New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-21
the sense OF literature II was perhaps more than
that without being In any wise historic"

american taste in fiction" says THE London
Globe" sometimes comedies with English and
ss often disagrees. In the case Of 'Trilby,' both
nations read the book but America worshipped
It We did not In the case OF The Forest
Lovers both nations are reading 1t with about
equal interest America read Sienkiewiczs Quo
Vadis' until II was dizzy here few persons would
look at t. Sienkiewicz s a Pole. but America
does not necessarily run TO foreigners for enter
tainment II is at the present moment enthusi-
astically reading two works by native authors
Mr. Hopkinson Smiths Caleb West and Mr.
Paul Leicester Ford's Story of an Untold Love
Neither book is in real demand here
What ought to be the most amusing Of the
Memoirs of the period OF the Second Empire are
being set down by the pen OF Princess Meter
nich-that Austrian princess whose husband was
Ambassador to the Court Of Louis Napoleon,
and who was one OF the cleverest and most
piquant women OF that Court. She was one of
the uglest. too. but so quaint and vivacious In
her ugliness that she almost pretty.
Mr.. Louis Becke. the author OF some or the
most striking of modern tales of the South Seas,
is not an author by education and premedta-
ton He himself declares that he took to writ
ing simply because he was starving When he
returned to Sydney after his last trading voyage
in these tropic he suffering from
rheumatic fever. and his ship sailed without
him. He found work at clearing scrub" at $40
an acre. When he discovered that the scrub
consisted of huge trees a friend offered him an
humble berth on THE Sydney Bulletin" and. to
use his own expression 1.-THE other chaps ran
my grammar for me-
There is an amiably drawn picture Of the wife
OF Charles Dickens in the lately published
biography OF Henry Morley. 1t is in letter
written by Professor Morley himself Literary
people" he declares. do not marry learned
ladies. Dickens has made evidently a COM
Portable choice Mrs. Dickens is stout with
round. very round. rather pretty. very pleasant
face and ringlets on each side Of 1t. One sees
in five minutes that she loves her husband and
her children and has a warm heart for any
body who won't be satirical, but meet her on
her own good -natured footing We were capital
friends at once and had abundant talk together
She meant to know me. and once. after little
talk when she went to receive new guest, she
came back to And when I had moved off 10
chatter somewhere else Aftervard when I
talking French politics IN sofa, she came
and sat down by me, and thereupon we ratified
away and liked her, and felt that she liked
me and that could be good friends together
and that she would like you very much. You
will be Just according to her own heart. and will
like each other in FIVE minutes"
Mr. John Morley has just passed his sixtieth
birthday It is said of him that while he is in
no way the austere man Of tradition. he is not
rich in amusements II is added that he likes
long walks over Scottish hills and solitary medi-
he ,na
mans resource Of supreme happiness in the
seclusion Of his library. The one relaxation he
permits himself is music of which he Is in
tensely fond In this he resembles Mr.. Balfour.
and both statesmen may be seen together at
nopcert