New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-14
LITERARY NOTES.

Mr. Sidney Lees Biography OF william
ehskespsare" will present much valuable matter
vh,rh was NECESSARILY excluded from his artcie
IN the Dictionary Of National Biography. Inc
article has been rewritten for the purposes Oh
IN. book. and has developed into twice It's orig
inal length.
Thu Macmians are preparing TO publish
vo,ume containing three stories left by the late
Mrs. Oliphant One OF these tales Dr har
YAre," turns upon a mysterious murder
Miss Helen Hay. elder daughter OF the new
Secretary OF State. is about to publish Voiuii'e
OF poems In London. She has chosen the MODEST
title Of Some Verses
Mr. H. G. Wells II Is rumored, will not be aoie
10 do much work for some time 10 come as he
has been suffering from serious Illness
Modern Germany on its intellectual side IS not
particularly well known 10 Americans. VINO
ought therefore. TO feel interest In the an
nouncement of a book containing Glimpses OF
Modern German Culture" by Professor kuno
Francke. Of Harvard.
A dictionary Of the proper names ard notaoie
matters in the writings Of Dante has been COM
will soon Re issued by the University Press.
"The Cost of Her Pride" Is the title OF Mrs
Alexander's forthcoming novel Another BRIT
ish novelist who is about to publish new DOC"
n Graham Travers" who is really Miss Marga-
ret Todd. Scotch woman doctor Her ne"
novel "Windyhaugh." is expected TO rival her
first book Mona Macean. Medical Student
A particularly handsome new edition OF Sir
Thomas provinces "Religio Medici" will soon be
published in London by the Messrs Bell III Is
20 be limited to five hundred copies. and is TO
have for frontspiece a portrait of the author.
Another Western story teller has volume OF
short stories IN the press. This is Mrs. f. r
Peattie whose book Is to be called The shape
Of Fear, and Other Ghostly Stories
Mr.. George Moore has revised his last novel,
ssEvelyn Innes" and a second edition IL on the
press.
Pr.sident %. c. Gilman's admirable article on
Alexis de Tocouevle will probably reappear as
a whole or In part In the introduction to the
Century Company's new edition OF the French
mans work on Democracy in America.
Mr.. Gilman quotes a letter from Genera! F. j.
Lppitt concerning his association with lie
Tocoueville when the American was you'hlu'
attache to our Legation In Paris:
Some time In 1884 | was called on by stran-
GER who informed me that he was desirous 10
have the assistance Of an American gen'IeIIa'
Of education and that had been recommend
ed TO him by the American Legation. ACCEPT,
ed at once the terms he onered me. ano
/ was TO begin at once In MS STUDY al
his fathers hotel in the fn nor ar all strk
ing He was slightly built, and his height ala
not exceed FIVE feet elk inches his age was ap
parently somewhere between twenty-nve ar, na
thirty There was certainly nothing about inc
contour OF his head the expression or MS
face that indicated him TO be q man OF inoIe
than ordinary Intelligence his manhgi va
ouiet and dignifed but somewhat cold AFTER
ward learned that he had lately returned from
the United States. whittier he had been sent oS
the French Government In conjunction WIN
(,ustaye de Beaumont. on mission 10 examine
and report on our penitentiary systems, ana tna'
ne was son of the Comte detyocquevllie, or the
old noblesse. My connection with MN iasteu
some three four months HIS treatment ol
me was always very kind and appreciatiye MY
daily attendance in his study was from a. m
to about D. m. . -. .,
duties Many shelves in his study were nlied
with books and pamphlets he had brought WIN
him from America What he desired or me was
to write out summary statements OF our pohti,
"a, organizations both State and Federal and
those books chiefly statutes OF the different
States and of the United States.
some
States were stu unbound. And when these were
wanting there were newspaper slips contain
ing sherffs' and other official notices. so tnat
the materials furnished me were amply suincien'
10 enable me to write out for him all the par
ticulars he desired. He usually came In ABOUT
3D. m to read over the memoire had Deen pre-
pairing for him. and to get my oral explanation
on certain points that interested nln1 Our IN
terviews throughout were simply OF questons
on his part and answers on mine. You WIN
easily believe that his questions lnoica'eo
most penetrating intellect
Only twice so far as I can remember. ola ne
ever volunteer remark; once wneh nv coi
rected a certain domatic biunder IN my
memoire and clearly explained the rule 10 me,
and at another time. when we had been talking
about town meetings, he exclaimed with kino-
ling eye usually quite expressionless). MAS
c'est la commune
think n was then that I received the impress
sion that he deemed such meetings to have been
the root Of our Anglo-Saxon liberties and capac-
ity for self-government But II Is Poss'n,e ,na'
this impression did not come to me untli aiter
reading his book From the ensemble OF our
conversations ! certainly did carry away with
me an impression that his political views and
sympathies were not favorable to democracy.
knew nothing Of his intention to write book
until after my return TO America. In 1880, when
la Democratic aux EtatsCnis had ALREADY
1PSeared lost no time In obtaining copy OF
n and on reading II realized that Its author
was the great political philosopher OF the cen
tury. Whether or not he was acquainted with
our language ! am unable to say. never heard
him speak except in French.
"Tattle Tales Of Cupid" is the suggestive title
AZ Mr.. Paul Leicester Fords new book.
A correspondent Of Notes and Queries says
"1n the review Of Alfred. Lord Tennyson:
Memoir by his son Macmillan Co, 1890, In
The St. Jamess Gazette. October g. 1897. 1t Is
stated that the following poem. written in 1851