New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-17

prise and Wordsworth asked for an explana-
ton. 1T is" answered Keats. because he
destroyed the poetry of the rainbow by reduc-
ing It to a PRISM And the artists all drank
with one consent. confusion to the savant.
A scientific edition OF the works OF Russian
authors in chronological succession has been
undertaken by the Imperial Academy OF Sci
ence 81. Petersburg The department OF the
Russian Language and Literature is in charge
Of the scheme. A biographical sketch Of each
author Will be included in the works
Surprise has been expressed that the Ashburn-
ham First Folio Shakespeare brought only
81 925 at the recent sale. 1t was supposed that
not less than $4,000 would be realized from Il.
The reason given is that after It was catalogued
two or three small blemlshes were discovered.
which were thought 70 detract from It's value.
ITO SIT in a laundry and read Tho Grandis-
sines-that is the quickest way OF reaching the
strange city OF New-Orleans." go writes Mr..
Barrie in his preface to the new edition OF Mr..
Cables story Then he goes on to say:
Once upon time. however l took the other
route. drawn TO the adventure by love OF Mr..
Ca bles stories and before ! knew my way
about the St Charles Hotel mot, as MT CaDle
would explain. the ST. Charles Of DR. Sewer, Dut
its sucoessor), while the mosquitoes and l were
still looking at each other before beginning
several delightful Creole ladies had called TO
warn me. Against what? Against believing
MI Gable. They came slngly-none knew OF the
visits OF others-but they had heard what
brought me there; Ike ghosts they stole In and
told their tale and then like ghosts they stole
away. The tale was that Mr.. Gable misrepre-
scented them CreOles not and never were
'rIke that" especially the ladies' l sighed. or
would have sighed had not been so pleased.
! said l supposed II must be so: no ladies' IN
o1ilfRf ma
Creole ladies' Of Mr. Cables imagination, which
seemed 10 perpex them. They seemed 70 be
easily perplexed and one. half think. wanted
70 be q man for an hour or two Just 10 see now
those ladies would impress her then. But by
the time she reganed the French quarter she
was probably sure that she had convinced me-
And she had-they all did. one after the other
That the sweet Creoles who haunt these beaHti-
fui pages were not always ghosts but al
ways ghost-ke. They come into the book Ike
timid children fascinated by the hand held out
TO them yet ready TO fly. and even when
they seem most real. they are still out OF touch
you feel that II you were 10 go one step nearer
they would vanish away. Such is the impress
sion they leave in all Mr.. Cables books.
The "Blackwood" critic has severe
things to say about the young literary lions
Of Great Britain. and some Of these things are
true There is ono development Of the adver-
Using mania" he says, ITO which we feel con-
strained particularly TO advert. Certain men OF
letters II would seem, band themselves into
societies under some striking name-such as the
Bohemian Bounders or the Haiti Bahia Club
the capital object OF whose existence Ia after
dinner speaking To dine twice thrice
a year for the purpose Of making speeches
which are to be reported more or less faithfully
and fully is form OF amusement that has
never hitherto commended itself TO men or
women Of sense. To Judge from the authorized
he ha have famous times The
speakers eytol one another with amazing fuency
and well-anected gusto We are una bic 10
perceive what good effect such clubs and such
gatherings can possibly produce upon anybody.
Their practical result is the exaltation Of the
busybody and the getting UP OF addresses In
honor Of some foreign or domestic curiosity. In
truth. the authors and authoresses Of England
are rapidly becoming as great nuisance col
lectively as the mothers Of England used to
make themselves half a century ago"
Mr.. William lie Queux. IN his new novel OF
literary London called "Scribes and Pharisees,"
describes various personages who seem to JUS
tify the "Blsckwood" mans savage paragraphs,
One OF these personages is Mr.. Monckton. a
"well-known reviewer.
Everybody in that room knew Monckton, the
round-faced young man with yellow hair. which
the special admiration Of the ladies' he
by any means, but that little circle OF boom
eIs" the dozen friends who push each
other into notoriety by means OF advertisement
had admitted him to their set year ago, and
now his name ~Jas known throughout the length
and the b. th Of the land. Indeed, with his
burly personality. his usannerisrns and his gu
perior speech, he was fair specimen OF the
literary product OF the present age; man VINO
by writing little Indifferent fiction and crit-
scholarly air had forced people to believe in his
capabilities. True, he had published a book or
two. but they had only been remarkable FOR the
extraordinary merit which his friends alone dis
covered in them. Whenever he published
book, the reviews were more Mandatory than
those OF a collection by the Laureate and when
ever he spoke at public dinners. the morning
papers would invariably appear with the head
line Mr.. MoncktOn on Fiction as II he were
recognized authority. Monckton's case was
one OF many. BY writing a tiny humorous
brochure, in which the wit was extremely pain
full and the story bordered upon the absurd. he
had been hailed as a coming man. Nowadays
we have in London many such coming men.
Monckton had arrived. and was now partaking
OF the baked meats Of popularity. He was a
shining light. too. OF club. the Boomers which
his friends had started for mutual admiration.
and for the purpose OF advertisement. a club Of
pseudo popular writers. whose doir gs and say
ings always impress the ignorant public This
select cotorie Of log rollers. who dired once or
twice a year and heralded their dinners by many
preliminary pun paragraphs. always made
point Of inviting important editors. because the
latter would boom" them In return for their
Invitation to the seven d-sixpenny dinner.
A strange little world is literary London. How
little the public know OF 1t. Notwithstanding the
literary gossip" Of every newspaper.
NJ Gennadius is writing life of Gladstone In
Greek. The book is 10 have special reference
70 the Englishman's action in the affairs OF
Greece and the Dast.
Herr Won Boehm- Bawerk's volume in confuta-
ton Of the theories Of Karl Marx has Just been
brought out in English In London The writer
Of an interesting notice in THE Saturday Re
view" notes that most Socialists take their Marx
very much on trust. He adds:
Mr.. George Bernard Shaw once told US that