New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-30


The latest writer to deal with him Is MT ha"''"
Garland.
Sentimental Tommy" has gone into its forty
third ediion-why!
Mr. Thomas Nelson Page has tried his hand on
long novel-one which deals OF course. WIN ~. "
the sou,b-eoually. Of course. with "the ola faHh
tics II * amusing 10 note that the nsistence on
tho so-callod aristocra;ic element in the South -
AS emphatic and as provincial among
writers now as It was in the Gays beiore '"e w.
rben every hero of It's very weak fiction was an
elegant cavalier" and every heroine h's"-po''
beautiful and accomplished The hu-hluA ma.
,vu, an,eor II is said In Mr. Pages story ana
will perhaps size an element OF more s''e,'e'"
than the old families. however cha'niins' ~.d
been accustomed 10 impart. rms novel
ped Rock a Chronicle Of Reconstruction MI
page regards as his best work. 1t Is TO ne pun
ushed "a q serial In "Scrbner's Magazine
NJ rohr / stoddard's lectures on European
trovc, are always well attended. we DeH''', o.
their merits do not seem 20 run any rish % 100
forgotten bat apparently ne and MS puD'' rta.
relford Mlddebrook Co.. think other"se' my
have projected an edition OF them when - ~ "
complete In ten volumes. The hrst OF 'Ne'e ,
i,st aDueared with a note announcing '"a' '' =
is to give the Identical discourses delivered uui"s
~ ,'s, eighteen wears. Mr. Stoddards text is
Itch, IN texture but II conveys a good oeai u
incarnation and the style is amusing VI '.
more the present work is richly ilus'r"'e" VIZ"
nrst-rate photographic plates we are "U. suI.
but that the enterprise. lacking as 1t - III "' .
significance will nevertheless give pleasure ~
1orv readers The books form panorama OF
Europe. and as SUCH they have value
Here is suggestive note from The Literary
World" Of London: ,
..orv Is being circulated that when bro~hi ni
NC ~ he helsht Of his fame he omitted iroin is
jncome,ax rotGrn any account OF REVENUE fror the
Ivani Revenue once calod TO point out me oil,is
sion ne merely asserted that t.e ,re SroTn that
ocuarier unfortunately year Is ment,onea anu
/, may happened that IN me ,bere should
there was nothing 10 pay; nut sun 'he tn. s1orv
have been an average OF three years me ,o 5 hear
ie almost incredible and we shoul1 IKE 10 "e"'
Is d. nrowning's publisher has say about It,
NJ x,,,n- 10 one OF the most industrious OF
workers as well a genius Besides ms STORY %
"A Clouded Tiger" promised FOR the Oh,'s'""9
ru,,har q. .'McClure's." he has contributed some
stories to "scribner's" and has written the late'y
announced Jus. SO" tales for 'St. Nichoas ana
all this prose is puncuated by poems Qua".nS
proyes nothlng-bu; consider the spienoid quahS
Of this mans work. white Horses is the tue
~ the poem he has given to Literature Ceceiv-
ing 81 a line therefore. Il is reported); ana MS
CHRISTMAS poem for "Scribner." described as the
song Of the human longing for the Wilderness Is
called THE Feet OF the Young Men
French
,esse de Martel-has made so much money by her
writings that she has been able to buy back her
fathers ancestral home. the Chateau de Miraoeau'
and is now living there.
THE London Spectator Is somewhat pessimistic
as TO authorship and publishing nowadays, as
serting that 'it is becoming principally trade IN
names" 1t says
Any Of the dozen wel.-estabshed noyel.sts can
sell MS work years before line or IL is written.
a - d
thousand words at much per thousand Notnlns
is specied as TO the quality OF the article: there
must he mercy so many thousand words. wAch can
be sold l. the world as authentic John SnIth VI
Number of good articles which they contain. but by
the parade OF familiar names on me t.Ilepage ana
they neither fidelity nor attachment Inc tn
pm9sel 81 Win he can pfasca " transfer with
him from one publication and one pupsner 10 an a..
self on men now not on periodicals; the Individual
wakes and the magazine is less and less mere
thor should have any more feeling for the periodicai
IN which his work m h nan OF me cn
in Bonds So long as here are S1 re Sy them
; % sell o ns T or The 10
good many pnans have been sung over the in
fh5rshp om S Si1 dreS reation between author
and public. We old-fashione1 enough to doub;
by no means convinced that authors are better OF
than they were No man has ever earnea so m NUN
are, even moderately f'rtunate as Hog aS who
certainly did not come up TO MS expectations
The forthcoming volume OF Victor Hugos letters
will contain most Of the epis;les written by him
during his exile. I; is doubtful If they have any
unprecedented charm Everything | WRITE he
once said to Jules Claretie, may be published, as
everything say may be repeated"
testimony to the vitality OF Matthew Arnod's
criticism appears under the head Of Selections
from the Prose Writings OF Matthew Arnold" by
Professor Lewis f. Gates. Of Harvard. OF the
selections may say that they are really repre-
sentative and present many Of the most stmulat-
ing elements In the mans work OF the long In
PRODUCTION 1t is possible to speak with equal ap-
prevail Professor Gates loves his author. but Is
100 good a critic himself overlook his defects.
hence the analysis Of his gifts is instructive as well
as eulogistc. Bringing mis- admirable essay TO a
close, Professor Gates says:
Because Of this faith of his in submated worldly
with The 'Zeitgeist' Of a democratic age. And, IN.
deed, here seems to rest Arnolds really most per
with some sadness, 1t is true. and we, genuinely
p bias and It's worldly preoccupaiions; humanist as
Il he IS haf-rnmanc lover or an elder time he yet
masters his regret over what is disappearing and
I welcomes the present Loyalty Believing, however
IN the continuity Of human experience and above
all in the transcendent worth to mankind OF rs
spiritual acquisitions. won largely through the past
domination OF Christian idea $. he devotes him;
self TO preserving the qUintessence of this ideal
life of former generations and insnuating 1t into
the hearts and imagina ions or men or ruder
age. He converts himself into patient. cour-
ageous mediator between the old and the new
Herein he contrasts with Newman the one
hand, and with the modern devotees OF asce,icsm
on the other hand. Arnold takes lifC
as il offers itself and does his best with it. IlC
sees and feels its crudeness and disorder ness; but
no has faith IN the Instincts hat civilized mer
have dove oped In common and finds IN the work
ing Of these Instincts the continuous. II irregular
realization OF the Ideal.
Matthew Arnold continued In his work as In
spector OF schools the traditions Of Arnold of Rug
by applying his fathers Ideas. at any rate ~ not
all of his methods The latter occupy much Of tn,
attention OF educational students to-day. Only
few weeks ago we had occasion 10 speak of Mr.
Fndlay's admirable monograph on DR.. Thoma.