New-York tribune., 1904-08-05
LITERARY NOTES.

new book 1N lDI = " ~lf M4Ltlicat NlilAN1~N
New samaria." one OF the two stories in IT
10 a humorous study OF character: the other is
a love story. The same publishers have in press
a tale called The Never-Never Land BY the
late Wilson Barrett
Mr.. Bliss Perry prints in the current number
OF The Atlantic" ne address which he deliv
cred at Bowdoin College in commemoration OF
the one hundredth anniversary Of Hawthorne's
birth He ends his author very like Hamlet,
drawing a suggestive parallel between the two
Like Hamlet he loved discourse with un-
Iettered people with wandering artists. with
local humorlsts. although without ever losing
his dignity and inviolable reserve. He had
irony for the pretentious. Kindness for the simple
hearted. merclless wit for the fools He liked
20 speculate about men and women. about
InptatiOn and sin and punishment. but he re-
NAMED Ike Hamlet clearsighted enough to
distinguish between the thing in itself and the
thing rs IL appeared TO him in his solitude and
melancholy" Mr. Perry thinks that too much
has been made Of such phrases as puritan
gloom and "'the morbid New-England con-
science" by critics seeking to explain why Haw-
thorne loved to deal with moral problems. He
was drawn to them. we are told. "by the natural
xravitation OF his own mind. just Newman
was inevitably attracted 20 theology or Darwin
20 science" Speaking of Hawthorne's style.
Mr.. Perry says:
We talk .glibly nowadays about painting, and
writing with one's eye on the object. Hawthorne
With your eye on the conscience of Arthur. Dim
@ sze % an ne book I. donei WHAT concenra
don of visioni What exposing power! Haw-
nothing IKE BalEaes OF Meredith,s but the word-
SO SToo me senTences move in peTfect pojse
Their ease Is perhaps little self ef-cOnscious;-pains
oSTsiess ineVitS6le grace Of Thaeker,y. 1t is
a finished grace OF their own 1t is a style ex-
Hawthorns's fancy gets the better OF him. and
SIS alr cf cultivated exuherance Yet even when
hs sins saRst % simplicity se o Is always G IdI anspaT s
arEnneEs of outline are marvellous, when we con-
may he building cloud-castles hUt it IS IN pure
cut EhnEp-edged ss ma-ble-
Mr C. Lewis Hind is an English journalist
who won some Fepute by his clever editing of
ssrhe Acstsny aud LlteTaturs" through period
of several years. he much improved that paper,
giving e greater vIvacity than It had known be-
so1e. without sacrificing any OF fits dignity a
serious literary organ. He shows the same
clcVerness and the same discretion in the volume
called Adventures Among Pictures 0he Mac
znillan Company, which he has made up chiefly
Ds essays contributed 70 the periodical aforesaid.
Eis method IS picturesque and conversational
Ee tells you the circumstances under which he
looked at q picture, and even brings IN the talk
hs may have happened 20 have with the COM
panion of the moment The talk is never brill
sxnf, and, in fact. Mr.. Kinds criticism nowhere
suggests that epithet But he can look with
sympathy at all kinds OF pictures he write
about them with intelligence If not with much
originality, and his informal papers make pleas
ant reading Here are some lines from his chap
ter on Manet:
Imagination did not disturb him with her gay
bis pictures: he was an artist in emotion, as in
paint; he had incredible skill in manipulation. and
In his work moved that elusive something
called equality. No one would mistake 1lanet,
among the greatest Psnters Of the world He saW l
superbly but he did not feel deeply; he saw clear
He lacked that something more which some call
grace Of od The gTestness Of Schaei sPG Angels S
Of Leonardo, Of Botticelh, Of Yelasquez. OF Hals.
tan pictures by Manet ! feel that within their
aiI, my are t4il1l. especially Goes this
70 $50 the reaiist the silhouette 4lanet gradually
Dogs and .he Maxiniiisn learning from m aud
discarding Titan and Giorgione to Veasquez and
Ne Spanish masters. ON to the japanese. through
to become Msnet. the lumnist the painter of lie
Llnge" and Yachting AT Argenteuil"
CHIEF From him and his companions deriving
school OF modern Impressonism- -divfders Of tones,
poiDl!iisIs dottists ana the vast army Of clever
i ihooGs me sc3entinc principles OF painting. and
picture-no more. Manet had sight and knowledge.
Mr.. Hind's book contains a couple of dozen
illustrations from old and modern works OF art,
eight of them being printed in colors. He has
chosen inevitably number OF familiar things,
but here and there we note picture like "The
Death ot Procris." by Piero d Cosimo, or
Afaners Woman with the Dogs" which is
bound 20 have. for many readers. a certain
sreEhnsss.
third volume IN the great survey OF London
On which the late Sir Walter Besant was work
ing az the time OF his death WIFI be issued by
the MacmIllans this season. It will treat Of
London In the Time Of the Tudors." which is to
tays ct period about which Besant particularly
enjoyed writing.
The following conversation is reported in The
London Chronicle as having been overheard IN
Welsh railway train, the speakers being =
clergyman and his wife: She. who is John on
yer Hobbes?" He: An author" She; oh,
thought he was a woman" He "Oh!-perhaps
-HunphTy Ward" She: OH
gor many years Mr. Edmund G. Gardner. who
ss tavorably known for his writings on subjects
IN Italian literature and history. has been at
work upon an especially alluring theme, the
civilization OF typical Italian town OF the
Renaissance 2e has just published the first
fruits OF these researches OF his in a volume en-
titled Dukes and Poets in Ferrara: A Study in
the Poetry. Religion and Politics OF the Fif
reenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries" The
cnief parsonage IN this volume is Ercole I the
second Duke OF Ferrara. but the hero OF a Sec
ono volume which Mr.. Gardner is preparing win
oe Looovico Ariesto who raised Ferrara ito a
worldwide importance IN the history OF Euro
pean literature"