The record-union., 1897-12-19

There was time, not so long ago,
when the publication of writer's com
plete works was an act OF commefilofd-
tion, or a hint to the world that nothing
more was to be expected from his haIld.
In these piping days Of enterpfaslng
publishers, however, these sad sugges-
lions no longer invest the complete edl-
tion with an air of gentle melancholy.
Mr.. Kipling is barely 30, and there are
- octave volumes. handsomely dressed,
standing to his credit. Mr. Barrie stlll
promises more than he has achieved,
but though his best work is before him
his publishers have paid the honors
once reserved for those who had passed
beyond the clamorous voices Of critI-
cism to that peace in which the classic
securely dwells. James Whitcomb Riley
is still in his early prime, and he, too,
is to look upon a long array of books
ln comely attire, the product of his
unfailing vivacity and industry. The
lover of Mr. Aldrich's verse and prose
may look unmoved therefore, upon the
Riverside edition of his complete works
in eight well-made volumes. OF the
eight volumes, two are devoted to Mr..
Aldrich's poetry, and six to his prose.
The sale at auction recently of the
first English edition of Montaigne's S
Essays" a book which is almost as
rare as the original French edition. re-
minds the New York Times" of the
precious Montaigne once owned by the
late Comte de Lignerolles, whose Ii
brary was sold in Paris in 1894 This
was a copy of the 1858 edition, which
the author had given to Loisel. 1t
brought 500 francs. The Cofte's copy
of the edition of 1885, it may be noted,
TO further illustrate the value of Mon
taigne at auction in Paris, fetched 3,o0O
francs. 1t had the arms of Sully-a
fact that added very much to it's value
in the estimation of the collectors of
France, who, even as their American
the English confreres, love books be-
cause of their associations, especially
when the authors and former owners
are French. Shakespeare's and Ben
Jonson's copies of the 1903 edition of
London are in the British Museum.
The art collection and the library of
Chantilly viii be thrown open to the
public next May. The administrators
a general catalogue of the collections,
for which the late Due d'Aumale him
self wrote the preface, have just under
taken at the same time a prodigious
work 1t consists of the preparation
of special catalogues Of each collection,
giving details and criticisms by eX-
perts, of manuscripts, books, portraits,
sculptures. antiquities. and gems.
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will be completed and published on the
correspondence of the Condos and the
Montmorencys. These catalogues viii
not be completed for several years. In
the meantime, visitors viii make use
of those presented by the Due d Aumale
to the members of the French Acad-
erny, when they visited Chanully in
1885 on the centennial Of the institute.
A venerable painter of the school of
1880 viii be seen no more in the Quar-
tier Latin of Paris. August Boulard
died there the other day at the age
OF -. Besides his two pictures in the
Luxembourg, painted years ago, he
had done little to achieve fame. He had
exhibited year after year in the Champs
Elysees Salon, selling his pictures at
moderate prices and toiling on, the
friend and mentor Of the art students
Who valued him for his kindly nature
and broad charity. but more for the
great men that he had known. Millet.
Jules Dupre Daumier. Barye. Geoffroy-
Dechaume he had seen pass on TO fame
and into the oblivion beyond. And he
had lived on. filed with their mem
cries lie Figaro, in speaking Of him
said in untranslatable French: "C'est
une belle figure d'autrefois qui sen va;
un grand honnete homme ct un grand
artistic"
Among Younger naintars I'm E11ront