New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-13


The Huxley Memorial Committee has received
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Its latest report records the receipt OF altogether
900 and the subscriptions e'e not all In yet. Inc
model for the statue by Mr. Onslow Ford Is nearly
finished. The statue. which is TO he executed IN
marble is TO be erected in the Natural HISTORY
Museum at South Kensinston.
There is something very engaging about this note
recently sent by some good Halter or Things peud-
gogic to The Saturday Review:
Js 4. not time 10 utter mild protest against me
ugliness and pedantry of the phrase sucn an on
e that our ewes MAY be satisfied by seeing It before
the vowel where our grammar primers laiu dow'
that II should always be- But when ieau a,o ort
such an one" is simply barbarous. and me verE
authors who seem TO lose no opportunity . OF VIZ, VIZ
INC {, would hesitate | think to speak OF AN one
armed man or Fan one sided Judgment" While
the phrase was the mark of the superior person IL
Coming aIarmingiy general It seems time to inquire
whether il is worthy of receiving the imprima'ur OF
established custom
II 4. difficult to read the Rev Or. II. r. Hawes
with patience. His garruity IS OF the Irritating
sort and though the table OF contents OF ms
Gravel and Talk" CDodd. Mead Coz holds out
nroroises of anecdote which cannot be resisted the
two volumes in the long run yield as much wear'-
ness as amusement. II is true that they CONTAIN!
some GOOD stories They also contain pages anu
nages OF silly egotism After n wretcheo nit"'
In "a
tive gentleman 'I got into Boston about sSo a. III
~, con, ca me- 20 meet me- did know
nersonalv a soul In Boston" What did Ut
Haweis expect7 Then he was robbed OF I" u
more at HIS hotel and. after retailing the EPISODE
he sententiously concludes: Never Keep !'u
money IN your box" meaning. apparently one
travelling trunk. We did not need DR. Ha"es 10
come and tell us this. However. his faults may
he forgiven for the sake OF such an ahecoo'o as
this OF tho Autocrat Holmes always s'ooo d
little outside Of the Emerson clique On az ~
Emerson he would say he was al a"eo 90
nure and sunny; but stuff talked in his name ABOUT
.,soo,dor,eI,sm VS. insufferable: II has infected
Joston ever since. The brainless htterateurs anu
charlatans that lived on his pecuhaIi'ies anu
,nn,ickod his languaCe-it makes one SICK 10 ''''N
of them: 10 him his style was native IL "1s o -,
nure inspiration We TOO indulRent moro !"
BOSTON to mere Mtterateurs: we do not see 'n"s'
IN rich. proportion: we hardly know frst-rate qua
,,v from, second rate And after pause ne auueu
NO nor nth rate" II DR.. Hawelss TWO V'o'e''
hacked volumes could be edited until nothhs was
left IN them save stories like this ono ne "o"'u
make more Of a companionable gossip and less OF
. - hobblinr rlobe-,rotter. He has travelled
,no o,n miles II appears in the ten years covered
bv this book He has visited America, Aus'raiia'
Tasmania Canada New-Zealand, Ceyion ana Tue
raradises OF the Pacific" He has met scores Oh
celebrities II Is pity that he did not make
lighter and yet soberer chronicle out OF his eS-
periences.
..Re,,,da" Is one Of the uneven products OF Maria
Edgeworths genius but portions OF II are ." Nv,
hest plane, and the reprint of the novel brought
ont by the Macmillan Company is more than WEI
come Chris Hammond has made numpcr OF
illustrations which strike accepaby the tone oi inc
story and Mrs. Richie has provided peasant
Introduction. In the latter we nave a ulNer"Hs
anecdote quoted: Maria was at Black Casue
Union the first copy (of 'Belinda) reached her. ana
.ho con,rived before her aunt, Mrs Ruxton, saw IL
~ tear out the title pages Of the three volumes so
that her aunt read without the least snspco' Vi
uho was the author. Mrs. Ruxton was excessively
entertained and delighted. She Insisted on Maria
usten,ng TO passage after passage as she went on
Maria affected TO he deeply interested in some DOCK
she held in her hand. and when Mrs. Ruxton ex-
claimed. rs not that admirably written? Maria
coldly replied Admirably read think Again
and again Mrs Ruxton called upon Maria for her
sympathy until quite provoked at her faint acqui-
esoence. she last accused her OF being jealous
am sorry 10 see my little Maria unable 10 bear the
praises Of a rival author At this point Maria
burst into tears and declared herself the author OF
the book Curiously Mrs. Ruxton took dislike TO
-'Belinda" from that hour. Miss Edgeworth herse1
came 20 regard this story with some codness and
her warrest admirers have never pretended 70 rank
n with her masterpieces. But II wears well never
theless and this edition will be popular
The next number Of "Cosmopolis' will contain
q number OF the OnpubHslieu ietNSio VI INV i"N
de Richeeu: also new short story by Rudyard
Kiplng and one by Paul Bourget.
Miss Annie z. Hodsworth. the author OF the
successful English novel Joanna Tra,I Spihster,
holds unconventional ideas In respect 10 novels
..,,b n nurnose She never writes them. because.
60 che declares at would be impossible to forget
the purpose sufficiently for the purposes OF art
She thinks the tract the pamphlet Is the proper
medium for the teacher" And then she adds
statement which will not please some other 1ennl-
nine writers Of fiction: at is pleasant to develop
tho wouen's characters, but the men are great
trouble There Is no true tnwardness in a woman
conception Of the masculine nature. and never
attempt Imaginative work.
cora eulogists OF the late Coventry Patmore
have been trying TO prove that he was popular
roe, and they adduce figures In support OF their
contention But those figures are not go conFihc-
ing after all. The Bells have Sold since 49, no
more than 2ll copies Of "The Angel IN the House
IN tho same time they sold only 1.3l5 copies OF the
collected edition Of the poems which includes me
Aroe, NJ the House" and Victories" The cheaper
editions of the Cassels have sold to the number OF
g. Uo comics. These data are Imposing 10 certain
extent but compare them with those relating 10
Browning say, or Tennyson, or even so rare poet
as Matthew Arnold. and they do not make ire
,nondous allowing for close on 10 ten years.
Anronos OF these figures. there Is an essay In the
,.s, "C,ontemporary." in which Mr.. Edmund Gosse
sketches his friend in way 10 explain MS place.
snart from the great swing Of things in which the
widest fame Is won. Patmore was reciusiVe man
We know this from tho sef-contained' exquls'ely
aIaoa character OF his work. We may know II
from the mans life which kept itself always re-
served remote Yet Mr.. Gosse insists That Pat-
moro was in no sense mild" or "namby-pamoy
man with the Intellectual ways OF the dile'tante
on the contrary, he was the most masterful OF
o, cha very tyne OF lofty, moral AFRO
oarca" During later years or MS Ire, NlOSe
wbo made his acquaintance found his company
"enliyened by short spurts OF speech set IN vast
tracts OF silence" but in his primo things were
different.
The speech least, was more fre9uent me
silence less nOtCeably long. My hrst SUNDAY AZ
iInstinps vas snent mainly his study fire. ] see