New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-16

-. ss.orrss Hardy ~ said to be preparing 10
...,a a collection Of his unpublished short
stories He has also IN hand long mover WIN
which be has made considerable progress our
ing the last winter and spring
ITS asserted that books bearing upon the SUD
,sct NJ sport have always a good chance OF
6nd.ng a circulation in Great Britain. Ihere iS
cyen hope for poetry which deals with outdoor
sports.
Among the forthcoming publications OF Paris
no-ees are Comte d'Haus 9onville's HISTORICAL
sketch. la Duchesse de Bourgogne ct Alliance
5avoyarde sous Louis XIV" another Voiufne
~ the posthumous works Of Taine and M. Leon
paudet's volume on his father, Aiphonse
Daudet.
orI6a loathes the modern fashion OF the per-
so,al sketch" In response 70 someoooy re-
ouest for facts" about her career she mas
said. What irnpertinence and what roiy "''
these so-called biographies Of persons VINO nave
done nothing to deserve sucn punishment
The life Of such man as Burton or Weliihs'oii
contains material for history but that Oh
man or woman of the world has nothing in II
which Is not essentially private and personal
NV works are there for all TO read
with me individually they have nothing 10 oo'
Mr. Baldsne McFall (Mme. Sarah Grands
~.anson, has served in zouave regiment and
me hero Of mis- forthcoming novel or west
I,o,an NE is a zouave The chief characters
In the story are negroes.
Concerning Mr. Andrew Lang's new BOOK
.-rhe Making OF Religion The London Daily
News" says:
Part Of the work is devoted TO the argu-
ment based on the latest anthropoloslcai ooser
vations. that the primitive lued Oh Sou 80.
not include is inconsistent with ana cannot
hova heen evolved out Of the conception OF all
cestral ghost or spirit. Granting the exls'eics s
of a relatively pure religion at very low anu
90 rly grade OF culture. IT is shown that reHeioh
must inevitably have degenerated as GIVING .ion
advanced" until 1t became purified py Juuai SIN
and Christianity. But 1t Is ADMITTED tnat .ns
svsteno must stand or fall with what are clalnea
10 be proofs derived from recent anthropoIosicaI
research The authors general conclusion Is
that, far existing evidence goes, .Ie oo11I
In the soul is supported by racts wiilcn ni~'e''"N
ism cannot explain.
A dinner in honor of DR.. Ibsen was given by
a ladies' club In Christiana the other DAY, ana
one Of It's members complimented him IN
formal speech as a poet who by his WORKS hao
done much for women. In response the author
declared that all that he had composed hao
not proceeded from conscious tendency, ana
he added:
I have been more the poet and less tne
social philosopher than have been oeneVeu'
7 have never regarded the women's cause
as question in itself. but as 4uesS1u nt
Of mankind, not OF women. IL Is . mVS,
certainly desirable to solve the woman question
among others, but that was not the Whole IN
tention. My task was the description Oh man.
Is II to some extent true that the reaoeI WeaEes
hIa own feelings and sentiments In with what
he reads and that they are attributed to the
poet? Not alone those who write, but Also those
who read compose. and very onen Ihey are
more full Of poetry than the poet hmseH. L
take the liberty TO thank you for the toast with
a modification for / see that women nave q
great task before them IN the held ior when !
this Ladies' Association works. orlnk the
health OF the club, and wish II happiness anu
success ! have always regarded II as my TASK
10 raise the country and 10 give the people I. q
higher position. In this work two factors assert
themselves 1t IS for the mothers 10 awake by
slow and intense work. a conscious feeling OF
culture and discipline. This feeling must De
awakened in individuals before one can elevate
a people The women Will solve the question or
mankind. but they must DO so as mo'herS
Herein lies the great task OF women.
Mr. Maurice Hewlett's archaic and romantic
novel. The Forest Lovers" has gone into
second edition Tho Pride Of Jennico" IL IN
its fifth edition.
Miss Julia schayer who is known as the writer
of clever short stories for the magazines. is now
engaged upon a long novel
-The Doctors Window IS the title Of a forth
coming collection Of poems "by the doctor, for
the doctor and about the doctor" edited by Ina
Russelle Warren and to be published by G. w.
Moulton The list of poets includes many IA
nous names and some that are unknown to
fame
Mr.. Gladstone's old bookseller says that It
was an understood thing that all works on
Dante and on Homer were to be reported to the
statesman without fail. The latters purchases
fell pretty evenly under the head OF theology,
classics and general literature
OF Gladstone as an author "The London
Chronicle says in a series Of interesting notes:
Mr.. Gladstone had q keen zest in the craft Of
authorship-he gave his best to II. In the smaller
as In the larger sense. Two facts Illustrate the
meaning here intended-he was invariably pune
tual with his copy and that copy always
had workmanlike clearness. When men come
to greatness they sometimes give lessened at
tention to such matters. Mr.. Gladstone did not
Further he was the perfection Of accuracy in
reference TO what he wrote, and later In the cor
restion Of his proofs Here Is an IN tar ; Tns
spelled some word according 10 the accepted
rule. Mr.. Gladstone thought e different spelling
was the more correct one. He was faced with
authorities 10 the contrary, and eventually gave
in but perhaps he was not convinced.
When he had a book in the press he would
often write about corrections or alterations
which he thought necessary. Those letters.
wherever they exist, are dearly priced. They
were not the mere formal notes which the av-
erage author would have penned Rather they
were quaint little essays on the points In his
mind, not infreQuently they contained snatches
Of autobiography. and IN fine they were Glad
stoniana
Even the paper OF which books were made In
terested Mr.. Gladstone. Once he visited the
oxford University Press and went over the
place volume being printed on the
famous Oxford India paper What is II made
OF, this paper?' Mr. Gladstone asked. naturally
enough Now. the fact Is that only three people