Arizona republican., 1898-03-28
LITERARY NOTES.

LITERARY NOTES.
 The number of "Literature' which was published in New York on March 2nd contained a paper of uncommon value and interest, introducing to the public a recently discovered collection that includes many of the long-lost manuscripts which originally belonged to Lady Nelson"
 The promise is made that through the columns of Literature, the public will now at last be able to study a large number of the genuine letters of Nelson to his wife from his actual autographs; and the importance of this announcement clearly appears when we consider that. with few eX- captions. whatever passes current, in every life of the English naval hero as a genuine letter of Nelson to his wife, is nothing but travesty by the editors of the Life of Nelson from His Manuscripts issued in 1909. It is evi- dent that the discovery and publica- tion of these long-lost manuscripts is a literary event of no ordinary inn portance.
 The publishers of Literature will place at the disposal of their readers materials which may advance our knowledge and diminish our difficult ties. We shall see how far Nelson's journal of the sieges of Bastia and Calvi has been properly reported. We shall know how Nelson's letters to his wife may be both corrected and SUD- plemented, and consider, by the light of the complete originals, whether the degree of mutual affection they indi- cate agrees with Captain Mahan's judgment on that point. We shall have many more letters than before whereby to estimate Nelson's cores pondence with his wife at the time of his soiourn at the Sicilian court. and to consider how far we can hint with Nicolas and Captain Mahan at Nel- sons silence. We shall for the first time reveal letters from Nelson to his wife in 1900, the last year of their friendly relations, and we shall even be able to account for the facts that on his return to England Lady Nelson did not go to. meet her husband at Yarmouth. and Lord Nelson brought the Hami1tons to his wife's hotel in London. We shall at last be able to decide the question who made the separation of husband and wife final We shall illustrate the dignified atti- tude of Nelson's father to both par ties. We shall also show that the con. duct of Nelson's sisters in the affair was more hesitating than Captain Ma han supposess. We shall find in these old papers somewhat pathetic picture of Lady Nelson's anxiety for the good fame of her step son, Josiah Nisbet In short, the collection throws some light on the whole Nelson family. Moreover, the actual manuscripts will, it is to be hoped, put an end to much a priori argument. When we consid- CT the wretched state to which Clarke and McArthur have reduced the knowledge of Nelson's family cores pondence down to this moment. we have once more occasion to rejoice in the saying, litera scripto manet.'
 The preliminary article, from which the foregoing passage is extracted, closes with the publication Of the first manuscript in the collection, dated April IA, 17S7. The second article, in the number of Literature now cur rent, furnishes to the reader an op- portunity to compare Nelson's manu- script with the ordinary version, in manner suggesting the need of a new biography, or a thorough revision Of those that lean upon the garbled reading. The next issue of Literature will contain the third article in this series, which will deal with Nelson's autograph letters to his wife 1794- 1S96). In it will be given two letters never before published of May 30, 1794, and November 22, 1796, and one (May 20, 17S4) never before correctly published. These, with the letter giv- hn yti 1ich O are, fas as is known, the earliest let ters from Nelson to his wife even giv- en entire They are important as fur nishing evidence against Captain Ma hans theory that Nelson's affection for his wife was not sufficient to stand his long absence from her during the opening periods of the war of the French revolution.
 Harper's Round Table for April will contain "The Taking of Malaxa," an incident of the late Greco-Turkish war. by John F. Bass, war correspondent of an English paper; an article on "The Way to Build a Punt" by A. J. Kenealy; "A Ballad of Apia Bay,' by Rowan Stevens; further installment of "The Adventures" by H. B. Mar riott Watson; railroad story, "Lever No. 13," by W. s. Harwood; a Japan csc incident, s'How Tomi Wiped Out a Score" by Ida Mansfield Wilson: Training Animals for Circus Tricks" by J. Parmly Paret; "Roberto's Reb- els," by Harold Martin; "Mapa's Dia- mond," by Owen Hall; 'The Game Warden's Story" by Frank L. Pollock, and ''The Making of Golf Course" by W. G. Van Tassel Sutphen.
 The current number of Harper's Weekly contains the first half of two part story by Stephen Crane, entitled ''Death and the Child"; an important illustrated article on the strength of