New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-11
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4, which he had done much

synnathy and love. and winch TIC No.
TO free from bondage .s,ra nopularity
or,v one living author can measure ,,,os
ons o ,,.t IN RussIa-To,stof. Russian CRITICS
W., ., and T,rgenief together, anu can -
49, ..nmortal trio" In 1916 Gresor"S "
,,., novels "Derewna and ANU" -. nrho
a,re1 and assured his fame ana popu . $3.50"
Liter hook IL in a sense the "unce io' ,u.,
NJ Russian literature. Ii dealt VIII" '"e .d ,ho,r
sarr,ws and burdens. and did much 'o"a'u ~,
81 ,...,,- Ie,s than two decades later. ne
outbor became known the 'Deie"uei " 49,.
Downtrodden.' His appointment as III ,rad
Petersburg School of Art ana Mu' 40
h,r, an income and allowed him 10 oe'o'e 81 -,
time to literature one OF his latest oooMa'
,crobots Of Charity" was devoted mainly 70 d
.,,,,r Of the misery OF the proletarians Inc DOCK
=. ,,o time excited the enmity or many p'oP'e
who had been his friends but this mas oee', '
gotten and the whole nation Joineu III III"
ton Of his anniversary.
Trade hath its poetry-or at any rate the realis''c
rovest thinks IL has. An aspirant TOT honoi' II.
m. schoo, has come forward with Romance vi
a Drvgoods Drummer" Was it this sort oi 'l'"s
that Victor Hugo had in his mind wneh ne 'a'neu
of the authors power to add ne" shu'
erature? 1t Is all very well to erec. an ga
Cupid beside the bargain counter NO uo""' ~
slghings of Romeo Will take on more ma "s
shade OF grief when they are intersperseu '' "0
herolne's impassloned cry of Cash" but
Concerning Carlye's judgment OF other a"'no''
an Englishman OF to-day cleverly says thaO III
were often too penetrating to be true; they see'eo
to search and stab their vlctims-ahd coHie ou'
long way ON the other side.
"Q." otherwise Mr.. CUTLER Couch. loves the
authors trade "My calling ties me to no once
stool" he writes makes me no mans Save com-
pels me 10 no action that my soul condeinhs' 'e''
me free from town life, which loathe anu a'''"'
me to brea the clean air. to exercise llinDS as Wei as
brain to tread good turf and wake up every morn
ing TO the sound and smell OF the sea and that WIGS
prosDect which TO my eyes Is the dearest ON earth
All happiness must be purchased with price,
though people seldom recognize this; ana part vi 'e
price IS that living thus man can never aniass d
fortune But as 1t Is extremely unlikely that could
have done this In any other pursuit. may claim
that I have the better OF the bargain
20" says that his desire to tell n story was
awakened by the reading of Stevenson's Treasure
Island" The youth was then only nineteen ana
student at oxford and the germ OF his first booK
Dead Mans Rock he found In bit or FAMILY
lore
Mr. Gadstones alleged intention to learn the
Basule tongue at Biarriz Is invention of a cor
respondent OF the Figaro" He learned french
when elderly but he found In French literature an
incentive to study that tongue lie made a speech
ami a wonderful one 1t was-in French wnen ne was
clghty-two years Old 1t almost an mprovised
one for It was delivered at a banquet hastily ar
ranged Where strain most showed Itself was on the
authors face the brow being knit and the nostrlls
compressed He made the same evening another
speech in English. During It's delivery the coun-
tenance took quite different expression. because
he speaking In a familiar language. There Is
no Basque literature one of the few books pub
lished In IL IS translation Of the authorized YER
sion Of the Bible the translator OF which was Prince
Iucien Bonaparte. who died few years ago IN
Bayswater And it appears that the Basques
DO not understand the dialect which the Prince
made OF. Voaire. in speaking OF Basque more
than A hundred years before the Prince attempted
his translation. said The Basques say they under
stand each other. but / don't believe them.
The playful "Bill Nyes" Comic History OF the
United States' is 10 be published Immediately by
the l.ippincotts. A surprising fact not heretofore
known 10 people Of this region Is revealed In it
tina, General Howe decided TO capture Brooklyn
first SO that he might have a place to sleep in while
taking NeW-IOrk