The San Francisco call., 1897-09-05

is Gaetano Rapagnetta. This slander had no
sooner been disproved by an exhibit of bap-
tsmal records than d'Annunzio's opponents
began TO exploit phrase from one of his
novels, in which he had called the electorate
"a great beast"
Says the London Westminster Gazette:
The Anne -ican En- AMBASSADOR was last night enter
tafned at dinner at the National Liberal Club by
Arthur Hungerford Pollen who The Liberal
candidate at Walthamstow st the general election
Lord Basil Blackwood, essrs Joseph Lawrence,
Alfred Harmsworth. Il. T. Cook, w. D. Aoss.
Ems'eY arr c. w. Furse, Haro Frederic. Ju-
lien Ralfe, A. II. Hawkins, Theobald Mathew,
George Fereira, L. II. Pollen, r. N. J. H. McCar-
thy, Whitney Mockridge and Spenser Eddy were
among the guests invited to meet his Excellency.
"Ju len Ralfe" is good
A correspondent of the Glasgow Evening
News tells story Of Carlyle. which, he says
he received at first hand, and which has the
merit, he believes of never having been pub
lished before. During visit at the farm of
Templand Carlyle and his wife. along with
some friends had sat down to coffee. Jane"
said the sage, in fit of ill-temper, "this COT
Zee is cold; shan't have it," Thereupon up
rose Mrs. Carlyle. She went to the fre-grate.
and, picking out a red-hot cinder with pair
OF tongs, dropped it into her husbands cup
with the exclamation, "There, Thomas. is it
hot enough for you now?"
| The London publishers and booksellers com
plain that the numerous biogra phics of Queen
| Victoria have not had great boom" Jubi-
J lee prayer-books and hymn books have old
! freely. And yet they deplore the paralysis OF
ordinary business caused by the excess OF pro-
| duction of Jubilee literature" and a general
| recovery of the book trade at present is not
! expected. But at the commencement of the
! winter there will be an enormous output oj
new publications, as quite half the books
which would normally have been issued in
the spring have, in consequence of the Queens
Jubilee, been held over.
| Unless some thing unforeseen happens a
! part of Elmwood, the beautiful home of James
| Russell Lowell, at Cambridge Mass will soon
! be set apart as public park in memory of the
! poet-statesman who made it famous. Most of
! the contributors to the fund which has been
raised are Cam bridge people. Elmwood is but
| five minutes farther walk from TIE uuiyer-
/ sity grounds than Craigie House, the home of
J Longfellow. Happily this fine old place,
! almost as conspicuous for its historical as for
| its literary significance, has been marked by
| a pretty garden, which will keep forever open
the view across the Charles River meadows.
| which the poet loved.
1
| Zola. First, it was granted that he was an
| unhinching realist, and he was rebuked for
| his sordidness and indecency. Then the
| pupils began to surpasS their master and we
are told that Zola was no accurate realist
He was, in fact. a poet, "compo posing his
novels, choosing and massing his facts as an
epic poet might. Then he was merely a.
plagiarist. Now NJ. Baunetiere objects to him
on the score OF gross inaccuracy. His pictures
Nf -, 70,
results OF obliquity of vision. The next mo-
ment we may expect an attack from some new
direction. M. Zola's reply to his critics in
the Nouvelle Champagne is sure 10 stir them up
again.
Mr.. Samuel kinnear, who has had many in
teresting manuscripts through his hands in
Messrs. Black woods printing establishment
and who recently gave some particulars re-
garding the work of the late Mrs Oliphant,
has been contributing some further reminis-
cences in a letter to the Scotsman regarding
other notable writer's whose works have been
issued from Messrs. Blackwoods' press In
this letter Mr. Kinnear recalls a curious and
amusing lapsus calamt committed by Sir
Archibald Alison. the historian OF Europe
Toward the end OF his great work, in describ-
ing the funeral of the Duke of Wellington
Sir Archibald wrote that one of the pail
"
Sir Peregrine Maitland. Oddly enough, lhe
blunder, as occasionally happens, successfully
ran the gantlet of tho whole esta blishment
and nothing was known of the despite done to
Sir Peregrine Maitland by confusing him with
Smolletts rather disreputaole hero till the
literary journals called attention TO it. The
historian was naturally annoyed, and could
hardly believe that he had made such slip
till confronted with his own manuscript and
h,,r r,otf hs,,, cd
planned that the reader ought 10 have known
better. The volume in question had to be re-
called and the sheet cancelled.
America seems to have chance Qf we may
trust the New York correspondent of the Lon
don Standard) of making a graceful return for
our recent conduct in giving up the May
flowers logbook. Discovery has been made
in New York of a bound volume of manu-
scripts, which has lain neglected for genera
tions upon the shelves of the Examination
Historical Society, which has led to the dis
covery of what is believed to be an original
copy of the journal CT the clerk of the House
of Commons during Cromwells period,
and ranging from the year 1850 to 1875
They are contained in sixteen folios,
bound in antique cali. The entries are
we'll written in single columns, with
broad margins, but many pages are miss
ing, and appear 10 have been detached for
some special purpose. Ore tradition is that
during the Revolutionary War in theAmericaa
Colonies the orders of the generals were writ
ten upon them. Possibly they were brought
over by some of the judges who sentenced
Charles l, and who are known to have died as
fugitives in New England. Upon the other
hand, the order of the House of Commons of
May 81, 1912 to print it's journals, which was
duly complied with, seems to indicate that
these manuscripts were brought over after
that date, otherwise there must have been du-
picate manuscripts. which seems to be un-
| likely. Nothing appears to be known with
certainty about these volumes before 1900.
when they were in the possession OF Colonel
De Hart.