The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-03-07


| with the aid OF several friends, he failed
| 10 find any such passage. and at the end
| OF tho year Sir Henry paid the guinea
| which he had lost. At that time no Con-
| cornance was in existence, otherwise the
| question might have been set at rest in
| a quarter OF an hour; but that advan-
| tage IS now possessed. On looking out
| the word dog. II will be discovered that
| It occurs IA Zines: hound. 81: greyhound.
| IL: spaniel. s; mastlr. ); cur. 49, With
few others. tho amount Is nearly 800; and.
true enough. they are generally mention
| ed with contempt and disrespect; never
with commentator. Macbeth enumer-
ates hounds. greyhounds. mongrels, SPAN
! iels, shoughs. water-rugs. ana demi-wol-
yes, which. with mastiff beagle, brach
and lynn. comprise all the varieties no
ticed in the plays. As terms OF reproach
we find. out. dogl-out, cur? false
hound etc"
To which DR.. W. J. Rolfe. OF Cam
bridge. replies This Is n good illustration
OF what intelligent people don't know
about Shakespeare though they may talk
and write about him as II they did. II
Lord Nugent was the greatest Shakes
pcarian OF the day" (who ever heard OF
him as such). he should not have needed
the help Of a concordance to find out that
the poet loved dogs and has paid them
many a tribute. See. for instance. tho
graphic description OF hounds in the dia.
logue between Theseus and Hippolyta In
"a Midsummer Nights Dream Ov. L
iOS-i82). and the talk Of the hunters about
the dogs IN "The Tanning OF the Shrew'
dnd l. 1920. which are both too long
for quotation here. In 1.-THE Merry Wives
OF Windsor" e. I. s6-l0D Page defends his
"fallow greyhound" against the criticisms
of Slender and Shallow takes his part.
Launcos praise Of his dog Crab. though
Il was a worthless cur. In THE Two Cen
tlemen Of Verona" is also in point, TO
say nothing OF minor references 10 dogs
in the plays and poems. The passage In
Macbeth" 0il. I. e2-l0D says. In sub
stance. that there are dogs and dogs.
as there are men and men, The ist Muir
derer has said. I'VE are men. my lege'.
and Macbeth replies
"Ay. in the catalogue We go for mon.
As hounds and greyhounds. mongrcls.
spaniels. ours.
shoughs. Waterways, and demi-wolvos.
are cleped
All by the name Of dogs: the valued file
Distinguishes the swift. the slow, the
subtle.
The house-keeper the hunter, every one
According 10 the gift which bounteous
Hath in him clos'd; whereby he does re-
ceiVe
Particular addition. from the bill
That writes them all alike: and 40 Of
men,"
That is. IN general list Of dogs We in
clude all kinds. good. bad. and indifferent:
but "the valued flea list which classes
them with reference 10 their value-dis-
tinguishes them according to their ma
tural gifts or qualities. giving TO each
the particular addition" Ctite. denom-
nation. as often I'm Shakespeare he de-
serves Thus "the housc-kcepcr' (watch
dog and the hunter are superior TO the
common cry Of ours" etc.
VI
In his letter on book-collecting. publish
ed in the Critic, Mr.. Gladstone entered
protest against the binding OF books.
The modern English book be denounced
as being very badly bound in t7at vital
ly important particular, easy opening
This is quite true. also. OF a great many
American books. but while l was looking
over some cheap reprints by an American
publisher the other day. the bookseller
called my attention 10 the strength
the bindings He took a volume In his
hands and opened IL i'm the middle. bend
ing the covers back so that they lay
fat against each other. The pages creak-
ed and groaned a little but there was no
breaking. and the book would stay open
at any place. II this can Dee done with
CHEAP books. why not with more expen-
sive ones? Nothing certainly. Is more
irritating than to have 20 hold book
tightly I'm your hands 10 prevent the pages
from closing in your very face.
VII.
The library Of Cornell University has
lust received two valuable gifts. The
first consists Of 500 more Dante works
from Prof Fiske. swelling the Fiske
Dante collection to over 6.000 volumes.
This latest gift contains copy OF the
Nido-Beatino edition OF Dante. printed in
Milan. lll7-7S of which there IS only one
other COPY I'm the United States. The
other gift Is from the Duo dc Loubat. and
consists Of an exact reproduction, even
to the appearance Of the covers. OF the
"Nahua Book" book Of Aztec picture
writing. The Spanish conquerors or
Mexico destroyed hundreds OF such works
ms being the work Of the Devil, because
they contained the religious lore OF the
Aztecs one copy only was sent 10 the
Pope az Rome. and by him preserved
in the Vatican where IL stu remains
From this copy the reproduction now In
the Cornell Library has been made.
VIII
I'VE have all heard writes an interest
cd party to the Critics 'Llunger' "thst
tho quality OF bad work 3 only empha-
sized by being printed but IS the converse
generally credited2 a friend o. mine has
lust issued a small. not 70 say modest.
volume Of verse. lie tells me that TWO
or three poems which he included therein.
out OF sheer despair of their acceptance
with the magazines. are now reprintei
In AL the books notices. as Illustrations
OF HIS 80. manner. One poem In IS
pecial has been marked for approval BY
the very editor who. some few months
AGO. returned it-with no evident regret
Why. asks my friend. has my poem 30
improved during the interval2 never
held with Hamlet. that It's baseness 10
write fair 50 that my manuscript colhi
not have been a stumblng-block 10 the
editor. / am inclined 10 think that there
is after all black art" In the httle
types: and / mediate dispatching inc
following 10 whom 10 may concern
You pinned my verses on ske"er'
Your nagellation was not siinted;
But now. O anable reviewer
Your criticisms grow rose-inted-
And all because my poems printed'
X.
The Atlantic Is trying to find and 10
bring forward a group Of tho bcSt-eqrip
ned young students of literature. who viii
take up from the point Of view OF the
nrasant or older writer's. and say Just
how their literature improsses them. and
how much Of It gives inspiration TO tho
present generation. We have gone on
for thirty or forty years writes one who
&, interested In this series. practically
accepting the estimate OF our greatest
literary men which was made OF them
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