New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-06
LITERARY NOTES.

Mr.. Anthony Hope calls his forthcoming novel
| Double Harness''-an excellent title from the
| pen of a newly married man. Other stories "hlch
are on the way to publication are MI Le
/ Queuxs secrets of the Foreign Office the
/ late Mr.. FargeOn's "AmbleTs" and "Ihe HOuse
of the White Shadows" and Mr.. Frankfort
Moore's "Shipmates in Sunshine. Lucas
| MaIet's new novel is nearly ready.
The life Of Beaconsfeld on which Mr.. Wilfrid
Meynen has been engaged is to be issued soon
under the subtitle of AN Unconventional Bl-
/ ography." The author, says The Academy
| had Unexpectedly placed at his disposal an
| interesting and important collection of letters
from DisraeIi to a private friend. letters OF
| which the existence was unknown to all but the
/ recipient. The inclusion of these amplitied the
plan of the work. and. while it delayed compile
tion, will. it is expected. clarity many OF the
obscurities in D.sraelfs life"
Mr.. w f. Henley. who ever a busy
writer and editor left an estate of something
under $1,000. He left everything to his wife.
and directed her to be guided in all matters
relating to his literary property by the counsel
of his longtime friend Charles whitley. Mr..
whitley, by the way. is clever man of letters
and the brOther-in-law of the late James Nc
Neill Whistler.
The late Frank stockton's Virginia story.
The Captains Toll Gate is to be brought
out in England with the accompanying memoir
by his widow.
The author of the forthcoming book on the
life of Calico has had access TO fresh dOcu-
ments in Italy which are sais to give a special
value to his study. \ careful photography of
the astronomers writings will be included in
the book.
Has Shakespeare's fame ever been seriously
I affected by the changes in literary fashions?
This question is to be answered by an English
compilation in which we are to find gathered in
chronological order all the best eulOgies of the
poet in English prose and verse.
Mr. Will Payne's new novel Mr.. Salt" is
mentioned as novel of business. as well as of
sentiment. the hero being one Of the modern
race of vigorous mOney-seekers. Much Of the
action passes in the street." and trusts play
a certain part in the stCry-
In the latest of the inuumerabIe Stevenson
books the author. Miss Laura Stubs. tells the
story of an Austrian count to whom r. L. ;.
showed most kindly hospitality. one lovely
morning. when staying at Valima. the count
got UP abnormally early and plunged into his
bath, which was on the veranda. "He spIashed
and sang. feeling very well and very happy,
and at last. beginning to sing very loudly. he
forgot Mr.. Stevenson altogether. All at
there was Stevenson. his hair all rufTied up. his
eyes full of anger Man. he said. you and
your Internal row have cost me more than two
hundred pounds in IDEAS and with that he was
gone
THE French Wife, is the title of Miss Kath-
airline Tynan's forthcoming novel
The new edition of Grove and Cavalcaselle's
history Of Italian painting has long been de
sired The book has been out of print for many
years, and with every year the price of second
hand copies scared higher and higher. IL is
said that the revisOns left by the late Sir
Joseph Grove amount almost to a rewriting of
the book. In this new edition the wOOd-bOck
Illustrations of the old will give place to
the modern halftOne and photographers. Two
volumes of the work will be brought out in
few weeks.
In a copy of BewiCk's Birds lately cata-
| lOgued in England were found these lines in
TennysOn's handwriting and signed by him:
gate and a field half pIoughed
y solitary COW.
y child with broken slate.
And a titmarsh in the bOugh.
But where. alack is Bewick
To tell the meaning now?
The finding of titles is not an easy thing in
these days of Astounding fiction. Mr.. III. Il.
Marriott Watson has found which is not
bad for his new volume of short stories; il is
Alarms and Excursions
Talking of titles. The Daily Mali reminds
us Of Mr.. w. p. James's essay pointing out that
Dickens usually wrote up to title. He chose
his name with the utmost care. and when that
fact was accomplished seemed content. The
writing a mere matter of course. In his
memoranda were found nineteen titles for nov
els unused. AS Mr.. James remarks, the English
novel began by calling itself after the hero
heroine such Tom Jones' 'CiariSSa.' but
presently aspired to be holder and more pict-