New-York tribune., 1901-06-23


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LITERARY NOTES.
Professor Skeat has written an introduction
Of an autobiographical kind for his forthcoming
volume Notes on English Etymoogy.
The English Society of Authors has awarded
its first pension to IA fellow writer. Three hun
dred dollars year is s, to be glwsn arr 20 Mrs and
other excellent novels
Not content with his recently published mono
graph Napoleon" Lord Rosebery, it is ru-
mored. will bring out next year a larger Work
on the same subject Therein the Corsicans ,ala
whole career will be more fully discussed than
in the first book.
Here is a bit of good humored satire. which is
pat the moment" and well deserved:
''Once literary daughters. when the writing
impulse spake.
Spent their fancies romances-hearts that
ache and hearts that break;
But a change has come upon them. and to-day
they bend their mind
To the fashion for a passion 1f vegetable kind:
Since a book now needs within it. ere to favor
il can win,
Gardens shady with lady babhiing daintiiy
So come into the garden. Maud.
And bring the pen and ink
WeU nut through in an hour or two.
To make Miss Jekyll blink"
Mr. Holman Hunts autobiography is nearly
finished. and will probably be issued within a
year.
How does Mr.. W. b Yeats look? Mrs NJ f.
Sullivan describes him thus in The Dial:
Pale slender. just entering then on manhood.
he seemed. in his lustrous dark eyes modest
demeanor sincerity. earnestness and uncon-
scious air of abstraction what man must be
who wrought in journalism for bread of the
lDf and sl.g.S of "
as a luxury. His father painted portraits for
luxury ard supported his family in a cosey ana
hosptahe suburban London home 10y sk"tchinE
for the illustrated journals. The family had
removed from Dublin-like many Celts who had
preceded them-for the opportunity denied them
in their native land"
More than half the letters addressed by Mime
du Dcffand to Horace Walpole have never been
printed These will appear in Mrs. Paget
Toynbees forthcoming new edition of the Wal
pole correspondence. She has lately discovered
in private hands all these letters of the French
woman They number altogether about eight
hundred.
"A Serious wooing" Mrs Pearl Mary Theresa
Craigie's novel. will appear during the first
week Of July. \ new novel by Lucas Maiet'-
Mrs. Harrson-is promised; and Mrs. w. Il
Clifords volume of short stories is on the
way.
Mrs Creighton. the widow of the late his
torian. is at work upon a biography of her hus-
band.
Bishop Creighton. it appears, could claim kim
ship with Samuel Pepys the of the fas-
cnating Diary" The historians mother was
before her marriage Maria Louisa IepyS, u far
away cousin Of Samuel.
Mr.. KipIing's dramatization of his Jungle
Books may be good. bad or Indifferent. but 1t
Will without doubt have Success of curiosity"
here next winter Everybody will want 10 see it
at least.
1t is understood that Mr.. Kipling has been
very busy of late. and may soon expect TO
see several new stories from his pen
"The Benefactress'' is the title of the novel
which the author of Elizabeth and Her German
Garden will publish in the autumn Let us
hope that this book will have the humor and
the freshness Of feeling that distinguished her
first efforts.
Mr. Jerome X Jerome has had "A serious acci-
dent while driving tandem with another novel
ist, Miss I.orimer. He lost his eyeglasses ran
mer's foot was also seriously injured Her es-
cort in spite of his helpless foot. rode several
miles for the nearest doctor his bicycle. He
is at work upon novel. the fact that ne
has recently made much money especially from
his dramatic writings, enabling him to do this
slowly and at ease.
The first of living Spanish authors, Don r
Perez GalG0s, has at last completed his series
of historical novels, bearing the general title of
'Episodias NacionaleS.' They number less
than thirty. and deal with the principal charac-
ters and events of Spanish politics from-the
ate az the hp la nf ". f1 Ippr In,Xn to fha