New-York tribune., 1908-03-29
LITERARY NOTES.

LITERARY NOTES.
Colonel Thomas Wentworth Hsginson has
finished, at the age of eighty-four, book Of
optimistic suggestion to readers of all ages. He
has entitled it Things Worth While
curious obstacle has arisen to the publica-
tion of Mr.. Herbert p Horne's proposed cditiO
priHcepS of the "DiaiOguS Johannis Ottobi An
gci in Arte Musica-" The old MS cannot be
deciphered Mr.. Horne must now return 20
Florence and find a new rarity among her MSS.
for the trial issue" in his newly designed Flor
ence Press fount of type.
New printings of four books by the late Laf-
cadio Htarn are coming from the press of Little.
Brown & Co These include Some Chinese
Ghosts" "A japanese Miscellany In Ghos;ly
Japan and 'Exotics and Retrospectives"
Mr.. Edmond Dulac, whose admirable illustra-
tions to THE Arabian Nights" should not be
Shakespeare. He is at work upon a group Of
paintings for a notable edition of The Tem-
pest
More unpublished letters written by Robcrt
Louis Stevenson are in the ofins. These were
addressed to the Rev w E Clarke. who MAS
a missionary at Samoa in Stcvcnson's time, VhO
much attached to the author, who was with
him when he died. and who conducted the fu-
rec.1Jlections Of his friend viii accompanv the
letters in the April Chronicle of the London
Missionary Society. The article, it is stated,
Will give some amusing illustrations of steven
sons inveterate bohcmianism, and of his efforts
To eradicate this feature from his character IN
order to be 4 good example to the natives
All possible bibliographical quostions con-
cernng the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
%RIbiiogTaphy' Los % by Mr.. George willis Cooke rho
volume contains u photoSIiYure portrait OF EHl-
erson.
-rbcre ara nov, IN r,rrror1tiou for the pfvor-
side Press series Of blbliographics of Tho
reau complied by Mr.. y. H Allen, one Of Whit
fellow compiled by Mr. G. r Little and one of
Walt Whitman compiled by Mr.. Laurens May
nard.
A correspondent of the London ~spectator''
has found in an old volume Of The Weekly En-
tertainar" published in 1910, the following poem:
THE cAPTHE-A SONNET
a fetter'd slave. noGro oh,eftain lay.
Borne by the oTpreSsor DER the swelling wave,
When memoir to his midnight vision e;,ye
Again. IN tiougnt the sufferer was gay
once more hcheid Ire stream It's green banks lave
Whore bessd with freedom, he was wont to stay
i Wnl3 tn taronE % his ctldrcn fSndiy his knee
% al D.. -, ,.,.,i,s. ,.., 20
For soon tic oppIcsaor's lash MS sumbers broke,
The discovorer Of the poem adds: The sim
ilarity # LonEfellows poem The Slaves
Dream with the above sonnet Is at once OBJ
viOus and indeed II closer comparison shows
the likeness to "a so marked and unmlstakahle
that one cannot but ask ones self whether Long
fellow based his poem OF 1912 on the crude effort
in the obscure Weekly Entertainer of 1910.
II he dll not is il 4 C-So Of coincidence, psychic
inspiration. or What The editor Of The Spec
tator" rI,t particularly eECit"d by this literary
coincidence adds this comment:
Tho point raised is Interesting, and raises
other. Had fvron read the sgr-et Of 1870 he.ore
he wrote the dying gIaGator episode IN 'th.Ide
Harold? II 50 the Weekly Entertainers $ sonnet
may have reached LJu"fvllcW Via BYRON IL is
/ roesitlc tnlt all three haze had a common
! orIsiu-sIy some dntl-s-INc trade speech OF
pamphlet.
Miss Grace DEMO LtchGcid, who is about -
publish a new novel. is also bringing out a new
volume of verse entitled "NurCissu Us and Other
| Poems The story Of Narc.~suS Is told IN a
long poem and this IS folioue ed by u group II
lyrics.
= new edition. IL. ton octave volumes. Of Cold
smiths works IS coming from the press Of the
/ Putuams. Ii is to contain hioSra phIcaI ana
critical introduction by Mr.. Horatio :. krans
and Mr. Frederick S. Coburn has made for II
eighty full page illustrations which viii he re-
produced in photogravure. The artist has found
his subjects not only in his authors writings,
but also in the places in England and Ieiano
where Goldsmith lived.
"Tra Religion OF a Democrat" is the title III
2 forthcoming book by Professor Charles Zue-
hin of the University of Chicago He discusses
| I,l,. ? he efficiency of the ClurCh anu INC