New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-03-10

,ssor xor,on have never been printed. The editor
has written an introduction for the volumes. and
for frontispece it will have new etched portrait
/ Of the poet.
An exceedingly interesting paper on Past Dram
attic Performances in stratford-upon-Avon.' was
read before the Shakespeare Club OF that place on
December g. 1894 by its author MI. William Hutch
ncs and IL has been published, In pamphlet FORM
ny Mr. George Royder, OF the Stratiord Herald"
Mr. tutchings has long been known and esteemed
f., warwicksh,re as Shakespeare scholar, elo-
ouent speaker and vigorous writer. his paper IL
rep,ote with valuable facts, and 1t Is written In that
spiri, Of reverence for the memory OF Shakespeare.
and of Jealous and socitous regard Tor the preser
walton OF all that relates TO him and to his profess
sion in the antiquities OF the borough which might
no .xnoc,ed from n true son Of Sratford and with
which every lover Of the poet VIII deeply sympa-
th,ze The oldest play-bill relating to the dramatic
history OF Stratford that Mr. Hutchings has been
ab'e 10 find is one Of about the year lIoO His re-
WOW Of his subject ranges from Shakespeares time
r, the erection of the Shakespeare Memorial and IL
10 \ very agreea BILE and suggestive work
NJ Henry NJ. Alden the accomplished Editor Of
"tJorners Magazine" is quoted by 'Ihe Boston
Commonwealth" as thus answering the question why
Americans are so greedy in demanding English &c
tion: There doesn't seem 10 be the right sort Of
,erus in this country. / have been waiting for the
Home article to evolve itself: but 1t isn't apparent
vet They seem to have produced pa'ch OF story
writer's across the water who can turn out copy
that sells at a pretty good price In America. There
arc no new genuses in this country. should rather
print the output Of own writer's out II they can't
meet the demand. what other thing can DE done
than TO print the output OF English writers?
Tho eomo Boston journal quotes one whom II calls
= .yery notable very scholarly story-"rter IN New
yort as saving: There is altogether TOO mucn de-
yeopment OF brute feeling in mohern cton' ana tAt
too meagr. cultivation of literary style ana form'
Who who is this notable and scholarly one!
Tondon bookseller has edited a symposium on
neglected books. He asked a number OF men each
to name two or three books whch the readihg puohc
would Ike to know more about. Sir Jonh LUBBOCK
answered that the books most unaccountaoy neg
lected" were the great masterpieces or antiquity.
Not 60 saws Mr. Grant Allen my feeling Is that
pood hooks Of Old date have got quite enough or 100
much appreciation. and that 1t is the new men ana
the new books that are in want OF propnets' Ana
forthwith the prophet appears. MT. fcharu 10
GalIenne reciprocates the plea for the work OF the
new men by including In his list or DOCKS undeser'-
edv neglected Mr. Grant Aliens "Post-Prandal
Philosophy" Thus do the brethren dwell together
in unity. And who shall say II Is not easy 10 noat
in air provided only take hold OF each others
bootstraps?
Or Ware the head master OF Eton. fears that
Dickens and Thacl<eray not read al much as ne
could wish. but he is quite convinced that Scott 10
holding his own. which suggests that much educa-
tlonal work remains TO be done by the realists be-
fore their dearest enemy is supplanted. Another
parson wonders II Don Quixote," undoubtedly
the greatest pure book in the world Is regularly
and universally read in England. The same ques-
,,on might be raised in America. We cannot
but believe that the public libraries wouh answer
with an emphatic Yes for every schooooy must
be told OF H. and be made TO read the Few extracts
which must leave him unsatisiei until the whole
has been enjoyed.
A bit OF driftwood from western oooksa!l
comes as a reminder OF an American achievement
in letters which has never been recognized al us
true value and is scarcely ever heard Of Fitzgerald
passjng omar Khayyam through the fires OF his own
genius gave the Persian poet new being so new
that II Is hard to imagine the Ruoalyat N any lo''
save that given by the English translator onar
himself being thus overshadowed ny MS greatest
Interpreter IL follows that lesser men than FIizser-
aid who have sought 10 reproduce the Perslahs
roetry i'm Western tongues. have been lost sight OF
altogether Few but Omar students know anything
OF the French translation made by Ni"oiAs which
nevertheless OF the most fascinating Voiunla
we have in the field OF oriental literature lns
r,rqsh Winfield is no better known 10 the general
reader as a translator OF Omar than Is the German
Bodenstedt. And John Leslie Garner WHOSE "'.'s
volume has just reappeared from the distant OooA-
stall aforesaid is no better known than either OF
he
and the copy from a Milwaukee press. dated lsSS
comes az from q foreign land. Turning Its pages
the memory OF Fttzgeralds matchess version Is I'M
possible 10 Danish and It plays havoc with MI Gar
ner's "strophes." ne calls them out the ia"ef
are after all OF genuine interest They are snoo'h-
~. gracefully turned stanzas. and they oeai uei"y
with the picturesque images peculiar 10 Orars sone
We will not quote any OF Mr. Garner Ne'se>'
Tbev do not appear 10 their fullest advantage when
taken from the order In which they are placer Du'
considered whole. weighed with reie'e'ee "
their general effect. they show that their author
done his work with sympathy and schoiarsn'p VS.
he brought no mere dilettantetsm TO the accomplish.
ment 81 his task Had he been poet ne "ouN
have given a remarkable book. AS II ne "
duced A translation which IS credit 10 american
literature and fills a permanent place J" '"' "
too crowded shelf devoted TO omar khayyam'
"sir Waller Scott Club" has lately been 'ormed
Z, F,inburgh and has already 500 members Hs
presi4ent Is Charles Cooper Editor or the sco''-
-, Mr. Cooper has suggesteC that something
,,cb, he done by the club toward fostering me
reading and the careful study OF SCOTS works oy
the young. - ,Ao..
Memorial tablets have just been place on those
houses in Edinburgh specially associated WIKI Sc"'"
Burns Adam Smith and Raeburn.
OF William James professor OF PSYCHOLOGY az
Harvard and brother OF Henry James The BOON
Buyer says that few subjects lie nearer MS no.
than psychical research. This absorbing i''e''S"
I, is rdied. lis misunderstood by many critics, o."
cy,, hv some OF his friends. But unmistaHaoS
# is born OF deep psychological insight anu 80
tinc spirit unhinching sincerity and prorouHu 80
io,s convictions. When asked lately what We
chief aims o, his present studies. ne rephe' -
,y II, find a balm fcr mems souls p'. a." -,
g., royy nresIdent Of the international Society fo'
psychical Research
i, volume Of short stories written by MISS N, -s,.
? Quincy will soon be- published in Boston -
is her first attempt prose other than tnA' .,,s
/ I'm her essays and at fiction other than 'nA'
. WHITES her romantic verse.