New-York tribune., 1900-09-17
LITERARY NOTES.

reigning sovereign whose identity is not yet
announced has written two volumes Of memoirs
which will be brought out this season The
work is mentioned uncommony interesting
Miss Geraldine Bonner, some of whose clever
writing appeared in the Sunday Supplement OF
The Tribune several years ago. has written a
novel which she calls Hard Pan" II is a
story OF San Francisco life. The Century Com
pany will publish it.
A growing uneasiness as to limitation Of copy
right is apparent among authors. together with
a growing insistence on the argument that
property in q great book ought to belong to n
mans heirs much property in a great
manufacturing concern. II is held, moreover.
that perpetual copyright would be of much
advantage TO publishers as to authors. The
highly profitable publication Of cheap editions
Of books which are still copyrights is pointed
out proof that neither publishers nor the
reading public would suffer under the conditions
Of such perpetual copyrights.
A new edition of Leigh Hunts "Old Court
Suburb is 10 be edited by Mr.. Austin Dobson
and illustrated by Mr. Herbert Railton and Mr..
f. ! Sullivan.
Concerning Tennyson's ornithology. a
respondent Of The London Spectator writes:
1T has struck singular that none Of your
correspondents on this subject have cited the
very remarkable words
Maud is Here. Here Here. in amongst the Lilies.
which is so wonderful transteration of the
blacl1birds song that shortly after its publica-
tion asked its author If he could explain to me
its psychological genesis. Was it the product Of
q process Of any kind. or did II formulate itself
without conscious thought? His reply that
# is one Of those -hings which come to one with
a fash: I cannot otherwise explain TT -
There is a highly comic situation in Brussels
apropos of the memorial statue 10 Comte pro-
posed by his disciples there They cast about TO
find a fitting orator for the unveiling ceremony,
and after many negotiations they discovered a
willing victim Tnen they invited delegates from
all parts of the world TO attend this ceremony.
The invitations were accepted, and the man
sgers OF the affair were in high feather-until
st suddenly occurred TO them that they had for
gotten 10 order the statue,
Mr.. Augustus Hare has finished the Story
OF Ny Life" ending the tale with this, the last
year of the century. The three volumes cover
the last thirty years. It has thus taken six big
books to complete Mr.. Hare's account of him
self
Sixty editions have appeared in Germany of
Father Hammers translation OF General Wal
lace's novel "Ben-Hur." The translator obtained .
the authors consent to make some changes in
the story in order. il is stated, TO adapt it to
European ideas.
The late Henry Sidgewick. professor of moral |
philosophy at Cambridge. belonged TO a family !
OF high intellectual gifts His elder brother, /
William, Of the most brilliant tutors !
ever known at Oxford, and advanced Liberal |
in the palmy days Of Oxford Liberalism. His |
younger brother, Arthur, though Cambridge |
man. has superior among classical teachers |
et Oxford to-day. and is the recognized leader !
Of the Liberal party in oxford. OF his sister.
Mrs Benson. II has often been said that she |
The real Archbishop Of Canterbury. though she |
herself would have Indignantly repudiated the /
idea
Henry Sidgewick was fascinating taIker His
kSmor was unfailing. He was voracious read !
az, especially of novels.
Mr.. Walter Raleigh. whose book on Style /
has had many readers in this country, has just |
been appointed regius professor of English Ian /
guage and literature in the University Of Glas-
gov.
new edition Of Dickens which is to bear the
name Of The Authentic Edition." is to be
brought out by his original publishers the Chap
A a a
lery Of the drawings made for Dickens by
Hablot K Browne, Cruikshank and his other
artists Each volume will have for frontis-
piece a popular illustration reproduced in colors
The Slavery OF Our Times" is the title Of
Tolstoy's new work. It is inquiry into the
results Of modern industrialism. The funda-
mental idea Of the book is the negauon Of CO.
ercion. This aegaton." writes the Russian
7 learnt and understood from the Gospel where
II is expressed most clearly in the words 'Ye
have heard it said. An eye for an eye
L e. you were taught to use coercion against !
coercion, but my teaching is Offer your other
cheek 70 the smiter'-i. 2. suffer violencN but
Go not commit it. I know that these great
words, owing 10 the carelessly perverted and
uniform Interpretation OF both Liberals and |
Chorch' VIII be for the majority Of so-caIled |
educated people reason for not reading this |
work or for biassed attitude toward # And |
yet nevertheless, place these words at the be-
ginning Of my book"
A careful estimate Of the fees paid bv visitors !
to the various Shakespeare sbr,nes AZ s+ro+for5
on-Avon shows that the town derives from tbis
source comfortable annual income NJ sor,a-
thing over $4,000
or the literary situation in England .eTbe
London Globe says: The economy Of literature
is just now in the ascendant over literature IT.
self; and il IS, Of course the six shilling novel
mat is making the trouble Authors arc M,
happy' because their rewards are too small and
increase much more slowly than their books.
publishers are not happy. because their risks are
100 serious; booksellers are not happy. because
their shops are choked with sluggish fiction: and
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