New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-03
LITERARY NOTES.

Tho present Lord Tennyson is engaged. II IS
said on a work which will probably occupy him
two or three years He is writing number or
additional notes To his fathers poems, ara VIII
include in them much fresh Information.
Il IS excellent testimony TO the accuracy u
Tennyson's dialect that when The Northern
Farmer was recited to some neghbOring farm
ers IN a rustic home in Holderness II was not
only greatly enjoyed. but thoroughly under
stood by them One said: Dang It. that caps
ovt. Now. sur is that print? Because II II ne
III buy tho book cost what II may
Miss Mary WiIk!ns's novel "Madelon"-one OF
her least successful efforts. by the way-has
been dramatized by an Englishman' the HON
Stephen COleridge
volume OF The Nature Poems or George
Meredith" illustrated with twenty full-page
drawings by Mr.. W. Hyde. Is coming out in
London pocket edition of Mr.. Meredths
selected Poems is also announced.
We are glad to note that Mr.. Mackenzie Bell
contradicts the report that he intends 10 write
a. memoir Of the late Jean Ingelow This excel
lent lady but unmportant poet would nave
been the first to deprecate the preparation or
volume so unnecessary.
Some Later Poems is TO be the title or the
forthcoming volume Of Mr.. Bret Harte's recent
verse.
Mrs T. B. Walford the author Of The Bahys
Grandmother" has written a new novel when
she calls The Intruders" II will appear hrs'
n serial.
Mr. W F. Prideaux, writing IT. Notes ana
Queries" remarks with regret upon the TACT
that Dr. Adds Wright did not include in MS
collected edition Of Edward FitzGeralds WORKS
the latters charming little biography Oh MS
father -in-law Bernard Barton. In the ART Oh
depicting character FitzGerald was past mas
ter" Mr. Prideaux says and with truth ana
there are few more perfect pieces or EhSIlsh
prose than those in which he describes MS olu
friend the Quaker poet" Here Is a snort pas
sage
Rut nowhere was he more amiabe than in
Sumo NJ those humber meetings-about the hre
IN the keeping room at Christmas. or under me
walnut tree in summer. He had his cheertuI
remembrances with the old. a playful Woru loI
the voung-especially with children-Whom ne
loved and was loved by. Or on some summer
afternoon. perhaps. ut the little inn on lhe
heath or by the riverside. or when, ailel d
nleasant picnic on the seashOre we drltted
honleward up the river. while the breeze uie9
away at sunset. and the heron a. last a oza
over which the tide was momentarlly eh'r""o"-
ing
Knows "r,story OF the Reformation in Scot
land" has been Transcribed into modern speli1ng
bv Mr. c. J. Guthrie and will be published in
this form by the Blacks
A cory Of the first edition. printed at Lahore
Of Mr.. Kipling's Departmental Ditties was
sold In London the other day for 500
7, e denied that Mr. W Churchill, in his
amusing novel The Celebrity. INTENDED 7"
draw any person known by name 10 the world
His publishers declare that the hero OF the DOCK
is nothing more nor less than skl1uIE Drawn
character with elements in its composition "hich
might easily belong to any man. and add that
'it is hardly fair TO the author or 10 MS sup
posed victims 10 assist so publicly ana 50 as
siduously in fitting the FOOLS cap.
A hook on Dante at Ravenna" dealing with
the less-known part Of the poets life. is coming
out in London. It's author is Miss Catherine NJ.
Phillimore.
We hear from Paris that the novel whose
publication It's author. Alphonse Daudet did not
live 10 see IS dull and heavy" II is possible
or course that the American reader will not
agree with this Judgment. He has found that
the average Partisan critic Of the period is not
infallible.
The ninth volume Of Mr.. Paul L Ford's edi-
ton OF the Writings Of Thomas Jefferson IS
coming from the Putnam press The tenth vol
une will complete the set.
OF the six volumes Of DIT Kings Life and
Correspondence' Of his grandfather. Rufus
King. four have been published. and the fifth
is nearly ready for publication by the Put
mans II was originally intended 10 complete
the work IN five volumes. but the mass OF ma
terjal which accumulated demanded an add
tional volume.
That entertaining work The Courtships OF
Queen Elizabeth" IS TO be published in q new
and popular edition by the Macmillan Company.
The correspondence OF Victor Hugo. Of which
there appears to be no end. is to be condensed
by his executors. who are meeting In fars the
same sort Of protest 10 which The Tribune had
already given utterance. Hereafter selections
from his letters will be made, the Hood being
thus somewhat crcumscribed. Already since
his death ten large volumes or posthumous
works have been published. and the weary re-
viewer Is ready to echo the moan OF the Eng
ushman that "a new book by Victor Hugo
might we'll become an annual phenomenon
heral ding the summer sostice.
In the latest volume Of Hugo's letters there
is one particularly interesting TO the American
to-day It Is addressed TO the Revolutionary
Connn,ittee Of Porto Rico. and congratulates ts
members on their foundation Of republic,
"Spain out OF America" he says. That must
ha the great aim and that the great duty for
American citizens Cuba free! l applaud all