Show I LIIIERADYGOSSHP Ono of the moat important of the forthcoming books In England Is the expected volume ot poems by Swin burne There linn been in anticipation a revival ot paragraphs and pictures of the poet f There died the other day at Oxford lellcla Skene an Englishwoman who nu a child wit on the knee t Walter Scott Her father wo are told was the Intimate friend to whom Scott dedicated l dedi-cated the fourth Canto In Marmlon her mother was the only woman to whom he told the authorship of Wu o orley Tn the total wreck of his fortunes for-tunes Scott sought refuge In her fathers house and the child Felicia was sent one afternoon to amuse him lie thld her he did not wish to apeak at all himself but would be glad to listen to some fairy stories She plunged Into a wild Invention and chattered away for a long time rousing rous-ing him to laughter Taking five representative libraries of world literature In Hngllsli l Gorman and Italian POOH Is the only name appearing ap-pearing In all live says C F Richardson Richard-son In an article In the Critic Tn Franco his fame Is greater than that of any other American writer or than that of most English writers In many 11 little German Austrian or Italian bookshop h6 stanch an the sole representative repre-sentative of the literature of his native land Certain tilings said an Italian writer In II lnrzocco the other day can only have been written by Poc by Heine by Tolstoi one does not need to see the cover of the bonk read It I and the name of the author will I coniu spontaneously to the lips The most violent and Independent of contemporary con-temporary t English critics makes the author of Annabel Lee his final name In acollection of lyrics bearing as Its slsnll1tan tsu bt lie Chaucer to Poe o The shortest novel on record Is l Francis Fran-cis Adapts The Transgressors Two copies of the book each complete In 250 olds arc on file at Washington and I thereby hangs a tale IUr Adnnis wrote the story In 100000 I words and was looking after its publication publi-cation In Philadelphia when newo came to the publishers that a pirated version of the book wan being offered for sale Mr Adamss copyright not being completed com-pleted there was no law to prevent the sale of such a version He throw his story Into 250 words with cover title Index chapter heads cones etc Identical with those In the original book The work took six hours The little volume w < v rushed Into print and put on lie asMhe law requires re-quires The copyright Is protected and publication goes on serenely New Bedford Mercury Perhaps no better description of the symptoms of the disease which has been called unpleasantly cacoethes hcrlbendl bas ever been given than that contained In one of Petrarchs letters In which he says Strange to say r often feel a craving crav-ing to write without knowing to whom or on what subject A sort of crude unconquerable desire comes over meowing me-owing to which papery pen Inkstand I and midnight watches arc more acceptable accept-able to me than sleep or rest In fact If I do not write I pine and suffer and extraordinary though It may seem I get tired while I am resting and rest while I am at work My chest Is I strong as if It were made of stone I am inclined to think that I must have rome forth from one of those stones thrown by Deucallon When everything every-thing shapes itself on the parchment spread out before me when my fingers ache and my eyes are tired with work then I feel neither cold nor heat but have a sensation as If I were covered and protected by the softest down When my limbs refuse to serve me I rest for a little while then I take up my work again and fear nothing so much as having to tear myself away from it Whenever any dire necessity forces me to leave it I begin to feel the weight of weariness and as long as I remain inactive I am In the same frame of mind as a lay beast of burden I bur-den that oboys Its master when he forces It to climb the stony ascent of a t steep mountain dragging a heavy load loiter on I return to my beloved work with the same zest that urges the former to reenter its stable and as It gains new strength while It Is slowly feeding I get relief and comfort during my prolonged work Charles Itoadcs longtime friend Mr John Coleman is writing a memoir oC I the author of The Cloister and the Hearth He Intends to call the book The Romance of Charles Beetle < St1 Dclnlols Library which has been i I erected at Ha warden as a memorial to I the late Mr Gladstone will be formally I opened on October llth by Lord Spencer I Spen-cer who Succeeded the late Duke of I Westminster as chairman ot the Gladstone Glad-stone national memorial committee Other distinguished men are expected I to speak on the occasion I I AN AUTUMN FIELD How rich and full In Junos rtllpcrfccl I arms I TVns mho lush grass which In this ample I Held I Grew riotously glad how prodigal the r I yield Of every tlower whoso absence hall made i less I The bounteous whole Not where that sweet excess Abounded to Itself has burcncM scaled Tho thriftless sods roil like n glorious shield Of all Its wrought and painted loveliness Yet not quite nil for here and there be hold A lower like those which made tho summer sweet Puts forth some meager tint of red or gold To maicUio barrenness teem more com plete Such ocrnow oC life ruCl Wlttl hllss of Now ro rcmcmbranco and cndiiranccA this AtlnnUc John Whlll liAllwIblc In I fhft I September Concerning Lowcll the poet Gen James Grant Wilson writes in The Cri terion A lady ashiri him why he liad 1 not sent ner a copy of hls lust book I could not afford lo answered the poet Jf m friends my do not buy mv books who pray tell me i will buy them themThe The second story Isof arj autograph m collector who Informed me that he wrote n short note to Lowell describ ing his collection und concluding with the remark T would be much obllind for your autograph The reply came bearing with It a lesson the correct use I of the words would and should which deeply Imnicssod Itself on the I mind of the recipient The response read Pray do not say hereafter I would be obliged l if you would bu obllKfd be obliged and bo done with It Say I should be obliged and oblige youra truly James TJussell Lowell The publishing season will not be in full awing for sovorni weeks to come but It Is now far enough advanced for I some conclusions be drawn IIB to Us 1 probable character Fiction as always Is conspicuous In the bundles of new books From the volumes In hand and from other accessible data we gather that the number of American workers In this livid J js Increasing but that happily they are concerning themselves them-selves more often on the whole wllh the life around them than with past cpodul Th hlslnrlral naval PPIJIH to i be losing its vogue Stories of the Revolution Rev-olution and of the Civil war art giving placeto stories of business life of so clety and of politics business and put tlrs especiully lire appealing tp our writers Whether this Implies ti reaction reac-tion after what has been a riotous carnival car-nival of historical romance or nn Inevitable I evitable reflection of recent conditions l In the life of the people It is Idle con Jectuie thf fact remains Miscellaneous Miscellan-eous literature Is I perhaps leas voluminously volumi-nously I represented among the earlier publications of the season but It Is not by any means neglected Interesting Interest-ing works on art travel history and literary topics have already been received re-ceived and many more are dIn d-In general we may say the season makes a most auspicious blart New York Tribune 7 I Gen Deweto forthcoming book It Is wild is in no way sensational It deals exclusively with the part which he himself him-self played In the war Twentyeight publishers tried to secure the book which he has held nt a high price 7 WIn W-In JM a quiet scholarlylooking young man took up his work In one of the worst of the East London slums as secretary of a charily fund His arrival ar-rival was a matter oC rejoicing to the swarms of unworthy poor who make an easy living from the benefits intended In-tended for their deserving fellows They saw in young Arthur Morrison an easy mark For a time they befooled him then one day he discovered that the fund was being systematically swindled swin-dled lie bought himself a pfcondhand I suit of clothes took lodgings In a ram I shackle old barrack got a job as a matchbox maker Joined a local boxing box-ing club and became port of the life of his slum In this way he learned thorough the character of the people peo-ple and was able to put a stop to much of the swindling Moreover he gathered gath-ered a fund of malerlal which afterward after-ward he embodied in his Tales of Mean Streets which set all England alkfng and his Child ofi the Jago which did much toward wiping out vhat was certainly the worst slum in London and probably the worst In the world a There is to be a volume of selections from the notebooks of Matthew Arnold most of these extracts l being not from his pen but from the works of writers liked by him Speaking of the literature oC Turkey the Outlook prints the following Dr Hemy Otis Dwight tho most recent and perhaps the most vivacious and interesting In-teresting of all writers on Constantinople Constanti-nople shows that a crisis In Turkish ogress has been provoked Education has now for the first time opened a way for literature to shape the moral growth of the people Turkish schools ire sending forth multitudes ready to read without discrimination Good wholesome books for young readers are needed Only one course seems possible ible If progress Is to continue namely the supply of morally stimulating books In the vernacular Who shall be the agents for such a supply Our missionaries mis-sionaries might be they have won a leading position In the fields of educa ion and literature and they ought to be able to reach all the people Missionaries Mis-sionaries however have not the money which they should have to publish the fresh attractive Inspiring books needed need-ed to continue the culture begun in the schools Otherwise they arc quipped for giving to the people ale atlng literature whether In Turkish l Greek or Armenian tin principal languages lan-guages spoken In the Turkish empire although a variant In the written languages lan-guages should also be noticed namely the GrecoTurkish or Turftlsh written vlth Greek characters The experience already obtained Indicates that If good books are written they will be bought Philip James Bailey the author of the once largely acclaimed poem Fe us died lately at the age of SG In the undisturbed belief that he was the greatest poet of his time Out of all he wrote however there are probably only two passages that will be generally gen-erally remembered One of these the line Time mjnd hath phases as the body hath is undoubtedly modeled closely upon Shakespeares The nil hath bubbles no the water hath The other passage Is a longer l one and has long since taken Its place in the worlds stock of familiar quotations It runs runc Vo live In dftrfds not years In thoughts not breaths Tn rcoilngfi not In figures on a dial Wd abould count lime by heartthrobs Ho most lives Who think most feels the noblest acts the best And he whoso heart beau quickest lives the lonzest Iilvca In one hour more them In years do some I Whose tut blood sleeps as It slips along their veins Baileys Festut found many Imita tots and at last both he and they were lumped together by the reviewers and classified as the spasmodic school It Is the opinion of the I London Arad emily that Air Swinburne did not write the novel IA Years Lellers pub lished in the Taller of 1S77 The Chron icle says authoritatively that he did and llmlt jlllng under the name of I Mrs Horace Manners he stipulated that the aulhorahlp should not be proclaimed pro-claimed a 1 u Discussing the tragic fate of unsold books In tho New York Times Review G O Koch tells us thai one nol in the paper stock supply I huslness can have no idea of the quantlly of old books structurally sound from cover to cover cov-er that are cast aside every day and I declares that In New York City alone i tons of novels histories philosophical and scientific treatises and religious works take the last step but one to destruction de-struction They are sold to bo reconverted recon-verted Into paper upon which to wrIte more books Stripped of their bindings which are even less valuable thun the Inside they go to great vats whore acid oats out all signs of printers ink and they are ronvprtail into pulp again I This pulp makes paper of an Inferior grade and always requires the addition l addi-tion of fresh material The conundrum as to what becomes of the books that are failures Is thus answered That there are almost as many books published pub-lished as there are pins manufactured may be believed from the publishers own statements Mr Koch suggests that the reason that the commodities do not sell equally well Is I because the honks arc generally duller than the pins J VERY BAD nHYMES We are accustomed d to Jeer at the bad rhymes of some of the vewlllcra of today to-day but It must be admitted that very respectable preccdentw can be cited In their favor and certainly many great poets have thought more of the sense than oC the sound of the words that breathe and burn Tennyson despite the polish of his lines and his habitual melody Is a conspicuous sinner In this respect The newsboy who shouts dyly pyper affronts our cars but the late Poet laureate apparently detected detect-ed no notable difference between the vowel sounds of go and now when he wrote I Have been wild and wayward way-ward but I am not wayward now Youll kiss me my own mother and l forgive me ere I go In the May Queen to say nothing of Joined and mind or I and Joy In In Memoriam Memor-iam In the Two Voices we read If straight thy track or If obllqu Thou knowest not shadows thou dost slrlke while In Will Waterproofs Lyrical Monologue Returning like the pewit Is actually made to pair off with That trifle with i the cruet After these last two examples we are Inclined to think little of and tendons being made to rhyme with attendance in Amphlon or river with mirror In The Lady of Shalott or 1opul olirc with air In A Dream of Fair Women Scores of other examples ot the same kind might easily be specified speci-fied On the other hand Browning who has Cir less sense of melody limn Ten nylon has comparatively few Instances of conspicuously faulty rhyme but Elizabeth Barrett Browning Is often eokless In the matter Vllness theme I the-me stanza The tempest gathers from tho Bleep The shadow of Us coming The beasts grow tumc and near us creeps creep-s help wore In lie human Then we have 0 earth so full of deary noises 0 men with walling In your voices while mouth goes with smooth in The Mask faces with presses In The Cry of the Children Chil-dren and so on 1C we rousts further afield we Ind that Gray rhymes men with pain In the Distant Prospect of Eton College It and l abode with god In the Elegy while Goldsmith couples aught with fault In the Deserted Village and Wordsworth hits meadow and shadow as well us heaven and forgiven this lust cacophony being Indeed almost as general gen-eral us devil and civil In short the minor poet may with justice contend that there is no rhyme so bad as not to be Justified by illustrious nu horlly but when he complains of lypcrcrlllclsm the obvious answer IB that when he shows the gonlua of his predecessors he shall be pardoned If he alto shows some of their defects London Lon-don Morning Post |