veriey, eray to a popular novelist of ed by Mr. Herman Merivale "I do not think nights unhaunted by visions, M. Paul Arène, that it becomes either you or me to speak of 66 was ON the 14th of November, 1889, Miss Eliza- A Flying Trip Around the World. By ELIZABETH broad awake, has been having lately the most marvellous of dreams about The Golden Goat.3 travelled parts of the globe; it was not at all Puget-Maure, it is true, is not in one of the in Miss Bisland's way; it is not to be found in any of the gazetteers, and perhaps it exists only in those wide-awake visions which poetIt is a sort of inland St. Miic dreamers see. chel, transported from the coast of the British Channel to the neighborhood of Nice, on the a clear day, and, occasionally it is said, that Mediterranean. It is visible from the sea on one can get a glimpse of it from Monte Carlo. which there is no road but a ravine, the bed It is a hamlet perched upon a lofty rock, to of a torrent, fordable when it is dry. The inhabitants of the village are a race with gypsy faces, who, as a rule, marry only among themworld below them; the men poach, the women selves, and who mingle but little with the cheese and mountain plants, sometimes, in the practise witchcraft, and on market-days sell 2 3 The Golden Goat. (La Chèvre d'Or.) By PAUL LITERARY NOTES. man where he was once the wealthy, the honored. He is grateful to Providence because his children are not without a provision. He even thinks about his dogs, but in a purely self-regarding fashion"[!]. "Curiously enough, his embarrassments did not interfere muchscarcely at all-with Scott's somewhat luxurious mode of living." "He saw nothing high or sacred in the vocation of an author. The measure of his works was the price paid for them." "There is something pitiful in the idea of an author manufacturing books with no more enthusiasm than a bricklayer exhibits in doing his daily work for a day's pay." He was in no sense an idealist. His ambitions were worldly, and even his religion was devoid of spirituality. While professing himself a Christian, he could say nothing better in defence of Christianity than that it improved society by abolishing slavery and polygamy "[!]. "By writing merely with a mercenary object, he, to some extent, degraded literature, and threw a shadow on his own reputation." "His work is unequal; some of it excellent, some of it wretchedly poor.... 'The Journal' shows him as he was, with all his solid virtues and paltry weaknesses.... His code was a narrow one; his prejudices were intense, and modern progress seemed to him an absurdity. The school of which he was the founder in English literature has by this time passed away. If historical novels are to be written in the future they will not be modelled on 'Waverley' or on 'Ivanhoe'"! Thus Mr. Hannigan! Let us read now what the author of "Esmond" and "The Virginians" thought of the author of "Ivanhoe" and "Wa m 1 ment of those who could hardly put the same One of the most interesting features of this THERE is upon the continent of Europe one delightful spot which Miss Bisland missed; to wit, Puget-Maure, situated in a land called n 11 *וו... ז! |