New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-02

her unjust Novel writer's should not be in a
passion with their characters as l imagine but
describe them good or bad with like calm
Thackeray wanted to put the fascinating
DArtasnan Into a romance Of his own.
the age OF Louis XIV. and wrote his own
Memories I remember picking up a dingY
copy OF them on an old bOOkstaIl in London,
price sixpence. and intended to make some
thing of it, But Dumas got ahead of me-he
snaps uD everything. He is wonderful" man
/ 80 fo,ters CbServaS in .'The T.on60D 49,
POST that if Thackeray had been endowed with
greater confidence in his own powers he might
still have written a novel round d Artagan, and
the world would have been the richer by direct
comparison between the modes of two masters
OF fiction. "But Thackeray regarded himself as
a pygmy beside Dumas. and could never have
thought OF rivalIing him. The English writer's
curious distrust of his own powers IS 1orcibiy
Illustrated by a letter 90 MOnckton Mines
Thackeray wrote, before he had conceived
/ EsmOnd' The NewcOmes': I hope to be able
to last six years in the literary world; for
the public won't find il out for some time. and
shall live my past reputation He intended
at the end of the time named 70 qualify Tor
magistracy-'tO get u place and rest
volume OF essays by Bishop j. L. spalding
is announced for this month Most Of these
papers deal with the questions of socialism and
labor.
The Sultan has finished his autobiography.
but it is not TO be published until after his
death. The book is said to reveal many tmpOr-
tant diplomatic secrets. and is described as an
Indictment Of the hypocrisy OF Christian civil
zation-"
Miss Moss the author Of the clever nOveletts
which led the list of contributions in the OctO-
Der 'LippincOtt'S" is writing a long novel deal
ing with little known phases of society.
The fashion in which the minor English novel;
ist clings to the dried and WORKOUT chestnut
aprOpOs of Americans is illustrated in new
novel. ''Betty's Husband" Although" the
author says Il have met Americans who don't
Calculate" Where. where. hath this novelist
lived and how many Americans has she metz
And where now wanders the American who
says calculate?
Mrs Margaret DeIand who has published
little of late. has written new series OF "OId
Chester Tales" These. like the others. viii ap-
pear in "Harpers."
In an editorial notice Of the death Of Edward
EgglestOn The Century lays stress upon the
mans breezy sanity of mind. He once
asked by friend, il says. IF he was interested
had become the preOccupatiOn OF a certain great
COntempOraneOuS author. No answered the
doctor; Il got through with my fanaticisms az
the other end of my life"
II is complained in England that even the best
English hotels. which provide most things a
reid Inc complaint. says The London
Globe. lis one which nearly every traveller in
EHsl'uH vii support For some reason or an
other the MANAGERS of inns and hotels consider
that they have done all that is required OF them
in this respect, if they string up railway time
tables on the walls of the reading room, and
place a list of hotels the table In some cases
newspapers are supplied. but there too few
of them; here and there an ancient and diIapi-
dated magazine may be found. but seldom II
ever does the jaded traveller light upon book
case or 4 stray volume"
a new and peculiarly attractive portrait OF
Hobbies been added