LITERARY GOSSIP.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7829, 6 April 1891, Page 2

LITERARY GOSSIP.

Mr Dv Maurler has nearly completed eighty illustrations to the novel whichiH has written, and which will be pablUW In Harper's Magazine from June to «* ember next. We can only wtoh-_•_* certainly as ho will excel ThMkcraj^J the pencil, so assuredly msy he epp»»» him withjthe pen. - ; ' M. Brunetiere took occaslon not m ago to remind some of the punier literal? descendants of Hugo and too thM they thought the critical f literature waß something interior _or 1* essential to literature than the cweHJ work" of their own last little vqlamne« verslfylngs or documents humairn, OT were mightily mistaken, lhose w» know the history of literature fctt WjW impossible it is to draw a hardl«««»» line between criticism a»A crei l ?±m ia how large a part is played by criticism U all the so-called great creative •s_*_*_«, Meantime Mr fcayn gladly bewe fKg* that, even from his own point efeJJJ things are better than they were. mm call to mind two youug men. at au WJJJ whose merits were perceived and.fgffl ledged by mora than one critic at the M» glance-Mr Stevensoh and Mr »| Two only! Might he «oV_rJS different degrees and spheres!, &jF a SI Mr Anetey, Mr Barrle, 'Mr Npfria^ M QulUer Couch. Mr Conan poyle, ''%» Soldrewood,"•' Charles Egbtrs Credja* "Half Iroß, A Mrs Woods l-wo take n»&g at random.' Not all may coverers quite in Mr SftM Derhaps. but they are all evidence rfw» feadiness with which tbe reviewerpi-*U on anvthlng a bit out of the rue-. ' ...^t I. not thfs traditional idea of ■£•$$ hostility to new merit something «* hSary myth? We have Just been** -stent fame. So were GeorgeSU<s*WsJ ffies. So was ; it provoked a very_»nteU!glMe dWj*.£ of opinions. Mr Hardy X alihb lLA\i Metedlth., In 1855 he publishediirtjg volume-a volume of verse-aud in 1856 there was an uppwi»«/«Si the dear old mark of the scorncr. The .^ m 3« Mr Swinburne took all hearts cag f as swiftly as the publici and• tfggjg. m earlier generation by *' Tom's Snip-snap.' Mr »fjgj'jjf critic, again. *i>e« ia "? iKtftotboefc Pater as already a master In> bis «"_«» And, on the other hand. Is there no PJ b0 for the critic who doe, not Js£*?te "Comedle Humulne;' in the Wg oUr3 jeunesse," or " Don Juan hi the » W l££2y&" Mueller j» JgJ Jg paring for press his recent «|* ffiwdeliTered at Glasgow. £ne volume, and appear under the *• "Physical Religion., depart Sir Edwin Arnold, wb^e ., a t_esd? from Japan was notified torepumlßb in book form the •ggjjg travel which he has been the DaUy TeUffraph." The bo°* WK profusely Illustrated.