New-York tribune., 1902-12-28
LITERARY NOTES.

| All the verses IN Mr.. Kiplins's "Just-so sto-
| rfes" have been set to music and these win soon
| be published In a volume by themselves
That was not an extraordinary sum which
| was realized the other day at the sale Of the
| table, the two chairs and the looking glass
which were used In his Office for many years by
| Charles Dickens Editor Of "AH the Year
Round" 1t was only $275-very little for ar
| ticles with such associations.
The English woman Of to-day in all her as
poets is to be discussed in a volume written by
the author of that much assaiIed book. The
Unspeakabe Scot" Mr. Crosland calls his new
work Lovely Woman"
A history Of the Philippine ISLANDS derived
from the narratives of early explorers and all
available books and unpublished MSS.) from
1493 to the beginning of the last century, is
announced by the a. H Clark Company, of
Cleveland. The first of the contempt ated fftv-
five volumes will appear in January. Much
and remote material has been gathered from
foreign archives and libraries. and valuable il
Illustrations have been pursued. Professor
Bourne. of Yale. has furnished an historical in
PRODUCTION and notes Miss E H Blair. who
acted as Mr.. Thwaites's assistant in preparing
The Jesuit relations and Allied Documents,
is editing this work, assisted by Mr. j. ~
Robertson.
Mr.. Anthony Hope has been speaking good
word for realism in fiction in an Edinburgh lect-
ure-the realism which. he declared, witened
views ana DfOdUened SyEpathIeS- W ne TeupOn
THE Pail Mall Gazette" jbes at him the
ground that real life served up cold again in
novel does not broaden our sympathies any
more than the photograph of dust bin
Professor Joseph Fischer's book, The Dis
coveries of the Norsemen in America, with
Special Relation to Their Early CartographiCaI
Representation has been translated by Basil
H. SOulsby, of the Hakluyt Society, and the
book will be issued Immediately by Henry Stew
ems, Son & Stiles. Professor Fischer has ad-
duced much new evidence in proof that the
early discoveries of the Norsemen in Greenland
and in the regions to the north of America were
far better known in pre-COIumban times than
has hitherto been supposed thought to be
possible. He gives specially interesting &C
count of the manner in which the information
probably reached Southern Europe through the
visits of Scandinavian bishops to the Pope. and
through pilgrims to Rome and the Holy Land
His new evidence IS chiefly derived from the
recently discovered manuscript maps in the
Vatican and at WOlfegg.
In a new volume of "reminiscences of Teuny-
son. his relative. Miss Weld. dweIIs the poets
high idea of the duty which his gift imposed on
its pOsseSsOr. He told me-" she says. that his
sense of the divine source of this gift was al
most awful to him, since he felt that every word
of his should be cOnSecrated to the service or
Him who had touched his lips with that fire OF
Heaven which to enable him to speak in
Gods name to his age.
Miss Weld notes that when the poet stayed at
her fathers house in London. he insisted
almost Spartan simplicity of fare. We knew
he liked plain boiled salt beef but were scarcely
prepared for his begging to be allowed to have
it (inStead of the fresh FOaStS We had cooked for
him), three days running, cold for his dinner
NO guest ever gave so little trouble, or was 50
full of consideration for servants; but this
was because he was always full of thought for
others. A little instance of which comes into
my mind, the occasion being visit my mother
and paid to FarringfOrd when my aunt hap
pened to be away for a few hours TennysOn
came into room to see if it all COM
Portable. and diSaSreeing with the hOuSemaid,
who had thought the weather too warm to light
the fire. said. on, this doesn't look half well
come, and, dropping on his knees. lighted it and
famed it into a bright flame"
There is nothing remarkable in Miss WeldS
"reminiscences of the poets talk My uncle dis
liked overdisplay of demonstration in public,
and said that in his experience When young
married people keep on publicly raining my
deaTs' thick upon each other, it Is sign
that quarrel Is at hand Akin to this hatred
of unreal show of affection was my uncle's dis
like to the fuIsome fattery and general vapid-
ness of many after-dinner speeches, and he de-
clared to that, If called to make = speech
when he felt he had really nothing to say, Ia
should just rise and exclaiTn:
out of my latitude 1 live,
Therefore pIatitude-pray forgive
and promptly resume his seat"