Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-05-19

OF each individual plant. The d-awings
are Tor the most part the alze OF the
MOVERS themselves. and the descrip-
s ..o h,, are SO simple and direct that It
hnd no difficulty in verifying specimens
Win the aid Of the book. The volume
WI pc printed In quarto. and will COW
er ground which has not been covered
oy any previous botanical publication.
Mr. Haveiock Ellis asserts In re-
Sen, WORK that genius demonstrates
itself in cross-hreeds.
LORD Tennyson Is himself quoted:
me Tennysons come from Danish
part OF England, and / have no doubt
that you and others are right In giving
them Danish origin" Then an an
cestor OF his mothers was French. but,
taken together, there was a predom-
lnantly scandinavian stock OF Tenny-
sons mingling with Fytches, a Lincoln
shlre FAMILY, with an outside Huguenot
Then Mr.. A. C. swinburne's ancestry
was also Scandinavian. modified by
more distinct Celtic and other infiu-
ehces. Mr.. Swinburne says; THE origl-
nal root, of course, IN purely Scandina-
nan, modified possibly by repeated
exile In the cause OF the Stuarts. and
consequent French alliances"
Other poets are quoted. Mr.. William
Morris both on the fathers and the
mothers side, belongs to Worcester
shire, the home of a varied and we'll
compounded race. perhaps predomi-
nantly Saxon, though Mr.. Morris Is
predominanty Welsh.
Dante Gabriel Rosetti was only 20
per cent English. and Robert Brown
ing's great grandfather was a West
Saxon; his grandfather married Gre
ole born In the West indies, and mis-
father married Sarah Wiedemann of
Dundee, whose father was German and
whose mother was Scotch.
Mr.. Coventry Patmore is English on
the fathers side and Scotch on the
mothers, and one of his great-great.
grandfathers was Prussian. Then
Mr.. Austin Dobsons father was born
In France of a French mother, and sc
II goes on.
Shakespeare and Milton are very
generally believed to have had Welsh
blood in their veins.
AS readers of novels women outstrlr
the men as two to one. This is the re-
suit OF canvass among the boob
stores made by a man of an enqulring
turn of mind. Men read history and
books of essays, while It is rare tC
find a woman who cares anything al
all for such works. Books on sporting
subjects are rarely II ever read by
women, and II is as rare to find ar
authoress treating these themes. Their,
are exceptions, of course. like Lady
| Colin Campbell's work on fish and tisl
| ponds. 1t Is quite the exception [,
| find woman who has read Milton'i
| immortal poems or even Hudibras
/ yet almost every woman has read 9Th,
/ Lady Of the Lake" and Lucille.
Women are fond of sentiment; men o
I
There is a line In the last number o
the Chap Book that is worth pasting II
| Familiar Quotations." "a man Il
known by the proyinciallsms h
keeps"
Bret Harte is said to be the hes
paid novelist Of the day.
1t is painful to see so elegant
writer and so cultured man as Jane
| Macarthur make such an eXtraor
binary blunder as Is found In hi
News Notes In the publication o
which he is edltor-"The Bookman,
| He says, speaking OF Mrs. Burton Har
rison, who lately visited Mrs. Ann
Thackeray Richie. that an account o
the visit contains some interestin
matter relating 10 Thackeray an
/ IitllIg IshUlulhs MS llbNNAs ~ W.
readers are aware is laid among tn
scenses and characters of old virginia
| peOpled by that ancient and honorabl
English stock to which Mrs. Harrso
belongs by birth l." / wonder hoy
many readers OF the excellent Book
man" are aware that "Henry ~;
mond" is not laid among the scene
and characters Of old Virginia" II
very evident that the versatile edtto
never read Henry Esmond," one {
Thackerays greatest books, and one {
the most popular novels Of the centur!
Mr.. Fishes classification in his His
tory OF the United states, of the Mort
American Indians into savage lndian'
barbarous Indians and semi-civilize
Indians is said TO be original with hin
It is classification which enables III
reader to grasp at once in n gener;
way the condition of the Indian tribe
at the time when Columbus discovere
America. The illustrations in NJ
Fishes book show very clearly III
different characteristics of the thrC
classes which he describes. The savaG
Indians comprise those who wandere
over the face of the earth and live
only In temporary houses; the ba
barous Indians those who lived in u
long houses and the round house
and the semi-ciYilized Indians thOs
who lived In elaborat structures, IL
remains of which are today seen
Mexico.
A work shortly to be issued frol
the press of Houghton. Miillin ~ Co.
Vida ID. Scudder's Life and Spirit {
the Modern English Poets" The N
thor was lately associate professor {
modern poets at Wellesley College. n
table Of contents Is inviting; Scient
and the Modern Poets: Words wort
and the New Democracy; Ideals of II
demptlon, Medieval and Modern; Il
Divine Comedy and the Promethel
Unbound; the New Renaissance
Browning the Humorlst: the Poetry Z
Search the Triumph of the Spirit.
| writer who has seen advanced proofs
,, the book says. Miss Scudder hi
made a thoughtful, philosophical On
eloquent study OF the characteristic
of the poetry OF the nineteenth centur
to discover the development OF though
, on the highest themes. She aInalyz'
keenly the poetry OF Wordsworth
/ Shelley. Tennyson. Arnold, Cloug
! and Browning. and aims to show II
/ relation OF the poetry OF the centui
TO democracy. The treatment vs. a
] ways suggestive and often brillian
. No Intelligent reader can fail 20 d
/ rive from the book a new idea
poetry, and the impression that II col
l talns criticism Of an unusual order
l There is perfect flood OF works {
c Japan. II may be said that all are vel
I welcome. Two OF the latest books a
( "The Religion Of Japan" by Villa
4 Elliott Grifils. and Society In Japai
, published by the Lippineott Compan
n ~, ,t..,, ~ tbo poolfrnan describ