Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1894 — Literary Notes. [ARTICLE]

Literary Notes.

Mr. Julian Ralph is now on his way to the Orient, where lie will make for Harper’s Weekly and Harper’s Magazine studies of the topsyturvey conditions that obtain upon the world’s farther side. Upon his arrival in Japan he will quickly forward accounts of whatever he may witness of the war between that country and China, of the gathering of the naval representatives of all Christendom, and of the peculiar scenes attendant upon the war. He will be met at Yokohama by Mr. C. D. Weldon, the artist, who, has long been familiar with Oriental life, who will co-operate with Mr. Ralph in this work. “Trilby has been described as ‘a French novel written English.’ and some of the phrases which Mr. du Maurier adopted from the foreign idiom seem to have stuck in the language of the day. His heroine is described as posing ‘for the altogether,’ and ‘for the altogether has already found its way into newspaper English, where it bids fair tc have as much vogue as Kipling's famous ‘But that is another story.' And thereas the new noun, ‘Trilby* ness.' which (says the Boston Jour, nal) ‘henceforth must stand for everything that is frank and sweet in womanhood.”'