New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-23

observed:
80 -. 49,, .rch q master Of tho English Ian
image a.I" When those at the table looked rouho
a. ~ astonished he added, calmly, ITO De sure We
rot nothing TO say" This story Is perhaps true
and perhaps It is not.
Thu next thing which we are 10 expect from the
pen of Rudyard Kipng is grim song OF .olpeuoe.
and torpedo-boats. He calls 1t the pes'roye,''
and ha. contributed It to "McClure's Magazine
1900. .,orv nv Mr. Kipl.ng will also appear In
=, ear,v number Of the same magazine IL u
taIe Of English school life. introducing the same
amusing characters that appeared In MS slaves
Of the Lamp"
Mr. August, vscquerie has been INDUCING IN
.oroo vigorous criticism Of the French Academy
which elected ducal nonen!tes, while Dumas Da'
var Gautier George Sand. Lamennais. Mlcneie'
and Reranger lived The excuse for Ignoring pai~h'
was that he was travelling In Russia ana couiu No.
nav the prescribed visit to the different imrnoI .
THE visit that Balzac did not pay" says vac
orar,a ..b,s hooks paid for him." The only won
der is that anybody with real genius has careo "
be a member Of the Academy
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge begins In the current
number OF "Scribners Magazine" his history OF 'ne
American Revolution. This instament OF the 'eH'
promises we'll. The pictures are almost more I'M
nressive Writing Of this sort needs good ilustra-
t,on and Senator Lodge 10 to be congratulated on
1ust about the most brilliant pictorial ACCOMPANY
ment with which any such scheme as his mas oeeh
blessed OF late years
can.,,, Mshan has prepared for tho February
"scribner" q paper on the naval campaign OF l"o
on Lake Champlain This Is the first OF MS Illus
trated articles on the work OF the American Navy
In tho Revolution
Thu abatement that Nine Sarah Grand's latest
work 1.-THE Beth Book" 10 partly photographer
Is fatty contradicted. 1t was based on nothine
more definite than her remark that In the story
itself there will be a good deal Of my early expert
ence amongst the peasantry In Ireland" All she
has done 1t 10 said Is to use familiar scenes as
setting or background TO her fiction.
In a recent interview Nine. Grand said that being
unable 10 md a publisher for her hrst oook'
'Ideala" she issued II At her own expense
l brought out "Ideala' at what thought the
very moderate figure Of three-and-sixpence. but
some Of my friends acted though they thought
I should pay them three-and-sixpenco to read It. IL
was astonishing how much store some OF them sud-
denly set on q few shillings. rem+nbSr that one
candid friend told me that she really could noi ar
ford to pay three shilngs for a book with a paper
cover. But although as young author may be
excused for thinking friends wanting In apprecia-
ton, directly the book got into the hands Of the
1 we s Samed and praised and
sold exceedingly we'll After ] had made success
with my next enOrt, Inc heavenly iWihs' pHp.
lis Sov be happy e
Keen 'Gs Of had
aroused 1t.
There IL good deal Of natural feeling as well as
premedtated art. in Mr.. Henry Newooits ballad
Of brakes Drum:
Drake he was Devon man. an ruled the Devon
(Canten art tina sleeptn there belowD
h: a fell he yft WI hfaf ad a.
Take my drum to England. hang ct by the Shore
Strike ct when your powders runnin low
If the Dons sight Devon I'll quit the port
An drum them up the Channel as we drunamed
them long ago.
Drake he's in hammock an thousand mile
Ss 5f! po. Bay
YandeT umes the island le yander lie the ships
wy sailor lads s,dancin, hsel-an;tos ,,.,,..,.
An d aas sHoF'-lish'' hashn an tho n'sA''a'e
He sees ct ari 80 plainly as he saw ct long ago.
Drake lies in his hammock till the great Armadas
-.Ccapten. art tina sleepin there belowD
slung atween the round shot listenn for the drum
r. az deep ai ns cali he Sound
Call him when We sail to meet the foe
Tss 'ss a him an an ,he as they
found him long ago.
Mr.. Charles Dana Gibson proposes to spend the
winter in Egypt and will busy himself there in
both writing and sketching. The results Of his
work to appear In "McClures Magazine" The
successive instalments Of Mr. Anthony Hopes story
will be illustrated by Mr.. Gibson. We cannot re-
gard this as altogether comforting news In fact.
thus far Mr. Gibson proves that he is the last per-
son In the world who ought to attempt illustrate
Anthony Hope, in the latter's romances at any
The ''DOlly DialORues'' ofer fat
material for Mr. Gibson's style. The Zenda stories
are really harmed by his pictureA His Princess
Flava" Is simply his American matinee girl with
her head held little higher She might have been
sketched at the Horse Show In an opera box
She is not Of Zenda, that much is certain nor has
che the faintest Of the carriage the STYLE
princess
After Charlotte Bronts's marriage to the Rev
Mr. Nichols she ceased to write and became mere
ly that good mans helpmate In house and parish
Hell friend. Miss Nussey who died the other day
told Wemyss Reid that she once contended with
Mr.. Nichols against his idea that a clergyman's
wife ought not to engage in literary work. Il
married Charlotte Bronte. not Currer Bell" was
his answer. And that being the normal attitude
OF the Englishman Of that period ne can hardly be
considered particularly blameworthy.
1t was the attitude to which the current Spec
tator refers when It says: Tho old Jealousy OF
parts that is Of intellectual rapidly which was
once infinitely stronger than the literary class Of
to-day could be induced to believe. has died away
or confined itsef-a very curious fact-to a section
Of the upper and middle classes, many Of whom
remain proud OF their stolidity and mental slow
ness"
An English bookseller who happens to have only
a nodding acquaintance with the letter N" was
asked the other day by a lover Of the "Rubaiyat"
for a copy Of Omar" He promptly offered the
inquirer a volume Of the "Iliad."
Mrs. Clifford. tho author of Mrs. Keths Crime"
is busy dramatzing one OF her stories A one-act
play by her. called "A Supreme Moment" has just
been put on q London stage
Sir Walter Besant IL still engaged In attacking
the London publishers. In his contention that
TIA .nitcrarx a1entn or middlAman 1eta his INV