New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-02

| are nut IN TO auction and sold for whatever
they will fetch Well. as 1t has been with them
so In the funess Of appointed time II shall DE
with those who supplant them. for against TINS
ultimate fate the boarding Of moneys and the
laying Of field TO field no defence"
PICTORIAL Pickwickiana" is the title of
forthcoming volume containing nearly four hun
dred pictures Another Dickens book Is Mr..
Kitton's Dickens and His Illustrators. pre-
senting seventy plates by Leech. Cruikshank.
PHI" Fildes and others.
In the "Whitefoord Papers" 10 which refer-
ence has recently been made in this column, tnls
interesting little anecdote has been found by the
editor: when Sterne read some OF the loose
sheets Of the copy Of "Tristram Shandy TO
select company assembled ut Mr.. Crofts TOT
that purpose after dinner. they fell asleep. at
which Sterne was so nettled that he threw the
MS into the IRE and had not luckily Mr. Croft
rescued the scorched papers from the names
the work would have been consigned to OBJ
livion."
commentator on Nietzsche in the current
"Cosmopolis' calls the insane German thinker
the victim OF his own disciples. the centre or
an orgy Of unripe worshippers. This at least
is the thought that forces itself upon ore when
passing In review the voluminous Nletzsche
literature Of the last few years Here we nave
youths with the gymnasium hardly behihd
them to whom the whole past Of human thought
is virtually an unwritten page. hailing Netzsche
as the one and only thinker. Another form or
panegyric comes from writer's who themselves
have shrunk from the conflicts and renuncia-
tions Of life. and find in Nietzsche a shield for
egotism and self-seeking And still another.
less harmful II more supcrhuous, from women
who on the strength of an occasional meeting
with the philosopher. write impertinent books
about themselves In this extensive literature
we find pamphlets written 10 prove that Metz
sche IS a stanch supporter Of the Christian faith.
that he is an apostle OF the emancipation or
women. and even Of social democracy; indeed. 1t
would be hard TO mention another thinker who
in his time had been persistently msinter-
preted and misrepresented. And the tragedy or
IT is that he must sit unconscious Of everything
in Wemar, poweress to rats. a hand in his own
defence"
NJ Zoa Is said 10 he engaged upon a series
Of four books with which he intends to follow
up the Trogy OF "Lourdes" Rome and
Paris" According to the Temps" the heroes,
or central figures Of Tho new volumes are to he
the four Evaneelists. Matthew. Mark, Luke and
John Throughout; his recent preCccupations NJ
lola has been constantly regretting his aban-
donsd literary work. He has declared that for
the first time since reaching manhood he has
lost six months. In order to make up for lost
time he has doubled the length OF his working
day. his present solitude being interrupted only
by the post. 1t is believed that NJ. Zola has also
the intention OF preparing a volume Of souvenirs
Of the pr.yfus affai. OUT this will not be pub
lished unit, after his death.
little album which Alfred Tennyson pre-
scented to a fellow Undergraduate when at Cam
bridge was sold in London the other day for
$50 This price was. perhaps. not excessive.
for the little book contained the original manu-
script of "St. Agnes's Eve" we'll two
other poems in the poets own handwriting.
Mr. Andrew Lang. in the course Of his intro
duction to the recently printed Select Poems OF
Coerdge," writes thus of "Kubla Khan:
In April 1893. after a quarrel with Lloyd.
Coleridge retired to a farmhouse near Porlock
and took opium and composed "Kubla Khan
in a dream. An anodyne had been prescribed"
by S. T. c.. no doubt After three hours OF
sleep "of the external senses. Coleridge woke.
and partly set down in words that which was
given to him in images and during sleep.
Then came "a person on business from Porlock,'
and the rest was lost.
story is true and that "Kubla Khan" was ere
ated in what the Esqumau call the sleep Of
the Shadow" in an opiated dream Ordinary
mortalS vcrsify in sleep: generally the renesn-
bered results are pure nonsense. The opposite
was the experience of Coerdge. as long iefore
Of CRdmon. who had been no singer TIL he
sang in dream.
am acquainted with popular novelist Din
rlrse health who one found a tale under his
name in serial 10 which he contributed. who
was paid for the tale and who has no memory
Of writing a word Of 1t or Of posting his manu-
script. Mr. Trail writes as If he were not un-
l.arr mad in nlriQ
Colerdge. n which. however. the memory did
not retain the matter created in Il momentary
abnormal exaltation OF the creative and appre-
hensivc power" He however. does not take
high sense of the poetic value OF "kubla Khan,
whereas to myself the piece seems to be what
romantic poetry would be il IT could Think Of
a volume OF the same merit AS "Kubla Khan!
Reading IT, would dwell in the land Of the
lotus eaters.
Is Coeridge a great poet? Here is Mr. Langs
answer to that question: "Coleriige IS. or may
he reckoned. great poet. because every now
and again he captures in verse that indefnabe
emotion which is less articulately expressed in
music and in some unltterabe way he trans
ports us into the world Of dream and desire.
This is very vague fashion OF saying what
hardly permits Itself 20 be said We might put
IT that Coleridge has or OCCASION the power
10 move us, are moved by the most rarely
beautiful cosmic effects Of magic lights and
shadows: by the silver on lakes for a chosen
moment in the dawn or twilight. by the fra
grant deeps of dewy forests; by sudden infre-
quent passions of heart and memory and by
unexpected potences Of Imagination"
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MORE WINTERS LITIGATION BEGUN
A suit has been begun in the Supreme Cour: by
Emily Bliss. Henrietta Meade and severt Other
nieces Of the late Anne Maria Winters qcsin''
Byron l.. Winters her husband. TO have the deed