New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-05-25

II. Santsbury Is editing f1edlngS movers loi u"
new edition, which IS be brought out In shape UNI
form with the editions OF the Austen anu
Brcnte novels.
DR.. Arthur Brooks's gazine paper on his pro'iei
Phillips Brooks. IS TO be rcpubliShed In the h'ip
.Black and White Series" OF the three accompany
ING portraits one heretofore unpublished. Is from
photograph taken when Phillips Brooks was young
man.
For thirty three years Herbert Spencer has been at
work upon his "Systean OF synthetic fh"osopn'' ','
his penultimatc section OF sociology has SUI 10 De
written. The final section has appeared but as Mr..
Spencers health Is not strong 1t Is not certain mat
the work will ever be completed.
A lonr and ambitious work. to be called "The Com
vaainiDr Millions OF Men," is on the Harper press
Edward Fuller, New England writer, Is It's author.
Arthur uoI,oms essay Of 1881 "Some Of the
CHARACTERISTICS OF Modern Poetry and on the Lyrical
Poems Of Alfred Tennyson Is to be reprinted In the
forthcoming volume OF "Arthur Henry liallams
Poetcal Remains" Some Of the poems to be In
cluded In the book are addressed TO Alfred, Charles
and Emily Tcnnyson.
"Enslsh Poets Of the Seventeenth Century from
Donne to Dryden" Is the title OF volume In course
OF preparation by Professor l.. d. X. Briggs OF
Harvard
That there are men Of whom the native intelligence
Is slightly deteriorated by every book they swallow
is the opinion OF a spectator essayst-an opinion
shared, he believes. by the late Lord Lyt'on. lie
declares that there have been fools whose want OF
intelligence due almost exclusively 10 readlhs'
and he adds that he could himself name two distinctly
intelligent men whose intelligence seriously in
jured by getting particular books son the BRAIN
"They did not merely gain nothing from the DOCKS
they lost much, result which experts In phllahhrop!
tell us Is by no unknown among reading
artisans. Some book masters them. and the power OF
thinking they originally possessed seems to dwndie
away" Nine. dArblays case Is mentioned oy inc
writer as example Of the evil effects OF reading
"She not only wrote better before she had read much
he says, but she thought better and-though We eau
not be so inhuman as to suggest the experiment
nobody who Will read Der last novel, THE WandeTer
through WILL We think. doubt that 1t was reading
which had killed her intelligence" Here he adds
few sentences which have much truth If they are not
wholly true:
women who are exceedingly integent-and this not
In any limited dEeCtiOn-who never read. VINO Know
netting s n about and ddoS fS TO ha G
They have observed they have thought and they can
shnn the nG readers Who are apt either
pied 10 be mentally disspatedZthcre Is 10 otcr
word-and they think, when they think In more
original way or rather. that word has now con,
yehtonal meaning in way which Is less ?Dscnlea
Their thoughts poor or perfect are at least their oM'
and are strong hOuS I9y lack TG raadarS M
much the effect Of reading but they have certain
Sre apt. too to have humor the inconernes Of
things striking them even more they Strike read
e ehSw n %fH which Ha We define rather indefinitely by
% h ,Se saaS the ans Of 1
said they are decent bn that is often only because
they in presence OF persons whose owicase %, ol
classes or races-for there both-to whom the
sre Women Ti among US Who never read and talk
cellentiy wel-there were scores OF them IN France
chiefs Of professions can but who have never
book book since they st college. Indeed we believe
startled at the number Of the latter.
Mr.. W. B. Yeats is preparing an anthology Of Irish
ballads for the forthcoming series Of the Library Of
Ireland" The first book of the series TO be issued
will be Thomas DAVIS unpublished work. The
Patriot Parliament OF 1901
One of the pieces of fiction in forthcoming
sharper" has been contributed by a colored woman,
the wife Of negro preacher in South Carolina.
The late John Addington Symonds's translation Of
the Mines Of Herondas-the first complete one to be
published in Englishis to be added 10 Mr.. symonds's
new edition Of his "Greek Poets" He finished this
edition Just before his death
Mr. Robert Grant is still harpng on Benecick the
married man. lie has been writing for "Scribner'
a serial which he calls The Opinions Of Married
Philosopher
There have been some references to Mr.. KiplnSs
Imperial Institute poem as poor. 1t is understood
that the author presented IL as Il Tree en 70 " Inc
English Illustrated Magazine wherein II printed.
The latest art Journal founded in London is
Illustrated monthly of about forty pages. which has
been launched under the ecilorship OF Mr.. Gl"csOn
White. The periodical is called THE Studio"
and Is published at sxpencc thus aiming = meet the
wants Of art students and craftsmen for whom the
other English magazines of similar scope are TOO
pensive. The first number promises that the venture
will be a success, not only in the good quality Of the
paper, type. line and halftOne illustr ions. but in
the nature OF the articles and OF the works chosen for
reproduction. A series Of papers artists crafts
is opened by account Of Sir Frederick Leigh
toms work modcller in clay: and among the
articles which follow this such topics Of present
interest brocades book plates black and white draw
ings and furniture treated There are copons
current exhibitions and new artistic
publications: calendar the last page gives the
OF the galleries in compact and handy form: and
some useful prize competitions for art students are
announced. The journal Is 20 date in It's sympacs
and Its methods The text throughout reflects the ad-
vanced and vldeawake ideas of the Younger element
In English art. handled by editor with sound
ness and independence OF taste
Mrs. Piatts poems referring to Ireland are TO be
published in London in volume to be entitled An
Enchanted Castle and Other Poems Pictures, Por-
traits and People In Ireland"
Professor Georg Ebcis's autobiography T. comnr
from the Appleton press under the title Of The Story
Of My Life"
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