New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-09

these facts has not caused him TO i've his life
along conventional lines.
Lord Derby sent him a Magistrate to Fiji
Three years later he held a Government position
I'm British New-Guinea. In 1890 he went TO Tonga
in the Southern Pacific. on A mission from the
British Government, and there as official adviser
to the native King, he obtained the material for
THE Diversions OF Prime Minister" In all
these official experiences he has kept his eye on
the native with peculiar interest and sympathy,
and no one, not even Stevenson, has written 20
we'll Of the islanders of the South Seas Three
years ago his South Sea Yarns attracted Ct.
tention, and recently a number Of sketches In
THE New Review have renewed the charm which
he first brought to contemporary fiction He
counts to-day more or less as one OF Mr.. Henleys
men, but his originality has well withstood the
seductive influence Of that masterfu editor, and
his books take place by themselves. A new
collection OF stories by him is soon TO be pub
lished
New fiction continues to pour from the presses a.
the summer season-the season OF novel-reading-
advances on It's way The Harpers announce Hell
fer Sartain and Other Stories" by Mr.. John Fox,
tr; .Leonora Of the Yawmish," by Francis Dana,
end THE Loyal Traitor" by James Barnes. Hough.
ton Mifflin & Co. will publish The Burglar Who
Moved Paradise" Mr.. Herbert ID. Wards sequel to
Elizabeth Stuart Pheps's well-known stories. An
Old Maids Paradise" and Burglars In Paradise"
by H. G. Wells, and the Appletons announce q
new novel by Mr.. Hamn Garland, entitled Way
side Cour;shps" Mr.. Aliens new story, blythe
way which is reviewed in another column, has al.
ready gone into a second edition.
Mr. Kiplings new poem OF THE Vampire" was
written for picture by Mr.. Philip Burne-Jones
representing young man overcome by beautiful
but malignant woman. The poem was printed IN
the catalogue Of the exhibition, but has also been
printed in "The Daily Mail" from which we get
via THE Saturday Review" the following fras'
ment:
fool there was and he made his prayer
To rag and bone and hank SO, Of hair r.,
But the fool he called her MS iaoy ia'r RS
Even as you ana ~
Oh. the years we waste and the tears We waste
And the work Of our head and han6
belong to the woman who did not know 80
land now we know that she never couiu hhoU
And die not understand.
A fool there was. and his goods he spent
Even you and ID
A ImIf It wasn't the least what the lady meanth
But fool must follow his natural bent
Gwen as you and ID
Oh. the toll we lost and the spoil we lost
And the excellent things We planned
Belong to the woman who didn't know why
(And now know that she never knew why)
And did not understand.
More than one announcement comes to hand
in relation the literary ventures OF Mark Twain.
To begin with, 1t appears that he intended 70
dedicate TO his wife his Personal Recolectons
Of Joan Of Arc. but owing to his absence from the
country at the time the work was published 10
book form the detail omitted. In future edi'
lions OF the book leaf will appear bearing the
following lines ITO my wife, Olivia Langooh
Clemens this book is rendered on our wedding
anniversary In grateful recognition OF her twenty
five years OF valued service as my literary ao'
wiser and editor. The Author"
The American Publishing Company. OF Hartford,
makes 1t known that it will bring out next fall
n new book by Mr.. Clemens on his travels In
Australia India and South Africa. He Is now
finishing the volume, which is said to be IN the
style Of "Innocents Abroad and CONCERNING
which the author himself says: 81 am more than
satisfied with 1t these latter days / wouldnt
trade 1t for any book have ever written and
en- not an easy person to please" The same nm
has In press a new uniform edition OF Mark
Twains writings. which will include all the BOOKS
now published by the Harpers. This new edl'
ton Is to be printed from plates. and VIII
be copously illustrated
The literary agent can be very useful ind'
yidual we suppose il Mr.. Watts reputation is any
criterion, but the claims Of a firm which has re-
Gently sent its circular seem 10 stretch credehS
very far. I'VE seek and develop" says this clrcV'
lar Latent talent, inspire confidence, and COM
things at reasonable rates. With short poem
submitted to the magicians for preparation for the
press there should go the modest sum OF % Genus
A manuscript not exceeding three thousand worus
Is looked after for dcar and for "each aoas
tional thousand words. fraction OF the same,
the sum OF 20 cents is levied. Beautiful ana toueh
ing scheme. The amateurs and novices aspiring
TO literary art or Journalism TO whom II Is u
fered ought to feel that Parnassus lwith Steam
heat electric light and an eevator) Is within reach
at last.
Every one knows that Lord Disraehs famous
nrst speech In the Commons was noisily inter.
rupted Dozens OF writers and other interes'su
c,ossa tors have sought to find out how the sentens
was 70 end In Sir NJ T.. Grant Duf's receh'u
published Diary he tells how when p'srae" 10" s
got as far as when the hurried HUDSON ru'" ~.
through tAe chambers OF the Vatican. WIN "'
KEYS OF Peter In one hand. and he was ih'e'
rupted People have wondered what HUDSON 10" .
I'm his other hand. The latest commentator We
this 10 say; Hudson was ~ Kings messehs
lie was In pursuit OF Sir Robert Peel win -
from the King summoning Peel to form 800,
ment I submit that the sentence whi'h p 80.
left unfinished should end thus Ana 'ne ~ -,
letter In the other. or as Disraeh m's"' "' ,hs
II. the magic mssive of his sovereign III w.
other"
Mr. ~ H. Chamberlain. whose "Autoo'osI"p
OF New-England Farmhouse Is ta'''aD -. new
will publish through De Wolfe Fiske ~ us
book entitled samuel Sewall ana 'ne w. tho
r,,..A In which will throw much hgh' Y" ~
s",,a, NO n, New England in the seventeenth ''"
| fury.
Professor skeat is about to publish 'n'Vu '.,. 10
Macmillan Company supplementary vou", vss
his monumental edition Of chaueer, ]". .n,itled
brought out In 1894 The new pV'. - contain
.ChaucerIan and other Pieces" ana Is on.,red
,nmsrou. fragments that have hitherto sppeA hut
in aup.nd,ces to other editions OF the p0's sAtN
which professor skeat has coliAseo . s".
.r.-' rhers viii also b some new mAsss~s