New-York tribune., 1896-11-02


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ting printing them exceently on gocd paper. with
small but clear type. she may congratulate herself
on having earned for her work place beside
of the best popular editions in circulation
The sketch we reproduce Is a clever Illustration to
the famous scene in which Beasrix welcomes Esmond
to Walco;e in the seventh chapter of the second book
Her technique will day be stronger than
il is now but it is she has el, the spirit of her
author. and in most of her illustrations she mas
given him worthy accompaniment. Ii should De
observed, by the way that the same publishers
who bring out this edition of Henry Esmond
have ressued "Hypa;ia' in similarly creditable
FORM and reprint "Sartor Resartus'' in volume
that is fairly exquisite in It's makeup, the hand
some title page being faced by good reproduction
of Whistler's portrait of the Sage of Chelsea All
these books appear In a series of modern classics,
printed inexpensvely. but in the best of taste
A traveller just returned from Japan states tha'
he found the Boots of his hotel one day absorbed in
Washington Irving's Sketch Book" This is prog
with a vengeance.
Iowelrs poetical works presently TO appear
in uniform style with the Cambridge Editions OF
I.ongfellow Whittier Holmes and Browning. These
volumes have been among the comeliesi and most
useful published by Houghton, Mfiin & Co, and
II will be good TO have Lowell included in the SET
The late H. c. Bunner Is 10 be honored before
long in a memorial which older and more famous
names than his in this country have not often Sc
cured His friends have been inviting subscriptions
TO fund which amounts to about $780,
but which they expect TO raise TO the sum or
$1,000 This fund is to provide an H. C. Bunner
gold medal which will be awarded annually TO the
student at Columbia University who writes the
best essay on some subject in American literature
the subject being set. apparently, by committee
An anguished world may look for tranquility at
last for Mrs Neil Straw has come 10 the rescue
II appears that when Mrs. Kate Douglass Wiggin
wrote her "Viage Watch Tower she dedicated X
to certain dear old apple tree. under whose
precious branches she has written many OF her
works We make no doubt at oil that myriads OF
readers have hunrcred 10 see that dear old apple
tree" tho sweet, woosonle. joysome adorable thing
just why any one should care where Mrs Wiggin
writes her books just why any one should he con-
cerned about her dear old apple tree is more than
we can tell But they do. the host OF people
who read the books; and Mrs. Nell Straw. taxing
pity on the torn souls of her fellow-bengs has
stepped in to abate their sufferings She mas pre-
pared an article on of Mrs. Wiggns Stories
OF New-England Village Life, the stories them
selves evidently giving the reader far too little OF
the "scenes" In which they supposed to be laid:
and AT the same time that Mrs. Neil Straw lets
light in upon the dark places of Mrs. Virgins IL
erature she gives us pictures or the ladys nome
and belongings including the dear Old apple tree.
I here 1t stands the tree! There Is cute niue
round table under It, with three legs and we should
imagine that II measured about feet eight and
q half inches from the grass TO the top (Mrs Wig
gins grass, by-the-way. appears TO be something
exquisite; green as-grass. and 80 artisiic) Then
there is a chair We not sure whether 1t Is a
Ire Malls Ctrau tell
At any rate, we can how nice 1t is, how per-
fecty rapturous It must be to sit in 1t and compose
masterpieces under the dear old apple tree" Now
that we all know what that tree looks like there Is
sure to be a greater sense of repose abroad than
has been noticed since agonized America discovered
that Joaquin Miller really CID wear a skuh cap
when composing poetry.
Next month the first instalmcnt In the new edition
of Mr. Merediths novels will be issued by the Scrib-
ners 1t will in the shape OF The Ordeal OF
Richard Fcverel." and will be printed In two VOL
umes EVAN Harrington" will be published In De-
cember and "Sandra Bellonf' In January. both
works being printed also In two volumes each. The
edition will be completed until February. 1sss
Holinshed the ancient chronicler upon whom
Shakespeare drew for much historical matter In
writing his plays. Is an author OF whom everybody
Is supposed to know something. but concerning
whom few people know anything. Mr. Boswell
Stone has prepared book called "Shakespeare's
Holinshed" In which, with the aid of parallel pas
sages he will show exactly how much the drama
tst owed to historian. At the time he Will
give all the facts connected with Holinsheds per-
sonality and career which are available to-day.
Query: Is any American author upon the Index
Expurgatorius Of the Roman Church? Mr. Leas
great history OF the Inqusition must be there and
yet we are not that II has really come
under the ban Of the Holy Father. The subject Is
brought up by Mr.. Andrew Langs late distinction.
French translations of his anthropologca studies.
"Culture and Myth and Myth. Fable. and Re-
ligion" have fallen into the hands OF the censors
at Rome. and they have been placed upon the In
de4. The writers in the Latin languages are con-
stantly running up against that hoary institution
Even NJ Zola's poor little novel. Rome" has been
condemned. But English victims are rare and
American ones rarer.
Nalo1a one Of tho loveliest spots in all Switser
land. was of the favorite stamping grounds OF
Huxley and a lasting record Of that fact has Just
been erected en- the shores Of Sils Lake. II con-
sist3 Of O granite block. monumental In scale. with
this inscription 'ln memory Of Thomas Henry
Huxley the illustrious English writer and natural
lst who passed many summers at the kursaal
Hotel, Maioja. Erected 1896"
Mr. ruer's valuable History of the Horn Book"
has been exhausted IN Its hrst and costly edition.