New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-04-10

Of his former books As the author, however, vi wv
plays which have been put upon the London oo''u''
he ought assurcdly TO know whereof he wrltcS'
Leading citizens OF Boston. including Oliver Wehdeh
| Holmes and Phillips Brooks arc to entertain Eu"uu
Everett Hale at dinner on the 18th OF this month The
dinner whicl, is to be given at the Hotel Nehdome Is
in honor OF DR.. Ilae's SEVENTEEN birthday
John Robertson Carlyles journalistic friend thought
that he found In Bulwcr kindness Of heart Tor which
few other people gave the novelist credit But now
extraordinary was Bnlwers fondness for personal
metamorphosed as described by Robertson "One day
be would appear In black from top to toe with dark
complcxioned visagc to match. Another DAY ne would
be all brown, and on third he would be all In white,
with blonde hair and Il fair complexion lighted up
by rouge
| Professor Fisher Of Yale has TO take OF his
hat TO Sir VI. f. Grant Dur. President Of the Royal
Historical Society. In his recent annual address lcorc
tho society the latter found occasion to commend Pro-
! c,sor Fishers book "Outlnes Of Universal History"
declaring that the author has worked up to the high
aim set forth in his preface and adding 1t Is very
curious and very far from crcdtable that We In England
should he Obliged to the Atlantic to find proper
book TO be as Manual Of Universal History in
orr higher schools and colleges but the very idea Of
History being long drama seems to be dead in this
| country"
| Another American book which the President com
mcndcd especially useful during the University
period Is DR.. Andrcws's Institutes # History
GYPSY and caravan life Is the subject Of tho novel
on which Daudct IS now mt work. lie has always
found this subject attractive, and. indeed planned
this book years ago.
The concluding volumes OF the "Llfe7 of Charles
sumner have lately been placed in the hands Of the
printers by his biographcr. Edward L. Pierce
Volumes | and II published In 1877; these
bring the biography down 10 July. i5.
/
In 1850 the first number Of n literary and artistic
magazine. called The Dial published in London
by Charles II. shannon and Charlie, Ricketts, two yong
artists. II contained article, on PuYiS d" ChayanneS,
and tho br Tiers Gonclurt. symbJncal and impressions
lsUc stories entitled. variouIy The Great Worm.
a Gmp-c Of Heaven ant satiOns1 supcrbly
Illustrated aud was offered 10 the public at the
modest price 81 seven slililncs and sXpencc. II
died. Now. after lapse OF three years. IL has been
resumed. and the md number has been placed
the market at ten shilling, and siNpcncei 1t remain,
70 be IL II Will I've. II certainly ought 10. Tor
magazine. not even The Century Guild Hobby
llOr-eT has proven more original and artistic.
more thoroughly unique than The DlalT proved In
IT, FIRST number
Mr. Harold Frederic Las been writing humorous
Irish romance which hc calls The Lady OF Mulrsc.'
Mr. G. J. Holyoakc. tho nmnbc and now venerable
aciiator. Is about 10 publish IN two volumes his rccol
lcc'ons Of sixty year, Of more less public life.
nearly seventy rcvoutionsts whose led them
10 prison the scaIold.
\ correspondent OF 3d. The Boston Transcript whe,
d., IN commenting upon the fact that copy Of Poe's
~Tumcranc@ u ~ is shortly 10 hc sold IN 80 ton.
WINS tho 'nmcrIanc' OF - ever pulll,hcll Mr..
Wold,cry think, Nr. Ingram G'oe's English EDITOR
#, wung IN believing that the volume only printed
and not published II seems 10 that Mr.. Ingram
las the weight ot evidence on BIS side. In It's quarterly
lit ~ now publication. The North American Review
far oct ,cr l-97 print tho title - pos Tlmcrlane
So advertisement o the boo, appears anywhere in the
Journals 81 the day. and editorial mention 81 IT ia
nny other periodical. DOES TIE sending ~ cops ~
a hook to one magazine con tituie publication
tliuk not. W. own conjecture I'm the case f. that
.Iamcrlnnc' not Cly not published. but that the
edition (mo.t likely very limited one cit on the
printer, hand Poe being either dissatisfied "a, he
might we'll lave lccul with the Job unable 10 pay
foru lie possibly obtained two three copies ~ the
pamphlet one ~ which dispatched TO the august
North American Review. What became Of the rest oi
the cd.tionf II evidently not circulated. II It
has survived the paper mills and the great fires which
have repeatedly swept the business portions Of the
town. bundle 81 Tamcrnnc, I, likely 10 turn up some
DAY IN some old Boston attic or lumbcrroom.' Tine
only copy beside, the Boston one. known to BE- I'm c1
istcncc +, IN the British Museum.
Mr. Dclanc bought in LONDON the other day for
~
It contains George Eot', autograph inscription Of
presentation to Thackcray, whose property IT was.
f. A. Freeman LEFT number Of valuable Mss.
which, It Is supposed viii be published by his
executors.
Mr. John Fi-l,e has finished II new History Of the
United states'-onc intended for the special Use II
schools.
Was Walt Whitman a poet The question Is not
n deba,abe one I'm the minds OF many enthusiasts.
and perhaps II Is non worth while to present II to them
ThO-c time lovers Of divine art who long 10 see It
perfect sphere Of beauty" may find an answer In
the current Century" Mr. Stcdman In his critical
paper on poetry which could have been written
only by man at once critic and poctdcclares that
natural poet, In sensitive moods have the gift OF
choice and rhythmic assortment Just rs singer IS
born with voice and ear Il painter with II knack
Of drawing licensees before he can read write.
Il Is not too much 10 say that II not born with this
endowment he Is not poet poetic nature. II Won
choose-lndeed often more good. pure" intellectual.
even more sensitive. than another with the gift
and, again, one who In time by practice may excel
in rhythmical mechanism him that has the Gift but
sights Il nevertheless, and again. not
born poet not Of the royal breed that by warrant
the sacrd groves. | l;y stress upon this, because |
In an age Of economies and physics and prose felton,
the fashion to slight the special distinction poetry
and TIA dcprccatc It's supremacy by divine right and
to this rs democracy reduces king,raft-through
extending its legitimate rlngc. NOu cannot force |
artists, architects musicians, to submit such pro
cess for material dividing lines too obvious |
otherwise some would undoubtedly make the attempt |
Eut poetic vibrations mpaIpable to tho carnaI
touch and unseen by the bodily eye. so that every |
rea,t according to his kind either discreds them |
or laws claim to them. All the same. nothing ever |
has outrivalled ever will outrival n cclaIaon
Of the specific quality of poetry the assertion that its
makers do
Feed on thoughts, that voluntary move
Harmonious numbers;
and the minstrel poet of my acccpation 'lsped In |
numbers rs IN infant-and we'll does the hachneyed !
verse rctcratc, for the numbers came .