New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-08

Mrs Andrew Crosse says OF Robert Browning That
he was az intense adnircr of Byron "lSroh'' nc
once said was OF the most wonderful n'Nn ever
created MIR. Coter Morrison. WHO vas present.
agreed that as q sat.ris, Byron was unHValed. but
threw out the query is re a great po"tT bro"h"s'
for sole answer re!ted with the deepest feeling ue
lines beginning otis we'll that l shoald be unmoVeo'
never faltering Mt word.
"Thc woodman " Is the title OF a new novel whlch
the Harpprs are about TO bring out. 10 IS tahsmuoh
from the French and It's author who ma~qrcIadeo rs
Jules de GlcuvetD Is VI. c. dc Beaurepare' the ITO
cureur-Gcner OF France.
The last OF the English Chartists the late poet,
Thomas Cooper. was IN his boyhood appentced, I"
cobbler. He accustomed at that time TO rise at
3 or O'cOcl. IN the morning In order 70 carry on HIS
studies and the moment his work was over he was
back at his books. At twenty three he knew the Ercek'
Iatin Hebrew and French languages. was ver'od IN
mathematics had a fine knowledge of English history
and literature. and was INDUCING In general reaulns
OF the most extensive aud varied character All TINS
learning he acquired alone and under the most adverse
circumstances He has let pathetic note on his early
poverty al not Wfrequently swooned away ana lrH
along the floor whom tried 10 take my cup OF oiV
meal Cruel at the end OF the days labor Next f'f-
ing, OF course, | not able 10 rise al an ealN ho"
and then the next days study had to be suh'eu'
needed better food than We could AFFORD 10 ouy' ana
often had to contend with the Of falntneS while
still plOdded on with my double taSh Oh mnu anu
body"
A correspondent OF Notes and Queries" contributes
10 that journal this interesting note Il should
like TO know not only who really the author OF the
lovely little poem the primrose referred 10 III
Colonel prdeauxs note but what Is the correct read
ing Of ii. l give below the version OF Reeves d lu-
ners 500 edition OF lerrck ard uterine IL WIN the
variations / find in the version given In me LNra
Eecantarunr' Os9l where the poem Is attributed 10
aln<Et girni1n In igS
are to be found in Herrics 'Iesperdcs"' The other
poem here referred to Is The Inquiry Amongst
the myrtIes as walked which is also attributed to
Carew in the 'Lyra.' But here is The Primrose as
Ierrck is believed to have written 1t, with the varia
tons at top:
TIE PRIMROSE.
Aske me why l send you here
This sweet Infanta of the yeerei
Aske Inc why send TO You
This Primrose thus berearrd With dewi
straight will whisper IN
Will whisper 10 your cares
The sweets Of love are mkt With tears.
Ask me why this flower dos show
yellow, green
So yellow green. and sicldy too?
Ask me why the stalk Is weak
And bending. yet II doth not breah7
tell You
will answer these discover
doubts and fears
What faintng hopes IN a lover.
"Herrick's poem is 50 UNNECESSARILY superior TO
Carews that wonders why the latter was chosen
BY the editor OF the Jyra unless 1t were because II
was supposed To be the original version but the
other hand. Herricks dos show reads like first
thought. What is the real history of the poem"
Every effort toward deality to be greeted cordially
and The Knight Errant," the Boston quarterly
devoted TO the liberal arts, deserves encouraging
welcome Persuaded that zone by one In this last
night the beautiful things have disappeared until at
last in a world grown Old and ugly. forced to
find some excuse for the popularity OF their environ
nent have discredited beauty itself" the editors
come forth TO sme the Philistine TO assault the co
horts OF nateriansm in their stronghods of which
America is one very decidedly in the opinion Of the
gallant crusaders destroy false idols and 10 light
the lamp of q pure and lofty ideal the altar Of
truth There is 10 critical writing in the first
Der of the quarterly that is specially fresh profound
But 1.-The Knight Errant' sets about its mission Of
fitting at all that is unbeaut!ful in Art, Letters and
Life" very energeticay, uttering couragcously what
1t believes to be the truth, and this should be
mended. Professor Charles Eliot Norton contributes
portion Of address given in 1888 In which be says
that "even the most enthusiastic assertors Of Amer
can progress In the arts hardly refuse to &C.
knowledge that there has not been yet in Aperica
single painter sculptor architect who has created
work OF art' and he us wti for our self
satisfaction and for our general ignorance of the
great achievements Of the fine arts" The things that
are praised are the works OF Benardno Luin Whose
"Columbine," Of the Hermitage, has been repro
duced for frontispiece and whose characteristics
treated BY three different writers in the body Of the
magazine and a few books such "A House of
Pomegranates." by Mr. Oscar Wilde, and "Arch-
lecture, Mysticism and Myth by Mr.. Lethaby The
best OF the original productions that make for artistic
righteousness poem by Miss Quincy. and short
tale by Mr. Bliss Carman that Is we'll imagined and
well told. "The Knight ErTs4nt' IS printed linen
paper with wide margins, and has artistic cover de-
signed by Mr. Goodhue
An inscription has been placed by the Paris NUM-
cipal Council on the house in which Ba]zac died.
similar honor has been paid to Alfred de Mussets
birthplace and to the house IN which Madame Roland
brought up.
At the proposed Paris exhibition of 1900 the tenn
porary collection Of and valuable MSS IS TO be
something astonishing. The Pope has promised 10
lend many of the most precious documents from the
Vatican Library.