New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-04-25
LITERARY NOTES.

spraton. giving us portraits OF MI oaii'o VII"
the Poet Laureate. The Thrums" Is pictured
"a a droll little animal with a pipe between MS
teeth presumably filled with the Arcadia Mix'-
ure) and with few thistles sproutins OUT Vi
the desert in which he sits The description
runs thus:
This delightful little Creature Is very retl,ins
and knows a intervure drecky by his steithy
tredd When he hears one ne runs Nhe 1iseH. I've
and gets under the sofer-cushohs OF in IN :. -
peyanne or crawls In under the states ti IL Is
ali over He use to live in old ilcnl-house
once. lie is marvelus mixture OF ,ne noa'
commical humour and the mosI nGus;ru, az
cricket. He was TO have gone TO Orsltaiia WIZ
Mr. Stodert but they thought 1t was peter loi
the Empire that he should not. nou s 49, 49,
him snick them among the slippers Il nope .hdt
is right When he goes in TO bat the neideis
all come close up TO him just 10 take hints IN
batting.
Mr. Alfred Austin. The Lorryit, Is dlspiayeu
emerging on all tours from beneath mass OF
leaves the character Of which is set forth In the
following text:
This queer little Animal has got himself
smotherd in with lorrels and he dosnt hardy
ever show-there has been TOO much riile o t
side for him expeckt. He IS always near ,,i,e
voices what nobody else can. once II was IKE
w;mmen and children screening out lot heip.
Now 1t sounds like Ammerican 1t says II wahIs
to have done with its WORKOUT tall the 'an %
a anshent wrong. ct doesn't seem 10 mean
much does it?) When there Is Royel papies
with nice fresh odes and pottery OF a 1oy1ul car
ecter That IL what he Is fort must De oreu-
full life.
IN a portrait Of Sir e. J. Reed, the noted au-
shortly on shipping. OF whom the new Button
SAYS: This splendid but desining Animal is
awful good at ships" passage points TO MS
narental relation to the author OF the skill lie
1,r,tes such Vigorous letters that Is a modole OF
ritine" SAWS the satirist. and he Is gooo
nowett TO- ct is a CRATE pity he didn't teach Ms
son how to spell he seems TO get worse anu
worse-he is a perfeckt dissgrase).'
Idsutenant Sargent follows his study OF Ma
poleon's first campaign with q volume on Inc
Campaign Of Marengo." a. c. McClurg q Coz.
It Is one defect Of this campaign that !" "ouiu
not have been necessary except for Napoeon's
own eccentrcities His wild raid upon the orient
left all that he had achieved In Europe at the
mercy of his opponents. 1t Is In these !apses tha'
Napoleon suffers In comparison with q steady
man like Hannibal Without generous and
enthusiastic nation at his back Napoleon would
have failed Hannibal almost succeeded VIII
no national background whatever AS 1t was'
Napoleon came near losing Marengo. In his
first italian campaign the reader sees in him
general who holds tho very threads OF fate IN
his hands But in this second campaign fortune
makes several Of the vital moves In the game
of war. II the Austrian Melas had not oeen
slow In making UP his mind. II suchet nad not
heard the cannon at Marenso and turned PACK
TO change defeat into victory; f-H|f-there
are altogether too many contingencies In this
famous campaign Of Marengo. STILL taken as
II must be In relation with Moreaus campaign
beyond the Alps. and in the light OF tho fact
that Napoleon not In this case the master
of his generals that he was IN inc smaller
theatre Of his first campaign or that ne De-
came when he had trained his marshais 10 foi-
low his lines Of thought. It was a great cam
paign. 1t gave Napoleon control at last OF his
own genius for war-a greater victory than
Marenso itself Lieutenant Sargents analysis
ts kaen and to a non-military eye almost fault-
less.
The Macmillan Company announces that THE
Pride of Jennico" the romance recently pub
ushed by Agnes and Egerton Castle. is to be put
upon the stage. 1t ought to make good play
The story is full of dramatic motives. and there
are elements in the time and places dealt with
which would provide background OF remeIHa-
BILE picturesqueness for the actors
new series projected by the Putnams La to
deal with American Men Of Energy" the sub
1ects being chosen from among those whose lives
and work helped TO shape the desunies OF tneif
generation The first volume. soon to be pub
ushed. has Benjamin Franklin for It's hero II
Is written by Edward Robins. The series VIII
be Illustrated
Mr. W. j. stillman has resigned his position
as ''The London Times" correspondent at Rome,
and intends 1t is said. to settle down to ltera-
lure IN England. He Is writing his autobiography.
Tho suggestion made in the recently published
volume of Dante Rossetts letters to William
Allingham, that Mr.. Stillman was responsible
for the poets addiction to choral. has been met
by letter from Mr.. Stillman to THE London
Academy" Mr.. Stilman admits that he once
brought the drug to Rossetti's notice. but he ex-
plains that his friend was not at ell impressed
BY the discovery, and did not make any serious
use of choral until much later, when its uses
were brought anew 10 his knowledge not by Mr..
Stillman-
Baedeker's Spain and Portugal" the hand
book Just sent to US by the scribners. has GER
tain pathetic interest II is doubtful II Amer-
can travellers who have waited impatiently for
1ust such a guidebook. will feel much like using
It for several years to come. But when the
troubles between the two countries have been
smoothed over this publication will be in great
demand Ford and Shea are excellent authori-
ties. and Murray's guidebook Is not altogether
despicab BILE but the fact remains that no book
has hitherto answered the purpose which Bae-
deker now fulfls. He Is minute as he always
is but the masses Of information packed within
the covers Of this book are arranged with such
good Judgment that tho tourist will find them
simply invaluable. All the data concerning no.
tells. conveyances and similar important matters
that any one could possibly demand are given
in the most accessible form. and the numerous
maps add the last touch Of completeness to the
book The maps. like all Of Baedeker's maps.
are models of what such things should be.
Travel in Spain and Portugal has not been half
40 simple and comfortable matter as else