New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-23

two new comedies. one for Miss Ellen Terry and
one for Mr. Charles Wyndham Il have a
tragedy in M mind also" she says. which
should Ike to do first but I a very SLOW
worker end think had better not say any
thing about that tragedy at present;
Mr.. Clark Russell's new novel IS to he brought
out in the autumn under the title Of The
Romance Of Mdshipman"
II is reported that Mime. Sarah Grand has
been writing in collaboration with her step
SON. Mr. McFan short dramatic sketch
founded on the career Of Give in India.
Professor knight. { S. Andrews has given
10 Dove Cottage. the old home OF Wordsworth
which is now the property of the British Ma
ton ard the goal of many literary pilgrims
valuable collection Of his own. This includes
all the editions Of Wordsworths poems In his
possession many Wordsworth relics and por
traits sketches ard engrayinCs, as we'll as orisi-
RAJ MSS and letters Of tle poet and more than
two thousand letters from men of note concern
ing Wordsworth and his work This collection
will add greatly n the interest Of the place.
The late Sir Richard Burton Is said 20 have
left behind him no loss than twenty manuscripts.
some large and some small. in more or less ad
vanced stage Of completion He used TO work
al four or FIVE different books at time-n fact,
took a rest by turning from one book to an
other There are Mss enough 10 form several
new volumes among them are the Lyrics Of
Camoens.' a translation from the IIindostanee
of Pilrays fables. after the manner Of The
Arabian Nights: an chronological study Of the
Akkas. the pygmy race of Central Africa. some
West African and Syrian travels ard number
al lef
manuscripts to her sister. Mrs FITZGERALD and
they have been intrusted 70 Mr. W II wilkins,
who ia 70 edit them for publication.
In one Of Carlyles private letters. sold in
London the Other day. he SAYS: oliver Crom-
well had no sQuint. stare or deficiency Of any
kind in the eyes of him. One eye. probably the
left but am not sure. was considerably big
ger than the other"
OF all Zola's books La Debace" has had
the largest sale in France. one hundred and
ninety thousand copies having been taken A
new translation Of The Fortune Of the Ron
CONS is coming out in London. This was
Zola's first ambitious work. and II was begun
when ne was twenty-eight. The last Of the
Rongon- Macquart series, DR.. Pascal" was
published when he ffty-three.
Lord Dufferin. who Is now over seventy years
old has lately set about the acquisition Of
knowledge of the Persian language. thereby
rvalng his Queen. who. at nearly the same
age. began 10 study Hindostanee.
The memorial to Christina Rossetti. which Sir
Edward Burne-Jones designed. finished
shortly before his death. and the carved work
in which the paintings to he placed will
he cd in
Square. London. where the poets prayers were
said for nearly twenty years.
That Edgar Allan Poe can boast in Russia
many more admirers and friends than he can
claim in America is the curious statement Of
NJ Constantine Balmont a Russian writer.
General Havelock the hero of the Indian
Mutiny is to be the subject of a new and
ha istive biography for which the Generals son,
the late Sir Henry Havelock Allan. left great
deal OF valuable and heretofore unused ma
terial
Mr. George Bernard Shaw, in postponing the
execution of a certain literary task writes:
II have celebrated my honeymoon with my
usual originality. by falling downstairs the day
before yesterday and breaking my left arm
close to the wrist This. added 10 my still dis
Gbled foot. leaves me mere hahy, with all my
reserves Of strength called up 10 mend my
bones
Mrs Harriet Prescott Spoford has been the
owner Of a lock Of Shelleys hair--a lock cut by
Leigh Hunt from the head Of the dead poet.
She no longer owns IT, for she sent It lately
as a gift 10 Signor Adolfo de Rasis. an Italian
enthusiast on the subject Of Sbeley's verse.
He has translated many Of the poems and has
collected rare editions. in some Of the volumes
Of which are marginal notes written by Shelley
himself.