New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-31
LITERARY NOTES.
"rhe New Rome is the title OF Mr.. Fooer'
Buchansr's forthcoming volume CT Verfe'

A recent English biographer OF Dante mas
eouected divers anecdotes going TO show 'ha'
tho noet shared human weaknesses WIN MIC
hrothor mon He has his littlenesses ana III
ernoi,,es 81 temper like the rest No' ON!
could n. go down into the lnfernai Nes'o"s
an3 come back when he pleased Out ne ''0,.
narsora,lv hcabor and anathematze MS s'"p'u
cor.ennoraries when they offended vi o"e
,,,oIerable bore re asked, What Is the stes'es'
haast IN the world? To which the intruoer ro
niied that according 20 Piny. ne 'ho"e"'
sbould be the elephant Very well 'eJ''"e.
Dante: % Elephant. do not ootner "e' a
with that he departed
s.veral unpublished poems and sKe'ches ~
Dante Gabriel Rossetti are TO appear III '"e
Christmas number Of The Pan Man ""e
zine"
Al o,oborate work on France. and especia"E
The social customs Of France during 'he Aou"
ou,nze period. has lately been compheu o' "''
Tishe Hopkins and will soon be puohsheu
Uordsvorth's family is still represented III
the Lake district Mr.. Gordon WORDSWORTH
grandson OF the poet. lives at stepping SUN
COTTAGE. and a granddaughter, Mrs MaE'' ~"
u.ifa NJ an English army officer, has o"e'''"s
In the Grasmere Road
>. 49,. o,o roin, becomes clear from the re-
.a,,, revelations Of Dr. Boswe-B Busch 1t Is IN
the oninion Of The St Jamess Gazet'e' ''''
,bo shadow behind the old Emperors throne
deliberately set himself TO estranse rather "''
son For years before the crisis came BIS
r,o-ck feared the influence Of the crown
PRINCESS and had dreaded the liberal TEN
darcies ~ the Crown Prince He mace '"e
education NJ Prince William his particular
au,v The future Emperor was brought up III
.h s,ra;to.t sect Of the bureaucratic scnool'
u was taught TO seek the salvation OF 'he
Er,nira only in the efficiency and fidelity OF 'he
army bv which It had been rounded III.
,hrona or the Hohenzollern had been fouhoeu
on bavonets and bayOnets, as Prince ZION 'o,
remarked are not the most comior'ao'e ~
s,s Almost as soon he could s'ahu ne
vos mt into a uniform. and though 'ne "
euence Of the Crown Prince prevailed uespi'e
q scandalized grandfather and MS eNasPe''"
chancellor in securing some years VI puo"N
school education for his heir, the most i"''''e
a.,o -. training was on sound Hohenzo-
,ern lines-that OF the drill-serSeah' DIS
o,,,z chico, in this manOeuvre was palpepie
enough Despairng Of obtaining the sa"'e al"
nowerful influence over the crown ri''O'
which ho had exercised over the ola hihpei''
from, the dav on which he had edited the Ia'e
ful Fms dispatch onward, he made II MS o"s'-
ness 70 train the young prince into an equa"F
nliable mouthpiece. Hence when his rather
though even then wearing his death "arran'
on his brow. assembled the imperial throne
Prince William had been taught to believe 'na'
he had been jugsled out of his rish'tul ne''-
,aee by a foreign and anti-German conspiracy.
He had then no understanding OF the hoer"i
policy which prompted the decoration OF 'e"
with the Order Of the Black Eagle ana 'he u's
rnissal Of a reactionary bureaucrat Inc A''
tude adopted by Prince William dorlhe '"e
short sad reign of his father was no' eoIH me,
but it can oe urged in his excuse tha' " h"u
been forced upon him..