New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-14
LITERARY NOTES.

Professor William Knight VIII soon be able
20 offer his volume OF letters Of the Words
worth family, which he has been editing and
arranging ana upon which he is just putting
the flushing touches. He has collected alto
getker nearly eight hundred letters from Will
sam ara Dorothy Wordsworth. their brother
John, and other memDers of the family. such
intimate correspondence as this will naturally
be expected to reveal many characteristics and
events concerning the Wordsworth family
which have not hitherto been known.
TIE late Admiral Mekarofrs favorite author
was Maupassant though he filled his library
shelves with the romances Of Eugene Sue and
Dumas. Smoiiett and Fielding were the only
English novelists he would read
The yellow van." Mr.. Richard White
ing's novel Of a year ago, has reached Its sixth
impression IN London.
In lien OF keeping diaries or of writing ex-
tensive memoirs, n. Theirs made a practice
OF merely noting facts relating TO his tn1por-
fant undertakings His sister-in-law, Mile
Dosne has collected and arranged these jot-
tings in "A volume entitled Souvenirs de NJ.
Theirs 1S70-'73)." which a publishing house
IN Paris is bringing out He saw so much OF
the inside workings of the political affairs OF
his time that these notes. covering the three
years from his diplomatic journey IN septem-
Der, 1870, until his retirement from the office
OF President OF the French Republic in May,
1873. VIII prove a boon TO historians. throw
ing light on great deal that has seemed in
comprehensive IN the history Of the three
years following the war OF 1870
Sweden has at last found shelter within the
protecting arms of the Berne Convention
The booksellers OF London report that the best
selling novels OF the season are Through Sor-
rows Gates" by Hslliwell Sutclffe: THE Car
dineIs Pawn" by X. ]. Montgomery, which,
i,v the way is IN its fourth impression and Mrs
Craigie's latest novel. 1.-The Vineyard" over
twenty-five thousand copies OF these novels were
sold within a few weeks.
The De La More Press has planned edi-
ton Of the works OF Shakespeare to be issued in
forty volumes. The original spelling of the
ouarto or the Folio will be adhered to- and all
changes IN the text will be marked IN heavy
type. The comedies will be issued first after
which will follow the histories and the tragedies
Mr. F. ]. Furnivall IS the editor. The first edi-
ton will be sold only in sets. but cheaper edl-
ton will be printed In which each volume may
be purchased separately.
In one Of Lord Acton's recently published let
ters there are a few lines which find sympa-
thetic response in the hearts of men Of literary
tastes who are forever planning the book they
never find time 10 write They are interesting
TOO. in the light Of Lord Acton's peculiar gift
OF note taking. Speaking of his projected His
tory of Liberty" he saye:
cannot well help doing what do. taking all
into consideration. and to treSOme
book please to remember that can only say things
which people do not agree with. that have neither
disciple nor sympathizer that this is encourage
ment TO production and confidence that grlZZled
na grG" baTe no other g but that which You
pleasantly describe OF sticking eternal BITS OF paper
Into innumerabe books and putting large papers
into black boxes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Egerton Castle at work on
a new novel, Rose OF the World" the scene OF
which is laid IN Dorset
Japan's greatest woman writer 'Ichiyo
fIiiuchi." who died some seven years ago in
her twenty -fifth year. She left book OF short
stories running into some thousand pages, one
Noguchi has contributed 20 The Critic" a pa
per on modern japanese women writers, in
which he tells not only of ''Ichiyo" (single Leaf,
but Of Baroness Nakajiria, revolutionist; Shi-
zuko Wakamatsu, who translated into Japanese
Mrs Burnett's Little Lord Fauntleroy,' Ten
nyson's "Enoch Arden" and other English writ
ings; Kaho Tanahe GArs. Miyake). who had the
hooks praised by the Empress and few other
lesser lights.
The first volume in the "Antiquary's Library"
which Messrs Methuen have projected, has been
prepared by Abbot GssqUet II deals with Eng
fish monastic life, exploiting the daily round OF
the old life of the monks and nuns. and giving
interesting details as 10 rnonastic officials and
methods Of administration. A full list OF the
English religious houses suppressed at the time
Of tie Reformation is given for the first time.
4 translation OF Les Souvenirs has been
made by Mrs. coluuhoun Grant, and Murray
VIII shortly bring It out in London. pc
culiar interest attaches to this volume Of
French memoirs. 1t first appeared in 1884 as
ISOLATED with the name OF the Marqulse de
Crequy and was reviewed and denounced in
the quarterly not being actually written
by the Marquise. A certain mystery has re-
,nained a. to the authorship Of the book. but
81 nevertheless has been accepted faithful
picture Of eighteenth century life among the
French nobility. and as such the English trans
istion VIII be welcome
the regular Saturday Literary features last
page of Part III of this issue.