The morning times., 1897-01-03
Literary Notes.

ottoh VI NSci &c LhOb.
Won Bulow's letters are shortly to be
published in London.
John KuskiD and George Meredith each
have penchant for chess.
Anthony Hope promises an actual sequel
to The Prisoner of Zenda.'
daughter of Albion Tourgee gives prom
lSe OF becoming III artist ofexCelience.
Current Literature begins the volume Of
its majority with the January number
Conan Doyle's last story bears the name
'Uncle Bcrnac; Memory of the Empire"
Barrie says his books were written TO
please one woman now dead'-his mother.
The mucl-adniired cover Of "The Quest
of the Golden Girl" Was made by Will
Bradley.
feature OF the Pail Mall Magazine, is
published in book form.
There is u crescent tendency in liter
ature relating TO the personal history OF
President Washington.
Coventry Patmore died in his seventy
third year. His portraits make him look
like Hawthorne tired out.
Stanley Weyman's new serial, "Shrews-
bury" will appear In Jerome X. Jerome's
| Idler, beginning in the February number.
The Bookman is willing to bank its
daily bread that the yellow Dwarf OF the
Yellow Book is the editor, Mr.. Henry Har-
| Iand. eE--1-
Publishers aver that never before has so
| much original and so artistic child inter-
ature been issued as in anticipation OF these
holidays.
Bjornstjer Bjornson is this winter in
Italy making up his collection OF Norwegian
| lyric poetry and songs OF the Norwegian
peasantry.
Andrew Lang's hobby is fishing and in
the humaneness OF his heart, he invariably
throws back into the water whatever he
catches.
Mr.. Barrie has promised the scribners a
sequel to Sentimental Tommy" But he
will put by some short work before begin
ming 1t.
The belief obtains that kipling took the
title of his recent volume OF poems from
his OWL verse: For the world is wondrous
large, seven seas from marSe to marge."
Anonymous in the January Bookman sa VS.:
The test OF the great artist is his power
TO deal with quiet life in the sober day
light"
Coventry Patmore's name is more inti-
mately associated with MS angel i'll the
House" than with any OF his other books.
A critic calls it domestic epic.
Francis Parkman's complete historical
| works are to be published by Little, Brown
| * Co. in the spring. The tendency To re-
| print is still upon the publishers.
"Quo Vadi>," by this sisslins and hiss
| ing Sienkiewicz, has already passed into
! its sixth edition. 1t is one OF the most
| widely read books OF the season
Southey, who had his twenty -four hours
divided off with scrupulOus exactituIe,
considered that ne had done a days work
when he had written four Quarto pages OF
| history.
Beckwith wrote ''Vathek" at one sitting,
| Johnson wrote 'Rasselas'' in less than a
week, and the whole OF Fenelon's "Tele-
| machuS'' was composed within three
months.
| Some one asked Max Nortiau to define the
! difference between genius and insanity.
| Well, said the author OF Degeneration"
the lunatic is at least sure OF his board
and clothes
| Judge Albion W Tourgec, the author of
A FOOLS Errand" and other novels. is
| living the quiet. peaceful life OF a country
! gentleman at Maryville, in Chautauq uqua
| county, n. Y.
Paul Leicester Ford, who has met success
! as novelist, but not as a dramatist, is
| represented III the current volume oTJuc At
lantic Monthly with new piece OF fiction,
| STORY of an Untold Love"
The Emperor Of Austria has conferred
| upon Queen Elizabeth, Of Roumania (Car-
| men SYLVIA, the decoration of arts and sci
| ences This is the first time the distinction
! has beeneXtendedto to u woman.
| Grant Allen has at last begun his guide
books to the greater art cities abroad. These
| little books are not intended for the ordinary
| tourist abroad, but for those who take an
| intelligent interest in what they see.
| The literary papers are indulging in q
| dispute over the authorship of the words
| of the song, Kathleen Mauyourncen." The
| late F. Nicholas Crouch claimed to have
written the words as well as the music
The Arena for the last month of the year
was fitting beginning for this elcvating
! periodicals seventeenth volume. All lovers
OF earnest endeavor and pure literature will
| wish the magazine prosperous future.
The famous De Goncourt brothers are to
| have !mitators in fraternal collaboration in
| Paul Marguerite and his brother, Victor
who will hereafter write together over the
| compound signature, Paul Victor Margue-
| rite.
Calculating that the average man spends
| fiveminutes readinghi newspaper in day,
| statiStician has discovered that the people
| OF the world altogether annually occupy
! time equivalent to 100000 years reading
| the papers.
The English comic weekly, Judy, is
| owned by Miss Lillian Debenham. She has
| made a new departure in attempting 10
| edit the paper woman as editor of an
| Intentionally humorous periodical occupies
n almost unique position.
The Chap Book is to be enlarged to the
| size of the English weekly reviews. In
| its enlarged form greater attention will be
| paid to contemporary literature. The price
will remain the same, though the quantity
| of material Will be doubled,
| Capt. Mahan's Life of Nelson" upon
| which the naval officer has been at work
| for several years, will issue from Little,
Brown Il Co.'s press early this year. 1t is
| to be published in two volumes uniform
| with his Influence of Sea Foam
| The oldest member of the French Societe
| deS Gems deS Lettres is a woman, Nine. du
| Bos d Elverz. She was born in May, 1893,
| and still writes vigorous letters to the
| newspapers from her home in Anglers. Fifty
| years ago she published number of novels.
THERE'S touch of pathos nthe statement
| that the book most frequently called for in
| the library of Sing Sing prison is Charles
| Reade's Never Too Late to Mend.'' The
| same authors PUT Youself In His Place.
holds the second place in popularity with
the inmates Of the prison.
MacauIey laid out a plan for his History
of England under which it required two
| years of solid work, and the turning over
| of hundreds Of thousands Of pamphlets
When the materials are ready he said,
''and the history mapped out on my mind,
| ought to write on an average of two of my
| pages daily"
| Louise Imogen Guirney has completed
| Il volume of short essays on disconnected
| subjects. 1t is called ''Patrins." This
| is the Romany word for handfuls of leaves
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