New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-08-18


Poor Sir Lewis Morris! He has just been elected
an honorary Fellow OF Trinity college, LONDON III
place of Lord Tennyson. But on top OF this Ihe
Saturday Review" scathes him merciiessy. ne
has Of late been loaded with honors it says. but
even Lord Rosebery had not the conscience to con-
fer the position of Poet Laureate on a slavish
mimic who might perhaps with propriety take MS
place as Tennyson's tame parrot Ana theh IL
adds a more cruel stroke "Sr Lewis Morris has
no claim to his knighthood that we know or save
that he has a ackeys love OF titles
This severity IL must be acknowledged. Is fuily
deserved. A copious dull and commonplace
rhymer with less right the title of poet does not
exist among English-speakng people.
New maps and pictures and various annotations
by Colonel Frederick Grant will be added TO the new
edition OF the Personal Memoirs OF L. s. Grant,
which the Century Company has in hand.
William Carleton the Irish novelist. left unfn-
ished an autobiography which has never been pub
lished. A biography. based on this fragment Is TO
be brought out Immediately in London.
The American "Bookman"-whch contains so
much original matter that II hardly be called
reprint OF the English periodical OF that name
is to be brought hereafter the 18th. instead
OF the 18th OF the month. IL is an extremely inter-
esting literary journal! lively. not TOO profound.
intellectual proclivities.
frabjous landscape looms upon the cover. IAN
mmsy were the borrowgoves," you find yourself
softly chanting you gaze, and you wonder II
that Is a momerathe outgrabing In the wood the
cadaverous damozel with dull brick-red arms and
hair her robe curious combination OF tawny
yellow with green OF the same shade as the neigh
boring trees She is uffshly chasing a white
butterfly presently she Will draw her vorpal bod
kim and then and there. at the foot OF the tum
tum tree-bu, we shudder to tell the rest We leave
the reader TO open the second volume OF Moods:
A Journa. Intime." 1t is published In Philadelphia
the city OF untroubled serenity but the editor
though he can you gently any sucking
dove with sweet inanites. is conserva-
tive, fearing hurt the circumambient air Oh.
no. He ramps or. at least his contributors ramp,
as does the lady the cover, and like her they
are death on butterflies. breaking them wheels.
gridrons anything, their inteectuals.
The text is delicious, the pictures rich. A
beautiful "Mephisto" appears early In the book. a
sketch in clay by Master Paul Lachenmeyer. a
sort OF Edouard de Reszkc grown thin and looking
wicked Then there is marvellous creation by
Bertram {. Goodhue. made 10 go with an even
more marvellous tale about Arl ana Clf and Elda
and their likes. And this picture shows the beau
tiful uncothed UH OF whom IL Is said In the title
that he 'seeth the pictures craven on the stone"
showing that with these men OF moods there are
pctures within pictures. wheels within wheels
After this we have a little more text. a chapter on
THE Ennul OF Nine. Du Deffand' by Norman
Hapgood Some day will have The Spleen Of
Monsieur Voltaire" or THE Languors OF Pope Joan"
and may Mr. Hapgood there to write 1.-THE has
such q neat way with him. and ike his colleagues