New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-16
Must cen his Doris fiute forego.
Ara seek some graver calling
Not ill-content to stand aside,
To Yield to Ministries litter,
HIS singlng-robes, his sinEing-pride.
His fancies sweet-and bitter!


In her annotated edition OF Johnson's essay on
popc Miss Kate Stephens proves herself a careful.
modest and appreciative editor. Her preface Is
bly, compact and pointed her notes are
thoroughly pertinent we'll as human. Inc VOL
ume we regret to add. Is dishgured by Snug re-
production of Reynoldss best portrait OF Johnson
This however, Is the only fault TO De iouho e'ier
with Miss Stephens's editing or win haipci q
| Brothers bookmaking.
One NJ the countless articles on Lord Tennyson's
memoir of his father is by Miss Agnes Grace Weiu'
a niece Of the poet. Her brief paper III the Con,
temporary has some interesting touches that couid
only have come from one familiar with lehh!soh
in his home For example she speaks or MS inter-
ston with a sense OF the divine source OF the
Gift of poetry and adds: He told me that TINS
sense was almost awful TO him In It's intensity De-
cause II made him feel as priest VINO can never
leave the sanctuary and whose every "oru must
be consecrated to the service OF Him VINO hau
touched his lips with the fire of Heaven "h'ch "aS
10 enable him to speak In Gods name TO MS age
And So he vent on to say. nothing ho hau ever
written seemed 10 him 10 have reached tho S'ahu-
ard of perfection short of which ne must "e'..
rest: all he could hope was that he had proush'
men a little nearer to God turning " i''' NV
sale details. Miss Weld writes
When my uncle stayed in our house In LONDON,
fare he insisted on our giving him. we Knew iIo
JARED FOR his begging to be allowed to have It On
stead OF the fresh roasts we had coonco oI gmaat
ever gave 80 little trouble or was SO fuli OK con,
sderaiion for our servants; but this was Decau,o
he was always full of thought for otheFs, Htu'o
instance of which comes into my mind, the o S
sion being visit my mother ana 1 paul 10 o o.
few hours Tennyson came into our room 70 sec
If it was all comfortable, and dsagreeing WIN w, nc
~ isht the IRE said oh this doesn't look half
Welcome" and dropping on his knees hsn'e' H.
Much as Tennyson noticed every individual tree
and plant. bird life had still greater
for him partly because II afforded closer anaIoSies
| With our own He was much touched by the lact
that the Gagged nnet loses the red plumag}e IrG ~,
| its head and breast at the first mouIt aitet US
captivity and regains them; ana ne tilouS f
of devotns whole poem to the deep yea arm Ana nd
one reason he climbed almost daily when at Fresh
water to the summit Of Beacon Do% srb was IS tSe
seagiils circng around It's lofty cliffs The histor,
cal associations Of the beacon inherited oy ~ II
through a long line Of ancestors. OF which IL was
the exact facsimile. was great source q interest
tbs n CS of the IN Wfns upon
answers TO the declarations OF love or quaint CUES
tons that he found at times ehalhed on It's 0i"ck
Every year we receive from Raphael Tuck &
| Sons an armfui OF the fragile publications with
which that busy firm heralds the approach o, the
| Christmas season and celebrates It's sentiment.
These publications consist OF calendars, books OF
tho alphabet, spelling books Chrimas cards and
other holiday souvenirs all displaying fertile In
ventlveness and dainty taste in the application OF
color 10 pretty conceits of decorative design II Is
| impossible 10 describe these tribes ono by one.
but they can be none the less cordially recommend
ed. The Christmas card We are told. Is going out.
| II Il Is not gone already. Nevertheless. children
still love the bright pictures, and as for the deco
rative calendars we believe there Will be public
for them long after the world has resolved to set
tie down. in most OF the relations OF lite TO that
cecorous and dull state Of mind toward which, II
the real.ts are to be believed. daily drifting
Tho D. Van Nostrand Company has published a
''pocket edition" Of Tho Naval Milit!amens Guide
! by Lieutenant John u Barnard. OF tho lst Battal-
ion. New-York Naval Reserves II is compact yet
| compre hens!ve work. giving just what every one
| interested in the naval militia wants to know
about tho technical expressions used in tho drills
and exercises. The verbal explanations are made
even helpful by the nifty or more illustrations
scattered throughout the book.