The times., 1898-05-22
LITERARY NOTES.

| The latest pamphlet of the Half Moon
series is entitled Bowling Green,' and
is by Spencer Trask. Mr.. Trask says that
/ this little park Is the one historic spot in
/ New York which has never lost it's iden-
tity been diverted from public use
since the foundation of the city. 1t Is
| probable that the trade for Manhattan
| Island was made on this identical piece
of ground. A quaint city ordinance which
Is quoted a little further on runs as fol-
| lows:
| As it is found that the hogs which kept
within this city in multitudes along the public
1 Streets have from time to time committed great
| damage the eastern fortihcations and that
the most certainly TO be expected In
| like manner here on the erected works, everyone
who keeps hogs within this city is there crdered
and charged to take that their hogs shall
| not come to, in on, the Bulwarks, Bastions,
/ Gardens or Batteries.
| The vicissitudes of Bowling Green arc
recounted in a brief and interesting way,
and the essay closes with the information
that this little tract of land is now the
| geographical center of the metropolis.
| The Chautauquan gives an exposition
of caste distinctions in the Island of
| Cuba which throws some light upon the
| present situation. 1T says:
Spaniard was born in Spain. His son, who
| was born in Cuba, is not Spaniard, but Cuban.
| If Cuban should go to Madrid when he is two
weeks old, and spend all his life In the palace,
| he would still be Cuban, and not quite as good
| as Spanard. If a Spaniard should go 10 Ha-
vana when he is two weeks old, and si'enl all
! his life in that city or upon plantation he
would still be Spaniard, and enjoy tlistinc-
tion and social position which Cuban can never
attain The SONS and daughters OF Spaliatd are
Cubans il they born in Cuba; but the sons
/ a
/ must always be Cubans matter il they were
| born in Madrid, and spend their whole nTes in
| that city. No Cuban ever become Srsn-
lard, no matter what happens 10 him. and from
the Spanish point OF view he is a degenerate
! 1t is reported from Italy that H. G.
Wells, author of 1.-THE War Of the
Worlds" is seriously i'll at Civita Vecchia.
The Arena, that searcher into worlds
unseen, has found an anecdote of a canny
old Scotchman, which IS worth recount
! ing. A small boy in the Sunday school
| asked on being told of Jacobs ladder,
whether all angels had wings. He was
/ told they did. "Then," said the young
ster, whit did they want to be climbin'
up and doom the ladder for?" The old
| teacher responded with a twinkle in his
eye, "Weel, weeI. my laddie, it's gey
like the angels We're on the pouk' (moult-
| ing)
The literary supplement of the New
York Times contains an article about the
| Spanish Armada. in which it is mentioned
that the medals struck in that year read
as to the Armada. 1T came. it saw, and
it fed"
Harper's Magazine for July vii have an
article on "A Century OF Cuban Diplo-
macy" by Albert Bushnell Hart pro-
| fessor of history al Harvard University.
| The country in general is beginning TO
| feel that it has had quite enough of the
! Harvard professors, but Prof. Hart takes
the refreshing view that the attitude of
| the United States has been constantly
| characterized by forbearance and d lack
of territorial ambition rare among na-
| tions.
Somebody has been hunting Baedeker
for information about the Spaniard and
finds this:
Watch out when change IS given you for fAlse
coins are by no means uncommon. Even railway
officials viii sometimes Try 70 take advantage Of
the unSuspect1ng stranger by passing base money
mingled with good
And this:
Refrain from expressing an opinion on religious
or political questions The national pride Of the
| Spanard and his ignorance OF foreign conditions
render collision in such cases almost inevitable
new book by Robert W. Chambers.
author of "A King and a Few Dukes
The King in Yellow etc, IS entitled
The Haunts of Men,.
THE Literary Review IS a Monthly
News Journal of Bellies Lettres accord
ing to its cover. On the left-hand col
umn of certain page IN the April num-
| Der appears the remark:
thinking, serious literarus Ito use Mr.. Chap
mans word writing for thinking serious read
ers, should overcome that insidious solecism gen
orally considered as a cheap mark oi-the-beast,
namely, 'and who"
On the right hand column Of the same
page is found this:
The book contains, among some fugitive pieces
hardly worth collection and which we feel Dick
ems himself would have been the last TO wish
preserved.
Why. o thinking. serious Hteratus, do
you condemn and who" while tolerating
and which?' Why, o why, should
such a difference be 'twixt tweedledum
and tweedledee?
Animal Intelligence is the title of a
book by Wesley Mills, announced for
early publication by the Macmillan Com
pany. The author was In 1887 president
OF the Society for the Study of Compare
tive Psychology in England. and it is
from the standpoint of the Comparative
Psychologist that the present volume is
written.
"The Book of Ruth and the Book of
Esther are published by R. H Russell
for VIII Bradley, and the volume is said
to be an excellent piece of work It is
set in Satanich type, and in this case II IS
most important not to leave off the final
letter in "Satanich."
A new book by Morgan Robertson, au-
thor of Spun Yarn" Is soon to appear
The book is Mr.. Robertson's first long
story, and is called "Futility''
McClures Magazine for June will be
special war number, with articles by
General Miles and General Fitzhugh Lee;
an account of the first cruise of the block
aiding feet off Cuba, written by Mr.. Ste
phen Bonsal, who was on the flagship
New York; description of the marching
of the volunteers, by William Allen
White; some Songs of the Ships Of
Steel" by James Barnes: an Americans
account of his life in Manila and some
other timely articles. McClure's Maga-
zine always did make a particular point
of being up to date and ii is not going to
abandon the custom because of the war
Captain Alfred T. Mahan has written
paper for the June number of the Cen
tury on the causes OF the failure Of the
Spanish armada.
E. P. Dutton & Co. will shortly publish
novel by Willis Boyd Allen, entitled
Navy Blue" which will deal with life
In the United States NAVY and at the