SOME LITERARY NOTES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 47, 24 February 1906, Page 11

SOME LITERARY NOTES.

. Mr. A. H. Bulkn Is to edit tho Gentle1 man's Magazine. It'is stated that Mr WjMton 1 Churchill.received JSBOOO for the biography of his father. Lady Northcoto has contributed £10 10s to tho Victor Daley Memorial Fund, accompanied by a kindly letter expressing hor «ympathy with the movement nnd her personal appreciation of Daley's poems. "Dawn and Dusk," . > ' The whole meaning oMlteroture Is simply to cut a. long story short j that Is why our modern books of philosophy are never literature.— G, K. Chesterton. Mr. R. H. Shorard, gossiping in "IVon. fey Yearo of Paris," says that one of Dumna'g ghoats, Augusto" Maqueb, , "undeniably wrote tho whole of he vicomte de Brngelonno. l^ Tola toy was aeked not long ago if he ,unde*stood Ibsen. "Not in lil» playd," he replied! "bub then Ibsen does not understand 'himself in them. He writes them «nd sits down and waits. After aw hile hljs expounders come and tell him exactly what he did mean." ! Save perhaps tho 'nctor, there is no one who gets 'more pleasure out of "shop" than the wrfter. This is probably because of all.«rti*tfl he is the least likely' tb realiw his ideal,— o. Ranger Gull, in "The Price of Pity." It k said that Mrs. Humphrey Wi>^ has made £30.000 on royalties from the sale of "Tho Marriage of William A»he'! inAmerica, The first number of the Lyceum Annual,, issued by the International Ladies' uub of that name, contains a serial of interesting features In fiction and verse representative of the woman writers of America, Australia, Prance, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Italy, New Z& land, nnd Rottmnnla. Each contributor writes in her own language. Public Opinion, no new literary genius seems to have crime to the front, and ™ supremacy of Mr. Ge6rge Meredith in the world of English literature has not even been challenged. The most saccewSfL* •ns 1?lLl " in tho PflU M «» «,,u,..° more for our national w .s* m' y;, A P m « knee's "Sur la Pierre Blanche" is eßpwially interesting, m having been inspired more or lessby the sftybios atad dreams tt Mr. George lace tells us In his recent autobiography that he was converted to Socialism by 'j&SSOi .- pßmal of ? ellflmy ' 8 " Lookin 8 » Slgnor Comparettl, the eminent Greek BCAtwir, has dlsopvered a fragment of a Greek papyrus, dating apparently from the first or second contury A.D., 1 conAtiUl ß , 1111 BM^6te- about Socrates and AloibiadM not to be found in any olm* sloAl atithar, ' ' * , 'Sir Honry CampbelUßunnerman' nnliko ft good hdlf.do!4wv of his colleagues in tho new Cabinet, has never written a book, bub he has n. sound nnd even fastidimw literary ,t«wte. He la, we are told -by n. writer in the January Book Monthly. a , p ftt rWM j er ' o f ]? ronch ]lterft< ture. ,Sir, Henry, jit appear*, alga manag ™I to ko *P U P with English fiction. The craae for statistlw shbwing what peop.e read, and who favourite authorß are, has extended to Franco. Among the peasantry, interest in literature «dem» to bd lncreaaing, People of the humbler, classes i have, begun to read works of history and flctjon. It appears that Victor Hugo is by all odda the most popular author j but H is 'his proie, not his poetry, which the peomnt* admire. Alexandor Dumas is next In their affections, and among tho contemporary, Writers, Zola, Daudet, And Lott aye tho favourlteg. Some of them even profess to like Voltaire, although it is to be foared. that) thi* is only a po*e. They fail to designate any of his works. Lamartino is the faVottdte poet, and Micheletthe favfttiritfr historian. The London 1 County Oouncil has placed * memorial tablSb on the house 71, Berner««»treet), Oxford-street, nt one time the residence of Samuel Taylor' Coleridge. "To nwny a middle-aged Englishman (say's the London Dally «ew«) the news of the death of Harrison Weir will come as tho loss of on Intimate nnd dear friend of childhood. ' Perhaps to tho boys of to-day who have a love of ploturos thero is no maglo in his name, Much has ohanged in the 'teaching of drawing and the , presentment of pictures. Among other thingfl, telephotography has largely driven' the line artist out' of the field of nature. Bufcln hlo clay Harrison Weir's name, to the young lover of animals and the young lover of art, stood second only to the name of Edwin LandSeor." Sienklewlo,, tho Polish author, U not, it Is said, a rich man, in spite of his immenae. sales. The London Academy eayss "The Russian Empire has not yefc adhorod to the Borno Convention, nnd 'Polish copyright* can therefore be violated with Impunity. Tho country seat, moreover, which hi» admiring compatriots lately presented to him in the neighbourhood of Warsaw ls no source of Income, but, on tho contrary, costs him' A great dtal'ta Iteop up. HU dftily mallbag, too~so we Are assured by a brother author who ha« sometimes helped him to attend to Unmakes groat Inroads upon his purso a* wbll a» his time. Ho receives about four hundred letters a day. jMoab .of them, aro requests for hjs autograph, but a good many aro requostg for snbscriptloiiß." A discovery of romantic literary Interest has boon mndo by A. T. Angv/01l In British East Africa. While engaged ''In tho Aurvey of Lake Naivoshft ho found tho hitherto unknown outlets of this ffoßU'Wator lake into a larao subterranean river. Readers of Rider Haggard 1 * story, "Allan Quatermaln" will at once recogniso the locality. Kaivnsha is. tho Mo therein described. ■ "Allan Qnatormain"' wns published sixteen years ago, and Mr. Haggard then offered, ln, TOmance the solution of the lake outlet, which ls now substantiated by fact. «• Sir Frnnoid Burnaßd, intorviewod oon« cernlng th» preaent political altitude of PunchVsnid .<-»"Punth Is, indeed, n, po< lltioal turncoat, one of the worst, If not the worst, of tlio period. We give our attention to the side which promises ti» the most humour and the better, opportunity for satire. It doos not mattor to Purioh which side 4fc ty Punch \» n Free Tradur In humour/ a Protectionist in tiio-mnttei of ill-humour, ,1 have myself presided over Punch for twenty-five years, not to mention the forty I have been associated with it,' and from my soul I don't know what Mr. Punoh's politics are upon any one pnrtlculnr subject of the day, Which is not, of course, a mattor for blame, seeing that other Important Personage* are In a similar position," ' Mr. Frederic 'Harrison is preparitflFto nmice nn appearance a» a dramatist, The' ,tra«edy which he has prlvntely printed in founded oh tlio snmo Incidents whichi are the bnsft of his Byzantine romance, "Tlieophano," It Is Intended for repre'stntoilon on the «tage, and will not bo , publlshod uinil it liae beon produced thortu