New-York tribune., 1904-05-29
LITERARY NOTES.

LITERARY NOTES.
The late Sir Henry Thompson (who published
two clever novels under the name or Zen
| Oiver) has left his Personal Recollections in
| manuscript These will not be published until
| ten years have expired. such being the injunc-
| ton Of the author.
| TRANSACTIONS into English of three of the late
Maurus Jokai's ronances are announced-these
| bringing the list of such translatlons up 10
| eighteen. The new books are Tine felIoW
Rose" "a Christian. but Roman" and The
Corsair King"
Ono who knew Jokai says that the novelist
never troubled to work out his plot in detail be-
| forehand. He trusted to his imagination Tor
| guidance as to what his characters were TO do
at given moment. and often when he had COM
| pleted a chapter Of feuilleton which half Hun
| gary waiting to read he would remark 10
| his friends, as the printers devil rushed away
with the copy. should IKE 70 know wnat Inpss II;
started his characters on their careers, euioSlz'
| ing them IL he liked them. or carieaturing thgH
| IL he meant them to excite amusement or ue
! rison, and then let them work out their own
destinles across the pages of his manuscript
| "A Channel Passage and Other Poems is 10
be the title of Mr.. Swinburne's new book To
| one who has crossed the British Channel II IS
rather unpleasanty suggestive
The famous verse" about Professor Jowett
has lately gone into Notes and Queries as 4
matter OF record:
| My rame Is benjamin Jowett
| I'm the Master OF Ballol College;
| Whatever is known / know it,
And what don't know isn't knowledge
Miss Clara Love- the daughter of Sir Hudson
Lowe, Napoleon's tailer, has just died at the
| age Of eighty Five years Miss Lowe whose
memory remained extremely good UP 10 within
few weeks was fond of talking about her father,
and believed that he was much wronged by
| those who accused him Of harshness toward NA-
Emperor. says in THE Spectator:
| bave
her on hat 9 10 Ind ser1ec se Ra @ IND
tracts from letters OF the Gar Alexander /. FL "a
czar IN eter feferrng to LOVES Conduct
British Commissioner at the kussian and PLussln IS an
memorable words "Je restime beauc0up; jc tai
the marks of esteem shown 20 her father by the
try the news Of Napoleons dTst abdicaton; ard no
not less remarkable reception accorded 70 MIN oy
George ~ after his return from St Helena
letter cyithout date) written by Byrons
mother is quoted in a foreign booksellers cata-
| Iogue- She states that her has really
opinion OF his talents in verse. II received Il
letter from Byron yesterday and he abuses him
self worse than The Edinburgh Reviewer. He
says IL / have any regard for him | never viii
mention his poetry to him more. as he wishes
70 forget it; as u schoolboy IL was well enough,
bat a man he has done with it-for ever
Mr. Bodley the author OF book France.
which modern student can afford to leave
unread. is recovering slowly from an attack OK
| appendicitis
Mr. w s Gilbert lives semi-retlred life as
country gentleman. He is one of the bench of
Harrow magistrates. and occupies some of his
! leisure is dispensing justice-doubtless with all
/ the acumen depicted in Bah Ballads" M. "
| P.' says
! Two cattle dealers standing outside tho
/ courthouse day. discussing a case in which one
of them had come out victorious. and one said to
| the other in reference to w. $ Gilbert j. p:
/ ''Yuss. 'Es n good an clever sort. I
plays for the theayters, would yer. now?'' Nor
! said the second cattle drOver. with upward
sweep of the voice reluctant, philosophical
and inwardy interrogatve 'no-praps not But
all have beSinningsi'
| Miss Braddon who is longer young, and
who for n long time has scarcely touched her
pen, is about to bring out n novel. 1t is
period. and it is called "A Lost Eden"
The notices Of the death of the late Henry
Stanley in the English papers are concluded in
friendly, moderate tone. This is just enough
| far just than the rather hySteriCal talk
| that proposed for him the enShrined dignity OF
burial in Westminster Abbey, for Stanley was
not great man.
Among the stories which he is quoted tell
| ing concerning his adventures is this:
! One day. while he conversing with friendly
tribe during his travels. of the chiefs present
| inquired how wives he possessed. Upon
Stanley replying that he had none all those present