New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-24

=. .o...,, o., c,,n,ers on Scotland ana eight On
other subjects. English and American and seVefa'
poems are woven INTO them
~, ornshv tho author Of the excellent trans'a'
,,on ~ "Don Ouxotc" published few years ago.
has inst iied in England. lie was an aru'hi S'u'e"'
of Spanish literature and Spansn history a"' n'
translation OF the "Pomoema del ca Will WIN III,
"ouixote." carsc him be gratefuiy reneinDe'c'
for many a day by readers who krow no tongue
save English
Tbere has been a great dea. OF hishfalutin wriu
ten about the Corrcggoshy OF Cor'egg'o' IN 'dcl
most literature produced about him N rec~ni ye@'
has been far more rhetorical tnan ~ c'i"".'" ''
hooks on the Old masters. 1t has seemed as 'housn
his charm OF revere, and light. aimost "'s'ea'
,orner had dazed his critics and left them uhao's
10 say anything about matters beyHd the e'uS'e
beauty OF HE art II Is therefore goon " NM"
that the new monograph by DR.. Corrado Hccl, |"
no brought ont by the Scribners Is entitled Cor
reggie His Life. His Friends and Ills Time IN
o,ber words. tina, the lates, and. perhaps, most
unanimously prepared work on the p,in,er - 70
deal with him at close quarters ana ts' 10 ma
that can be told about the actual man. the -"''.-
ostIng and even puzz.Ing master who mace rd'N'a
fame DR. RIcci ought to tel the tale "eii ios III
work as Curator OF the Museum In Parma mas peen
s,lendidlv done Corregg!o IL fascinating at Dres-
den ut Paris, at Rome. at other places IN E''ope'
hut in Parma. where so much or MS mural WIN
ovis,s and where the Museum SHOWS nm PRIV
,ic,lIy at full length with all OF IoschlS water
color. IN HON one In ones study the painter - all
pervading and irresistible. DR. kicci' IN sHo'I naS
had an atmosphere in which TO write incompafao-e,
on the whole. in Europe. and he mas SNOW" "''io-I
90 sympathetic 10 Correggo IN MS ar
n, the masters work that his book couia har''y
he forgiven II IL did rot prove itself TO deserve wen
Of the reader. ,
We hone II will sift TO the bottom all the amusing
anecdotes connected with Correggio, and ABOVE al
give lis a final version OF that legend "hch nnh'
Correggios fame with that OF the gehiai AD"ea
OF the convent Of San Paoo. She was ih'sea'
genital. the abbess but in her old Italian way
she thought that she and her house were Dorm %
have their own way 80 did not think an irasc-
bic old archbishop who ought 70 nave KNOWN
better Said he 20 the aobess one me nay ny
child be more prudent really, there must hot
be such tea fights in your rooms All Par-
ma Is shocked" Said the abbess to the ARCH
bishop drawing herself up to the height she
used to look when she went OIL, into the word al
a princess: my dear fellow go to- We are equals
in these things You know my house Is as oid az
yours and every inch smart. AS for me. this %
nv convent and my father wears princey crown;
I will see as many of my friends as like. and DO
hanged TO you and the Pope" The archbishop
goes off sputtering The abbess buys overnight the
land next the convent and builds Wing here
do set up my Ebenezer, she exclams ana sehos
a boy for Correggo, who was in town painting Ma
donnas "Fdd.esticks" she says 10 the painter,
when he tells her the work he il doing i am
tired of religious art. Paint ne Diana over there,
above the mantel: and stay while you are ABOUT
it you may make il a portrait OF me- MY sweet
cousin. the archbishop. will expire And cover th's
ceiling with amorini flowers. the prettiest you ever
did Am to be like an anchorite. without trace
of style about the house? Maria mia, bring me
a glass from the faschetto on the second sneli
will invite the whole town My. but what rusty
old fool the archbishop IL. TO think he may make
ffvtf SO hay
her gallant friends, and Correggo made the draw
lng-room OF the abbess the loveliest apartment IN
Europe One can hear him and his patron cnucH-
ling over the archbishop. Poor archbishop. Happy
abbess. Happier Correggio.
That Mr. Mitchell the Editor Of Life. Is coming
out as a novelist is no surprise TO those VINO nave
known his Work as inventor. maker and general
providence OF OF the brightest little periodicas
OF the day He had faculty for succeeding
When he started Life everybody said he would
20 under and it not very long before there were
rumors Of dissolution. with number OF Harvard
men looming up on the horizon as new owners and
editors Behold said some one sententiousy'
1.-THE staff OF Life will be Boston BRED But
Mr. Mitchell went right on, and merely observed
that the staff of Life would continue to be
Mr. Mitchell. He grew little cleverer. His draw
ings were better and so was his funny talk. Nova
days he has more help, especially as to the draw
ings. But from first TO last he has made Life"
what ii is and his debut a novelist Gus [ 70
prove happy in the extreme.
The Italian Crown Prince has written a novel In
which his own romantic experiences said to lie
chroniced The Prince often contributes short
poems and sketches to Italian journals. always
writing under a pseudonyme.
Mr. Edgar Fawcett complains in THE Inde
pendent" that all the vivid. strenuous. thoughtful
poetic work of our native novests has passed into
oblivious disregard" the Brton usurpng The field
He declares that 1.-The poor American novelist
should recolect that thus far in the entire aesthetic
history of nations, his own American country peo-
pie las regards loyalty TO their writers OF books
painters of pictures. and moulders OF statues)
are the mos, hot-and-cold. fast-and-loose. whims.
cal. freakish and generally unpatriotc ever yet
known"
Mrs Everett Green. the author OF that formidable
work. the Lives OF the Prncesses of England"
has just died In London at the age OF seventy.
seven She outived all her contemporaries on
the official stan Of editors OF The Rolls Series Of
State Paper Calendars" She was one OF the most in
dustrious of modern workers in historical records.
She had herself edited forty-one volumes Of The
Calendars Of State Papers for the reigns OF Eliza
BETH James |, the Commonwealth. and Charles IL
And the preparation OF one OF these volumes is no
Joke for 1t a big imperial octave OF some COO
TO 500 pages In addition these calendars she has
published besides her Lives several other inter-
esting historical books-"Letters OF Queen Henrietta
Maria" Letters from Royal and Illustrious La
dies" and the Diary OF John Rons."
Mr. Marion Crawford's new novel moves through
Italian scenes and is called "Taquisara." 1t is 70
appear first as serial
Mr.. Crawford. they say. sometimes chooses his
title long before he writes his book. He has al.
ready selected "A Rose OF Yesterday name
for a novel which is TO appear two years hence
Mr. James Lane Allen is a particularly loyal Ken
tuckian: nevertheless his forthcoming book will con-
tain strong profess, against the pistols-Gndco coffee
method OF settling disputes. He points out that