New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-08-21
LITERARY NOTES.

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Bret Harte's story, ''Tennessee's Partner" n
said to have been suggested to the author by
the touching and beautiful friendship which
binds together two old men who have lived more
than forty years in the mountains on the route
into the Yosemite. They have a little gold mine.
which yields occasional $50. an orchard and
a garden. one Of the two has not seen San
Francisco since 1870: With all their hermitage.
however. the two old gentlemen read n great
deal and know what is going on In the outside
world.
Or. Guido Bag's book the last days Of
Shelley has been translated from its original
Italian into English and the translation viii
soon be issued in London. The author has OBJ
tanned new details from unpublished documents
and also much information from certain old
sailors Of Viaresgio, who were present at the
discovery and cremation Of Shelley's remains
and at the recovery Of the Ariel.
Louis Beck the chronicler Of the South Seas.
has written a new novel. which ht calls Ned
Prince, the Supercargo"
The volume Of verses which the late Eric
Mackay. author Of The Love Letters OF
Violin!st," was engaged in passing through the
press the time Of his death is to be pub
lished under the title OF Poems Chiefly Amor
GUS"
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book; and 1t is stated further that it is 10 lie
on the lines Of THE Gentle Art Of Making
Enemies
To gaze upon the pew Of Or. Johnson in tho
Church OF St Clement Danes in London has
been up to this time privilege FOR which no
price was demanded. Now. however it costs
shilling. and from the sums to be thus con-
tributed by literary pilgrims it is proposed TO
insert in the church "A stained glass window 10
the memory Of the sage.
The late Mrs. Lynn Linton. in spite OF her IN
Vulnerable prejudces and controversies. was
very kind soul. she was Away. says Miss Iiar-
radon most generous and broad in her apIre-
citation Of other peoples work. and very humble
about her own. And even when she did not
specially admire. she was always ready 10 help
and advise. | know she waded through endless
manuscripts. often correcting most minutely.
She spoke little o" what she did for others
that il is not generally known how kind she was
and how healthy in her manner OF helping.
Mrs Linton. who left a comfortable little fort
une willed her writing desk TO Miss Harraden.
Richard bowling the author Of much pleasant
fiction has just died in LcndOn. THE Mystery
+ Of Killard" is probably the best known. as wei
as the first Of his many novels. He was "A clever
and witty man, but not an author Of the first
rank.
A life Of Wellington. to 10 written by Sir Her
bert Maxwell NJ T.. is in contemplation. and
il is said TO he intended companion to Cap
tam Mahan's Life Of Nelson" Sir Herbert
Maxwell" says The London Globe. rs an
agreeable and accomplished writer. hu, is he a
suficicn; authority upon strategy to treat Well
ingion's campaign as Mahan has treated Nell
SOM? a better comparison for his forthcoming
book would probably he Professor Sloanes Vo-
luminous life Of Napoleon"
"Zack" tho author Of the book Life Is Life"
and who is known It home in DeV' nshire as
Miss Gwcnd lin" Keats is writing play II -
20 he hoped that II * Of nature less melancholy
than h,r stories for theatrical audiences in these
days are not :ond II the pathetic.
Alas for Tuppor Tho plump. good hunoreh
old Erglishnan has gone the way o' al So
Call,d popular" but commonplace writers. Inc
Prnv,rlial Philosophy" says the writer of an
ar,icl. IN 'Nacmillan" has long since dis
APPEARED even from tho bookstalls that II IS
difficult To- realize that forty years ago no Arneri-
can visitor thought Of leaving England without
having a pilgrimage to Alhury. The book prob
ably had larger sale than any other ISSUED
ir the nIst half of the century, not a drawing
room table hut contained copy in all me glory
of oaf and git edges. And now.-livcs there
man under h';y years Of age who has read
Martin Turpcr|'
II has been sometimes said that II was mo
sad mental state ~ his sister Dorothy that in-
spircd WordsWorth's lines. beginning
"Oh what wreck, how
Changed in mien and speech'
That these lines referred not 20 Dorothy Words.
worth hut To- poor Edith Southey Is SHOWN IN
an uuuuhlished letter To his daughter Dora.
Th.rcin Wordsworth distinctly states as Mr..
T. f. Williams tells us I'm "Blackwood.' that II
VS. Mrs Snuthcy'a melancholy cond tion that