New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-01-04

Correspondence Between Burns ana MIS-. DUN
iop." The correspondence contains the poets
views religion and proves what was never
known before-that his friend tried to secure for
him professorship In Edinburgh University
It behooves all men 10 keep their paper-cov-
cred first editions Of writers who to acute vision
have the Potentially Of fame. All the first edi-
lions OF Kiplings stories have risen from a
shilling copy TO pound in EnS!and-that is to
say from % cents 20 So.
Mr. Kipling by the way. Is seeking new
region Of the earth wherein TO build tales. II
is Africa he invades this time-he is to sail from
England for Cape Town In few days His wife
and children will accompany him.
II has not been supposed that the olue-stock-
ing added charms OF person TO those OF mind
But II we may believe the modern biographer'
this generation has changed all that. To go no
further than that popular writer John Oliver
Hobbies" II may be mentioned that she Is
woman whose beauty is as remarkable as her
brains. There Is 4 picture which shows pretty
girlish figure in a gown OF soft muslin over
white silk with dainty jewels nesting in the
folds Of her dress. about the neck and bosom
Her face is charming-full OF brightness and in
tensity. Her complexion Is singularly fair, and
forms a marked contrast to the dark hair and
lustrous black eyes
Daniel Gabriel Rossetti held some strong opin-
ions concerning Emily Brontes "Wutherng
Heights" In a letter recently published ne
praises II highly then adds But IT is fend OF
a book-an incredible monster combining all the
stronger female tendencies from Mrs. Browning
to Mrs. Brownrigg. The action is laid in hell
only It places and people have Enghsh
names there"
Leonard Huxley's paper on his distinguished
father in the current Century Is fun OF de-
ushtful giirnpses Of a tender hearted and gentle
man. The professors love for children was one
Of his most winning traits. and as a grandfather
he was perfect. He would make endless fun
With his little people pretending to mis-
behave at the table and being banshed tenn
porarily 10 the corner. Little Miss Madge q
quaint observant mite OF three and half. on
her first visit was much astonished at a grave
and reverend sgnior thus conducting himself
and at last broke out with. We'll. you are the
curious't old man ever seen" This tickled his
fancy amazingly and he delighted in telling the
story"
AS for pets. the professor showed in his care
for them the same gentle nature. His son says
Of him:
The story is told Of Mahomet that once, rather
than disturb his cat, he cut off the sleeve Of his
robe. which it had gone to sleep. Not less
kindly has my father been found in his study
reading in an uncomfortable scat, while the cat
was lazily cured up in the one armchair. He
laughingly defended himself by saying he could
not turr the IOOr beast our. Al dinner time he
might often be seen with big cat either on the
arm Of his chair cOuched on his shoulder. de-
handing proper attention, and, If 1t thought IT.
self neglected. putting out an eager paw at the
n.orsels their way 10 its masters mouth.
The great Mr. Sherlock Holmes is presently
coming upon the stage in a play fashioned by
Dr. Conan Doyle himself
Mary Elizabeth Braddon CMrs MAXWELL be-
gan to be novelist in very tender years. She
was a small child when she wrote her first story
in round hand between pencilled lines; and a
young girl at school she attempted serious
story which she called The Old Armchair" 1t
did not reach the dignity Of print, but 1t was
regarded with enthusiastic admiration by her
schoolfellows
The late Professor Arthur Palmer. Of Trinity
College, Dublin. one Of the most careful and
thorough scholars Of his time His knowledge of
the great Greek masters was such that he has
been heard TO say that # they were lost he
thought he could restore perhaps half Of their
texts from his memory
One Of the cleverest Of the woman writer's Of
England Miss BethaT Edwards. has uttered
some wise words concerning modern Juvenile
literature. She said the other day that she got
her own education from old copy Of Shake
speare and she added: Il dsapprove OF childrens
books. ! had few in my own childhood. and read
only the English classics, and found them en-
PERTAINING enough. The present fashion Of writ
ing story books specially for children Is think,
q mistake. 1t tends 10 weaken their taste for
literature. and whom they grow older they are
not able to appreciate the best forms Of literary
style"
In the course of uncOmmonly acute and
sympathetic paper on Hene in THE Academy
Of London we find this passage:
His cynioism is not an artificial cleverlv
plotted phase straining after originality but it
Is the expression Of deeply rooted desire to seek
after truth--tO reach the kernel Of LIES phOs-
ophy 1t expresses his conception of the great
gulf which was fixed between the prose OF his
life and the poetry Of his emotions. This. it
seems 10 me. explains. to some extent. the
strange duasms Of Hene's nature-its emo
tional exaltatiOn and its sensual cOarseness-and
accounts for the glaring contrasts in his works.
Throughout his life he worshipped purity, and he
ran after any grisette who CHANGED to cross his
path and he jeered at himself. with tears in his
ewes for both. His life was the tragedy Of DR..
Jekvll ana Mr.. Hyde with Mephistopheles
chucklng impartially In the background.