New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-04-01

OF pleasure, and Of his friends, and a man %
high temper. fierce pugnacity and indomitable Will,
coupled with entire and perfect control Of himself
Several times during the American Revolution, II
Is stated, his temper carried him away, as with
Charles Lee Mt Monmouth, and his BerSerker blood
fired at Germantown, Brandywine and Princeton
where Sullivan forced him to be careful OF bis
life.
Captain Charles King is collaborating with two la
dies Mrs Sutherland and Mrs. Frye In writing
play Of garrison life. IL is TO be called Fort
Wayne"
During the coming week some important auto
graph letters be gold at auction In London.
Among them eighteen unpublished ones from
Mrs. Browning to her cousin John Kenyon. several
Of them being OF much literary and autobiography
cal importance. a letter addressed by Charles
Lamb 10 Mr.. Kenny. 81. Vaery sur Somme, con-
tains the following passage: We'll & how far In
st. Yallery Some from Paris do you get
wine and wanuts intoerable and the vintage does
suffer from the wet. e. have you Plays and Green
Rooms Fanny Kettles 10 chat with Of an Evening.
and Is the air purer than the old gravel pits and
the bread so much whittier they say? Lord, what
things you see that travel. daresay the people
are all French wherever you go: what over
whelming effect that must have. ! have stood one
OF cm at n time. but two I generally found over
towering ! used to cut and run, but then. in their
own vineyards maybe they cndurable enough"
Another interesting item in the sale is note
written by Thackeray on March 10. 1892 to Chap
man and Hail. just before the publication Of The
Irish Sketch Book " by that firm. II Is curious 10
read at this date Thackeray's application for the
cditorship OF the Foreign Quarterly" II believe
I should make as good an editor as another. being
popular among my friends. and nowise given to
deep philosophizng," and so forth or very great
literary interest indeed, is the original MSS OF
Tennyson's poem. ION Spiteful Letter. Endorsed
IN the poet's autograph For once Week, with
Mr. Tennyson's compliments. Accompanying tho
MS IS an autograph letter Of Tennyson's. wherein
he saws he expects the poem will bring upon me
more spteful letters 1t is particular letter TO
which I alude I have had dozens of them from
one quarter another"
poem written by Abraham Lincoln when
Young man is quoted by Mr. Nicoay in the current
Century" 1t was written in 1874 when Lincoln
visited his "ch.ldhoods home on "stumping'
tour 1t begins thus:
MY childhood's home see again.
And sadden with the view;
And still. memory crowds my praln'
There's pleasure In IL 100
o Memory, thou midway world
'Twixt earth and paradise ,.
And. freed from all that's earthly vile.
Seem hallOwed pure. and brlSnt
Like scenes in some enchanted Isle
AL! bathed in liquid light
Mr. Nicolay writes entertainingy OF Lincolnh
Literary Experiments" in the Century but notn-
ing he could say quote could equal the demon-
straton made recently from Lincolns own manu-
scr,nts of Iincoln's mastery OF expression. The
difference between the two versions or the Fettys-
burg address for which their author was himset
directly responsible he third being the production
Of a newspaper correspondent Is remarkable as
illustrating his gift for casting and recasting
phrase The second copy is immensely superior TO
the first 1t is fascinating to watch the working OF
his mind in the polishing Of the address.
Mr.. Du AIaurier gave charming lecture on
"cociai Pictorial Satire" in London the other day.
When he began to work for punch ne SAID ne
was allotted the drawing rooms ana the nurseries
of the well-to-do. and told not TO be too desper-
ateIv funny" He was to be the romantic tenor
of Mr. 'Punchs' opera boufe company, WINE
Keene was to sing the comic songs He liked MS
drawing room portion because it was his own yet
he found his material for portraiture more inter-
estng than funny; and it required a deal OF COOK
ing'' before it became palatable for publication IL
he had not eyesght weak that he cannot pear
ordinary daylight without tinted glasses he woud
have liked to take his incidents from the lower
walks of London life. He had been originally IN
tended for a chemist and worked In the laboratory
Of University College under DR.. Williamson. VINO
admired the caricatures he drew or students ana
masters-"the doctor didn't see them n-out
told him he would make shocking bad chem
ist" He accordingly left University College, ard
xent hack 10 his native Paris where he studied
art In the same academy Poynter and whistler.
and then proceeded TO Antwerp, where he mad Anna
Tadema for fellow-student
little later he had the misfortune 10 lose tne
s,gbt If. one eve completely-"perhaps it was the
eve that drew the funny carcatures which o"e
doctor had not seen" For that reason he begged
his virtues very kind" After the lecture photo
craphs were exhibited of John Leech lat whose
funeral in Kensal Green Mr.. Du Maurier had STOOD
nv the side of Charles Dickens. and whose Initials
are carved on "Punch's" table. over tiny bottle
incosing a leech and next to those OF Thackeray),
Charles Keene, Richard Doyle's frontispiece 'or
punch" Uhe present one) and a number OF
sketches and cartoons illustrative of their special
work.
A new edition of General Grants Memoirs. pre-
ton
A curious fiction series is to be issued by the
London publisher. Fisher Irwin. 1t Is TO be caHea
the "Autonym Library and will present IN us
first volume The Upper Berth" Mr.. Marion Cra"-
ford's first attempt the short story.
A book OF poems which is to be issued in Phla'
denbia bv-and-by has a curious origin. The
verses are by members OF the Pegasus Club. which
IL as Mr. H. s. Morris says in The Literary
World" a Club of poets formed for the considera-
tion of their own verse" At each meeting verses