New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-13
LITERARY NOTES.


Agnes and Egerton Castle the authors OF In
comparable Bellairs.' which was favorably re-
viewed in this place last Sunday, have two new
romances under way and will publish them
both-frst in serial forn-next year. one is en-
titled Rose Of the World" the other IF Youth
But Knew"
The Carlyle controversy has had one legit-
innate effect it has increased the number OF
visitors at the celebrated house in Chelsea
More sightseers by five hundred have passed
through its doorway than in any year since
the opening of the house to the public, in De
cember, 1885 Americans have taken the lead
among the American visitors.
A volume of TRANSACTIONS from Horace is prom
ised for the year which ought to be inter
esting- 1t will contain Il rich selection of YER
Slchs made by many dlHeTent hahds, trans
lators from the Elizabethan era down to our
own times being drawn upon for the book
DR.. MOncure Conway has written his memoirs
and will publish them before long The
Athen8um says that the book viii probably
be entitled Autobiography: Memories, Travels
and Experiences of MOncuTe Daniel Conway
According to the Jewish Chronicle" an enter
prise Of much interest to admirers Of Lord
BeacOnsield has been projected That peri
Odical understands that Mr. LUcien Wolf has
been intrusted with the editing of Lord BeacOns-
fields works to he published next year the cen
tenary of his birth. The first volume viii deal
with the DiSraei family, and Will be in reality
biography of the eminent statesman. concerning
whom and whose family Mr. Wolf has discov-
cred many interesting items of information
We wish this announcement were a little fuller
and more explicit Who is Mr.. Wolf, and what
authority has he in this very important mat
ter?
Mr. Henry Harlands novel. My Friend
Prospero," which has been running sarially
through the pages of CCIure's Magazine Will
be published in book form by Mr.. John Lane
early next year.
In The Story of a Soldiers Life which the
ScrIbneIs have just published, Lord WoiSeley
pays tribute to a American writer of nursery
classics, Samuel GrisWold Goodrich. who used
the pen name of Peter Farley The relation
of all actual deeds of daring says Lord Wolse-
ley, has always had for me an intense interest
As Il boy they made my pulse thTOb quickly
when L read them in Peter Pariey's Annual
and they excite me still in no small degree
The London Daily Chronicle states that it
has received a letter from Mr. Alfred Tennyson
Dickens. who has lived in Melbourne for many
years AS the eldest surviving son of Charles
Dickens. he strongly protests against a para
graph copied into the commonwealth papers
from some London source alleging that Dick
ems, who never liked TlJCkeray, told a friend he
could nothing to admire IN one of Thdcke-
rays novels that was being seriaIly published
at the time" Mr.. \. Il. Dickens, with every
possible confidence, SINeS TINS statement q
most emphatic contradiction. He recalls the
fact that his father was the chief mOurner al
Thackeray'S funeral in NeDSdl-SreeU, and also
wrote a biogra IhicaI sketch of ThaCkeray in
The CornhiT' of January, 18Th, which did
I full justice TO the genius and merits of the
thor of Vanity Fair and 'PendenniS.' Mr..
Dickens adds that many time he has heard
his father speak in the most glowing terms of
ThIckeTay'S wonderful versatility. More than
this, l truthfully say that never heard him
make of any unkind or indiscreet expression
in regard TO any author or authors OF his time"
More than a year ago Mr.. Swinburne author
lied his publishers to announce a new volume of
his poems. But in the mean time he has delayed
sending the material for it. and presuma bly, his
illness will have placed, temporarily at least
another obstacle in the path of this project
Mr.. Cunninghame Graham is about to publish
a book on fernando de Soto. whom he regards
as coming next to CorteZ in Importance among
the cOHlqUiStGdOreS of America. We hope the
book will be imported here. though for some OC-
cult reason Mr.. Graham's writings have been
strangely neglected this side of the At
lantic- We have never been able to understand
this neglect for he is unquestiOnabIy one of the
most brilliant of modern descriptive nara tors
an impresSiOnist of striking individuality and
charm. He has already published several vol
umes, all of them interesting One of these "A
Vanished Arcadia" study of the Jesuits i'm
Paraguay. was issued here by the MacmiTaus
a while ago, but it passed practically unnOticed
Perhaps Mr.. Graham would be more widely rec
ogniZed here if some publisher were to bring
out of his collections of miscellaneous
papers. including his portraits of picturesque
| types in Morocco, Scotland. and elsewhere
That engaging little book with which Mr. J. ]
ton a few months ago. Wee Macgregor" is
said to be In its two huDdrelth tboi,S,DJ