New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-29

Nay Reerhohm says III The loitr that ne
.S'n,s Reardsley had a boysh delight in shock
49, neorle and that il was often of mere mis-
chef that ne chose. as in many OF his grotcsques
-, the Bon Mots' series. to present such hor-
IDLY ugly notions 49,.
.,rcurh his work generally imagined that he
ms, be a man Of somewhat forbiddng char
,cer His powerful. morbid fancy really re-
,eled them. and to them The very beauty or
is expression may have seemed kind Of added
noson But l. or any one else who ever saw
Kin NJ his home. knew that whatever was
no,hId in his work reflected only one side OF
he nature ! knew him 10 be Of kindly, gen
arons ana affcc. tomato disposition; devoted
son and brother; very loyal friend. lie llVed,
when first saw him and til! some two years
later in CambrdGe-st.. where he siareG mouse
with his mother and sister. Here. every Thurs
dav afternoon held a kind Of little salon,
which was always well attended. Aubrey him
seU was always present, very neatly dressed,
handing round cake and bread and butter. ana
taking to each Of his mothers guests in turn
There were always three or -four new drawings
Al his passed from hand 10 hand. and he was
always delighted with praise from any or ms
friends think IL was al these little haif-formal,
haf-ntmate receptions that one sa" MN AZ
his best With ali his afectations ne had thai
mborn kindness which is the beginning OF all
good manners.
~ Hermann Sudermann it is said that when
no is writing a new work he leaves Wlie ana
children az home in Berlin and buries himself
In some obscure nook in Italy or the Tyrol. NO
Correspondence is forwarded TO him un'' the
MS is complete. He is described as locking IKE
the man u action rather than like the man OF
letters He is a muscular giant bearded ana
bue-eyed. resembling the ideal Wotan OF "aS-
merriam drama. II one can imagine Wotah IN
irockcOat OF irrcproachable cut.
Mr.. Richard Harding Davis is certainly find
Ing valuable copy" In the Besides his
newspaper correspondence. Re is writing series
Of papers for "Scrihner." beginning with The
First Shot Of the War. which VIII appeat IN
the july number. and be Is. moreover. accumu-
la;ing material for book t. be published by the
Scribners and 10 be called THE War OF ~
From First 10 Last.
That jud.cous critic of America. Mr. James
Bryce is writing for The Atlantic paper on
the unity u interests Of the United states ana
England and an Anglo-American alliance. For
the same periodical Mr.. Henry {. Lea whose
History # the Inqusition is one OF the n"'a-
Die works If the century-is preparing paper
on THE Spanish Character and the Colonial
Policy of Spaiu.
Mrs Humphrey Wards forthcoming novel deals
partly with social Catholic life in the North OF
Eagland.
An Interesting little story about Thackcray
IS told by Mr. Edward Wilherforce in the Lon
don Spectator" Just after the completion Of
The Newcomes.' he told me how he was walk
ing 10 the pOstofce in Paris to SEND on the
concluding chapters when he came upon an old
friend II his who was also known to me. Come
into this archWay.' said Thackeray 10 his friend.
ana ! will read you the las; bit Of THE New
COT IS So The two went aside out Of the street.
and there Thackeray read the scene OF the
C0loners death. His friends emotion grew
and more intense as the reading went on.
and al the close he burst out crying. and ex-
claimed II everybody else does like that the
fortune Of the book is made" And everybody
else did" my comment. Not !. replied
Thackeray. i was quite unmOvcd when killed
the Colonel What was nearly too much for me
was the description of "BOy" saying our
Father" I was debating that 10 my daughter,
and ! had the greatest difficulty in controlling
my voice and not letting her see that ! was
almost breaking down. l don't think. however.
that she suspected It, Perhaps "A future volume
Of the Biographical Edition the one containing
The NcWcOmcs,' will throw llght on TINS sub
ject and tell how far Thackeray was right III
bis conjecture"
Who viii complete the late Professor Chds
general ballad theory, Of which he len only
few blurred pages? His pupils. Mr.. Andrew
Lang declares. cove to his memory the general
statement Of his results. They. If any one. have
a knowledge Of his conclusions as to the main
problems of the ballad Where popular 4aiiaa
and literary medieval romano" coinclde IN
theme which is as a rule borrowed from the
other? We think that popular fancy Is usually
the real source, but the opposite theory has its
partisans"
Mr. Lang by the way Is quoted as saying ut
the London Booksellers dinner, the other night,
that the curses Of literature are education.
bicycles. golf, the art of fiction and printing a
sufficiently paradoxical statement AS for the
consumers Of literature he observed that ne hdd
profound contempt for them because they DO
not consume enough. nor is what they consume
Of the right sort"
Mr.. Howels's new novel THE Story OF a
RAY, Is first coming in book form from TN"
Harper press The same firm Is bringing out
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