I saw the shade of Pope as Mudie's guest, I saw it read, mark, learn-almost digest- DR. JONATHAN SWIFT TO GEORGE MEREDITH, BURNS. Great maker of Romance, you hit the tune. Glasgow.] Other answers have been received from :-E. F. S., Newcastle; E. C. M. D., Crediton; F. S. H., Bath; A. H. F., Southsea; J. O., Bath; E H. H., Streatham; F. L. A., Ealing; H. R S., Newcastle; Highgate; E. M., West Smithfield; T. B. D, Bridgwater; H. E. M., Edinburgh; M. R. H., Eastbourne; E. B., Liverpool; A. E. W., Inverness; F. E. A., Buxton; A. W., West Hampstead; H. J., Crouch End; A. G., Cheltenham; H. H., Old Shoreham; M. A. C., Cambridge; G. N., Bristol. Competition No. 38 (New Series). DR. F. J. FURNIVALL writes to us as follows: In the Johnson Club Papers, 1899, p. 161, my friend, George Radford, writes of the great Doctor : "His first love was Olivia Lloyd, who charmed him while he was at the school at Stourbridge. From Boswell's statement that she was a young Quaker,' it is clear that she was both beautiful and demure; and her very name is a melody. No wonder Johnson loved her; and his love was not inarticulate, for he told her so in what Boswell calls somewhat brutally 'a copy of verses.' These early verses have perished, and we cannot, alas! redeem them from oblivion by the sacrifice of, say, half-a-dozen mature Ramblers.' It would be a charming task for your clever contributors, recollecting that the boy is father of the man, to reproduce these verses. We agree that this task may well be attempted; and we offer a prize of One Guinea for the poem, not exceeding sixteen lines, which seems to reproduce Johnson's poem most nearly. RULES. Answers, addressed "Literary Competition, THE ACADEMY, 43, Chancery-lane, W.C.," must reach us not later than the first post of Tuesday, June 12. 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THE SPORTSMAN'S MANUAL: In Quest of Game in Kullu, Laloul, and Ladak, to the Tso THE TOURIST'S and SPORTS MAN'S GUIDE to KASHMIR, LADAK, &c. By A. E. A HANDBOOK to AGRA, DELHI, ALLAHABAD, CAWNPORE, LUCKNOW, and W. THACKER & CO., 2, CREED LANE, LONDON, E.C. THE OTHER VOLUMES ARE: I. COLERIDGE'S TABLE-TALK. THE BIBELOTS. A Series of Reprints for the Book-Lover. Price 2s. 6d. net each; or 3 vols. in leather 5 in. An Edition, printed on Japanese vellum, and Each Volume contains a Photogravure The Leather Binding, with Embossed Design London GAY & BIRD, 22, Bedford Strect, Agency for American Books. A Weekly Review of Literature and Life. No. 1467. Established 1869. The Literary Week. 16 June, 1900. IN accordance with our annual custom we devote a supplement this week to topographical and guide-book literature. The production of guide-books, as of general literature, seems to have been greatly checked by the war. However, as a set off, Mr. Newnes is about to launch a new sixpenny monthly illustrated magazine, devoted to the interests of tourists, and called The Traveller. An advance copy of the first number which lies before us is filled with varied and useful matter. Among the permanent features will be "Travel Notes and News," "In the Hotels,' ," "What to Wear Abroad," "Peeps into New Books," "Tours through the Shops," "Sunday Morning Notes," &c., &c. The special articles are well chosen, and altogether The Traveller promises to be a most helpful counsellor and an entertaining friend. THE Elizabethan Stage Society will give its last performance of the season next Friday evening, in the Lecture Theatre, Burlington Gardens, when Schiller's "Death of Wallenstein," translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, will be performed. AMONG the novels that have reached us lately we had set aside Charlotte Leyland for a special review on account of certain qualities which distinguished it. The review was in preparation when we received the following communication from Mr. Grant Richards, the publisher of the book: "I published on May 22 Charlotte Leyland, by M. Bowles, of which a copy was sent you on that day for review. Since its publication I have learnt that one of the characters is so drawn as to constitute a libel against a lady well-known in London society. Her solicitors threaten me with proceedings unless I withdraw the book from circulation, which I am now doing; they also ask me to warn you against reviewing the book in its present shape." As the three chief characters in Charlotte Leyland revolve in orbits very far removed from "London Society," and as the story is mainly concerned with them, we hope that the book will be republished after the excisions that "constitute a libel" have been made. It would be a great pity if such excellent and promising work were to be denied the recognition that Miss Bowles deserves. JUST now, when the peace of the world is threatened by "The Yellow Peril," it is interesting to turn to the pages of a work which aroused considerable attention at the time of its publication seven years ago-Mr. Charles H. Pearson's National Life and Character: a Forecast. This writer was "obsessed" apparently by the idea, which he explains in his work, that the Chinese whose resources he considered immense, the capacity of their people for toil unlimited, and their wants of the slenderest, would eventually dominate the universe-that China's flag would float on every sea, and her naval officers visit every port as honoured guests. He says: The day will come, and perhaps is not far distant, when the European observer will look round to see the globe girdled with a continuous zone of the black and yellow Price Threepence. [Registered as a Newspaper.] races, no longer too weak for aggression, or under tutelage, but independent, or practically so, in government, monopolising the trade of their own regions, and circumscribing the industry of the European; when Chinamen and the natives of Hindostan, the States of Central and South America, by that time predominantly Indian, and it may be African nations of the Congo and the Zambesi, under a dominant caste of foreign rulers, are represented by fleets in the European seas. invited to international conferences, and welcomed as allies in the quarrels of the civilised world. The citizens of these countries will then be taken up into the social relations of the white races, will throng the English turf, or the salons of Paris, and will be admitted to intermarriage. It is idle to say that, if all this should come to pass, our pride of place will not be humiliated. We were struggling among ourselves for supremacy in a world which we thought of as destined to belong to Aryan races and to the Christian faith to the letters, and arts, and charm of social manners which we have inherited from the best times of the past. We shall wake to find ourselves elbowed and hustled, and perhaps even thrust aside, by people whom we looked upon as servile, and thought of as bound always to minister to our needs. A line from Bret Harte irresistibly suggests itself to us. The Ladysmith Treasury is the title of a volume of stories which Messrs. Sands & Co. announce for immediate publication. The book is dedicated to Sir George White, and it is intended to forward the profits arising from the sale to the Mayor of Ladysmith for the relief of the distress caused by the siege. The following authors have contributed stories: F. Anstey, Joseph Conrad, Bernard Capes, Edgar Fawcett, Francis Gribble, Robert Machray, Ian Maclaren, F. Frankfort Moore, W. E. Norris, Eden Phillpotts, Edwin Pugh, Morley Roberts, Gabriel Setoun, H. A. Vachell, Percy White, and "Zack." The volume has been edited by Mr. J. Eveleigh Nash. A CORRESPONDENT writes: "Dowson's 'I have been true to thee, Cynara, in my fashion,' which you quote in last week's ACADEMY, is merely a Swinburnian translation of Mr. Burnand's comic lyric, His heart was true to Poll.' Don't you remember how he strayed first with Bet and then with Sal, then with Susan and then with Moll; but all the time, wherever his kisses might be, his heart was true to Poll'?" We understand that Mr. Robert Barr will finish the romance of Irish life which Mr. Crane left uncompleted. MR. H. G. WELLS, whose new novel, Love and Mr. Lewisham, is attracting very favourable notice, has finished a long story called "The First Men in the Moon." It will begin in the Strand Magazine next January. "C. K. S.," who recently announced in the Sphere that what is called Bramwell Brontë's chair at the "Black Bull," Haworth, was for sale, now states that the price asked is £100; but he adds, "I do not for the life of me understand why the most enthusiastic admirer of the Brontë sisters should offer £100 for a chair in which . . their very worthless brother was so frequently in the cups." |