New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-09
LITERARY NOTES.
The Harpers now announce dennite oa,e ,of ,' IN,
appearance OF Nansen's "Farthest No''"' - WIZ
be published on March 10.

be published on March 49,
Mrs. Rose Hawthorne Lathrop's Memories OF
Hawthorne formed an interesting anu N""ao'o
feature Of the Atlantic Monthly wheh INC!
running through that periodical ana u 10 So w
hear that they are TO be brought out immeoa'e.s
in book form. Houghton. Mihiin q CO. are Tue ~
fishers Mrs. Lathrop's recoiecuohs e'..i M
fathers life In Salem. Lenox ard CONCORD, hs oo"
eulate at Liverpool and the years OF trave !"
and Italy They conclude with the last wears VI 'e
novelist's life In Concord from lSoo 10 i0'' Z" "'"
portal, will frontispiece
The novels of Hcnryk Sienkiewicz have had con-
siderable vogue in this country ever since ."e'' ~
appearance in English. Recently the surfing quar-
ties Of "Ouo Vadis" the latest novel from MS P"
translated by Mr. Curtin. have revived interest IN MS
personaIity One who has known him all MS 'ie
give. some revealing notes his origin ana career
He is descended from one OF the odes' anu noo.s'
families In IIthuania. He was educated al warsaw
and In his youth became known as conlT'ou'o' W
the journals OF Poland. These carry e"or's W.
stories ard sketches of peasant lie Later nc ~.
came editor Of a review In St Petersburs' ou' IL
was no; until years after he TOOK inns po'
that an incident occurred which introduced MI" "
the world at large In 1871 a coterie OF "e"'hio""
polish musicians and writers conceived a sche'ae
stunilar to our own Brook Farm. It's OBJECT now
ever was to establish Utopia for Pohsh genius u"
America. The plan ardently discussed IN raiiS'
where lived at that time Kaixt de "olski' "ine'
whose travels in the United States had decideu 'he
founders in their search for site for their colony
De Woski himself discouraged the attempt but the
more ardent spirits prevailed. and In the end ABOUT
q dozen of the original number sailed from Havre'
Among them were Sicnkiewlcz. Count Bozenta Chia-
ponski and his wife. Helena Modjeska
The exiles settled near Los Angeles. in California
calling their colony Anna 1uni AS usual poe''!
and art proved unsubsantal foundations for a
hn az INN
directly il served an end different from that
(which the founders had had in view. Pecuniary
losses led Nine Modteska TO study her first Eng
iIsh role. She appeared in San Francisco in an
English version OF "Adrienne Lecouvreur. Inc
failure Of the Utopia also brought Senkiew!cz Into
wider notice. on his return to Europe his Ameri-
can sketches adapted and translated for the Revue
des Deux Mondes" were read and approved by the
Paris,ans. making a name for him before the pub
1icat,on of with Fire and Sword and It's cele-
brated successors.
The private life of sienklewicz mas been unevent-
full His wife, a Lithuanian lady of rank died
young leaving him with two beautiful children. In
the latter and in foreign travel the novelist mas
his pleasures He spends the winter months al
Warsaw where he is editor Of more than ore jour
nal. In one of them the "k-ag all MS ro-
mances have appeared. AS fast the feuiiletons
are published, tr,nslations are brought out IN
Vienna and Berlin. Until recently these have been
signed with nom dc plu ne. "Liwos. During
the summer Senkiewicz lives AT his villa. on the
coast Of Brittany. Some OF his most powerful tales
are of the half-savaSe Bretons and their wlid'
picturesque country. rich in legend ana romance.
Readers Of QUO Vadis" VII not be surprised 10
hear that Italy stands next to Brittany in the
noyelist's affections. He is between !orty-fve
and fifty years old, tall. dgnlGed in carriage and
with delightful manners. He IS calm. reserved. but
sympathetic He IS Polish 10 his hnger-tips with
the wit artistic taste and pride characteristic of his
i,,fiT al Ell i-
ous clingng lovingly the past. AS a talker he
- intellectual, and earnest, he likes TO associate
with men OF letters and he takes keen Interest IN
ecaence but Of late years he has not Deeh seen
much In general society. Thus he is Described ny
one who has been intimately associated with MIN
for many years.
Mr. William H. Rideng has on the press Of 7. Y.
xrowell & Co a new edition of his volume entitled
1.-THE Boyhood Of Famous Authors" 1t Will be OF
special interest through its inclusion OF TWO new
chapters on Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard
Kipling and Of fac-simile of a letter three pages
long by James Russell Lowell.
Apropos OF Stevenson. letter may be reprinted
here which he wrote TO DR.. Blackwell, of New-Iea-
land on hearing from that gentleman an anecdote
OF a boy at the Antipodes. The lad when asked II
he had read Treasure Island replied: Every boy 5
read Treasure Island I've read /; four times. DR..
Blackwell wrote TO Stevenson that he must be more
than human if he could not be touched by this COM
pliment and then 10 caution him against
the danger Of overwork. The novelist replied under
date Of August :. 1894, writing from Naima:
Dear Dr. Bakewell am not more than human.
am more human than is wholly convenient. and
your anecdote welcome. What you say about
WAYS present with me- and yet not easy to give its
due weight to- You grow gradually into certain
same sense Of restriction as before when you pain
fully scraped two hundred year together. you find
ing' far larger sum and this expense can only be
supported by certain production However am
Off work this month, and occupy myself instead in
wedding my cacao. papa chases ana the like may
tell you my average OF Tork IN sv0raSe crcnm
o'clock till il at latest Isle: least and often TIL -
quite destroyed. as you may perceive to-day-to a
really unusual extent. can sometimes write de-
arms ali stung from three hours work In the
The soul Of the lover Of sublime POETRY" may bt
lifted UP, Yea, greatly may ne rejoice! In this
month Of March. in this year OF 1897, firm Of Lon
don publishers Is moving heaven and earth 10 make
the world happy. They. the publishers. have per
euaded Sir Lewis Morris. the poet" to make one
volume selection from his works The selection will
be Representative, Of course, and II Will be pub
lished at popular price" And from China t.
Peru from Little Pedngton to the Roof of th'
World JOY will be wild, rampant and uncontrolla
BILE.
Mr.. Lawrence Hutton continues indefatigaby t.
give US his compact little surveys OF the world-re
nowned shrines OF authorship and his lates; book
Literary Landmarks Of Rome" Glarper Bros) 4
no less instructive and companionable than its prede
cessors. Mr. Hutton knows how TO tell his story witt
Just the fulness and just the reticence which vii
make the traveller desire to hunt out the land
marks" himself. with this volume in hand We not
especially the lucdty and accuracy of this cicerone
His enthusiasm for the literature and romance o
subject does not ma Ike him forget be Dractical
The book is inscribed 10 Mr.. Stedman in peculiar,
fehci,ous line The next thing for Mr.. Hutton to d.
Is to write handbook TO the "Lteray Landmark
of America" He would do the work we'll
Olive Schreiner's new book. Trooper Peter Hake
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