New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-23
LITERARY NOTES.

Japanese authors receive so little pay Tor "oih
in their own country that native writer says
there is no hope for any remarkaple "dPaii
work to be produced. A japanese man OF ie'ee1''
fn order 10 live in bare comfort, has 10 prouuCe
at least four or five long volumes a year. anu II
Is seldom he receives much as two hundIed
dollars for q volurnin0us novel In order 10 I'VE
a.ce,ttv he must earn at least 500 a year 1t
,vyIl be seen from these figures that he can
SCARCELY be expected To do any fine work al
,bat rate Of production The only professional
Japanese author in America at present Is oho'o
watanna. whose latest story. The Woolne ol
vv,staysa the love story of a lady of quality
has lust been published by Harper & Bros.
Professor Pelham Edgar of Victoria CoHese'
University Of Toronto, has made one-Voiunle
,ov,,,,,lation from the works of Francis Parkman
which Will be published this fall by Little, Brown
& Co under the title. The Struggle for a Con'i-
nent." Professor Edgar, with the aid Of connect
ing notes. gives in the historians own lahsuaee
a continuous account of the struggle LOT INC
possession of the American continent oeglhIliIS
with the colonization Of Florida by the Husue
nots In 1862. and eliminating in the IAN u
Quebec in 1853. The volume includes five nun
dred pages, with maps, portraits OF historical
personages and other Illustrations
Henry Holt & Co. recently sent 10 press on the
same day the seventeenth impression OF Rupert
OF Hentzau'' the seventeenth Of Idle Ihoughts
Of an Idle Fellow and the forty-siXth OF Inc
Honorable Peter Stirling.
An tntere sting paper. contributed 10 the &C
fober Harper by Mary Stuart Boyd contains
some very characteristic fragments of Bret
F5artes correspondence. Above il is placed
this poem of his. hitherto unpublished:
THE QUEENS DEATH.
When your men bowed heads together
With hushed lips.
And the globe swung out from SlaohesS
To eclipse.
When your drums from the equator
To the pole
Carried round it unending
Funeral roll,
When your capitals from Norway
To the Cape ,
Through their streets and rom 1heIi H'uSV'
Trailed their Grape,
Still the sun awoke TO gladness.
As of old,
And The stars their midnight beauty
Still unrolled.
For tbe glarv born Of Goodness
Never dies.
And its flag is not halfmasted
In the skies
Two books about children. but Distinctly not
to be classed as juveniles are to appear hnfIe-
diateIy with the IOngmans imprint AIM >
Adventures" by &c r. and 'Chubpy d
Nuisance" by Mrs. H. H. Penrose, study OF
the life of A four-year-old boy, son of busy
English country squire. Alexis adventures are
among MANY fantastic people and in strange
ulaces as at the evening party. where there
were camels who prided themselves on their
wagnerian taste in music and gave WIN HlucIl
shirt the Observation-Disclosures out OF
..Siclz Fred" with the Lobster Supper Chorus
The third OF Zola's -Four Evangelist" novels
will appear this season in an English transla-
ton by Ernest A vizeteIly, with the title OF
Truth" 1t is from the French of La Nerlte.
John Lane will publish il in this country.
The publication of Sir Gilbert Parker's 'Dono-
van Pacha'' which was expected before the end
of this month has been postponed by the APP
pletons unavoidably till october s.
In Mr Owen seaman's Borrowed Plumes,"
which Henry Holt e Co have in press, most
of the burlesques are in prose In the first the
author carries out the idea Of having the Eliza
beth of the Letters visit the Elizabeth OF the
German Garden" Their experiences are given
IN the letters OF the immensely bored couple.
The parodies that follow cover 'Mr. Dooley,"
Hall Gaines Eternal City" Harland's Car
dinars Snuff Box" Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler's
Double Thread John Oliver Hobbes's Robert
Orange" Mrs. Wards Robert Elsmere,' and
works by Hewlett. Henry James, Sir John Lub
book, Maeterlinck Mrs Meynen and others.