New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-15
LITERARY NOTES.


he brought out by Longnans. Green q 20. u''ue'
~. title Of THE Albany Edition VI the
.,,a,v. volumes promired. two are now READY.
- .o,.,o, 20 70 be printed from new small
Mica TYNE upon specially made "antique-"o'e
rao, large crown octave volume VIII
contain specially prepared portrait Inc
.y,,.. ,,,,u occunv ak OF the volumes An
edition de luxe Of $50 copies will contain 'h'i'S
-, .xtra portraits making forty-eight IN all
The original draft Of the charter OF Ne"-i orN
IN mentioned as being among the manusc' .'''
sold by sotheb by. Wilkinson g. Hodge III No"u''
last month.
The August number OF The century 40 "
loo, WITH vartous interesting features OF the
war Cuba az seen from the inside Is 70 'o
aascr,bed nv Mr. Osgood Welsh. an American
-.,oa. arou,er there Mr. F. A. Ober, late com
missioner OF the Columbian Exposition FOR PORTO
d. nos nrenared q paper on that island; there
80 90 no three articles about the Philippines
nanar giving the impressions OF the artist
uo,ter RUSSELL. who was with the fleet OFT Cuoa
awning tho earlv naval events Of the war anu
~ article on the sanitation Of Havana oy
sureeon-General Sternberg. Mrs schuyler
crowninsbield is to contribute Spanish-Amer'-
oar story entitled "Sangre de Cristo
"IIer Memory" the new novel oy MIA .7
Martens is the story Of a widower ana MS
daughter The opening chapters show the 'iNiu
nrssentation Of character which mas give"
strength TO this authors previous movers
Martens by the way is at his best IN io'e
noyel-his short stories are not nearly rs sun
cessful.
A monument TO Sainte- Beuve has been raised
IN Paris But Il is not the literary proiessloi
which has honored the great French crl'lc 'h'e
memorial is the tribute OF group or PHYSICIANS
xho r?bered that he hogan He as '"eu'
cal student He has been dead thirty years anu
until q fortnight ago had no monument
The English schoolboys who coaXed sprlgn'-
" letter for their little magazine from MT MP
ling have found their account in 1t. There Is
4 craze among collectors for this authors "ork'
and the number Of the tiny publication IN which
the letter appeared sells at a little less
than 81 so a copy.
A story OF school life by Mr. Kipling is to ap-
near IN the August number OF "McClures Maya
,,re" II brings back t. the surface the anus
Ing bows who appeared IN his former story.
"slaves Of the Lamp"
NJ, Richie tells us IN her Introduction 10
~pendennis. how Laura Bell came to receive
her name and whose face II was from whlch
rhackeray drew that Of Pen. I'm those days
writes the great novclist's daughter. there
was little girl living in Brighton. charming
uttle girl with dark eyes and curly brown hair'
and have often heard the story how she came
running into the room and said her name was
Laura and how my father then and there MADE
her godnother TO his new heroine. She was
shs Youngest Of the three daughters Of Horace
Hrn,th Of the Rejected Addresses. Little Laura
married Mr. John Round. and died still young
still dark-eyed. gay and charming
Nor must forget to mention visitor who
used to come TO Kensngton In the very early
aays Of Pendenns. He rather short.
rood-looking young man, with fair placid fare'
II was summer time and dined at some early
hour; and one day after dinner. by daylight
,till. my father pulled out his sketchbook and
began to make a drawing Of his guest This
was a young literary man Just beginning his
career. his name was Charles Lamb Kenny.
and we were told that he was to be the hero OF
Inc new book. or rather that the hero was 10
box like Mr.. Kenny
Some heretofore unpublished fragments from
r L. stevenson's unfinished treatise on morals
md conduct are printed in The London Out
ook" One Of these relates his own change
rom idleness to industry:
I remember a time when was very Idle; and
lved and profted by that humor. l have no
dea why ceased to be So yet scarce beheVe
/ have the power to return TO II: II Is change
" age I made consciously thousand little
tfYorts but the determination from which these
rose came to me while slept and IN the way
u growth I have had a thousand skirrnishes
70 keep myself at work upon particular morn
ngs. and sometimes the affair was hot; but
II that great change Of campaign which de-
dded all this part Of my life and turned me
rom one whose business was 10 shirk into
whose business TO strive and persevere--it
Ieems as though all that had been done by
ZONE one else. The life Of Goethe affected me:
10 did that Of Balzac. and some very noble re-
marks by the latter in a pretty bad book The
sousine Bette" dare say l could trace some
rher influences in the change All ] mean is,
hat / never conscious Of a struggle, nor
registered a vow. seemingly had anything
personally TO 40 with the matter. ] came about
ike we-handled ship There stood at the
Wheel that unknown steersman call God.
In commenting upon NJ. Hughes lie Roux's
lew book Nos Files" the Paris correspondent
II THE London Academy" says: only more as
onshing than the persistence with which men
write treatises upon women's characters. weak
iesses and fashions is the patience with which
women for centuries and centuries always re-
.eve these exhortations. Yet what a howl Of
1dicule and vexation would arise from mascu
ine ranks II any woman TO dare comment
n an entire volume devoted to the subject
ne weaknesses and absurdties Of men"
Mr. Andrew Lang is moved 10 say In AT the
Hgn Of the Ship" some amiabe things about
popular poets'-"who are not really poets at
VI" he admits. but who express blameess emo
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IDEAS which are or easily might be. his own.
n language rather better than that in which he
ould clothe them Most generations have their
,oat ~ ocats ~ tbia amia HE Their works