New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-12
LITERARY NOTES

a new story written by Kate Douglas Wiss.n
| with the assistance of three Fritisn friends >;
coming in September The Anair At ar =, -,
Inn Is to be its title ana Virginia IS the man..
| OF It's heroine-a young person VINO is mentio.,I
| as fascinating.
| mournful and not unjust cornrIaint is So,
I0rth by The Dial" OF Chicago. 1t admits th4t
abundant Hp-service is now paid to the great
poets In both America and England.
Their names are banded about in journalism
ana IN private converse, and no one Is too poor
acorn e MS speech on occasion. with tags ana
ads50, IN Protuslon formerly unknown, and ln,r
| OF our homes With amazing Industry our you,u
literature. and make themselves widely fanIiLlr
S VIII names ana titles and literary origins ana
the hgsks OF culture and the kernel IS sorn,l.o,.
and unfailng inspiration. and most of US Vel
Know that they are not They should occupy
them outside the walls They invite US to rU,.t.
banquets. while We prefer. as kusAin suggests %
| feast with sculIions.
The hymn in praise Of Apollo, which was dis
covered at Delphi eleven years ago, was SUNK
during the recent performance Of "Eiektra" in
London. 1t was written in 80 g. G. to ceIe-
| brate the victory OF the Phocians over Brrn-
nus NJ. Well, the Frenchrnan who found the
marble fragments, has arranged the text, and
the musical notation has been Interpreted ny
One Of the volumes OF the travelling library
/ "uICn the German Emperor his
zaCht pears the title OF Poems by John Hay"
This particular copy is reported 10 show the
marks OF repeated readings in turned down
pages and many marginal notes.
| In its notice OF Wraxaus memoirs The sat
urQay review remembers that il was Welbore
Ellis whose wig Lord North once removed Dy
numerous accident Ellis was sitting close 20
| North when the latter rose and inadverten.,y
with the scabbard Of his sword carried off his
| friends wig. North only discovered what ba
| q v-t,.
arose. Ellis never moved muscle but havln-.
received back his wig. calmly fixed it on MS
head" ~
one Of the serial novels which have never
found a way into book covers is Professor Alto
bates 5 story The Ties OF Blood The strong
est situation of this story arose out of the horn
fylng but erroneous belief OF the heroine that she
/ has married her own brother. Mr. HoweIls ,vbn
was then in the publishing house of II, knor
! & Fields as Editor of The Atlantic SO veh.-
mently opposed the publication of the story
that Mr. Bates gave IL up entrey-so says The
Boston Literary World.
! Mr.. Andrew Lang, though very loyal Scotch
! man, publishes q letter concerning which L. ~
claims that its writer need hardly take the
! trouble to Say that he is a Scot! No other ma
/ ton but mine own could produce person cala-
/ bic of taking obvious chan for an accidental
mlsquotatlon. For qualities like this Charles
Lamb loved not our people. while Carlyle loved
not Charles Lamb" Here is the letter:
There is a curious slip IN your At tn. san T
is the quotation from Burns OF wee modest Grim
sOn-tppit b-aste." Have you not mixed up the
first line of ITO i Mountain Daisy with the first
/ line of the verses To n Mouse? An Englshman.
| reading carefully, would rather be puzzled
| make out what beastie it could be Rut / am a
Scotchman. and therefore write 10 you brother
Scot to point out the lapsuS hnSUae.
| Miss Fanny Y Cory the illustrator, whose
pretty little drawings of children adOrn so much
fiction of the day. lives in Montana in
bungalow of her own. She has been in i'll health,
| but the trampinS and riding in that eXhilarating
air restoring her strength.
Fir. y. ]. Nj. JephsOn the author (and the sole
survivor of the EInin Pasha relief eXpeditonJ, is
4 Royal Messenger in the British Foreign Office,
and has apparently dropped his pen for the
present. He is a grandson by the way of that
Mr. Jenny of Stantieli Hall who was tragcally
murdered in the last century.
One of the notable items in a recent sale ia
London was letter written in 1916 by Sir
Stamford RafIles. Governor OF Java. II de-
scribes visit paid by him to Napoleon at st.
Helena. The writer it is said, entered tie
| exile's presence full Of generous sympathy and
| enthusiasm. but his opinions changed during
the interview Sir Stamford speaks disparag-
! Of -