New-York tribune., 1901-07-07
LITERARY NOTES.

LITERARY NOTES.
The widow of Matthew Arnold, the Flu of
his letters. is still grievousy i'll. Her disease is
a most painful one, and recovery can hardly be
looked for.
The frontispiece of the new edition of Bos-
wells Johnson is to be reproduction of tine
: Reynolds portrait of the Doctor. This is said
to be of the finest examples of modern
color printing yet seen. Tinted portraits of MIR.
and Mrs. Thrale Of Boswell and of Richardson,
will also be provided.
Another relative of Mr.. Marion Crawford is
entering the lists as a novelist This is John
Fraser his nephew. the son of his literary sis
ter Mrs Hugh Fraser The story which Mr..
Fraser is bringing out is called THE Hour
| GIass'-a title chosen after Death the Show
man had been under consideration 1t is a
tale of modern life and cosmopolitan elements,
the chief character being middle aged Turkish
diplomat.
A copy of Benjamin Franklin's 174i issue Of
Cicero's Cato Major. or His Discourse of Old
Age was sold at auction the other day for $50
1t is understood that Golfers Weekly in
tends to print Mr.. Hall Gaines story of Rome
as a perfect if no. pure chrysolite, the pOr-
tions objected to by Mr. Pearson being retained
intact.
Mr. Edmund Gosse contradicts a detailed
port that he is about to become a publisher.
Some of his acquaintances inspired by envy.
perhaps. spreading statements that not Mr..
| GOSSe, but somebody else, wrote the much
talked of 'Quarterly article on Queen Victoria.
This. however. will not deprive him of any well
earned fame The London correspondent of The
Tribune has told us that Mr.. Gosse is the author
of the article in questi ln-and the London cor
respondent of The Tribune has a way of being
extremely we'll informed.
! The thrilling statement is made that Nine.
Sarah Bernhardt's favorite English authors are
Mr.. kipling and Mr.. WellS-the first a
patriot. the second "a Jules Verne with
imagination, instead of fancy"
Well. we'll here's small tempest in a lit
! erary teapot, Mr.. Buxton Forman says ne
Volume II OF the SOphocles found in Shelleys
pocket when death seized him; he bought it
with the rest of the Shelley relics belonging
to Claire Ciairmont And Mr.. Nicholson, Ii
brarian of the Bodlean. says that the SOphoCleS,
| two volumes in one. was given by Lady Shelley
to that famous library and that Mr.. Forman
is mistaken in his belief that he owns it.
At the recent Publishers Congress at Leipsic
NJ Paul Ollendorf Of Paris made some
markable charges against the press of France.
He said: The almost total absence to-day of
| French daily papers has for sCme time been
complaint Of the public. on the other hand, We
! are enabled to show that the foreign press gives
its readers regular, impartial, and complete
account of the literary movements of their
countries As a consequence. the French. in
spite of the incont"stable brilancy of their in
tcllectual productions, remain the nation worst
served in this respect. It is easy" he said TO
show that, apart from paid puifS and advertise
ments. French daily pap rrS no longer keep their
readers informed to contemporary literature.
But while we over almost all France such u
savage prescription Of all literary criticism. on
the other hand vaudeville, farce ballet or
! pantomime Is acted the boards of even the
most third rate of theatres without every jour
nal giving II report"
What purports to be the chief song sung at the
publishers "Bierahend" is quoted by The Lon
don Chronicle" follows:
Let with authors shun and fear
Each semblance of strife;
Let manifold editions cheer
Their self lf-denying life
Let this evening irink their health,
And urge them in their game
To make for sufficient wealth
often do the same"