New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-15
LITERARY NOTES.

Mr.. Roosevelt's book, Travels and Expert.
ences in South Africa" is almost ready in its
London as quickly as possible.
In volume entitled Southern Prose and
Poetry Professors Edwin Minis and Bruce r.
Payne have gathered mass of selections from
the work of representative writer's OF the South.
1t IS meant to serve as an introduction to
Southern literature The text is accompanied
by brief notes and biographical sketches of the
authors represented. The Scribners are pub
fishing the book.
Professor Dowden, who has published moth
ing for long time, is about to bring out VOL
ume of literary studies. 1t is to bear the title
of Essays: Elizabethan and Modern" He will
deal therein with such subjects as The Eng,
'Heine' and "Cowper and William Hayley."
The book ought to be entertaining and it will
probably not show the defects which moved to
wrath many readers of his Life OF Shelley
OF Bi5rnson, the novelist-the Sea Eagle"
his countrymen called hinl-"The London Times"
says: LAS orator he has probably had no
rival in his own age in any country. His gift
poured forth in infinite variety of tones,
wailing, shouting, whispering, ringing with
| laughter, with irony, with tunultuous rage. HIS
voice, in its emphasis, his gestures, IN Their
amplitude, were sufficient to command the at
tention of the largest and least willing audience
He had not little Of what the admirers OF
Mirabeau described Ia parole sacree s'excitant
ele-meme.'
n ade public letter from that versifer which
does much explain why it is difficult for many
lovers of poetry to attend to the d1VaSations OF
his muse:
for something with those who are perpeetuaIly
talking of the in1practicability of poetry in the
present day. This fact is that one poet at any
rate, has from the time when he left OX1ord,
his career in tn. same way that painter or a
sculptor is allowed to devote himself to his ar
poet deliberately aside all other financial re
sources, and has so far met with no dlficui.y;
but indeed with practical success than would
be likely to one engaged in any other arr, III so
audacious stroke throwing oneself into the york
entirely. not taking it as heaby. But az any
it is a fact
The most important book about Napoleon now
in course of preparation is NJ. Frederic mason !
"Napoleon at ST. Helena IT is to be one 81
the Gcup series-which means OF course tna'
it will contain many remarkable llluStratloIi:i
The historian was asked the other Gay WhetneI
the fact that he had never seen st. Helena did
not operate to his disadvantage. Certainly
not" he said II should expect to he uldniy III
fuenced and above all disappointed Il L had hee1
to St Helena. 1 think that one can describe
with far correctness the countries til&t
one imagines" That is an odd theory.
Princess Caroline Murat, the granddaughter
of ,Iurat and his wife, Caroline Bonaparte. Iefi
an autobiography which is to be published soon.
It is largely concerned with her life at the court
of her cousin, Nal oleon III Her childhood was
spent in this country and her later years. after
1870, in England
Mr. Percy Fitzgcrads statue of DR.. Samuel
Johnson is to be set up on the green plot be
hind the apSe of st. Clement Danes Cfurch IN
Iandon That is the church. it Will be remem-
bered which Johnson habtually attended, and
wherein his pew is still marked and visited. A
window portraying Johnson SURROUNDED py Ms
friends was unveiled in the church last year