New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-14

Longmans. Green & co. are about to publish
q new edition OF THE World Desire una
curious compound of classical learning poruc
inspiration and swashbucNing romance "Hlch
Mr. Andrew Lang and Mr.. Rider HagSard com
posed some years ago, to the uhdoihS "l t'e
critics The latter were scdrdallIed AZ seeing
Ar Lang I'm such company They slated the
hook almost unanimously. Nevertheless II Is
fascinating story and for its poetlcal lra-ul'hta
alone is worth preservation. Inc new euItIoH ~
to be illustrated by Maurice GreiIenhaEeh'
The kindly observer and yet incisiye writer
who contributes Pages from a PrivAf' lh1rS
To "Cornhnl' every month mas bech IrdulilS
81 ,yre md Lancet" one Of Mr. AnstcF s funch
productions. and he pllintively asks:
why Is the literary man made Such cad
Because potter must always abuse potter.
have remarked n disposition among men Of let
ters 10 attack the minor poet In the abstract.
which seems curious when one remembers INA,
most OF the critics have themselves r"fnlil'teu
poetry which can scarcely claim to be- MAJOR.
The only poets | have myself met have Deen
quiet gentlemanike fellows enough, usually IN
some Government Office Perhaps there may De
n few prominent specimens in town who give
bad name TO the whole genus. Bob tells story
OF one who thought the audience To which ne
was lecturing would be interested IN ms IRE,
ligious opinions and told them. AT this GATE
legan to conjugate the verb agnosco by Whlch
he meant turned agnostic, or. a Bob sad hog-
ger"
tanning n snrew. Il have heard Of literary
man" ne says "who let it he understood that ne
was preparing an essay on me unreaSohaDie,
ness OF Women and whenever his cara sposa
became shrewish he would pull out his pocket
book and make notes with an affectation or
absorbed interest; which was not without effect
his wife having brains and huinor-up"n the
volume and brIckishness OF the stream.
An amusing anecdote is connected with the
portrait reproduced on another page from
THE Household Of the LaiaycttrS' Il pooN Wy
Miss Edith Sichc just published by me Mac
milan Company. ON returning from ms VISIT
To America in lS23 Lafayette stood for TINS por,
trait Mime de- Montagu was muIn h ma. ha,i
been painted with the Declaration oi fHSnts III
his hand but she was too delicate 10 ASH MN
On his first visit TO Fontenay arr, ms ~"
home she inquired what pose ne had CHOSEN.
IJor curiosity made him smile Well. my dear
sister he replied. i am taking walk my ma
and cane i'm my hand-lilie this. ana ne mn
tatcd Tho attitude ne had described. And the
other hand? asked Nine de Mortagu ahNlousIy
IL Is in my pocket answered thc ''n'I't'
which is much better than having II III some
body else's.
The Macmillan Company announces Ihe
story Of Gldstoncs Life by Mr.. JuSUh Nc
C,rthy This is the work which has beeh ap,
noorirg serlally in the pages of "The OUTLOOK
The same publishers viii bring out shortly rs,
says on the civil War and Recommendation anu anu
Related Topics" by Professor W VI puiulHlE'
nf columbia University. and Select Documents
illustrative Of the History OF the United states,
IIIG-1S6t" 10y Professor William MacI"nald' 81
BOwdon.
A magazine has been started in London rhe
OuilI-driver." which has one refreshing mar
acteristic It allows authors 10 lc\Ie" 'he'
own works in it's columns
The Scrbners published ycsterda! ,he ~
tory of our Navy From Its Origin 10 .he w
ont Time" which is the magnum opus oi MI,
John r. spears The work is in Tour 1ctaoo
volumes containing altogether onri ,o, tonr
hundred pages and there are NOR t tli.n ara
hundred Illustrations Many of the later arc
drawn from contemporary prints, ana 1i' ~
suit is impressive.