New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-04

water'-was sold at auction in lohuo'1 ~ nbrev
day for $50 1t was printed Tor hump ov
Roh,neo, in 1927 and was a perfect copy, eN
cept for the title being slightly menued an, r,rnIe
last leaf backed. 1t had oeen bouhu III 20 "a hv
morocco. by Zaehnsdorf IL was P"'
Mr. Quaritch.
Thackerays King GluTpus" OS3O and Inc
Exqusites' uS3D have arrived IN t frn, their
try the copies having been purchaser IIoi,, ~
djscoverer for 81 900 each. This discover, ,,
Dobell, has said that this copy or nc Drit,sh
SITES Is the only one known OUTSIDE 'ne M, on
Museum: but since that assertion was MAJ ,oId
other conv has turned I'D and will soon be sou
at auction in London.
| Rousseau's Hermitage" at Montmorehcy, neaa
Paris Is now owned by Nj. Vassili, Greek WIZ
lets visitors see all they care to look at Dut ne
IS little to see. The room that Rousseau vs. ,1
q dining room. and wherein isooespieiIe cnn-
the death warrant OF the Gir0nd.ns, No" - q.
tains the dynamos that furnish electric iishIS =.
the adjacent mansion In the garden .hs' &C %
a moss grown stone said to have been useu o 49,
seat by Rousseau. and anotnec weather a,oh
stone bears the still readable quatraih "ni'"
Mime. d'Epinay addressed to MIN.
A complete edition OF Whttier's poems Is com,
ing out in England as a volume OF the Oxloru
! Poets Series The aim Of the editors or TINS
series is to give a full and carefully compiled
text of each poet included Winters preoe-
cessors in the series are Shakespeare Mh'on'
Byron Burns and LOngfellow.
Mr.. Andrew Lang has finished a novel written zen
in collaboration with his friend. Mr. A. r.. w.
to he published serially in "Longrnah Maya
zine
Mr. March,, Stone. III, English artist, was
r,han voung man much associated with Dick
ems as an illustrator of Our Mutual frienu
and of Great Expectations lie notes .na a;
Dickens's characters we're so pos,e"Ie Icy, dS.
10 him that the artists never had the ieast az
fcuItv In learning all about them from MIN
when" says Mr.. stone. II had 70 20 10 h I'M
and get instructions and hints az 10 the cha'
octers I had to draw always got a clear anu
definite answer except on two occasions You
will remember that Sas Wegg, in our MUTUAL
Friend, had a wooden leg. asked pch nGh
which leg it was: he gave me an answer W..
turnad ont TO be wrong The ether occasion
was this: When he was discussing tne cover ..
the story. he said that one OF the scenes III !.
should be the death of Eugene Raeburh. You
viii, remember that Eugene Raeburn does not
die: his creator relented at the last moment ana
allowed HIM to ii,e." Anthony TIoiope' the
artist says was just the reverse or inns he
did moi seem TO take anything like the same
/ interest in his characters as Dickens w men
would ash him question about one OF ms cna. ..
acters his answer nearly always wa, Wa o. dnrLS
know Had the young lady fair mar or uaI '
7 would ask L don't know, was lhe reply;
was she tall or mddle-sized or smaii! "ouiu
inquire L don't know.' was again the answer
Another artist. Charles MaItin. lately quoted
Dickens as telling him one day how the name
of "Oliver Twist" had suggested ltselt 10 MN.
The author had long puzzled his brains 10 ktoW
what name to bestow on the youthIui parish
foundling when, one day getting irto one OF
Shilliheer's omnibTses-then not long estap
lishej-thc conductor slammed the door anu
shouted out TO the driver Go on OliVer i"ls''
.srbn sinrularity Of the cognomen struck me.
said Dickens, land said to myselr. Iha' 'nc
name for my new hero
| concernIne Thackeray, Mr.. Marcus Stone has
this to say: II remember going to Visit MN just
when Cornhilr was about to be brought out
He had sprained his ankle. and ne was lylhs on
his bed having the ankle bandaged lie was
six foot four tall l thought never sa" any
body so huge. He asked me to look al the
proofs and especially at the Initial letters "hlch
he had done himself. In one the people all wore
muffs instead OF heads vel young snaser; 40
YOU know what that means" he asked; ana as
I nausea and he wanted to spare me the
| humiliation OF saying. perhaps. the wrong thlng.
he added mmediatey; mean r rnIy c S, a..
ment in his curously irOnical way lie asked
me where 1 got my pencils My pencils don't
draw like yours he said, with twinkle in his
eye"
Tonnvson had almost a loathing for Mrs.
Rrownine's narrative poem. Aurora Leigh"
and said as everybody remembers. some rather
cruel things about 1t. Another contemporary
NOT Mr. Swinburne. holds an exactly opposite
opnon. The advent of Aurora Leigh he
writes in his introduction to the new edition OF
Tho noeu "can never be forgotten by any lover
o. POETRY who old enough at the time to
re- I'd it, or one thing they may all be sure-they
were right In the impression that they never had
read. and never would read. anything in any
way comparable with that unique work OF auda-
ciously feminine and ambtiously impulslye ge-
Mus 1t is one OF the longest poems in the world.
and there is not n dead line in it. The noble
nassion and the noble pathos of its greater parts
are alike indiscussble and irresistible"
Tcnnyson. according to John Blackwood, was
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