New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-08
LITERARY NOTES.

LITERARY NOTES.
An English woman and an American have this
season happened to use the same title for their
novels. Miss Constance Smith. ike MISS Mary
Johnston has hit upon prisoners OF hope
An old story about Carlyle is retold with vari-
atIons by his friend Mr.. Patrick. in The Cent
ury" "A professor" he says. "nominally related
at least to the host of st. Brycedale. Kirkcaihy;
rafting off his days peregrlnatohS ne an
breakfasted at st. Andrews. dned In Aberdeen,
and now he added with gusto, 1 am sit,lhs a.
supper in St Brycedale with the great InoI ,,.
Carlyle. The storm burst. For Goa sax
roared the sage to his niece. get me pipe anu
an empty room' Any formal junction III me
disturbed Carlyle's equanmity Almost every
recently issued book by an author pet s,,ina,
proof of the extraordinary burden that the
thought Of the performance of even an honorary
duty imposed on his broodng spirit.
The Rev. s. Barring Gould is about to publish
n new novel OF Welsh life called Pablo the
Priest"
It appears that the late William Blacks pup-
Usher didn't like the mournful conclusion OF his
last story. wild Eelin." and besought the au-
thor TO change it in the proof Not DIT OF IL;
Mr.. Black chung TO the mournfulness' persuaded
that il was inevitable IF had forced the con-
veutional happy climax" he said, then per-
haps for twenty four hours you might nave re.
mcmbered something about the young lass tnat
was living at (icngarva House; whereas, win
the window blinds down. you may from time 70
time have "A backward thought toward Eeiin or
the ewes like the sea wave" All the same, we
doubt If F,-iin gets any backward. thoughts, for.
to tell the truth, here story was somewhatt
wearisOme. .,.
"Tbe London Spectator" which has always
been more or lees particular about its English.
has been using queer word. apparently or IT'S
own. inyention:-it talks about Mr.. Steads
"ScrcamneSS.
Sir George otto Trevelyan is about to publish
in book entitled THE American Revolution
practical contingation . OF his larry y H,s'T s
tween 1774 and 1872" he says, lis ineXtrcably
interviewer with the story of, the American
Revolution. That immense eyent MED ms inlnd no.
ana consumed his activities: while every cir
curnstance about him worth relating may find
natural place in the course OF the narrative
which bears upon 1T. During that part OF tme
great drama which was enacted within the walls
OF Parliament Fox was never off the stage
and when there, he played a conspicuous and
(as time went on) confessedly the leading part
What was done and spoken at Westminster can
not be rightly explained, nor the conduct or
British public men fairly judged. without clear
and reasonably detailed account OF that when
occurred contempOraneousiy beyond the At
lantc." .... ......... ....-
We have already seen five-cent magazines in
this country, and are net Overmuch impressed,
therefore, by the announcement that the Eng
lish publisher Mr. G.. 4. Pearson intends to
bring out here in March eight-cent monthly
on popular lines.
This very "bluggy" extract from that little
book of modern verse, THE Modern Traveller"
evidently refers in heartless burlesque to the
author OF a recent popular volume:
"They filed my canine teeth to points,
And made me bite my tongue
They racked me TIL they burst my joints
Ard after that they fung
~ stone upon my neck that weighed %.
Atleast a hundred pounds and made
Me run like mad for twenty miles.
And climb a lot Of lofty stiles,
They tried dodge that rarely falls,
The tub Of Regulus with nails
The cask is rather rude and fiat,
But native casks are all like that
The nails stick in for quite an inch,
But did finch? did not finch"
There is to be n new blnonthly illustrated
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