New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-08-05

The Soft Side"
Mr.. Give Holland is writing a sequel to the
novel which first brought him prominently be
fore the public, My japanese Wife"
In "Quissant6" Anthony HOPE is reported to
have turned from the romantic novel to the
treatment of English political and social lfe
for which ne showed a fondness early in his
career The book Will probably appear next
month
Mr. George Moore has lately come forward
with n novel proposition that instruction in the
public schools of the Irish speaking districts in
Ireland should be conducted in the irish IAN
guaSe. MIR. Moore contends" says The Lon
don Academy" that the English language
burdened with four hundred years of literature
has lost it's freshness, and that it's fate is to
become the mere language of commerce, as Latin
became the language of theology. The litera-
tura of the future Mr. Moore thinks will be
written in small languages rather than in the
universal language" Mr.. MOOre's views do not
seem to he taken very seriously though Mr..
Edmund Gosse has expressed a mild approval in
print.
A volume of articles by the late G. W
Stevens, entitled Things Seen" which has
been highly praised in England, will be
brought out in this country by Dodd, Mead &
Co, with long introduction by Mr.. w. e.
Henley.
"Unleavened Bread" is making it's way in
England, and We are glad 10 hear il. The sue
&C sses abroad of American novels are sometimes
anything but creditaDe to English taste. Judge
Grants hook. however deserves ali the good
things said about it by English critics.
The Image Breakers" announced as an i'm
portant novel of Socialism. by Gertrude Dix,
which was To appear this summer, has been
held hack till the autumn.
y periodical of ambitious aim is TO be
started in England early next year and called
popular English writer's will contribute its
first number
A friend Of the late Stephen Crane says that
the young author declared he had given deeper
thought and more careful attention to War Is
Kind his second volume of verse than TO
almost any thing else he had written Many of
the verses, he explained, had been jottei down
while he lay hiding from the Spanish soldiers
in the hut OF an old Cuban woman. The volume
was received with ridcule in this country, as it
deserved to be.
In England books on the Boer and
China are appearing with astonishing rapidity.
y few are having great success, but the supply
apparently far exceeds the demand
The September Atlantic Monthly viii con
tain two timely contributions in paper by Efr.
and Some Philippine Sketches" by Air. Phelps
WhtmaTsh-
Apropcs or ,he recent sale Of the manuscript
II a story by Robert Louis Stevenson The Lon
don DAILY Mail" tells of a curious experience
tlat Stevenson had about fifteen years ago He
Christmas story and he offered 'Markheinl."
As this was not sufficiently seEsa uonaI he sub
united The B0dy5natCher.' Then the rSper
proceeded To boom" it. Six plaster skulls were
mace by 2 theatrical property man. Six pairs
Of coffin lids, painted dead black. with white
skulls ana CroSshoHes IN the centre for relief.
were supplied ~ a carpenter. Six long white
suIpIlceS were purchased from a funeral estab-
lIshment Six sandwiChmen were hired at dou-
bic rates. one quiet morning, when all vas
ready they were duly atti.ed. With some diff
Hculty they made their way up to PiccadiIy.
along ReSeHt-Si.. Gown Band-st evervv here
attracting profound and universal interest. The
one subject OF conversation in the clubs and the
" est End was the mysterious and apDaIling
phenomenon which had suddenly appeared in
the metropolis Among those who had been
startled IN Bond-st the late Lord IOndes-
borough who tool! the usual course of shocked
and angry EnElishmer-he wrote to the news
papers. The a2Nt day every newspaper in the
kingdom had a description, vivid. scathing de-
nuhclatofy, according to the hum0r of the
writer But tie objects of this wrath had al
ready been paid off Scotland Yard and The
Law had stepped in. The Pail Mali phantorns
We're certainly the most remarkable advertise
HentS that ever appeared on the London streets
| we wonder what Stevenson himself thought
about it all The BOdysnatcher went like Wild
fire"
The Critic announces thai Elizabeth and
Her German Garden was written Inv the
Princess Henry of Plesse daughter of CornwaIIis
West.
George Macdonald. the novelist. is recovering.
il ON his long and serious illness.
Meeting Mr. II. D. Trail only a week or two