New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-08-14


Indians life. and is illustrated
"SmelIs of stale fish, is the expressive phrase
used by the London spectator to uesciipc
Mr. Svifts story of THE Destroyer 1t adoS'
'.There are incidental errors OF taste IN ms
criticism Of moral codes which put US out Oh a''
charity with Mr. swift
Tho lately DESTROYED residence and museum in
Leicester Square London. Of the famous John
Hunter is said to have been the scene chosen
by Stevenson fer his story of "Dr Jekyii anu
Mr. Hyde.
Something like a Or. Jekyl in real life was
Gerard de Nerval. if we may believe NJ Arvede
Barine. writing in the Revue des DeuH
Mondes" THE first time" he says. thar
Gerard de Nerval saw his double he remenihered
that such a visitation. according to the plh Ger
man legend is a sign ot death. ana ne was
seized with fear and anguish Nevertheless. he
continues to live; and when the appaIition next
appeared it occurred To him that possibly IL
was not the menacing spectre for Whlch ne mao
mistaken ii, but rather the mystic pr"ther oi
Oriental traditions. Precisely what ne meant
by this phrase is not clear. but he could not
have found better one 70 account Tor ms pc
culiar experiences. GerardS normal self was
tranquil and serene: opposed to vehement ex-
elements of every kind. and master or the
rure ilmpid style that led to his being called
the French Sterne. IT To his second ego
that must be attributed his eccentrciteS and
mental aberraiions-his mystic brother 1t was
who sent him wandering over Germany without
baggage, VINO pIaftpu ELM dl INV
street corners Of Paris in ecsta;ic attitudes and
finally drove him to insanity and suicide
II had been proposed - turn Mr. Fords clever
novel The Honorable Peter Stirling. INTO Ger
man. but the plan finally rciinquished. the
story being pronounced too American to De
put into German idiom.
Or Ncoll who writes under The pseudonyme
OF "Claudius Clear" recalls some " the charac-
terizations of famous people which the late MIS-
Lynn Linton communicated to her triehuS'
George Eliot she thought 'underbred and pro
vincial badly dressed. unwashed. unbrushcd.
unkempt and cOnceited" She admitted that the
novelist was at first frank. genial natural ana
brmful OF happiness. but success and adulaton
spoiled her and destroyed all sincerity Of char
acter. Mrs. Linton liked and respected Dickens,
whose home at Gadshill by the way, had be
longed to Mr. Lynn, Mrs. Unions f. her DICK
rms she used to speak Of az bright and gay anu
winsome a strong and faithful friend. and espc-
ciaily one who declined to be lionZed. VINO stuck
to his own order. who knew that the biggest
lion OF the class mot born is never received as
an equal by the aristocracy. His great fault. IN
her opinion was the strain Of hardness IN ms
nature. His pride was passionate. and he never
forgavc where ne thought he had been sighted.
and he was too proud and s.lf-rospectng iOf
Hunkeyism. In the latter years Of his life no one
could move him. although he was as stanch ana
loyal friend az lived: and thanks To that
strain OF inlexbty. he never knew shadow
OF turning never blew hot and cold in a breath.
One-third OF the total number 81 letters or X
j. Stevenson to be published in Mr.. sidney col
wins Life" Of the author viii appear III
"Scribner's Magazine" beginning with the issue
for next January. The two volumes OF The
Life and Letters will probably not be pub
lished until the end Of next year.
The second volume OF the Murray edition Of
Byron's Letters and Journals" will be pub
llshcd in October and will present large mum
Der OF hitherto unpublished epstIes Besides
these letters. We are told. other features Of the
forthcoming volume are two reviews written by
Byron on contemporary poets. published without
his name in 1912 and 1919 respectively. tn"
restoration of several suppressed passages both
in the letters and in his "Detachcd Thoughts"
the latter including references 10 Monk Lewis
Brougham. Sheridan Rogers and others and a
description Of a party Of Lady Jerseys At Mid
deton House: numerous hitherto unpublished
notes by Sir Walter Scott On ByTOn-his like
ness to Burns, his affected dislike 10 literary
men. etc. and long letter by Lady Caroline
Lamb. giving her account Of her friendship with
Byron.
A volume on Brules explorations and cx-
petitions l610-'2C) has been prepared by Mr..
w Butterield and will be published II
Is full Of interesting details of the discovery and
exploration of our great lakes
Here is a significant paragraph from a letter
written some time ago by George Meredith and
lately printed in "Ihe Harvard Monthly
"When at the conclusion Of your article on my
works you say that certain change in public
extent due TO me- you hand me the Towering
wreath / covet For think that all right use
of life, and the one secret of life. IS to pave
ways for the frmer footing OF those who sue
coed us; and as to my works, ! know them
faulty. think them OF worth only where they
point and aid to that end Close knowledge Of
our fellows dscernmeDt OF the laws OF exist