New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-04-29

TO be brought out by G. L. Webster a co. in uhe
edition viii be incorporated the contents OF Mr.
sharp's two English volumes together with some new
poems. Among these is romantic ballad entitled
.The Last Voyage OF Keir the Monk"
Pierre Loti-otherwise Lieutenant viaud-is de-
scrlbed as dark and melancholy looking, and never so
happy as when he is simply "mOn lieutenant TO
crowd of Breton sailors who know something OF his
literary life.
Mr.. Froude's succession to Mr.. Freeman as Regius
Professor Of Modern History at oxford stirs an Eng
shman TO tell this story: Mr. Freeman Tor many
years exhausted language in abusing Mr. Froude. Al
last the latter sung TO reply. In the course OF
his article he admitted that lie had not visited, as ne
ought TO have done. and Mr.. Freeman did, the
scenes Of the historical events he described. Inc
reason was simply that he was poor man who couid
not afford TO So whereas Mr. Freeman was rich vi
this Mr.. Freeman vowed that he never again wouid
cruclse Mr. Froude And he never did"
In "The Landfan Of Left Erikson," Eben Norton
Horsford has gone anew and at considerable length
over the arguments for the hypothesis that tue Who
land of the ancient NOrseman was in Eastern n'SS''-
chusetts With the aid Of charts Reproduced from
those made by the Governments of the United states
and the Dominion of Canada. with reproductions oil
maps which were known TO Europe In the earN uine-
of American discovery he the accidental course
OF Bjarni to a point the American coast ana the
line by which that adventurous vOyager nnaN Ieacneu
Greenland Then he follows Left In the effort which
the latter made to retrace Bjarnis course Ihere Is
enough uncertainty in the matter to make 1t one OF
the most attractive subjects OF antique inquiry II Is
certainly remarkable how the details that remain OF
the old traditions fit into the theory which Mr. ors-
ford has worked out. Even the hours at which IL was
customary for the Norsemen to eat their morning ana
evening meals form important part OF the argu-
ment for the ancient discoveries accidentally handed
down the information that In Vneand the shortest
he e1lns
evening meal time The fact that people hungry
about the same time each day owing to habits fixed
from childhood furnishes them criterion for calcnlat-
Ing the latitude of Vineland.
Tho aspect of the coasts of Eastern Newfoundland,
Nova Scotia Cape Cod and the neighborhood of the
Charles River are compared with the meagre de-
scripons Of the medieval navgators. Mr. llorsford
even supposes that people OF mixed Morse ana Indian
blood still existed at the time CT the landing OF the
Pilgrims and suggests the equation sycamore saga-
man as a tentative confirmation of the opinion. Be
sides maps and plans there numerous process en-
cravings photographs of places in question. The
book is published by Damrell Il Upham Boston.
What the president of a great university FOR mon
thinks of a woman's education is worth quoting This
Is what President Timothy Dwight. of Yale In the
Nav Forum: Education Is for the purpose of dc
yegpng and cultivatng the thinking power II IS TO
the end of making knowing, thinking mind. The
higher education is for the realization OF broad
knowledge and wide thinking. When we know this.
we know that the sister in n household should he
educated as her brother educated that the mother
should have the power, by Of her serious
thought on literature. history. art the varied good
things Of life guide and train the thought power OF
her children that the wife should he In intellectual
oneness with her husband, ever stimulating and IN
spring him by her thinking and never giving him OPP
portuny TO dcpreclate. seem to depreciate, her
mental capacity in comparison with his 1t is too
Late in he
mind is not of much consequence as mans mind,
that whatever may be her peculiar sphere, she Is
not to be richly, broadly, and If may use the
word thoughtfully educated, we'll as he's
Mrs. walford, the novelist, is described as hos
pitable shrewd good natured woman al -Iglsh wife
of the olden type in spite of the writing OF BOOKS
an Mr.. walford's WIFE" she says. Mr. Walford has
never been Mrs. Waiord's husband" They are
"county people" Of good position.
Among the recent mistakes OF literary readers. there
is none nnler than that Of the youth who desired the
attendant to give linn End ofmy own" by Israel
Searching inquiry brought the fact that what he
really wanted Disraelis Endymon."
NJ Pierre Lotl-in real life Lieutenant Julien Wand
has one popularity which TOR literary is queer
lie hardly ever reads. lie Is a man Of many talents
Not only does he write the most exquisite of prose
poery-he Is an admirable musician. pianist Of I'M
common ability and the composer of large number
of charming melodies. lie is, moreover, an artist
whose pencil drawings much admired.
OF the late John Murray, the publisher, The Lon
don Spectator" says that his Hber'lity is highly
praised: and" it adds, though do not know
precisely Why authors should expect liberality from
publishers any more than designers expect it from
builders II is certain they d. and that publishers who
fulfil the expectation the publishers whom liter
ature reckons a. friends. The publisher who also
patron is passing away and perhaps II Is better so.
and that the publisher should be merely the authors
collecting agent. But there was something gracious
and fine about the old position"