New-York tribune., 1897-08-22

hest OF things that do not compare at all, ana
hence cannot be reduced t. n common dcnoInina-
tion? At any given moment We like best ~hat
best meets the mood Of that moment
mot to be entirely negative. however, may
say that. in my neighborhooh. the iohpW-
ing scenes rarely never fail to delight the De-
holders:
"Firsi View from Castle Hill, shaftesbury
"Second-View from Pilsdon Pen.
"Thrd-Ncw Forest vistas near Brcckenhur5t.
"Fourth-The river Dart
"Fifth-The coast from Trebarwith Strand TO
THOMAS HARDY"
new journal published in England the
Anglo Russian" has secured an interview win
Mr. George Meredith AS result the PAPER ,"a,s ls
to have an article giving his views on Russian
fiction and Russian women This VIII send the
Meredthians to their newsdeales IL IS stated
by the way, that KiplingS captains 'ou'a-
goous' has recently appeared in RUSSIAN, III
serial form
The Scribners have reached the eighth volume
in their beautiful new edition Of Kipllng WORKS
This insament Is devoted To THE second Jun
gle Book" which is to say to stories ilke IT, M
Tikki-Tavi' and The White seal ana me me
Mugger" Like its predecessors. it Is a coinple'si
joy Seldom has a living author been print.
in form so artistic as that OF ne ' out ~ n
Bound Edition" Seldom has one deseiNeu u -
unquaiedly as Mr.. Kipling
1t is interesting to read Of the impression
Jean Ingelow made upon CHRISTINA I'oSgor,'
when the former first appeared upon 'ie noi
In a letter just published in "lhe Ati'""'ui.a .nna
Miss Rossatti says. writing in DECEMBER iND';
What think you Of Jean ingeloW, the "ohutrLu'
poet? have not yet read the Voiuine' put IT, re-
views with copious extracts have nade me
aware Of a new eminent name having aIa,h
among / want to know who she ls' WE WIiat i SIia
IS like, where she lives All nave hearu - ,.., aii'
uncertain rumOr that she Is aged twenty ON,
and is one of three sisters. resident WIN theT
mother. a proud mother, should thnK'
The Macmillan Company announces Dook
which ought to prove useful. 1t is a "Handpooh
of Furopean History" by Arthur lassal ana
in it parallel columns show what events OF I'M
portance were taking place in different c2u,l.iics
at or about the same time. Germany, f-aS'e,n @
and southern Europe England and France are
| the divisions under which the entries are Hiaue'
The Egyptian ballad by Rudyard hiPlms
which has recently appeared in an f.hSHsn J,a,. Jnu,,
nal is to be published in Mcclure "l's"A"o
for September.
There has peen a funny little tempest IN yea, ga
| NOT in England over the manner in when tme
| publishers recently brought out Mrs. o,eeia
! ioyeettc "In the Tideway.' 1t is not ,c'y
| inr storv onlv twenty-six thousand words 1t
! seems but it has been printed in EnSland as a. :.
| six-shling volume, and there nave peeh pit.ci
| words on the subject Just why IS a hy stetE
| IT, tho story is a good one, does it make any ul-
| ference whether it has twenty-slx thouSahu y,
twenty-six million words, or Wheiher ,,ii IL az In'
at six shillings or sixteen? Is the p,, puoliv ue
fraudad because it gets only twenty thousahd
words for it's money? This sheds new light on
the modern book market.
Nrs Stools story of Fire and lee in the cur
rent number of "COsmopolis' IS teISry t1lo
and closes with strikinSly uaslca' ep.9'us.
But it is not so strong as might nave Deeh eA-
pected.
Journalistic ubiquity is commonly supposed 10
be n recent invention, but the author OF An
Englishman in Paris writing IN the august
| Iro ight about Emile de 'TIdfiiu, Nlioii
no calls "The King of Journalists, shows US
that So far back as the thlrtes ana l1i i.So .So
Girardin had perfected a system o WiiiCh In nc ne
| most enterprising of modern editors might De
| proud He kept n vOluminous record oi every
! co temporary whose name was at an Ilhey
to rocIr in the warfare of politics. and in so far
Az he could do 50 he got this record from the
| revelations made at one time or another by the
men themselves. If they had ever prihteu a
syllable that they wished To forget peno,u'
/ ,;irardin had it in his treasury. "Girardlh VINO
could be very amiable at times says 1ir. van, van,
dam asked to test his system haileu
n political parsonage. somewhat tn eNlIence
ot tho time and in less than mcment l had
not only the main lines Of his career before me:
but particulars which could not be gathrred
either from books or newspapers MI. van
! dams paper makes divertng reading for any
one Interested in the history of journalism.
Mr. Harold Frederic has written novel IN
which he has departed from his familiar Nnleri-
can scenes The new book deals with Ehslls"
life
Lady Dixie. in writing Of The late Drc d'Au-
male has some amusing things to say about ms
I characteristics a book flctur'hS MN
in the famous library at Chantilly she says. HIS
interest in his books was far from beng con-
fined To a superficial pleasure in their bindings
their beauty. or their rari'y; one could not lay
ones hand on q volume in his superb ana
immense library with the contents OF Which
H. was not to some extent iamlar. IN,
less. indeed. you were specially "u, u,moal%eu
to do so, touching hi; books was a
torntation that il was wiser to resist he