New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-10
LITERARY NOTES.

Strange TO say the works Of the late Profes-
Drummnnd are having a great success in
Germany. The Greatest Thing in the World"
has sold 10 the extent Of over llS.0OO.
The naval battles at Manila and Santiago re-
viviDg memories OF the contests OF our Anglo.
Saxon ancestors with Spanish armadas. lend
appos!teness to the artistic booklet issued from
the Marion Press Of jamaica Long Island.
Under the title OF 1.-TWO Poems OF Sea Fights
with Spain" Miss Mary L. Avery has brouyht
together. with an appropriate historical nae,
Mr.. Henry Newbolts recent ballad Of "Draees
Drum" and Tenny sons ballad Of The Re-
venge." Preixed is timely quotation from Sir
Walter Raleigh. showing that the Spaniardo
were as much inclined TO claim unwon victories
when dealing with Drake and Grenville as they
are when reporting battles with American fleets.
The poems are issued in numbered edition Of
one hundred and twenty copies, printed on hand
made paper. and accompanied by double page
reproduction of the painting by Seymour Lucas
OF the surrender Of Dom Pedro de Valdes to Sir
Francis Drake.
begun IN "Harper's Bazaar" is one Of New
England life. It's publication as a serial will
occupy the coming six months.
The borrowers Of books and the lenders thereof
viii be amused by the letter which the late Sir
Edward Burne-Jones wrote TO a friend who re-
turned some books loaned 10 him thirty years
/ before THE return OF these books" COM
planned the artist. has simply staggered me- 1t
has also panied me. for it seems to raise the
standard OF morality in these matters, and per.
haps TO sting the susceptible consciences Of
DOCK borrowers. have many borrowed books
Oh my shelves l would rather the owners
should die than that | should have TO think
about these things and return them | have
two costly volumes that were lent to me before
that little incident OF ours, which, you may re-
mefnbr. was III Red Lion Square. l hope the
owner is no more for l simply will not give
them up. and you have made me uneasy, and
have helped TO turn an amiabe rascal into
confirmed villain. Your afectionate NED"
Mr- Rudyard Kiplings relationship to Burne-
Jones was that Of nephew By marriage. Lady
Burne Jones was Miss Georgna Macdonald,
and one Of her sisters became Lady Pointer
ana another married Mr.. Lockwood Kipling.
the two men have been close companions Of late
at KottingG
a correspondent Of Notes and Oueries'
points out the strangcness Of the fact that two
poems so unlike IN treatment and form as
Young wight Thoughts" and Tennyson's In
Memo1am should nevertheless have both
been born OF the same moving force I'm each
case notes this correspondent, 1.-THE poet is led
by the death Of n dear friend to deal with
questions az the resurrection and life hereafter
Inc Iat" laure ate declared that his brief layS
were not 10 be
Taken TO be such as closed
Grave doubts and answers here proposed,
and 20 my mind the der-fashioned singer In
much more convincing and victorious.
The poems are almost wholly unlike yet there
IL the falntest suggestion that the later poet
was conscious OF the work OF his predecessor.
| For instance:
One writes that "Other friends remain"
That Loss is common to the race
AND common H. the conmonplace,
And vacant chan well meant for grain.
| q NJ" VI
| may have been suggested by
Yet why CON plain? or why complain FOR ono
Iidnes out the sun his lustre but for me-
The single man? are angels all beside?
mourn for millions, tbs the common lot
| . -(Nigh,,t
The great worlds altar stairs
That slope through darkness up to God
Il M" w.
Teach me. by this .tupendous scaffoldng
Creation golden steps, to climb to Thee
might, tx"
Tho bonus volume 10 be presented to sub
| scribers T. the Edinburgh edition OF r. l.
StcNcnson's work is collection OF shrcds and
/ patches Ii contains, told two poems
on lighthouses. memoir method
! OF light for lighthouses memoir the Their
| ma influence Of forests reflections and re-
! marks on human life a broken essay on the
Ideal house. and suppressed preface to The
Master OF Balantrao' and facsimes OF the
quaint little pamphlets which were issued from
the Dayos private press. one OF these little
pamphlets is called Not and other Poems"
and this - the title poem:
Some like drink
In pint pot.
some like to think.