New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-09-02
LITERARY NOTES.

LII r n 4 n Nv LC'
The ure Of Oliver Cromwell which Mr. John
Morley has written for THE Century is 70 be
illustrated not only with original drawings. but
with reproductions Of valuable historical por-
traits as vet unpublished. The first irstalment
/ - what promises 10 be the most striking serial
/ of the coming year will appear In the November
number Of the magazine.
A novel ny Henry James Is, says The London
Times" ike a problem IN chests solution re-
quires as much mental exertion on the part Of
the solver as on the part Of the expert
who drew II up. He stands quite apart
from All other novelists" declares this
critic-who might add that nevertheless Mr.
James has number of imitators. His eN-
quisitely finished half tone studies Of character,
his deliberately tortuous method. the hne quail
ties of wit and observation that win him the
un0uestior!nz admiration Of few are all 80
many stumbling blocks 70 the many. a writer
who begins his story i'm the middle and leaves
on before the end Is bound 70 cause irritation
TO the readers who like to get through so many
novels A week and to feel all the time that
they are a good deal ceverer than the authors
whom they good naturediy tolerate To under
stand and enjoy Mr. James YOU must be putting
two and two together all the time and fire.
quently making them five instead OF four. From
tangled web OF suggestion and innuendo a
chance phrase here. n subtly covert meaning
there you must gradually discover what the
author means you to guess.
Thackeray lovers VIII look with keen interest
Tor book which Is coming from the press OF
the Harpers under the title Of '-Thackeray's I'm
identified Contributions 10 Punch " This is a
collection made by Mr.. N II. Spelmann, Editor
Of the Magazine Of Art" and consisting of
nearly forts drawings from Thackeray's hand.
The new edition OF the nfe and works Of
Tean;son which the Macnhlans Will bring out
next month is to be limited 10 one thousand sets
ana Will he printed on special paper and sold
or,y IN the set. 1t is an edition Of ten volumes.
4 letter Of Tennyson's which does not appear
in his sons biography. though It - mentioned
therein and which is quoted in THE Interna-
tional Magazine" Is one addressed to friend
Of his boyhoOd who had Ions passed out Of his
knowledge into the great West
Seeing The American post label On your letter
and thinking ~ only incl0s"d request for an
/ autograph 1 had flung II aside. but my wife.
opening il, read. and said Here is a letter
which is denchtful"; then l read also, and
found her saying true. for delightful 10 me II
was 10 hear voice 9O far away from me- IN
space and time calling 90 me "over the vast
IS Shakespeare says. and speaking Of the 90
things the brook the golden apples, inc Ola
coachrnan who always seemed 10 me half mad,
though 7 fancy he was generally half drunk,
the brook hv which At the end NJ the glebe field
] used 70 build cities and castles Of sand TIL
the current undermined Thorn and the towers
fell. and down which I made sail little bits Of
wood freghted with imaginary wares for China
and India tim an eddy OverU helmed them. And
as for the golden apples. summer apples we
used 20 call them. I have never met their Ike
but once, long years after M CaiStor In the
Old courts they are now perfectly extinct ]
believe. The broad lawn is now, ! am sorry 10
say altered by the new corners. and goes down
n a slope from the house. SO YOU remember us
living there; but what YOU call marvellous hel-
NETS we're masks with Wrew0rk 10 protect the
eyes from a sudden thrust IN fencing
AS To- my family. my eldest brother. Freder-
ck is married 70 an Italian and lives I'm Jersey
/ has three daughters and two sons. one In India.
one (my namesake) In Canada NV brother
Charles IS also married and vicar Of Grashy
Church Lincoln Ny sister Emily has been
| long ago married 20 Captain Jesse and has
Two grown mp sons. Ny eldest sister Mary is
/ now Mrs Ker. and has one son who is now at
Trinity College Cambridge. - likewise are my
two sons Hallam and Lionel Arthur Is mar
/ RED but has no family There is but one ~
rs dead Septimus whom possibly YOU do not
remember. as YOU do not ask after him. 7
/ think have answered all your questions. have
] not;
Remember the Siberian crab tree very we'll.
and the Scotch lr with The rocks. but the ban
tau.s that roasted over the oven have flown out
~ my memory and ! remember tho burning
/ ~ tho herdsman's crook hut was then where
/ my boys are now. AZ Trinity College, cam
bridge That You may long flourish among
| volr peaches and between your groves Is the
wish ~ your countryman and contomporary
and friend. A. TENNlS0N.
The fourth volume % NJ ? Rhodes's h's
tory ~ the United states VIII soon he published
by the Harpers 1t deals with The period be-
tween the Compromise ~ 1880 and the inaugu-
! ration 81 Grover Cleveland
/ There are 10 he seventy illustrations MANY ~
/ them fun page-in Hugh Thomson's edition Of
/ peg Wofineton" Mr.. Austin Dohson has writ
ton after the modern manner, long introduc-
tion 20 the book.
Miss Mary Johnston. the author Of prisoners
Of Hope" and of the serial novel ITO Have
and 10 Hold" now running IN "The Atlantic"
IS not yet thirty wears old She lives in Bir-
mingham Ala bur Is a Virginan by birth.
the daughter Of a line IF strong Drained and
prosperous men Of Scotch and Scotch-Irtsh
blood II is said that her education was largely
derived from the great classics of the English
tongue which she found In tho old fashioned
library Of her fathers home when she was a
child too delicate to be sent TO school
The forthcoming monograph ON Sir Thomas
Lawrence which Lord Ronald Cover has pre-
pared is TO have about one hundred pages Of
text With hfty-two fun page illustrations (con-
sisting Of fac-simile frontispiece. three other
plates IN the coors 81 tie originals. and forty
eight In black or monochrome) and a dozen
smaller illustrations
Mr. Her,li, Gar1a~d h IA, ,