New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-28
LITERARY NOTES.

| An Irish Anthology. on the plan OF Mr..
Wards English Poets" will be brought out in
the autumn.
William Morris, We told. once began a
story OF Roman life the other side Of The
| House OF the Wolfings," but abandoned 1t In dis
gust. He left six completed poems-"Troy
poems'-whch have never appeared in print
save In the form Of extracts in Mr.. Mackaips
| biography OF their author.
The statement that Queen Natalie OF servia
! Is writing a novel founded upon the story of her
persecution has been deliberately and indlg.
| nantly contradicted.
The writer known as Fiona Macleod deeply
resehtS the guesses as 10 her personality. She
has addressed this note to her publishers: II am
much annoyed at this continued Identification Of
myself with this or that man or woman of letters
IN one or TWO instances With people whom
nave never seen and do not even know by corre-
srondence. For what seem to myself not ONLY
good, but imperative private reasons I wish to
preserve absolutely my privacy 1t is not only
mat temperamentally shrink from and dislike
the publicity Of reputation but that my very
| writing depends upon this privacy 80
But IN one respect, TO satisfy those who will
not De content TO take or leave to read or ignore.
my writings, give you authority to say definite
~ that Fiona Macleod is not any OF those with
whom She has been identified: that she writes
only under the name Of Fiona Macleod; that Der
courtesy both Of good breeding and common
sense-a courtesy which is the right Of ALL and
surely imperatively of woman acting by and
for herself"
Here is another outrageous piece Of pandering
TO vulgar curiosity: Victor Hugo's loye-letter5
TO ms betrothed are about to be published ia
Paris. These were in the form OF little notes
slipped quietly into the young lady's hand dur
ing visits which gave the lovers no opportunity
for private speech Celebrities in the next cen
fury VIII either cease to write letters or take
care that all the.r correspondence is DESTROYED
after the recipient has perused.!t.
Theodore Revan. the cur who has the title oart
In Beatrice barradens new novel, The
fow I Is SAID 10 be a real person living in
LONDON. rms statement will surprise the re-
viewers who have pronounced the character i'm
possible
There in the Yves, two railway staiions
named "kipling" and one "Rudyard" This n
NOT unpleasant. manifestation of the fame
Whlcn hnds its WOES; phase for Mr. Kiplirg in
t q! prosecutions Of me autograph-hunters Il
is said that no other living man has prOba Div
been 50 pestered for autographs. The height OF
exasperation was reached when the author re-
firing one day to nis bathroom discovered a nil
grim lying in wait Tor him there.
NapoleOn's little efforts as a writer OF romance
are pleasantly recalled by The Saturday Pc
view. His first attempt, made in 1888, is but
history Horace Walpole had opened in 1853 A
subscription for a Corsican patriot immured in
debtors prison in London. Napoleon sketches
an imaginary correspondence IL ends Tins.
| Milford Theodore-You. suffer and are un-
fortunate. Two claims quite sufficient to elicit
the pity Of an Englishmen. Come out OF your
dungeon and receive 5000 francs pension for
subsistence Napoleon all his life was an
Anglomaniac manque. At this time Paoli was
living in the best society in London on a pen
sion from the Crown. Is it wonderful that to
M Drp
Use?
We find the love of Corsica and admiration
for England united in much longer romance
written in 1913 or 1tS9 Ii Is headed "NOuyelle
Corse." 1t purports To be written by an English
traveller who finds himself on the small island
or Gorgona His tent IS set on fire at night and
he himself narrowly escapes destruction. The
author Of the mischief is a Corsioan maiden who
would avenge the wrongs of her country OH
the supposed Frenchman When her father
"veillard vertueuX." appears on the scene he
conducts the traveller into the he inhabits
and addresses him thus: "SOis benvenu. Angl ais.
Vous regne2 lei La vertu a lie droit d6tre
veneree en- tous lieux." The English are virtu-
Gus. the French "hommes brutaux." les
ams des mechants." The old man has sworn "On
his altar" never to pardon a Frenchman. There
is no denouement to this savage little story. The
virtuous Englishman does not marry the Cors-
can girl or do anything except listen to the old
mans abuse of the French, but in spite OF the
extravaganza OF the language, there is evident
sincerity in every word
We find two other sketches for novels writ
ten before this, neither of them founded on
Corsican subjects. The first has an English
plot 1t is strange how the young BOnaparteS
fancy plays round things English, The hero -
the Earl of Essex. who, along with les l)rds
Russell ct Sidney animes par ramOur commuu
de Ia patrie conspirerent contre. Charles IL ~
frere le Due dYork." Sidney is described AZ
"un de ces patriotes inhexibes qu'anime le
genie DIES Brutus. des Thraseas" This Is quite
in the approved style of revolutionary el)-
quence. The Countess hears in her sleep cries
OF 'Ieane BetZie chere Jeaue - and. later on.