New-York tribune., 1909-01-17
LITERARY NOTES.

LITERARY NOTES.
! Sir John Hare's recolections are to be fol-
lowed by those of another distinguished English
actor. Sir Charles Wyndham is busy engaged
upon his autobiography, based on the notes
which he has kept during his working life
! NJ. Francis Charmes has lately pronounced.
before the French Academy what is said
have been a noble eulogy On his predecessor NJ
EerthelOt. He spoke not only Of the dead
mans gifts and achievements in science, but
also of his tender and romantic devotion to his
Wife one of the gentle things remembered of
bertheiot was th;'t ne never returned from the
laboratory to his home without bringing
that beloved one little bunch of violets.
There is TO he a biography of William Beck
ford, the author of "Vathck" prepared by that
energetic manufactures of biographies, Mr.. Lewis
Melville. That 'unbridIeI romantic" as Mr.
Whitley calls Reckford was hardly the
be the subject of a memoir of the commercial
sort Rather should it be written by some
whimsical genius, as 4 labor of love, without
haste and with imaginative apprehension. There
is pi ienty of material Redding may have been a
vulgar gossip. but his work is useful. Beck
fords letters and papers are in the possession
! OF his descendants. who have agreed to let Mr..
Melville examine them
The Question is the significant title of a no.
| tice in The Pail Mall Gazette" of Mr. Green
woods recently published book The Shaks-
/ peare Problem Restated" For many people the
| Question does not exist. and The Gazette"
has no Illusions on the point Here is passage
! from the notice:
fo Thee 5 is 5So no Fe@s3 ~ Why the STRAIT
but the history of all great is subversive Of
to take instance from a different sphere Of
| fe-shOuId make Ioath to declare anythin, un-
! likely. when genius the question For our
| selves too-thoUgh not We gather for Mr. Green
wood-the weight OF evidence is for the traditional
| authorship. because cannot think of any tho
alternative & authors as at all possible 1t is not
! ndisputabe cyidence-in their written works-that
their genius was cf totally different order,
A new volume of lyrical poems has been pro-
duced by Mr.. John Payne and is to be pub
somewhat affected title in Flower o the Thorn:
A Book of Wayside Verse
Mr.. Louis Bccke's new novel is said to he
largely autobiographcal. 1t describes. of course.
/ adventures in the Islands OF the Pacih" It's
! thinly veiled title is "fhe Adventures of Louis
| Blake"
A first hand anecdote Of Milton comes to
light in the London spectator" II is conn
muniCatod by 4 corros sponGent who found il in an
old family letter written in 1862 to his great
great-grandfather. Apropos of a discussion on
Milton. the writer Of the old letter says:
poTT EGa @ % john PG hyG 92i Ps bseTs aaeedSt sG
after YOU came to Tayiscc me it, and he
lived in London in 1896 Milton as You know vas
ana said. God hath punisAd you for your malice
Gtc TO my f2:her by taktne away your ey%Sirft & t
lost his head
+ The personal problem for the man who. anil
the confusion Of theological rcconstructions finds
it still necessary to have soul. is met in dis
/ ccruin.. and hnartcning wa by President Henry
/ Churchill King i'm The Seeming Tnrca.ity ot
the Spiritual Life CHE Macmillan Comrany).
/ Thanks to the illuminating Offices of psychology
. the iuter-rclatious of personality are hcing more
I clearly understood, the fact that habit has a
uhvsicaI basis and that bodily conditions infalH-
/ bly affect mental or spiritual states This com
/ plcxity must not be ignored If We would attain
! any sort of peace. nor the corr spending fact
/ Of an underlying unity, the Will that makes
/ personality possible. To come into thh great
/ values Of the spiritual life simply requires that
! We should nut ourselves in the Trs srnoe of the
| greatest facts of tho spiritual world. in vplun-
/ tary surrender to them just 50 far az they CON-
! mand our inner allegiance
The author Of a new book on carlyle declares
/ that the mans work lis far greater than has
vet lrcn realized WEcrsUpoH "a British critic
remarks:
TIE unreaIizei greatness Of the prophetic mis-
SIGN of the Sage Of CraiICuiuttuCk and tHeIStd-
/ confession Of this is much tc.t Of ttglyI";Ih
! urt /, ,Goxy was the question put - ttHNloN bF
/ the town councillor of EdinhorcuEh when the no
/ tpT-o,l= ucTrtc clndi date for chair IN ina
. university that City: Are yuu a joined MEM
| ber Of ory Communion. MaiStcr Huxley
! Professor Shahraz. able scholar and au-
! thor and the editor of the first Urdu Journal
| "DaruI- -Sultanut" has just died in Calcutta