New-York tribune., 1908-04-05
LITERARY NOTES.

LITERIRI NOTES.
Mr. w D. Hoveils. it is hinted. is writing,
new novel the scene of which is laid in E'HI'-
He has spent part of the winter in the Hgirut
city renewing the impressions Of forty four
years ago.
What is believed to be manuscript from
! Luthers own hand has been found in the library
OF a Russian collector OF rare books L - a
volume of Biblical studies written in Latin with
few notes in German On the last page
Mime. Sarah Grand's volume of short stories,
to be entitled Emotional Moments is nearly
ready for publication The author of THE H'Tv-
enly Twins Ga book which is apparently
dead now as it was once popular) has printed
nothing for long time
The biography of Herbert Spencer. written by
his friend and literary executor Professor DAVID
Duncan is coming from the Appleton press
1t is understood that he reveals therein 4 more
sympathetic element in the philosopher than
any which has hitherto been shown TO
The New York of Yesterday" is the title ~
volume which the Putnams are about Il Iuh-
lish. What known Old Bloomn Gdsile
IS the region TO which the author, Nh. II. (.
Mott, has devoted research, and his narrative
is full of picturesque details concerning the
people who have lived therein. Louis Philippe
in his days of poverty and exile was ont of
these. Talleyrand was another.
In the forthcoming biography Of his wife Alice
Freeman Palmer (president of Wellesley: At
ber death received more than thousand letters
from statesmen, school girls, clerks. lawyers,
teachers, country wives, Outcasts. milliunaT,-s,
ministers. men of letters-a heterogeneous and
10 me largely an unknown company but alike
feeling the marvel of her personality and the loss
her death had caused the writer's Few women
of her time, l have come TO think. were more
widely loved. And these persons ars reoi:i-
ing her influence and asking for explanation
Where lay that strong power and how die She
obtain it? She lived no longer than most of rs.
She had no early advantage of birth. phE eIcal
vigOr, or station. Half her years passed n
comparative poverty During only nine did she
hold positions which could be called conspicuous
She wrote little. In no field of scholarship was
she eminent Her tastes We're domestic. h"r
voice gentle, her disposition feminine and self
effacng. Yet by personal power rather than BY
favoring circumstance this woman sent out an
influence from the Atlantic to the Pacific a.. in
iuence unique in kind and puzZling those un
whom it fell" The biography of Mrs Palmer 10
just coming from the Riverside Press.
A book describing the great historic chateau
OF Vincenncs which has just appeared in Parls
will doubtless help the movement for declaring
this relic Of eight centuries public monument
OF France There are few old buildings rIch
as is Ninccnnes in historical associations. .tn6
there is no other which has come practically
untouched from medieval times through the
agony Of the Revolution This old h"Ta" of
French Kings is military establishment
and such is almost wholly denied to yts-
ltors- Those who succeed in getting d raS9
from the military authorities allowed 20
see very little of the chateau.
Countess Leo ToIstoy has written a book
about her husband ana il is soon L. b pub
lIshcd in many different languages She cails
this biography-for that is what il really is
My Relations with ToIstoy and his Work "a
n Writer She has always been her husband g
literary adviser and helTeT-and a Straucf Ufe
she must have had with that very crrati. ane
thoroughly unreasonable man of talent.
The latest photograph of Tolstoy shows I'm
Is said to be very fond of music his fayrri;a
composers being Haydn and Mozart He HEcs
CHOPIN and cares for only few of Beethoycn's
works.
He takes Keen interest in POPULAR music ana
-ome Of which ne sent to r haikoyski. wi,h the
suggestion that the melodies would be more effe,-
lively treated after the manner of Mozart and
Handel than IN the style OF ScnumdHn o. bcrhuz
N hcn IDlstuN was Recently asked tie uf
his preference for classical music he replied ttr
influence ON the nerves, whereas the uf
tom pOTJry music excitement
The young people from thc ueiyhborUG proper
Les and Nl.ageS arr frequently invited Y4S-
maya Poiyana. @nd provide an orchestra cf guitars
ana naIal; 'kas. wfico plays natl mai Hlet"dEe~,
songs and daEceS. T. the evident enjoy iae..t Of
Count IOlstOy-
Nj, 8 r Crockett has written another novel
To- which hc has given the not particularly
effective titlC OF The bloom O. the Heather"
There was tim" WEeu Mr.. Crockett'S name on
now ttle-pl"c reused - pleasant excitement
ia American novel readers. but doubt i IN