New-York tribune., 1905-06-04
LITERARY NOTES.

Mr.. Kipling will publish, no rev book ,,t1,i this
year. but his publishers will bring out an Illus
trated edition of They"
The profits of authorship in Poland are not
very great It is said that no author except
Sfenkiewicz would refuse $500 for a novel.
and two novels by Mr.. Barrie brought to him
more than all SienkiewicZ's books put together
Welded to the Pole The translator of foreign
| novel gets for his work only from S25 to Soo.
The recent flood of articles about Schiller has =
| brought out a reprint of little known opinion
of Coleridge written in copy of his translation
of "Wallenstein":
Tea Tina main % oEa of this dr Ray is a the naegee
of superstition, did wallenstein; and the
and the unhappy effects Of :nsncerty tno h}r t4s
the best %se bnen m ms an motif as
the great dramatiss of the great Queen dealt EAU b 1
hsn Seh Sreh the snd the ahes
eerty % which sRs have tyeubsd them 1I but little
| A privately printed book Rabelais and Vic
tor Hugo is said to show that the poet quotea
| books that he had not read, and talked about
| things of which he had only second nand
knowledge-that he was practically unac-
ouainted with the works of his great predeces-
sor that he owed such familiarity as ne dld
display with the story of Pantagruel to few
conversations with Charles Nodier as far back
as 1927 and that he went entirely astray as TO
| the characters and history OF the personageS ia
| that immortal tale"
| .e,oes ANYBODY read scott's novels now?" The
question is answered by three booksellers in dif-
ferent parts of England who have been asked
what 'sixpennies' they regard as their safest i
| 'stock" Each of the three responded: NIhe
novels of Sir Walter Scott
! A comical Balzac story is thus quoted from
the "Ciaulois':
his skin in reading character from handwrtini DIV ting
Z la1u hrOIP
book of a twelve-year-od schoolboy and asked
| prospects Balzac inquired whether the child was
her Answered in the dafrd his e ndeent
| Madame" he said. this child is thick headed
he hed Tay child him from sfhGS Sd
and put him to the plough And then 1t had @ 10 ne
else which he had so seyedey bdge
owav VI between the leaves of old lesson book.
lanes Anthony F'roude is at last to be the
| subject of an authoritative biography. Mr.. Her
bert Paul is its author and the book VIII proba-
bly, appear in the autumn. Much fresh @ lntor oIt-
nation concerning Froude's youth ana carry
manhood will be included IN IT.
! A book which we may safely say promises to
be delightful is on the way and will he brought
ont in the autumn. 1t is to be called Mrs
Brookfeld and Her Circle"-that Mrs. Brookheid
being the charming, tender hearted woman VINO
was the original of Lady Castewood in Es-
mond." She and her husband, Canon Brook
field were the long time friends of Thackeriy,
and TO them he wrote the fascinating letters
which the Scribners issued here some years ago.
Some hitherto unpublished drawings by him VIII
be a part of this volume. Not only Ihackeray'
but the other literary celebrities of the VIC
toran period will be encountered in its pages
1t will be particularly rich in literary anec'
doteS.
The Leslie Stephen lectureship in the e Univer-
sity of Cambridge is now established the en-
dowment of something $1,000 having been
handed over to the university by the friends of
Sir Leslie The first lecture will be delivered
next wear: one will follow every two years
Thereafter It must be on some literary SUD-
iect including criticism. biography and ethics
The lecturer will be appointed by board OF
three university officials
Mrs Humphry Wards novel-the first
chapters of which to appear in the Septenl-
ber 'Century"-is said to be based on story
of real life
Some important unpublished letters of Rous-
seau are to appear in n forthcoming volume en-
titled La Comtesse d d'Houdetot. Sa Famiiie, seq
Amis These letters written to the count
ess and were communicated to the author by
. one of her descendants. Other unpublished let
ters which will accompany them were penned
bv Voltaire Franklin, Diderot and Nine.
Necker The author Of the volume is the his
of he pip century Nj BuffenOlr.