New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-17

tory OF Ireland for the series coming from the
house Of Unwin. L,
Marie Antoine'te de Mirabeau Is the family
name Of the novelist "Gyp," and she Is the
great -grandniece Of the famous orator Mira
beau She, too. is a revolutionary-she is. indeed.
one Of the few titled women who are avowed
Socialists. She Is full Of vigorous diskes as her
novels show. Her literary output Is something
prodgious and II Is truly said that II she would
do less and give more time TO II her work would
ing. but not literature.
She began TO write in 1878. in which year she
was married TO the Count De Martel de Janville
and took up her residence in Paris. Since then
she has published twenty seven books of fctionS
and In addition TO these she writes every week
three or four columns for M. Edouard Drumonts
paper, the "Libre Parole"
The English author most popular In Holland
Is said to be Ian Maclaren
Mr.. Charles d. G. Robertss forthcoming novel
Is entitled: "A Sister to Evangeline: Being the
Story OF Yvonne de Lamoure and How She
Went into Exile with the Villagers Of Grand
Pre-" This Is the second of Mr. Roberts's
proposed trilogy OF Acadian rcmances
IT is rumored that young Mr.. Winston Church,
ill-the Englishman Of this name. not the Amer
lean author OF THE Celebrity"-has agreed to
write the biography Of his father the brilliant
and cratic Lord Randolph Churchill '"The
London Athenaum." however, denies that any
positive arrangement has been made concerning
the biography, and adds While it Is possible
that Mr.. Winston Churchill may undertake q
life OF his father Il Is improbable that decis-
lon will be taken 10 place at his service for i'm
mediate use the confidential and Cabinet papers
OF the later portion of Lord Randolph Church,
Ills public career. The time has hardly yet como
for describing authoritatively the important
events of 1885 in which, as an independent
member, Lord Randolph Churchill was con-
cerned, and II has certainly not yet come for
| writing fully upon his subsequent career az
| leader OF the House OF Commons, or upon tho
circumstances which led to his resignation from
| An illustration by Mr.. Whistler will form tho
| frontispiece Of the book 90 TYPOGRAPHY and
photographers which Mr.. and Mrs. Pennell are
preparing TO publish soon. There will be a.
most two hundred other Illustrations.
| The biography OF Charles Dickens with
| which Mr.. Thomas Wright, OF Olney, has been
| busy for several years is to be published in the
autumn. There may be room for another life
| OF the novelist but II Is to be wished that q
more competent biographer had undertaken It
| Several heretofore uncollected articles BY
Dickens are 10 be included In The forthcoming
volume OF the Gadshil edition. An article on
Young Gentlemen TO appear therein writ
| ten by him as protest against an article BY
somebody else. Sketches Of Young Ladess
| which he once happened to read.
| The book on Dickens and His Illustratorss
upon which Mr. T. @. Kitton has been engaged,
will be brought out. 1t is to contain, 1t 10
said nearly a hundred plates consisting Of col-
lotype fac SMILES Of original designs for the
illustrations, while a portrait or the novelist
| will form the frontispece. II Is from htho-
graph by an American artist a
| The late Sir Edward Burne-Jones was greatly
| interested in literature, and read deeply ana
| widely: but the only literary work he Is known
| to have published was an excellent essay on
| The Newcomes." written when the artist was
| twenty-five and brought out In the first mum.
| Der Of The oxford and Cambridge Magazine
| He pointed out that Thackeray was great Do"
cause ne depicted poor human nature as IL ID
because he studied from life and reproduced life
and WAS both sorry for It and proud OF It
| '"Thackeray," added the young artist, WILL
doubt not one day be numbered with the great
| naturalists In all time, lesser Shakespeare In
GOLDEN and coored chronicles. In Goodly COM
pany OF painters poets and musicians all who
or struck the keynote OF human triumph and
lamentation with loud paans and enduring
song"
loved stepfather Major Misunderstanding
buried IN Holy Trinity Church, In the little
town OF Ayr on the wall OF the choir Is Q
brass tablet bearing this inscription:
sacred 10 the Memory Of
Major Henry William Carmichael myth, J
OF the Bengal Engineers,
Who Departed this Life at Ayr,
OH September. 1861,
cd 81 Years. &.
Adsum
-'And TO- he whose heart was as that Of
little child. had answered 10 his name, and stood
in the presence Of the Master '-(Newcomes, vol
i'll. ch. 20.