New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-10
LITERARY NOTES.

HI. r. Marion Crawrord's new novel. Fair
Margaret viii be brought out soon. Love in
| the Lists is the title OF the new novel which
Miss Montgomery, the author of THE Car
dfnaPs Pawn" Is about to publish Mr.. Bloun-
deIle-R urton's novel, The Sword of Cid
con-" is a romance OF the great Protestant suus-
gle tn Europe, and 10 supposed to be rather
thrilling.
There Is no copyright law in Japan as yet, al
though about twenty thousand books are pub
lished there every year Books about Russia
have been popular lately. At least one literary
Journal Is published there
n Is remembered of J. < Stephen the brill
iant young parodist, too early dead, that IN
certain drawing room at Eton he used TO divert
the company by asking them for the authors Of
quotations; he would quote rapidly and with
out effort, and they would guess OFTEN, after
unanimous cry Of Wordsworth or Browning
he would say quickly No; J. K s.; for the
ono thing astonishing than hts memory
Was his gift Of parody
The children Of the President and the home
life at the White House have been described
by Pastor Wagner In paper which Is 10 ap-
pear IN the october nurnoer Oh mco1ofe Mag
azine"
President Roosevelts forthcoming paper m
~Scrihners Magazine" Is mentioned as giving
a peculiarly vigorous and graphic description
of one of hts recent bear hunts in Colorado To
the November number he has contributes an &C
count Of a wolf hunt in Oklahoma His COM
panioas the expedition. Dr. Lambert and Mr
Stewart. made some striking photographs
which VIII accompany these articles.
The Edinburgh edition of stevenson's writings
f. said to be steadily going up In its auction
price Something over $50 was paid for the last
COPY brought to the auctioneers table
Mr.. George Meredith is one of the group Of
authors who remain faithful to the old
fashioned quill pen There be those who 0eheFe
rirrS
ANYTHING else In the way Of pens. and the au .
thorities of the British Museum seem to agree
with them, for they still offer 10 vlsltors Iha
good old goose quill
Barry Lyndon" says The hondo T, Tine,
os.ad biTsaIr and struck the stars with
his sublime head" We have even heard OF
people who considered appreciation Of this work
a test OF brains and culture.
4 new edition of the memoirs of Robert Cary,
Earl of Monmouth. is SO arranged IN modern
English to interest even the unscnoLaFl ~
reader The courtier gives viva picture OF
Queen Bess's last illness.
found her in one of her Withdrawing chambers
sitting low upon her cushions she caled ne 30
chefest happiness TO see her in safety and n
health which wished might Ions Gor1r aed s
No Robin am not wf a and and t tb9t bsr Pea
Mth he me 81 Sad t and heHvT for ten or twelve DAYS.
and in her discourse she fetched not SO few as fory
4Gra my nsyer knew her fetch sigh but when the
Queen of Scots was hehcaded-
What dramatic euigrnas cluster round that
sigh exclaims English critic WAS II on
of relief or Of hypocrisy. or did she, success Il
actress that she was. persuade herself that Il
was one of sorrow? Only Shakespeare could
answer that question
One of the autumn books which may be COM
| r1ended to those who delight in charming de-
scriptions OF the life Of other lands is y. Mary
r Robinson Observation-Disclosures Fields OF
France Some. if not all. of these chapters
have appeared in English periodicals. where
they agre4ably surprised readers who had been
bored by their authors affected verse.
An Englishnan. Sir j c. T. Sinclair. is 50
enthusiastic an adrirar Of Byron that he has
built in I.ondon-in Fleet-st-a Byron House
i'm the noets honor. Thera is a medallion o.
Byron over the door, surrounded by wreath
of Iaurels in statuary marble. and another in
side while several hundreds of lines of his
poetry engraved on marble tablets on the
walls of the entrance lobby and staircase
The present for descriptive color books
in Great Britain may he gagged by the fact
that those of the Blacks have thus far cost
about $4,000 TO produoe-and IN spite OF that