New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-03-31

peculiarly delightful her sar'eS OF r"''h'''''' W
these people published intervals during the .ast
thirty years Some OF hor papers not yet puoIshei'
are 10 be- collected In a volume which VII ''on APP
pear IA ta.ker Mrs Crosse was even more IN
terestins than n write
The new matter which Nj NipiirS ha' conir.odteI
:, the new Macmillan edition OF his s,)ries N
ciuIes y ghostly littc sketch - FOG AZ s'1 ana
doomed vessel The thrs "a smpe. but wonder
fully VIVA and VEIL
.rr,,giI," * T., be the tile 81 tho forthcoming
volume u verse by the author % Lorna po'''e'
Il Is saiI tina, Mr. Blac:more publ shed book Of
poetry som, years az. hr' not unde. MS o""
name.
Mrs C,tharino Parr Trail. thc hfth In order a.
birth O: the clever Strickland sisters has lateN
nub,ishel in Toronto a volume entitled Pearls
AMI poh5es or Notos 90 an Old Naturalist.
Among the subjects % the book are our Name
Grasses Moses aGd Iichers. some curious
Pants" The English Sparrow" and "The Sp''''
Mrs Trails 1rs; stories. = series f,T chid'''' W.
published in London in ISIS and before she leu
r,nyrqnd sAo wrote other juvenile stories In lN2
she came with her husband to Canada. 2ni settled
on the banks 81 the Ot.pnabe River They AFTER
ward removed to tire picturesque vl!lafe Oh iak"-
field In ontario and We're joi"ed by Mfs. N00l!''
the yo"ngcst Of the S;rlck'anis.
Mrs Tra's first Canadian book. caied Let
was published by Cherries Knight. OF London tn
was followed by short stories and sketches, and a
book Lady Mary AMI Her Nurse. which APP
pcarcd Ia later editions a. "Atar il the Forest:
Then came "rhc Caaailn CrHsoes" which also
ven: through several editions THE Canadian
Cru-oes" is stu produced under the ilte Lost Ia
In. Racl,wo, H." canadian Wild Flowers" ap-
reared In 1856 and In 1881. Plant Life In Clnada
Published. The illustrations Tor tnesr botannal
works were painted by MIS- fl'"s'o ool. "ltS nm ~
niece. Some time before the publication OF theSe
later books Lady ChlriJ;t" Grevilie succeeded IN
interesting Lord Palmerston IN Mrs. Trail ana VI
recognition % her work n Il n2tura.l'' Il gram 81
There were nine children OF the Strickland hrni'y,
two Sons samuel AMI Thomas, ana seven "ausL-
ters Elizabeth Asnes. sara. Jane lat ~ inf NJ
susanna Eeanore. The last named deu III ,ni'''vS
only one VINO did not write for publication p1ssoly
bccaus' her lie the wife OF an a''ts, ,heGE ,h
cemau lcd 80 much time and energy. I..HaosIh IN"
eldest, who was. her SISTER th,HfS, ,i,h 80,
Of Tho family wro;e n c;nens Of ENGLAND In
isST 'iano Strickland then eighty seven years Oh.
brought out mcroi' ., nn. sI , fsneS whicA
published py the bn'Nwo ,hnr ~ -,
Sus1nra Strckland-wrot' hunoer OF BOOKS Whlca
arc veil known In England ana Canada. Among
them are "Roughing It IN The Hush Jeffrey
MonLton" and MARX ilurdleston. The S;rck.
In oJs were nearly related through the Neviles nd
othcr families to Queen Catherine Parr. and old
fanny names have been retained through success
which catharlne Parr Trail belongs became Prot
es,ant at the Reformation: bu when the Strck-
land sisters were rSHg maeFa, 'cr nr ~ s
private family documents OF the caiRolc Strlck,
lands In her ninety fourth year Mrs Traill Is still
Blessed with a bright aai energetic mind. SOM some
coming work and said. regarding some or the
sketcher. They are taken from M journal when
wrlier. Now i.ocl. but tie mind is not worn
out