New-York tribune., 1902-01-20
LITERARY NOTES.

LIIERA NOIES.
Students OF the structure or English poetry
are making efforts nowadays to free the theory
Of that structure from the ancient ideas and
models Of classical antiquity. and to set up new
criterions based the altogether different ma
terials of English speech. The most recent at
tempt in this direction is Mark H. Liddelrs
Introduction TO the Study of English Poetry"
in preparation by Doubleday. Page & Co, which
embodies what the author describes as "a new
theory of poetry based on the evidence OF de-
velopment of poetic forms of expression, and
a new method of English prosody.' He under
takes to get away from classic modes that have
no relation to English speech materal-"what
is commonly called accent is not the determining
element of English verse form"
The picturesque features Of Washington are
to be exploited in the February number of
"Scribner's Magazine" through an article by
F. E Leupp. with pictures in tint by Jules
Guerin, Washington, a City of Pictures" and
there will be also extremely timely discussion
of THE Proposed Isthmian Ship Canal" by
William H. Burr. a member of the Isthmian
Canal Commission, surveying the history and
present status of the project. and giving Illus
trations of work going on. There will also
be a short story by Henry James. Flicker
bridge" and notice of Paul Troubetzkoy, the
young Russian sculptor who won fame and the
Grand Prix in the Russian exhibit in Paris.
In the April number will begin Richard Harding
Davis's novel, Captain Macklin.'
"Harper's Magazine for February will have
a story by the writer of "An Englshwoman's
Love Letters a quaint medisval tale called
The Story of Amabel and Amoris," illustrated
by Elizabeth Shippen Green. There little
head pieces and colored initials to carry out the
medieval idea. There will also be a series OF
eight drawings by E. A. Abbey TO illustrate
Goldsmith's Deserted Village" with a critical
article the same by Austin Dobson, this
being the first time he has appeared in the
magazines for a good while. Maurice Maeter-
linck contributes a brief sketch on Motor Car
Impressons"-he has been taking lessons in the
art of the "chauffeur''-and some selections from
Sir Arthur Sullivans diary are contained in an
article about him by Arthur Lawrence, who is
to write the biography of the English musician
Longmans. Green & Co. have in preparation
a bool. by Joseph Alexander Leighton. professor
OF philosophy in Hobart College. entitled "Typi-
cal Modern Conception of God: or. the Absolute
of German Romantic Idealism and OF English
Evolutionary Agnosticism."
The growing OF lilies in American gardens Is
a problem nearly related TO the growing Of them
in English gardens and for this reason book
that the Scribners will offer, Lilies for
English Gardens" will be found useful by
American amateurs. For amateurs the book is
intended, and the author, Gertrude Jekyll, has
limited her efforts entirely to them. There are
sixty-three illustrations. intended not to adorn
but TO enforce the information given in the
book, and the nineteen chapters are said to
a inf with
problems that face amateur growers. including
the diseases OF lilies and the way to treat them"
The economic world has always been puzzled
as to the more Or less regular recurrence Of
financial crises. and many are the theories that
have been advanced to explain them including
distinguished writer's suggestion of spots on
the sun. study of them-'a practical hand
book on the pathology of the body financial
is Theodore E. Burton's Financial Crises"
which the Appletons have on their list for
January publication 1t is said to combine
theory criticism and statistical fact. The author
offers a theory Of partial gluts and misdirected
production as chief element in producing crises
Mr.. Burton has been a member of Congress
from Ohio for many years.
Miss Mary Johnson's Audrey" will be pub
lished by Houghton, Muflin & Co between COW
~@'
and to Hold" and Prisoners of Hope" II Is a
Virginia story, but moves in the eighteenth In
stead Of the seventeenth century. when the life
in that colony richer and more picturesque
Among the typical figures introduced is that Of
Colonel William Byrd. of Westover, "the most
accomplished and wttiest Virginian Of his
time whose racy writings have recently been
republished. century and a half after his
death. The book will have six colored ilustra-
tons by F. c. Yohn, made by a new process
The dramatization of General Lew Wallace's
'Ben-Hur. which has been successful in this
country, will be taken TO London and performed
there in March. The novel continues its career
OF popularity, and there have been many edi-
tions in great variety provided to suit different
readers-with pictures and without pictures
cheap and expensive and in a considerable num-
Der of languages.
A we'll known figure in American publishing
interests has disappeared in Azariah Smith
long connected with Houghton, Mfrin & Co.
who died on Tuesday last in Boston He went to
Boston first in 1866 and was continuously asso-
ciated with Tcknor & Fields and the firms that
succeeded them.
THE BRIGANDS' CAPTITES WELL.