New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-04-10
LITERARY NOTES.


Jane Austen is the newest Ht.rar, discovery
"I Fr"nCn CRITICS One of them declares that
she forms the one striking exception 10 the in
sanity of genius. Tie calls her the FIRST nf TIN
reaiists. writer absolutely normal and sane
The anecdote relating how two hundred comics
- itz'ieralds Omar khay yam were dumped
for sale into Mr.. Quaritchs ~twopennv be- 4" AMI
lay there awaiting true lovers Of poptrv gets
from time To time picturesque pustscript.
such a postscript turned up the other day iu
/ the sale 81 4 single copy 81 this despisrd
first issue FOR $50.
What George Eliot thought Of her own per
S"nal "ppeaTan'c Is set forth in a letter among
those recently published ''Inagiue a first
cousin oi Dante's. she wrote rather srnok.-
uIleu a lace with lines in il that seem a
map 81 sorroWS. II would be- sad IL ones
looks We're not the best OF one Th,. r.setn.
blance To the head or Dante is often mentioned
nut II IS not :" often mentioned that whereas
the Italians prufile. as We know II is finely
! cut, that OF George Eliot was singularIy heavy
and coarse.
The Canadian Boat Song" again, A de
scendant of John Calf writes to Notes AMI
queries TO say that his ancestor was "a typical
L"Wland scot, whose Sympathies were all dia-
metrically anti-CeItic and anti-Hishland and
that ne could no more have written that poem
than he could have written Ossiau Hi.
whole tone Of mind was opposed to the spirit
Of the thing This descendant believes that
II LOckhart did not himself write the song
mat somebody else was probably Mrs. Grant e
L-iggan.
A discouraged wall is heard in tho LouudI.ss
and bounding West The Dai- of Chicas.,
finds the literary outlook to be one OF a c-rieyou,
sort Literature il signs. If not on the Vert.
OF bankruptcy, is at least threatened ny AZ i'm
p3rnhent OF credlt Tor which the natural rom
edy would be drastic Overhauling of its S"curi-
ties and a general retrenchment in most dire
tons. There are no evident signs that tbs
remedy IS likely 10 be applied. The number ~
people who write rimsy novels and perpetra;..
bad poems and bad plays goes steadily IT,
creasing. and the number Of editors and pull
fishers who encourage these misguided persons
seems to grow at nearly The anne rate Then
in addition 70 ali this legitimate if M advis-
competition on either side, there Is the disturb
ing element supplied by The host OF aspiran.
for literary fame who are So ASSURE! Of thc.r
own merits that no rejection dCters them. ..u!
Who print at their own expense the Immo~tl.
works that can find no one else 10 stake rn"n,-
upon their success. Clearly. the thredt'uiE-r
deOGric VIII not he averted hy SulLei growth
Of self-restraint. During the last half century
the world has passed through one OF thu golden
ages Of literature: but tho age in which W. now
live is at best one Of silver If not ole 90 Ieli
or plated metal. The most enthusiast sroNes-
man OF modernity would not claim for tie Er=-
score OF living writers anything like "a parity 81
importance with the best score OF those who's.
deaths We have been called upon To- cI-.r.,a
with such painful fT@qucuvy since 1850
A vivid picture Of the state % Frame II tsr
accession Of Louis XVI Is 10 h" found n she
Marquis de SfEur'S new book. Tho setting sun
OF the Monarchy The aUthur apparently DO
lieves that TUrgot might ha.a saved the mon
2rchy had not Marie AutDi0ettts prc-UCI,4
against him sent hir. into retir, ment.
Three volumes only Of Sir H-aIter Ee>an-.s
Survey of London remain tO Re pIti.sl.e 3.
These are Of 4 Typographical nature The first
volume The city IS largely from E"sauts
own pen or the ten volumes the ses,- .Ifr,.f'v
published are principally his work.
The publication of the works c.irt.r,Iu--v
translated under the direction OF the America
Inst itute of Criminal Law and CriiuiUc!uCr
Will be begun this spring ~ Little. Brown < e..
Tha first volume. due in Nay. viii .ou+IIE a
translation OF Professor Hans Gr-Ss's ucsh 81
Criminal PS, cholUgE."