New-York tribune., 1906-12-23
LITERARY NOTES.


The CaIton volume recently discovered n
Eng1and-a valuable If imperfect volume-xiE
not come TO this country II has been secured
for the British Museum
poem ITO My Accomplices,- written BY Tb-
sen In 1854 'as bitter greeting to Norway for
not helping Denmark in the war with Germany
was long supposed to be lost. even by its author
1t recently turned I'D and Is to be published
soon
"A bigoted and nfterate woman Is what
Qneen Anne Is called IN the splendidly Hlustrat-
bert Paul @ot the four English Queens" hs
says. 'she Is ny far The least significant:
% HsF SAD ep ns s vas a 90 ss s ne o
chidhood, HatShtng the gradual dissolution Of her
fPs Sa' hG Gf RsE S0Ga 06a
Of the na nde hann nns5 ins 0Gfsfns ffs apd i n
erased ITS gloon The secret tragedy Of her
DE s COINS s at West1stsr a6sts HlS 4Sses
We should know at the outset that Mr. Jerome
< IeroUes impressions OF the literary situation
In America gathered during a hasty Iecturine
TOUR could not be worth very much Not on
such a journey does a collect any corcTusvs
Information on that subject It is not surprfs-
ing therefore, that he thinks the American peo-
PIE seem to be more and more inclining IN tha
direction OF magazines and third rate novels
The railway train boy, rather than the reading
Impression
There Is q little story n the recently pub
hshed memoir Of Sir Charles Bunbury which may
wen be remembered among the strange tales Of
kings When Humboldt was at the Tuileries
for The last time in 1S47 and was about to take
leave, Louis Philippe said 10 him. .aTeII NJ.
good brother the King of Prussia that am very
firm here; l am very popular, All France IS at
my feet; the Kings OF Europe may sleep soundIy,
for there VIII be no more revolutions" .
In little more than two months Louis Philippe
was fugitive
Another story In this volume which has its
touching side concerns Sir George Napier the
fine soldier. After the Battle OF Toulouse q
group OF English officers were petting a French
dog, whose owner had taught him TO accept food
only when it was offered with the right hand
But Sir George had to offer crust with bis left
hand, because he had other. The dog looked
at him steadily for a moment-and took It
The novelist's method Of composition IS al
ways interesting 20 other writer's Concerning
an author of a former generation, Mrs GaskeIlc
we are told by Mrs. Ritchie that before begin,
ming a book the author Of "Cranford@ never
failed TO write down at length the sketch OF the
story that was to be She took care to have it
all safe and TO mark ahead the incidents and
the characters. and she kept 10 her plans
Concerning the late Arthur Ben Nichorls thu
husband OF Charlotte Bronte, Mr.. c. K Shorter,
who sought him out in Ireland. says that "hs
hated publicity. and. above all things viewed
the attempt to pierce the veil OF his married
life with almost morbid detestation."
Mt Nichols was not IT appears, the last
who were described in Shirley" stin lives in
retirement near London. and is not averse to
letting It be known that he sat fer the portrait
OF David Sweeting He used TO go and have
tea with the Bronte sisters, and has recorded
his Impressions: Charlotte was twenty-one or
twenty-five, and must say had idea that
she writing books, that she was likely
to put into them Our conversation was al
ways very formal and merely about the weather
or small things of local interest My impress
sion that the girls were rather prin, but
they lived a very quiet life" He thought IL
amazing that Charlotte Bronte should have dis
played such knowledge of humanity when ''she
never went anywhere and could never have seen
any one"
The collected edition OF Sir Leslie Stephens
essays will be somewhat formidable in size
there will be no fewer than ten volumes. Mr.
Bryce and Mr.. Herbert Paul are preparing pref
aces for the edition which viii probably be pub
ushed next spring
One OF Lady Dorothy NeYTfTs jokes Is net to
be found in her successful book OF reulfniS-
cences. 1t is said that when bored by the chat
ter at a dinner party OF woman who persisted
in telling dull anecdotes about foreign courts
Lady Dorothy exclaimed to her neighbOr: WIN
the good woman never have done with her REM
innut1ancesT-