LITERATURE AND ART?

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11986, 7 June 1902, Page 4 (Supplement)

LITERATURE AND ART?

:-. S ' \:'V: V :/-----'; ;f:,';^7V:''""r''":t^-^ir:^f^ I JlK'lilr/srPHnKy Ward's new novel, " Lady! ■.'.'■. Ro.'-ely'ff Daughter/' began jin Harper's Magazine for May,...,;, j i.;-'--"....; tj.- ii,.; v:.v- ---.--■ v ■•■; Mr. Barry Pain's new humpurous r novel. " The One before," is nearly ready for pub* -i lication. It will have eighty illustrations . by Mr." Tom Browne. .*' Air! - * .«*" The. Zionists" is' a novel by Miss, Wini- . Fred Graham which Messrs. Hutchinson are to "publish. ," Its suhject ? of, course, is tire "; return of the Jews to Palestine. 'I ': Mr. Fisher i Unwin::is'.al)oiit to publish •'" Mrs.' Amelia E. Ban's novel of CVprnwelJ's i- way; and the Commonwealth time. >;It.is called "The . Lion's Whelp," and Cromwell i is .the chief character in it. *. ■' -, •. ' * ;-. Slissßetham-Edward^'.neSy. novel will be. shortly followed by another work upon > France, named " East of Paris," or sketches of the Gatinais, Bourboririais, arid Lorraine. The volume contains notes of ; travel } and" , ; residence in regions of Eastern France riot before' described joy/ the author, arid will be illustrated in colours by M.! Henry DetI mold, who is married to a French'wife, arid now lives near Foritainbleau.' . ... It is fifty-seve'years 1 since Sir f Charles Gavan Duffy, who" has just celebrated the eighty-sixth anniversary of his birth, pub? lished his " Ballad Poetry of Ireland;" very many editions of which have since appeared. - " Conversations with Carlyle" arid "My Life in Two-Hemispheres" are among his later works. 1 >: It is just sixty i years since he founded the Nation. '*: For the ; last . twenty- ! two years Sir Charles has resided at Nice. The Shrine, a- new quarterly; published at Stratford-on-Avon, will be devoted mainly to mattere • Shakesperean; v The first number contains* an article on the kespere*Bacori controversy.' by Charles "Downing,' one on Shakespere's birthday celebration bv Alfred H. Wall, and the first instalment of a very delightful .study of Hamlet rand' Ophelia by Dr. John Todhunter. -The other articles are not so relevant to file occasion;; of the poet's, birthday. >a <■ ..,;.* ~ j -■ ■•-.., .-.;-- -. •- :> ■ ■ "' '.- - * ; -' : / The ; anniversary iof? Disraeli's death gives the Jewish | World the opportunity of pointing out that ," Lotbair'' ,had . the greatest review space ever allotted toi a book in > England. ; It was published ,on May 9. 1870, and {received page : -reviews in.: the dailies, was noticed in.thousands of journals in the United States),arid was eulogised by all the critics except those ;of the reviews and quarterlies. The author received some-, whereabout' £20,000 for the copyright.; j' ' There is to be an authoritative 'biography of Li Hung Chang. The Marquis Li Chingshe, the eldest son'a.nd heir of the late Li Hung, ', has engaged a : 'fianlin, named Wp) to compile arid edit the official life of the late marquis, at a salary of 1 T15.3000 per 4nrium;' } Owing to the immense quantity of documents; diaries,' and papers to be gone over the task of the newly-engaged historian, it is: estimated, will take over six years to Complete. . Whether i- a /translation ;of the work will appear in any Western tongue does not appear.,. , In?any case, Wu ought to have an interesting story to tell./ <:■; Mr. Stephen-Phillips, says the Globe,* has received so much ! mede I and : komag? that reactionary criticism : becomes a certainty'of the/ future. Its vanguard is perhaps to be found in the article on his poetry in the new Quarterly Review. > Mr. Phillips, it is contended,: has not left the dint Pi the inimitable on his work. j But it seems hard to compare him with a housemaid who " has laid the paper, the '•, sticks, and. the coals neatly in the grate, where they remain, ,in undisturbed order, awaiting the flame that never .wakens them into light or heat." The writer of the article is, 'hpwever, ; applying the highest standards to Mr. Phillips work. Dante, Shake§pere, Coleridge, and Blake are to show what is the f ' instant, inevitable, unmistakable ']. thrif} and onslaught of poetry." And this is the only way, after all, to assay "new verse with any precision or finality of ' judgment. The article 'is a " strqng piece, of .; criticism ; severe, ..bup respectful. ' * '" *' ; '--"*••■: '"* '.-.;. '"/■.-- /''