New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-10-17

mako its appearance early in the coming year III
will be published bi-monthly by the Macmillans IL
will be filled with papers on original researc" co"
struction and critical articles and reviews Inc
editors will have the cooperation of Professor ~
Rnet Paris). Professor William James Qiarvard''
Professor Ladd tYale, Professor G. f. Fullerton
PENNSYLVANIA, Professor ii. II. Donaldson "hi-
cago). Professor Dewey (Michigan)' ana professor
Muensterberg GIarvard
Mics Olive Schreiner of african Farm ia,'''
has finished her book, and only her pupiS"e'
Lnovrs whether it Is fiction or not II mas gone 10
Tho nress and she has left England TOT 'o"'"
Africa.
The volume in defence of Queen Mary stuart
,,hich Mr. John SHELTON has prepared. will be par
ticuary notable for its reproductions OF famous
and heretofore comparatively inaccessioie Po'-
traits OF the Queen and her contemporaries.
IT will contain many portraits OF Mar!-o"e Vi
these a fac-simile In colors being taken from
miniature at Windsor Castle owned by queen
Victoria Another which is reproduced ny per
mission Of its owner the Due dAumaie Is l'o'"
a drawing representing Mary as chiid al oha'
tn,v. The French Government has contributed fac
smile. of the portraits Mary in the Biblothequc
Rationale The portrait of Queen Elizabeth as WIS
dom Is taken from the painting owned by the
MARQUIS of Salisbury. The English edition dc luxe
of the work is limited to 200 copies. and numper
not exceeding hundred may he printed Tor the
Continent and the United States
A vel,n. of Miniatures from Balzac's Master
pieces is announced by d. Appleton co. lhey
are also bringing out (as holiday puDlcatop
Poems of Nature" by William cullen Bryant
illustrated by Paul de Longpre.
Among the musical articles which composers Of
note have promised TO The Century Is one D!
Grieg Schumann.
new Irish magazine to he cahed Inc IT'S"
EevIew - is coming out in Dublin. The name OF the
editor Is not announced. but the list Of conribu-
TORS includes the names most highly esteemed in
modern Irish literature
The Putnams are about to publish translation
by Rose NJ. Harrington Of Rousseaus social
Contract" Professor f. l.. Walter. OF Ann Ar
bor has prepared an introduction anc notes LOT
the volume
CAPTAIN Charles King is mentioned as the first
writer who has made practical use of the phono-
graph The author of pleasant paper on the
literary men of the army in the last "Caiiiorhlah
quotes as follows from a letter written by 'ap'
tain King: Il devote all months of the year to
literary work. l have very little time for resi-.
1t is my custom ordinarily in writing to scriopie
roughly in pencil or with fountain PEN IN Soi'
Of shorthand of my the story as IL occurs
10 me and then having gone it once or twice
to read il into my monograph; then the cylinders
of the monograph are taken down 10 the ONCE
Of my transcriber. Miss Rhoades and that young
lady very carefully and conscientiously does inc
to bother myself about punctuation or spelling or
ANYTHING of the kind. she has been engaged In
this work for since the fall OF lsSs ana -
quite well up in army techncalities we'll no"
that am getting older and lazer. consider per-
haps four thousand words a good days work.
have sometimes. under the spur, written SIX thou-
sand and more words in day, but never
want to do ii again.
There Is report that Mr.. Oscar Wilde is writ
ing a book of maxims. he called 'Oscariana
They will probably illustrate the theory set forth
in this passage from letter recently sent ny 'he
author TO a friend: My idea is that every DAY
should begin a new thought, fresh idea, and
that yesterday should be thing OF the past; Tor
get everything unpleasant in the past and live
for the present and the future
Are there any descendants of Daniel Defoe in
this country? Mr.. Thomas Wright. who is now
preparing a Biographical the author of Robinson
Crusoe" notes that Benjamin. his second son.
emigrated from England to the Carolinas
NJ Coouelin SAYS in 1.-THE Century" in his en-
thusiastic paper on Beranger admirably trans
lated by Mr. Walter Learned that one TACT con-
corning the poet which has not been noted is that
.after Noiere he is our poet who has created the
most types. We know Madame Gregoire lie Roi
dYvetot. Roger Bontemps. lie Marquis de Cara
has, Paillasse Fretilon, and twenty others, as we
know Arnolphe Celimene or Tartufe. What force
and strong strokes of the brush. what verses that
are proverbs, what profound ami graceful pref
aces. Power he says. is bell preventing
those who ring it from hearing any other sound
Those who worship the memory Of Walt Whit
man and who see no defects in his Will no
doubt enjoy the letters to his mother and other
relatives, printed in the current century. 10
the cooler reader who is unable TO regard Whit
man as the reasonable object of a cult, they VIII
seem rather fiat. They show an amable, aifec-
tionate and kindly nature. but that Whitman pos
sessed such nature acknowledged long ago
An illustrated edition Of anna karenina Is on
the press of T. Y. Crowell & Co.
1t cannot be said that the picture of Napoleon
on the way st. Helena as presented in con-
temporary record published in THE Century is
that of a sublime hero. 1t is that of "A little man
who uses his fingers instead of fork at his meals
who manoeuvres to get the ceremonious attentions
due 10 an imperial parsonage. and retires to his
cabin in "a pet when he fails: and who poses upon
occasion In a to awaken ribald fnrth Inc
blind idolatry with which young people used to
study Napoleons has In large measure
passed away. and juster estimate of the man
has taken its place 1t may be conceded that be
was great but 1t ought not TO be forgotten that he
was also small in many directions
The forthcoming edition of Sir Richard Burton's
complete and literal translation of the Carmina
Of Catullus is to be printed on handmade paper
from old-faced type cast expressly for the pur-
pose and destroyed Immediately after production
The book will have for frontspece an etching OF
Blake's portrait of Catullus. The issue will in no
case exceed the number of 1850 copies. and will be
limited to private subscribers only. There are TO
be a few large paper copies, and-a statement
specially interesting to the collector-four copies
on Japanese vellum which not for sale. The
volume IL is said. will contain many curious and
out-of- the-way annotato
The finest collection of William Penn MSS in
existence is reported to be the property of Mr.
Di,fia ol, Mr. IVear .ls..
eighty-three letters of Washington-thrieen Of
these being written before the Revolution and
one when Washington was only twelve years old
One OF the letters in this collection is the last
Washington wrote. and is dated the day before his
DEATH