New-York tribune., 1903-02-25
LITERARY NOTES.

LITERARY MOI ES.
An uncut copy of the first edition of Smollett's
..Humrhrey Clinker." 1771 0he first vol
unoe being dated l67D. brought S2o5 at a Lon
don auction sale the other day. The last copy
sold lin 1880 fetched much less-S1eo to Wit.
An English reprint of the new ediuon-Just
hro,,ght out in this country by the Scribners-
of thar always delightful book by the late Car
ence King Mountaineering in the Sierra Ne
vada" is to be issued almost Immediately In
London. 1t is a book let add, which every
cultivsted American should own and read WIN
pride in his countryman
Vienna has a library for the blind containing
a thousand volumes. and including a good deai
of music. The indigent blind. we are slao ~
note have free use of this library
Nr w W. Jacobs has long novel In nllno'
and is clearing the decks by finishing nulnoei
of short stories. This author. who hVes Hea
Epping Forest, has particular method In ms
work and has never kept a sturdy resoiu1oii
to work regularly five hours day we are 'oiu
that Mr.. Jacobs once went so far as 10 nan
up a card in his study. office Hours 10
This picture. however was torn down by his
iustlv indignant daughter, eighteen months
old and has never been replaced
Miss Alice Duer Miller wrote her clever nov
eIette "A Man Of His Word, IN Costa flca'
where her husband is interested in rubber pant
ing She has been working on mover ior Oiie
last two years. and declares that nothing more
conducive TO literary w,rk can pe hlaslleu
than the leisure afforded by life in Spanish
American country. on the upper slopes Of the
volcanoes four thousand feet above the sea-
a perfect climate beautiful surroundings ana
absolute leisure are combined
Canon Ainger. Master of the Temple anu
hiographer and editor of Lamb, once uttered inns
r,jtf7v saving: You may preach like an angel
hut if YOU can whistle on stick people ignore
your preaching and speak OF you as 'ne Aii'"
who can whistle stick.
Mr.. William lie Queux has been writing
novel with the queer title of The three 1laSS
Eyes" His other new novel. The Seven Sc
crets." has just appeared
What was the origin of the dance known as
+be Highland fling? Mrs. Lindsay. in her
inst published -'Recollections OF a Royal Parish
ouores a neat description of that origin-"a kilt
and midges,'
Mr. George Meredith is mentioned as perefi-
7ia1lv Youthful Il suppose 1 should regard
-,-ze19 as erc,zine Ola he says, II am seventy
four. But 1 do not feel to be growing old either
IN heart al: mind / still look life with
,-o1yr7c mans eve / have always hoped should
not grow old as some do-with palsleo inter
lect. living backward, regarding other people
as anachronisrns because they themselves have
lived an into other times and left their SYM
pathies behind them with their years.
r,f +be late Thomas B. Reed it is said that he
7frihl
The Atlantic" notes that when at his nome
,n Portland. he was certain to be seen almost
at any hour of the day seated at his library
window book in hand-not the same book, nor
hooks OF the same kind. He read and delighted
in poe+ry-had the sensibilities it moved ana
gratifed.''
At +he sale of the aib-ary Of the late Lionel
Johnson a copy oe Walter Pater's Essays
60, the .c,uardian' (only one hundred copies
nrintea. 1896. brought S43. A large paper copy
Of svrnonds's Life of Cellini brought S31, and
one of the twenty-five copies of Lionel Johnsons S
,,oeus. printed IN 1895. brought S17 30 pres
entation copy to Mr. johnson Of Oscar Wilde's
book The Picture of Dorian Grey, has just
been sold for SO
The bust of Carlyle made by the late j. E
Boehm was sole in London the other day. In
connection with the sittings for this bust the
sculptor used to tell this characteristic story;
"A day or two before one of the sittings Boehm
met Gladstone at a country house, and was I'M
menseIy impressed by the extent and diversity
of the statesman knowledge, as revealed in
his conversation. Boehm still full OF the
subject when the morning arrived for Carlyles
sitting and to the philosopher the sculptor
poured forth his admiration for Gladstone's IN
innate acquaintance with subjects so far apart
as gart ening and Greek. Carlyle listened for a
time in scornfu. silence Then he said: And
what did he say about your work. 'Oh, moth
ing" said Boehm; ''hr doesn't know anything
about SCULPTURE --Of course growled Carlyle,
--of course. and he showed his knowledge about
things that you didn't understand. No doubt if
YOU asked Blackie he'd say that Gladstone knew
nothing about Greek and the gardener would tell
YOU that he knew nothing whatever of garden
ing"
Iet it be remembered of the late Augustus
Hare that he was one of he most generous Of
men He was one of the few authors, it may be
added. who could afford to be lavish in munifi-
cence 1t is stated that in the grounds at
FIolnhurst. his residence near Hastings, there
is a large cottage which for thirty years had
of people who were unable to afford themselves
the change and rest which they needed
The author of Supernatural Religion"
book which has had thousands Of thinking
readers. has lately been discovered in the person
Of Mr., Cdssels. d Scottish gentleman. Even his
publisher did not know the authors name, the
slip Of paper on which it written having