New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-24

trTe as in evervthing else. il pays a man to do
his best The public may throw its money at
literary man for doing his worst; but the time
will come when it will judge him without mercy
In his sevpnty-sixth year Maurus Jokai the
Hungarian novelist is one OF the sprightllest
figures in the literary world He Is going with
his young bride to the Paris Exposition, Where
he VIII have the satisfaction of seeing transla-
tons Of his VoluminOus works IN many IAN
Guages. collected lin a pavilion II has taken
many years for the American public 10 discover
Jckai's Imaginative gifts. but several or MS
books have sold fairly we'll here in recent years
Professor Charles Eliot Norton has been in
consultation with MIS-. Severn and Mr.. Alex
ander Wedderburn regarding the use TO be MADE
OF the literary material left by Ruskln. Inc
question has come up whether the material.
including Ruskin's diaries, snail be allowed 10
stand for itself, after suitable edlths OF small pe
set aside for use in the authorized biography OF
Ruskin. 1t is thought likely that the first plan
will be followed
1t is graveiy announced in England that Mr.
Hall Cafne will probably not have his new novel
READY for publication till a year from next au-
tumn. So we shall have To wait Tor II as
patiently as Before completing 1t MI.
Game means To visit Rome again IS there
a deep significance in this intention? After
writing The Christian does Mr. Caine intend
to deal with another phase Of Christianity?
An English reviewer thinks that he has dis
covered a revolt against the short story among
several OF the more popular ERSllSn writers
This may be explained by the natural desire on
the pare of an author To do work most SatlS-
flying TO his ambitions well most re-
muRerative. Compai ed with successful novels
short stories do not pay. There is SO slight a
demand for collections OF short stories that
publishers hesitate a long time before bringing
them out, unless they come from a man ike
Kipling.
Edmond Rostand the brilliant young author
OF "CyTano de BerSerac,' has sufficiently re-
covered from his recent illness To revise the
proofs Of his new play ''LAiglon" for pubhca-
ton in Paris. The English version. by the way
is to be brought out in this country by r. H
Russell & Co. next autumn. RCstaEd has
lately appeared in the Revue pour Tous" with
poem Of six hundred lines called La JOurn6e
dune PT6cieuse."
Mr.. BeeTbOhm Trees production of rip Van
Winkle' seems to have created a revival Of in
terest in England in the works of Washington
Irving. And yet the play has been scored ny
the English critics. The London firm Of Green
ing Co has brought out volume
edited by Mr. s j. AdaiT FItZ-Cierad containing
Rip Van Wrinkle The Legend OF Sleepy HoI-
low" and the German tale of Peter Klaus the
Coatherd," which is supposed to have suggested
Rip and his adventures TO Irving, as well as a
complete narrative of the history Of Rip and of
his uansferrence to and career on the stage.
Do wars produce great poetry? It would seem
from the present Beer war and from our war
with Spain that modern certainly do not
Not one memorable poem came from the
SpanlSh-Amerlcdn War. which in its brief
course certainly included several stirring cpl
sOdes. Thus far tie English poets have done
nothing of note to celebrate the vaIor of their
countrymen in South Africa Swinburne's poem.
published the other day was a disappointment
without inspiration. and full Of tortured Ian
guage. As for Alfred Austin'S verses on Mafek-
ing. they were tie most serious plea Vet of
fore fE oh f,y -