New-York tribune., 1898-11-20

Cornine the wonderful things you KNOW
Grades and switches and loco-orukcs,
7 nnoT-deck stringers ana garDoard-etIl'tno
pnari,p s,uppers. full furnace-draught'
Thrus.block cylinder. fiawed tailSnai,
'''' xyc have struggled, in very deed
Master thy tale IL hard u reau'
All vour talk we have eyer heard
Irttet ed by bat OF beast or piro'
Hide or fin, scale or ieath'n' ,.hor
Iahbered al high speed and all together-
Give us that over and over again.
Rut don't make machinery taih HAI a
va Nv our aching heads we peau'
Master these tales are haru " ie"
The, hear our feryent prayer. ana as you 10
strong fOrswear 49,, ,,os
These arid techncalities your s'yio Sli"no, ri
Drop over ir your wake hotbox ana saro'"'N
BE sure. as we are sure. you're III 'or 0'''''
things.
The latest number Of The Author contains
some odd quotations from the oPilIlS v'i iosronn
national copyright Of various Dulcn Sc'1 2.aoa
and iursts one Of these, Dr. }. -: Neeis -
has ovrressed the following convictions;
consider the exploded doctrine o so-cal.eI so-cali,- ~
telloctual property to be aDSoiu!cl9 , ,
"Translaton is not piracy, but oriB,nal viii;
"Ar ido, as soon as il is expressed, Is puoiic
property Holland has not Joined tne t ,e' ~,
Union first Of ALL because III lAe n.eignoo i;,9sed
tho community the Government was Inu'9PoS'oN
to sacrifice the Fundamental liberty OI traiS'a
ton" Another highly respectane Dutcni''an' ~ au
an ex-oficial observes; ~ hout'h enIat9 its "a con
mako If fruitful In consequence, any hindrahcc
Of It's dissemination is an unpardonapie C'ane @
against the evolution Of humanity for III rr1 80
son no one any longer speaks Vr literary PIX
ertv as a legal right" These arguments Wlilcn
A German critic calls those or tne Hltn"sS
man" arc apparently inspired py .ne is2' 80 emr
man Dutch publishers and editors make large
and profitable use OF transat'ohS VI A0i"s'
works.
The London spectator" recalls the fact that
| the late Lady Martin GIelen FauciO was tfe
original heroine Of three Of frowhihs piay1s pys.
"Straford" "Colombe's Birthday' anu anu ,ne
Blot in the Scutchcon and IL quotes .t'o
/ noat's tribute to her after the production oi tne
iast-named piece. You have twice, ne say.
proved my Bird Of Paradise ana coho'uusS'
Genius is a common story.
Fcw guess tha. the spirits glory
They hail nightly is the sweetest
Fairest gentcst and complcteSt
/ Shakspcrc s-I3dy eyer poet .
Ionge1 for, Few guess this: Nno" IT,
/ Tn. "Spectator" adds: Lady Martin. IKE
pistnri was on. of the very few great actresses
/ u,h, h,va not bc.n either stupid. ignorant OF
vulgar off the stage. Thackeray's picture Oh tne
/ Fotheringay was no caricatUIe. Nj. LcSou'e' III
his entertaining "reminiscences, relates no" an
. actress famous in the early decades OK uls
century-Milc DUchrsnois-once broke OUT Al
his fathers table with the remark. Ih2t AT poor poor
Henri " NJ. LegOuyc--tO think that II fdE@,l.
lac had not killed him he would perhaps be
/ alive now.
!
literary parallels: "A thinker read sweet
poem about the brotherhood Of man.
/ "And later he spied the author OF tnat poem
/ in the rnarket-place, and ran up to MN, ana
grabbed him by the hand, and sald: My
brother-my dear brother, let us 80 ana pick
! bit . dinner together. ,
And the poet answered that he was rot IN
the habit Of picking bits Of dinner with persons
whom he did not have the honor 10 know.
Mr.. Frederic Harrison, writing in The Niiis &
! teenth Century" about the historical inetnon
of Professor Freeman. has some caustc shiurss
to saw about the writer's who fancy that IL tney
| nrint any documents" that have not bctore
| been published they are conferring a benehe
upon mankind We quote his best passage, as
| follows: ,
| scrnt authorities Of the smallest value should
| be accurately decphered. copied and edited
| And the work that is being done by competent
| editors IS excellent material for the future his
torans But it is quite distinct from the work
| OF the historian proper; although, where the
| age is not distant and the subject of the his
| tory limited to a generation or two, n wise
historian like Mr.. 5 r. Gardiner Will resort TO
the unedited material himself. But the fash
ion OF the day is 10 attach mystical value 70
| a bit OF written paper. however trivial be the
| writing on It, and however great n fool or liar
the writer may have been. Raw girls. who
| could tell nothing about the battle Of Salarnls
| or the French Convention, are encouraged 70
devote years Of their lives to deciphering the
| washing accounts OF a medieval convent. the
lists Of the swine on particular manor, or the
tttle-tattle Of some bedchamber woman. 1t Is
conceivable that competent historian might
| make Of washing bills. farm inventories and
| chambermaids scandal But. until he asks for
it, it is childish to call this rubbish original
| work. simply because il can be made out from
| a mOully bit OF paper in an ilegible hand OF
| I4fnft ~ia q