which f. I'm the hands OF the Put
mans and will appear In two volumes. II Ia
entitled THE Literary History Of the American
lions Series" there is TO b., lifc of Grant by
Iieutenan 60 lonei William q. Church. and one OF
Robert T.. Lee by Professor Henry a. White. The