New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-05


My little dewy moss-grown vase
Forth from its turret looks and sees
Wide stretched around the park and chase
Beside the river bssk the kline,
The sheep go browsing Ger the swarc;
And kline. and sheep and deer are mine.
And ali the park calls Daudley lord
Safe sheltered in thy turret nook
My gentle hower,pot. It's thine
Upon this peaceful scene 10 look
The lordship3 of My ancient iine
And yet do esteem them not
And lightly would my lordships change
Against iiy little hower-poi.
BY wide estates set no store.
No store sparkling coronet;
The poets heart value
And as he fondly thinks OF her
Who once the little treasure owned.
To mines Of gold and diamond.
My mild and winsome nower-pot,
As-et me see-as on thy dewy buds | gaze,
think how different is my lot
Unto my sire's In ancient days.
Were ,r softly dyd dr ZOO my bGnny flower
Upon Its lofty. ancient tower.
The banner " my race was set.
Where peaceful the kline and sheep
Were men-at-arms with bow and bill;
Where blooms my flower upon the keep
warder blew his clarion shrill
Dark memories Of blood and crime
All me. the chieftains Of that time
Had never seen a fower-pot.
The note attached to this is in Thackecays sly
est vein Of humor. A poem very mach of this
Sort" he says from which the writer confesses
ne has borrowed tie idea and all the principal
epiihets. such free and feathery. mild and
winsome' ETC.. is to be found in the Keepsake
nor is 1t by any the worst dtty in the COL
lection"
Hallam Tennyson's memoir of his father is pub
lished this week by the Macmillan Company on
the 9th. In fact, which is the anniversary Of the
at
two octave volumes of five hundred pages
each. and contains considerable matter, hitherto
unpublished from Tennyson's own hand. The illus
trations are mostly portraits. but there are some
fac-similes Of manuscript and one or two views
An interesting fact disclosed by The Times" in
its announcement Of the international period-
cal which it is TO publish in connection with the
Messrs. Harper is that the magazine will stand
alone far its intrinsic character is concerned
Although published by The Times Literature
will. both as regards the matter it contains and the
opinions 1t expresses, be entirely independent of
this journal"
Mr.. Joel Chandler Harris has written another
Aaron book. which will be published presently
By Houghton. Miffn & Co. Under the title Of
Aaron in the Widwoods," IL described the adj
ventures OF Aaron while runaway. and COM
pletes his personal history. This book Ike its
predecessor will be illustrated by Mr. Oliver Her.
ford.
Collegiate publications often contain. amid much
writing that's only Of interest the undergraduates
themselves. a fragment that deserves outside con-
sideration. Such fragment occurs In The Brown
Magazine for September. wherein the writer
gives wise piece of advice 10 his readers. Don't
join fraternity until the end OF your first term"
ne urges 1T is one OF the mistakes a man makes
II join himself TO company of men he knows
little or nothing about. 1t means either four
or ive years OF good fellowship. four years of
regret, A mans fraternity relations should he the
result OF Acquaintance and i mutual desire on the
parl Of the men for each other'c friendship He
should be In frat because he is proud Of it
and likes the men: not be proud OF 1t because he
is in e..
The Putnams have just published the second vol
ume Of Professor Moses Colt Tylers Literary His
tory Of the American Revolution" This. bringing
the record down to i7SS. completes a work which.
with Professor Tyler's History Of American Lit
erature During the Colonial Time" is invaluable TO
students OF native letters. Detailed DISCUSSION Of
the work must be deferred but i; may be noted
that The books arc admirably printed and are sup
piled with perfect index.
The current number Of that interesting quar-
terly. The International Journal CT Ethics"
tains unekp ectcd essay by Leslie Stephen.
PERHAPS II is the theme more than the essay which
ing about ethics. but he has rarely given reason
10 suppose that he would hit upon Nansen for a
subject. In choosing that d.stir guished Norseman
however. he appears TO be giving himself a de-
lightiul holiday. 81 confess" he says TO have
been fascinated by Nansens story OF adventures
to a degree which very few treatiscs upon Appear
ancc ard Reality discussions Of the true law
OF wages and population have ever rivaled What
Is more. not ashamed Of myself have been
uncer irresistible compusioD. | have been Nv
ins--So far M imagination would enable me 10
uve--in the fuithest North"
Mr. Stephen takes noel view II Nanson's ex-
ploll /, IS forcshaGowcd il the tribute which he
pauses 10 pay 10 Norway. observing with delight
that. whatever else the country may lack. 1t "can
still turn out product and that the noblegt
Of all products mean brave men" He was him
self he tells us in old days a worshpper of ath-
le;ic excellence. and fastening upon the charm OF
Nansen's book as record o; personal achievement.
he turns aside from it's scientific value. The os-
seusitle end then. OF such adventure II We cannot
call Il useless--for rot permitted to intimate
such an heretical opinon--s not commended 10
outsiders Ike me by It's utility. We are charmed
oy the qualities displayed not by the value Of the
result In other words. we take purely aesthetic
view Of the case" Pursuing this point Mr..
Stephen aims TO bring on the moral significance
Of the expedition lie says FIRST:
Ills narrative Is fascinating. have said. pre-
ciseiy as a novel or a poem is fascinating We
whether II be fiction or truth. We q speak for
MYSELF care very little more whether there be n
real place called Franz Josers Land than whether
10 which Friday was broush, 10 be eaten by cam,
nibals. The charm. again II in the display Of
certain charscteristics; IN the courage dispiayGd