New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-27
LITERARY NOTES.

lttoned as a powerful story and II Is 10 De pun
hished as q serial in THE Pail Mall Magazine
the nrst published biography of Dean Liddeh
N~Iludes to the old apocryphal tale that when an
error was pointed out In the famous Lexicon
lIaddell was wont to say. "Ah. yes Scott wrote
Fthat" The following authoritative anecdote was
,probabfy At the bottom OF the imaginary one;
orcs a wear at Westminster School. on the
Friday before the election TO tne I'm 81 $3.50
A. was customary for the head master 10 colhe
into a classroom carrying bowl containing
Maundy money. the little silver CONS "hun
were supplied from the Royal Mint. ne " our,
then rail- upon the boys TO gather round hiH
ond TO read epgrams upon theses announced
a few hours before These. supposed 70 De tne
hovs' own composition. were rewarded oy eII,s
of the silver pence. The very best cameo iou s
coins-a fourpenny, threepenny, twopenny ana
onepenny piece-the others were rewarded o!
less complete set Upon one occasion boy oe-
l.vered the following epigram: $500.
.oTwo men wrote a Lexicon. Lddell and scott
some parts were clever. but some parts were
not; -, .sz,.
Hear, all We learned. and read me this riddle,
How the wrong part wrote Sco''' anu ' e
part wrote Eddell"
THE audacious poet survived the venture ano
GAINED not only hearty laugh. but fun COM
n,en,ent Of pence from the head master
Mrs SCHUYLER Crownnshield. the author OF
notable book OF West Indian stories. has written
for "Lippincott'' tale Of Cuban Ire caheo
.-xarta's Inheritance" The same magazine an
.nounces the Forthcoming presentation OF Story
written by the late author OF David Harum
II was the only other piece OF fiction from MS
pen. II IL the love story or panK oHiciai' anu
Ia called The Teller"
Some OF the interesting letters Of Garrick IN
cluded in the Wright collection soon to be on
sale in London. exhibit Davy's awe-struck def
erence to "the quality" In one Of these he
writes:
have a Play now with me sent to me by my
Lord Chesterfield and wrote by one Smollett
a. is Scotch story. but it wont do. and yet rec
,omnended by his Lordship and patronisd by
Ladies' Of Quality: what can say or do: must
,belye Judgment win the name or Delng
thought impairment and disobhglng ye great
Folks? Some advise upon that Head II you
please.
To Lord Holderness the little actor wrote In
anxiety:
Prince Edward ask'd me last night who was
the Author Of We Farce. l was in great Confu-
sion at We Question because | happen'd 10 De
the Guilty person myself. But have 80 many
Enemies among the writer's on account OF my
refusing so many of their Performances Every
Year that ] am oblig'd to conceal Myself In
order TO avoid the Torrent OF abuse that their
Malice would pour upon mel thought II proper
(and / hope your Lordshp will excuse mel to
discover this lest his Royal Highness should be
angry at my not answering the Question direct
~ as ! ought TO have done.
Here is Garrick's reply to Dr.. Hoadly, in
accepting an invitation for himself and Hogarth
from the BARRIERS Shop. up two pairs Of
stairs: THE little ingenious Mr.. Garrick and
the ingenious little Hogarth will take the OPP
portunity of the plump doctors being with you,
10 HE away to the Rev Rgdum Funnidos. Old
Alresford. there to be merry facetious, mad,
and nonsensical as liberty property and old
October make 'em. Wants no kickshaws.
nothing but laugh and plum-pudding.'
Afphonse Daudet was in the opinion Of r. L.
Stevenson. incomparaby the best Of the present
French novelsts. lie Rois Exil,' the
Scotchman wrote in a letter printed IN the June
"Scribner." comes very near being master
piece. For lola have federation. though
the curious. eminently bourgeois and eminently
French creature has power of kind. But l
would he deeted. I would not give a
chapter Of old Dumas (meaning himself. not
his collaborators) for the whole boiling Of the
Zolas Romance with the smallpox-or the great
one: diseased anyway. and black hearted and
fundamentally at enmity with JOY
Mr.. Kipling finds something to object to In the
. after all when we think" says THE London
Daily News" "how the new work of to-day
is heralded by innumerabe Crummlesian para
graphs interviews and portraits. when the do
1ngs of fashionable authors are chronicled as
though they kings queens, when we
hear of the fortunes which are paid for these
same very mortal works one cannot help con-
trasting their fortunate lot with Dickenss."
He only got 1880 for "Pickwick" outright.
Messrs. Chapman and Hall. however. gave him a
third share of the copyright after the lapse of five
years, on the condition that he write another
novel on the same lines "Pickwick" This
was Nicholas Nickleby" For this book he got
$1,000. or $50 a month for twenty monthly
parts. for five years Of the copyright. after
which II reverted to him. He was editing Bent
leys Miscellany and writing "Oliver Twist
at the same time he at work "Nickleby. -
and he was also under contract TO the Bentleys
10 furnish "Barnaby Rudge."
Under such conditions were these IA
nous novels produced. And to-day Mr. Kipling
who is at the top Of the tree, is said TO get
f1OOO for one short story But no one would
be better pleased than Dickens at this ha ndsome
recognition. feel sure In the course Of his
writings he has many bitter fling at the sweat
OF literature: the sweaters and the pirates;
and he fought many battle for the BRAIN
worker.
"A Scots Grammar School" is the general title
OF series Of four short stories lately completed
by Ian Maclaren. Many OF the authors boyish
experiences are described in these stories
Henry Kingsieys most famous novel, "Geof-
frey Hamlyn." owed its existence chiefly to the
suggestion Of Rolf Bodrewood Kingsley was
leading a wandering life in Australia. and ap-
peared one evening at Bodrewoods lonely sta
ton. The latter persuaded the wanderer 10 re-
main his guest. and to begin regular work
on a novel OF Australian life.
The real McTurk Of "Stalky & Co" has been
writing in the Cambridge Magazine" about his
old schoolmate Beetle" otherwise Rudyard
Kipling. The Pail Mall Gazette" quoting from
the university periodical. says:
o.