New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-23

iid NOT thin, IL worth while as he afterward
said Though the fact was he was afraid TO ask
the Vice his reasons; 50 he wrote on ''.e
poem also The classical professor thought 1t
m Their funny that both his predecessors shouid
admire 50 unintenigible a production; but. as he
said he did not care ota about the matter
and so wrote e. II also. ana as no other poem
had ''g's." the prize was UNANIMOUSLY
awarded 10 the author OF "Timbuctoo Aiter All
was over the three examiners happened to meet
an. a,v and the Vice In his absolute fashion. fell
~ abusing the other two for admiring the poem
They replied very naturally. and with some ihnis-
nation that they should never have dreamt OF
admirinx II IL he himself had not scored IL over
with "g's" "0's," he said they were u.s. Tor
queries. for could not uhders'ahu '"o '
tive lines OF IT.
Mr. Pawn whose portrait is given herewith. says
that there was queer resemblance between MIN
self and another Trinity man Not only was
often addressed by persons who TOOK me lot hih'
but people used to ask, apropos OF nothihg'
whether I knew So-and-so. ! remember making
n considerable impression upon chance pas
senger In a railway train on the Cambridge Inc
rbo was staring at me rather hard, by suddenly
oh.eryInv NO sir, do not know Mr.. So-and-so
=, ia ho.r the very question he was Going to
,.k mo but nv anticipating It seemed TO him so
unc,nny that he got out at the next station
hook dealing with the Empress Eusenie Is an
nounced by Dodd. Mead Co. II Is the nrst OF a
semi.hstorical series. entitled The Secret OF an
Empire
The author OF that brilliant novel, Aunt Anne"
has written A new book which the Appetons are
about to publish "A Flash Of Summer is the story
OF an unfortunate marriage
Mr. Hugh Thomson has made ninety quaint Illus
,ratons for his forthcoming edition OF Miss Aus
tens Pride and Prejudice"
A handsome edition In two volumes OF Kingsley 8
"Uvpatia" IL announced by the Harpers Ii 10 to
no ornamentcd with text and marginal Illustrations
hv w NJ Johnson. and will contain. moreover. a
photogravure portrait OF the author.
The love stories OF three famous beauties OF Colonial
dov. are told In volume which Little. Brown q Co.
ore bring out These Three Heroines OF New Eng
land Romance" are Priscilla, whose life is de-
.cribed bv Harriet Prescott Spofford; Agnes Bur
r,o,e A." concerning whom Alice Brown has written
. pleasant essay, and Martha Hilton" whose story
ia told bv Louise Imogcn Quincy. The book Is to
be illustrated
Lander was cross when one day a proof-sheet
u,. brought 10 him In which the concluding stanza
OF ono Of his poems was grievously transmogrif,ed
Yes you shall say. when once the dream
My love very dear to him.
NV farm and peace were more.
"Of all the ridiculous blunders ever committed by
n c,mpositor." wrote the poet on the margin.
PITY It was not printed My farm and my peas!
Judge Gayarre. the Louisiana historian. is nearly
ninety years old and is in good health and good
spirits.
Some personal "reminiscences OF Thackeray will
he found In the forthcoming book on the Charter
house Old and New"
Two hundred and sixty Of the 1000 numbered sets
OF the new edition Of Horace Walpoies Memoirs
OF the Reign OF George III have been secured for
the United States by the Putnams. Ten OF the por-
traits In the four volumes have never been pub
lished
Mr. Ponltney Bigeows new book is coming from
the Harper press II Is collection OF Notes from
both sides OF the Russian frontier" and Is en-
titled THE Borderiand Of Czar and Kaiser
The late Mrs. Thomas Observation-Disclosures Au-
gusta Webster-ieft hardly a ripple on the sea OF
literature though she published several volumes OF
verse. and was considered at one time TO b Ars'