New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-06-25
LITERARY NOTES.


Back to Sunny Seas'' is to be the title of Mr..
T. T. Bullens book describing his recent journey
through the West Indies
MT. Henry James is going back to England
next month and his book on his recent impress
sions of America will probably appear early
next year. 1t will, no doubt. be welcomed with
much curiosity, for many of Mr.. JamesS coun-
tryInen believe that he is too much out of SYM
pathy with his native land to write of it i'm
partially and with UNDERSTANDING
The Great Lexicographer!is it possible that
we may have a fresh glimpse of him in the at
dtude most revered by the august Miss Pinker-
toni A correspondent Of Notes and Querfes-
communicates a saying of Dr.. Johnson on taking
a pinch of snuff, which has not to his knoWt-
edge at any time appeared in print Here Is
the saying
In your puiverized edoriferous sweets for the
olfactory nerves
AS for the authenticity of this elegantly pom
derous and polite sentence, 1t is thus attested by
Mr.. o. B. FeIlowes: TT was repeated by DR.:
Johnson to Mrs Thrale. who again repeated II
to Sir James Fellowes Cher literary executor);
he repeated it to my father. and my father to
me-"
Mr.. Bodley the author Of a notable work on
France, has been prevented by a long illness
He Is now recovering and will take up
again the volumes dealing with religious
questions In the great republie-a subject which
- just interesting In many directions.
An English bookselIing story Is told by .
clever woman who asked for q volume of Robert
| Browning's works II haven't got it, madam.
replied the bookseller. II make IT a rule never
to stock any books can't understand and
can't make head tail of Mr.. Browning. Can
your" Scarcely knowing whether to be amused
or annoyed, but prepared to take another vol
ume. the lady said: Have you Praed. then?"
Yes, madam" quoth the bookseller, I've
Drayed- and that don't help me-"
A poem by Browning hitherto unpublished Is
coming out in an English periodical 1t is called
"A Forest Thought and was written by the
poet in womans album nearly seventy years
ago.
There Is an interesting note OF Browning's
which was written to Lady Dixie and is repro
duced in her husbands just published memoir
of her:
AS for news have none. We all reading tho
Life of Dickens and admirng his sensitiveness
his eary days WhenWdid he see with the eyes OF
Of his sagest friends-it was the best eduea.
ton imaginable for the like OF him Shall versfyI
In Dickens. sure philosophy lacking,
Since of calauities he counts the browning,
That. young. he had too much to do with Backing.
A short biography of George Borrow is In
course of preparation by Mr.. c. K Shorter. A
quantity of Borrow's MSS, comprising poems
prose and letters, have been procured by him
from the executors of Borrows stepdauShter.
1t was of this Henrietta, by the way. that Bor-
row proudly observes "she has all sorts of good
qualities. and several accomplishments, know
ing something of conchoogy, more of botany,
drawing captally in the Dutch style, and play
ing remarkably we'll the guitar-not tho
trumpery German thing called-but the real
Spanish guitar" There is pleasant picture IN
wild Wales of Henrietta playing on her gui-
tar the old nnuleteer tune of Eel Punto de Ia
Vana" while her stepfather jovially sang the
words with here and there a line that
how swings through the readers memory, like
Mr. CUTLER Couch is writing a novel,
which is to be published serially before coming
out in book form He will issue a volume of
short stories in the autumn