New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-01

mastime is not quite what 1t used to be- since the
artist dropped the pencil ne loved. He did not look
like a INCONSISTENCIES 1t be granted that the
humors5 always a sad look. In Cadecotts
blue-gray eyes dwelt that expression of sad
ness and the lines in his face spoke Of hard work
He was an artist even in his boyhood, when his
deares. companion the tiny sketch-book, not
more than an inch and half square which he
carried in his pocke. Il saw so much" he once
said, in speaking of his youth, "thse my fingers
never still. They were always itching to give
my impressions form l worked in a bank at Whit
church." he added land lived at a farm two mileA
out Of the town. a sly fox-Phoebe and
Phyllis and their hobna.led Corydons. the master
and his good wife. and the squire, too. often
my models without its occurring to them. If you
wan: to know, II Is those days that | largely
draw when 1 begin to scheme out one OF
those chldren's books" The sketch which accom-.
panes this is OF Caldecotts most interesting
animals the dog who. to gain some private ends.
went mad and DIT the man.
Mr. r. D. Blackmore writes to American cor
respondent In relation to paragraph which ap-
peared in The Tribune few months ago: The
Fate OF Franklin not my first. but ra Their my
last bit OF verse. AS for Lorna Doones bursting
upon an enthusiastic world the fact is, that for
two years Lorna Doone' dropped dead. and three
fourtns OF the first edition was transported-Botany
Bay took 1t for waste paper"
Mr. Blackmore Is too modest. The queer accident
which, In the early days Of his beautiful book
seemed to relegate II to obscurty soon spent Its
force and then Lorna the fair DID, indeed, burst
upon enthusiastic world, which has loved her
since. Such book could not drop dead
to-day. Is that fact indicative of an advance in
taste or Of the modern passion for amusement
which wastes good novel?
Englishmen occasonally-but not often-bring
themselves to bear testimony to the many good
records what II justly calls "a most striking act OF
generosity" AN American firm bringing out an
English book which had never been copyrighted in
America. after Its English boom. sent a hand
some sum out Of their profits. agin,ng OF course
that 1t would be handed to the author On learning
that the English publishers had retained the money
rather than let the author suffer the Americans
sent second sum. equal the first direct to the
author" How many English firms would have done
this for an American author?
The biography OF Mcclellan in the series OF Great
Commanders published by the Appletons is in
course of preparation by General Alexander 8
Webb. The right OF Mcclellan 10 hold a Mace In
series thus entitled is not nouestiona ble Gem
eral Manning F. Force is dealing with General
Sherman
The late J. Sheridan lie Fanu the genial an
thor OF Uncle Silas." left quantity Of unnuh-
lished verse which is soon TO be brought on, In a
small volume. Mr.. Alfred Percevai Graves tho
Irish poet. Is editing the book
The Story OF Miriam OF Magdala" the R,h,ica,
romance by Mr. Elbr!dse S. Brooks which an
peared originally In The Independent" Is IN Ia
published in book form by w. B. Perkins a. "a 7,
is to be illustrated.
In the excellent new edition OF Dickens which
his eldest son has edited and which ha, hesr
brought out here by Macmillan. there are many
interesting "reminiscences OF the novelist and bits
o, MS correspondence set forth In the prefaces
The recent volume containing Our Mutual Er,on,..
has in the Introduction letter to Marcus stona
showing with what care the novelist Thought On,
the illustrations for his stories. Note" no yr,,s.
that the dustman's face should be drol and no,
horrible Mrs Boffin. Judge OF her
from the sketch. very good. indeed | want Rofbp..
oddly without being at ali blinked to he odd,, a.