New-York tribune., 1909-12-26
LITER4RT NOTES.


Lorna Doone" Tageant is TO be held next
summer IN the famous Valley Of Rocks. at
/ LyntOn, in England
A Welsh writer. Joan Dane. has drawn. she
GseIaTes from old mss in the abbeys of strata
TbicS ppA sb anu t o2n"sy the materials for book
man Who Discovered America A ID If70"
h dtr ehiet object in the preparation Of the work.
tice 10 great Welshman whose name mas long
been hidden in oblivion
The recent celebration in London Of the
| IT,. IT, centenary took place in the BOudoir
InTatfe' on whose wall is placed a memorial
/ tablet. Professor F. :. Boas. in the course 0r
/ MS address. said that he understood from the
criticisms OF Americans that hitherto Edgar
Allan Poe had not taken the same rank in
america as in other parts of the world. but that
this view was now changing. Probably. he
the fact that he was a romantic poet and
american poetry was not romantic.
In The Mississippi River" book to be pub
llshed BY the Putnams early next year Mr.
Julius Chambers has set down the history most
picturesque and romantic. of the great wafer
way. Another volume which the Putnams VIII
BRING out at the same time is The Mediter-
ranean Cruise" by Mr. Bruce Milard IL viii
provide a great deal of information about the
places visited in the course of such cruise
The reviewer in ''The London Saturday Po-
view" Of Mr. L Melvillc's remade biography II
Thackeray says some erninently true and vel
come things about the great man. ~Thackeray.
/ the man." he reminds Us. has always been
something OF an enigma. The reason seems TO
be that he was a shy man. He appears 70 have
been one OF those who keep within themselves
a corner secluded from the world However
/ intimate the friendship however seeming frank
/ the good fellowship, there is always one last
ring fence that few may break down. There is
about Thackeray, through all his varying moods
OF surllness or loving kindness. through al his
flashes Of grim humor or pitilrSs insight q stIg-
gestion OF a still sanctuary kept inviolate. He
seems 70 have been jealous for The seclu-
sion he needed for his inner self as he was
often boisterOus in his expression Of the super
nelaI mood that possessed him. The real
ThaCkeray viii never be- known. for the in
Guirer with eyes 10 see behind the veil Will not
oe the one 70 tear II aside for spectacle And
here the reviewer speaks out In u fashion
delight all Thackeray lovers-and no who
knows literature and life as they should be
known Is other than = lover Of the immortal
novelist.
The injunction left behind him by Thackeray that
Of the man as it $ typical OF the world 70 dsre
s!Td , IL 1T M M9ri9 h4s IN the person OF Mt Me
Melville wrote tn first biography and here
years has had time to irlprote lie should have
had time 10 improve himself out Of any intention
doing this but he has improved a little IN other
ltSLTSt7, tils 4FSt o.2sraohy vas co.lec,lsn ot
solicitor In The second IN scraps are better
hind the fence Of reserve which the world viii
I never succeed in breaking down is still safe
I as he ever Mr. Melville began drag cut
literary lumber for our instruction.
The private printing by 3Ir. Thomas Wise
OF seven little books of prose and Verse by
SWinburne Is mentioned I'm q letter FROM Mr.
c. X. Shorter 10 The Dial" He adds.
The series contains. for example. a prose
nance entitled The Marriage OF Mona Lisa.
there IS another. also in prose. entitled The P0r
trait, and a third prose volume d entitled Tine
Chronicle OF Fredeg0nd-" There also before
I little pamphlets tanning
ballads. One is entitled ''Nargaret'. a secund
Lord Scales; q third. Lord SO4lesF, a fourth,
/ Border Ballads No doubt these seven little
books will ultimately be- given 20 the pUboproba-
bly i'm single volume but they are practically
Unobt1inable to-day.
Mr.. Shorter quotes one of the Border Bal
laGs'-aud very poor stuff il is.