New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-06
LITERARY NOTES.

Mr. Frank Harris. executor of 1.-THE Saturday
Review" ex-sojOurner in Kansas, ana conliheh-
tator on the Americans. is about TO bring OUT ur
volume of short stories It's titie IS 10 De Inc
Stigmata.
There is to be another book dealing with the
life. in exile of the great Napoleon. 1t is to be
made out of the unpublished diaries, all written
at St Helena. of the Russian commissioner the
Count of Balman. The whole of his relations
with Napoleon and his attendants, frankly set
down in French, English. German and russian
in three big leather bound DOORS WI Iori ft t.'
basis of what ought to be an absorbing recital
Mr. Alder Anderson. a Paris correspondent on
dvers London journals is to be its author Inc me
Count of Balmain, by the way Ihafrieu OH
Hudson Loves stepdaughter
Mr. Swfnburne is the last man whom one
would imagine pleasant ease in WrltlnE an
introduction to new edition or otlVtr L WIS., ;
but it is perhaps, good an employment as
another for the poet who, on the journey
hence " has left his inspiration behind 1t is
one of the sad penalties of genius that the poet
must watch the slow fading of the hsht thdt
never was on sea or land
a great Polish writer is said to have been dis
covered by Mr. Curtin. the translator OF the
works Of another Pole. Sienkiewicz An AHeIl-
can edition of the works of the new man Is l."
be published in q couple of months. the trans
lator being. of course, Mr., Curtin
Mr. Gilbert Parker has been making an al,
dress on the art of fiction. delivering hiIi1SrIf
therein of divers excellent. If not strictly orig
inaI statements. Here are some Of them:
"A man must know truth to write fable
Fiction can be learned. but cannot be taught :
No great writer has ever had the idea OF
founding school of this ar that-oi ldelllSin-
or SYMBOLISM or romantCism. or realism Real
Iy great men have little time for pronuiGatln!
theories. they get hold of few principles, anu
10y these they live"
In the art of fiction the individual - thrown
on his innate talent
Love and fighting are not necessarily 70
nance. nor are soup kitchens ana divorce courts
necessarily realism
In the very first chapter of the book The note
must be struck which shall rtcur throughout M
book like the motif in opera
There is only one 'sic) test for a novel. that
it he first and before all d well constructed
story: that it deal sincerely with human If" and
character; that Il be eloquent of feeling, that 1t
have insight and revelation: that it preserve
idiosyncrasy; but, before all. that 1t b whole
some.
third edition of DR.. f. r.. Taylor's transIa-
tions of The Sonnets of Heredia IS coming
out in san Francisco. Nearly all the sonnetS
have been revised for this edition. and some Of
them have been entirely rCCast-
The new weekly. The Tiger. presents these
suggestive assertions the subject eff review
ing: The author believes in his heart that the
only kind of reviewer worth providing with
daily bread is the reviewer who praises. If you
a reviewer, and you praise properly. You
can toast your feet in many happy flats. The
authors children will he taught to- call you
UnLe. and to remember you in their innocent
prayers. But if you are a reviewer of the other
sort. that is To say. if you forget TO praise and
continue to do your duty in the matter of blame.
YOUR lines will not be east in such pleasant
places. 1t will be whispered of you that you
are Il master of yelled attack. That You are a
bludgeoner savage. and. if the truth We're
only known, a SCOundrel.
There is deeply pathetic side to the career
of the late historian. DIR. Gardiner. He tOtled
for than forty years at his Invaluable
history, but not continuously Why? Because
in order to live ne had to spend laboriuuS hours
in compiling school and college landlords and
in delivering lectures. And he leaves his opus
magnum unfinished" writes with bitterness his
friend A j. Church. one can hardly help
wishing says Mr.. Church. that the outside
help which would have spared him other labors
had been earlier give n oxford was generous
to him. up to her means. and the guardians of