New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-14

publ shed In book form BIZ "The Century" Company
AT the same time they will bring out " Crows Nest
and Bclhavcn Tales, by Mrs. Burton Harrison ana
old Ways and New collection OF tales by MISS
Viola Rosehoro
The wilems- Fund in Holland Is Issuing valuable
collection OF the Netherand ballads, love songs,
comic songs, student songs and nursery rhymes.
some OF very old and OF great Interest ana
beauty. Two volumes have already appeared
Thackerays daughter tells pleasant little story OF
setting out with her father and young sister Tor
tour on the Continent. We seatter-brained
little girls says Mrs. Richie, although we looked
dcmure enough In our mushrooms and waterproois.
We had also prepared travelling trousscau. which
consisted OF miscellaneous articles belonging to the
fancy goods department OF things in general, rather
than 10 the usual outfit OF an English gentenahs
family was not without some diffdence about my
luggage / remember draught- board, n large
wooden workbox, good many books, pahtDoAeS
and other odds and ends; but / felt that whatever
else might be deficient new bonnets would Drlns
us triumphantly out OF every crisis. They were
ALIKE but with difference of blue and pink wreaths
NJ acacia and brilliant In ribbons match, at time
when people affected less dazzling coors thar they
do now. or these treasures were not TOT the
channel and Its mschances; they were careIuiiy
packed away and guarded by the draught boards ana
workboxes and other contents OF our trunk, ana
may as well conclude the episode at once, for II Is
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recall. Alas for human expectations When the
happy moment came Mt last, and We had reachcu
foreign parts and issued out OF the hotel dreSseo anu
wreathed and trumphantly splendid my iather Saiu
MY dear children, go back and put those ooHhe@
away in Your box and don't ever wear theih any
more Why you would be mobbed In these pnces IL
YOU walked out alone with such ribbons? HOW tho
gun shone as he spoke; how my heart sank uhder
The acacia trees. Ny sister was eleven years oid
and didn't care bit; but at thirteen ana fourteen
ones clothes begin to strike root. felt dsgnced
bcheaded Of my lovely bonnet utterly crushed, ana
turned away to hide my tears"
new edition OF Mr.. Frank stocnOns works In
five volumes will shortly be forthcoming
! CARLYLE had much the dstaste for railways
which dstin glllshes Mr.. Ruskln. The country Is
beautifully SILENT" he wrote from Scotsbrig In letter
recently published for the first time, Clear and pure,
above and belowno noise In It but that OF the fresh
winds with here and there nasty railway lar OH
and occasionally the Song Of BIRDS
Love in the Calendar is the title Of volume
of poems which Mr.. Robert Underwood Johnson OF
"The Century Is preparing to publish
In some recently published "reminiscences OF Dick
ems Mrs Sala says that life ut Gads Hi was pleasant
but peouiar-thc peculiarly lying In tbe iacl t'''
the novelist a phenomenaIy plncua man TIC
was exact" writes Mrs. Sala, "even to the paihiu1
stage Of exacude, In every transaction oil me- ahd
he expected hi guests to be punctua and a. exact
as he was himself In November, 1863. ON the eve oil
my departure for New-York. | missed bidding MN
farewell because was seven and hnlf minutes late
I'm Keeping an appointment which lie had made Tor
final hand,hahe. When | was at Gad' liiil Id"
come to know my hosts ways better, and was rs
punctIal as the lnc0me-taN collector, We kept mill
ary time at al meals but 1t was between break
fi, and luncheon that Dickcnss love Of method most
ed =
one OF his guests who earned livelihood by their
pen t. some kind Of literary work In the Interval
Just mentioned. our party during my stay al rad
HI only comprised in addition 70 oar host ana Tue
member, OF hls iamli. Wilkie and Charlie ColiIhS'
Andrew IInllida-. the dramats,, and your humble
servant We were nj. thi or 10 work 1T 10 80 IA M.
and expected 10 keep at II til 40 D. III. The day
on which | arrived saturday, and abouihAtr
working the lat day Of the week, whIch' tu''e
thirty five year, has becg my sabbath Fortunately
| had brought down with double set OF proofs
O, a book on tie Paris Exhibition. which was bring
INK ont ono set had fully corrected before leaving
London, during my three hours ana odd Segregation
from society tIlne.i With the blauk proofs aud drew
| skeletons OF the 'Traddes' order In the margins
Dickens had put me In his own stidy' pFeier'hs 10
work himself. that morning In pretty Swiss o'ae'
I'm tho gioud,. the gift OF his friend, Charles fech"r
aud when | tore up my spare set d proofs WIN ble
bogus corrections. / succeeded In more than lnlfhIt
Ing thnr fnmOus wastc-papcr basket YOU "ot o.
Where Willie and Charlie, Collins, aud Andrew Ham
day We're lodged and what manner Of work they ac-
compished have forgotten. Mter luncheon ohlhe INC
/ equally famous ten miles walh-ive miles out hHd
| i've miles In From that pedestrian toll you were
EXCUSED OH showing good and proper cause; but
had been ordered Walking exercise by ny doctor. ana
was valid enough to perform with Dckrus ana hl'
si,te IN law Miss GeOrgna llOgarti, Gamp from
Gads Hl . Rocscs ntrOod, aud back When 70.
returned you were expected 10 dihh l'inor gas Vi
and Lrft,
1 do not uinh that tie institution Known as NJ
O'Clock TEA wa, hno~n ~ InoSo va, y, nc.d -
a ulgHtcap. ID consume n0dciatr 'ihJhh
OF hot gin panch brewed In inlmilabe style oy ine
hands Oh III, keuS himself. | zee him now, eStl,s
With "A fondly paterna glance TIC lug 0i puhcn.
swaihed IN snowy iPMn 9p inc ,so moU compound
but II you passed " BY, your host iooheu huF''
' Francis Adams, writing OF shelley IN The Fort
nightly Review vigorously forth claim ior
Byron as II stronger factor than shelley In the al
vance OF the century. "ByOns glory Ii this' no
says that ut the darkest hour which the cause Oh
liberty and progress, has known ID the century
when the urthclancc OF that canse was utterly hoP"
less In domain OF action he asserted II with ir
r.sisuble power in the domain OF literature. mo
sword was shattered Byron seized the pen. Defeat
and disaster everywhere he rallied the scnuered
ranks, and. In IL mad assault on IN" cohquerorS'
checked their ruthless pursuit nnd saved inc lu''o
And he did hi, not for country or another but
for all Europe All civilization must refiSe 10 forget
the honor due TO the man VINO. mt the Crisis Oh lie
and death, mpcriousy declared for life. ana struggle
and victory. shelley at this crisis did nothinS-couia
do nothing lie had no readers no public byron
was an English lord, an English arstWrat, ana 'ho
stnrt this gave him in the then enormous
Europe, lying under the feet OF English ToryiSh ana
tho Holy Alliance. suddenly saw an English noble
strike blow after blow ut its opprcssors Even Well
ineon the sacred peace monger Of the world was not
safe Byron be-mocked his nose! Tho death OF an
English king was celebrated By an English Laureate In
,bectly fIlsom. style, and dared open his lips
to ridcue or reIecl. History Will yet have TO tell
MS what II meant ut such moment a. this to see that
and mockrry aud scorn. Nothing can get over tho
4IIro linn Of IIna1