New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-18
LITERARY NOTES.

Two days before Christmas as We have al
ready noted France will celebrate the centenary
of Sainte-B euVe- IL has this month to pay
tribute also to two other writer's, both famous
In their different ways Eugene Sue and Jules
Jann were both born in December 1901
The author of The Masqueraders." Mrs
Katherine Thurston. has found rival IN her
own household Her husband is publishing a
novel called The Apple of Eden. in which ne
deals with the experiences of a who enters
the priesthood and works for time In the
South of Ireland. but presently renounces his
task for more normal state of things"
What the whirligtg of time has done for Maxim
Cork, the Russian novelist. Ia strikingiy sus-
gtSted by a photograph recently published
few years ago. when this writer was first heard
OF in this country. stories OF his personality
fun of the hardships he had suffered and the
humble folk among whom he had been obliged
to live. New photographs show him be a
prosperous and happy individual. and the par
ticular one TO which we have alluded presents
him seated at his ease. reading the manuscript
Of his latest work Der Mensch to the ven
cradle art critic Stassof. who preserves an atti-
tude of respectful attention. We rejoice in the
swift transition Of Cork from obscurity to the
position of Importance which this photograph
implies
MIR. William NJ. Rossettt busy, as always over
the literary achievements of his family has
made a selection from the poems of Christina
RoSsetti for the Golden Treasury series He
has arranged them with a view to expressing
what he conCeives to be the keynotes of feeling
"hlch inspired them In the first volume which
ne has just published. of his edition of
Dante Rossetti's poems with illustrations from
his own pictures and designs" he has of course
some new notes. One of Them on the lines In
Ave" which run as follows:
The
Sighed further off eternany-
conveys this information:
When the privately printed volume was nrenarnp
pointed out to my brother that this would not
m reply Was hy rs c no sea al al near Nazareth
n.uSt IMAM al Nazareth You know old painter
background " "Nleu II LOT MS
Or. Montague James, the eminent scientist of
q bridge. compiled some time ago. for the
entertainment of his family circle, Book OF
GOOD Ghost Stories" 1t is said of these tales
th"t they certainly succeed in producing that
dreadful feeling of growing horror which be-
longs to the best kind of ghost stories told in
The right way" If this is just praise there
ought to be warm welcome for the book which
is soon to be published. 1t is promised that
some at least of the illustrations viii be simply
bond-curdling."
Tom Gerard" is the title of Mr.. Louis
Becke'S novel The scene is laid in Queens
land and the book deals with life and adventure
there in the COS
In the just published reconections of the
British admiral. Sir Edmund b. Freemantle.
there ~ interesting paragraph written in
Inc Eastern diary after the fail of Wei Hal Wei
The admiral. at a japanese feast celebrating
the victory. toasted Admiral Ito and Marshal
CyAt"a in champagne and sake. lon these feS-
decidedly jolly and familiar. are never offensive
and vulgar SO that the scene WAS a pleasant
The Russian Military AttaCh&
full Of admiration for the Japanese army, prals-
ing IL immensely. saying with truth. l believe,
mat no European army would have arranged
matters we'll"
Upon the initiative OF M. Paul Toutain. no.
tary who is also man of letters, a hundred
of the friends and admirers of Gustave Flau-
bert recently met at Rouen to start move
ment TOT the establishment of a memorial to the
place; with which he long identified. The
municipal council OF Rouen Immediately voted
thousand francs toward the scheme, and other
subscriptions were made with sufficient gen.
crosby to Justify the belief that there will be