New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-04-20

ION Symonds's translation Of Cellinis Auto
biography.
Mr. Percy FITZGERALD writing about pick
wick" in the pages Of Literature" says that
Mr. Marcus Stone once walking with Dickens
near Gadshiu. noticed grocer's cart with the
name Weller" on il. and was told that Vlese
tradesfolk had actually suggested the name
I'm fact" he added. there can be seen out
side Chatham Church the Weller tomb WIN 'He
names Of the family inscribed. one or the odo
est incidents connected with the BOOK. "here
all Is 50 odd and srotesque. Is that plchcHS
should long after. have known intimately
Weller family. and he admired beauttui MISS
Weller who was destined to be the mother Oh
two gifted women-Lady Butler and Mrs. Mey-
nell Further, two tragic events are associaled
with this greatly humorous book, and had we'll
nigh shipwreckcd 1.-THE first. the death Of
Seymour. the artist engaged. by his own hand'
the second. the death of the authors sister-in-
law. an interesting girl. who expired before his
eyes as the party were going to the theatre
70 see Macready. This sad business actually
suspended the publication
That clever satirical comedy Arms and the
Man" will be included IN the edition or George
Bernard Shaw's plays: Pleasant and Cnpleas-
ant" which Herbert s. Stone G. Co are publish
Ing The edition is in two volumes. and has
portrait and long preface, mainly personal. by
Mr.. Shaw.
In his charge to the jury IN the recent trial
of Mr. W. s. Gilbert's libel action. Mr.. Justice
Day is said by The London Spectator to have
uttered one noteworthy obiter dictum:
A charge Of conceit. he said. could not bring
a man into oiium and contempt, for II more
often brought him respect and obnged people
l. hot &c q "a
we rather think it is true. We never knew u
man fail from conceit though we could point
10 many who have failed for want OF II. Inc
true question is only whether the concet IS
Justified and in Mr.. Gilberts case 1t could. We
think receive even from his enemies only one
Just answer
Mr. Thomas Bailey Aldrich has written for
the May Century" a story called His Grace
the Duke"
Another article IN the same number which
has also promise Of great interest Is Mr. r W.
Hodges ascent Of the Enchanted Mesa
Mrs Hugh Fraser, the author OF "Paliadia
and "A Chapter Of Accidents" IS about 70 pup
lish e new book under the curious title OF Inc
Looms Of Time"
The Rey Anthony Dean. writing in THE Ma
tonal Review" has some energetic words to say
about what he calls IAN elaborate hurlesque on
the Church Of England put together by Mr.. Han
Caine"; and ne also sives some attention 10 lhe
"religious" novels Of Miss Corelh. That their
books should he extremely popular. he says Is
indeed lamentabe, but it is not altogether sur
prising.
Both Miss Corelli and Mr.. Hall Game tak Ie
themselves with the utmosi seriousness SlIr Ni''
is a quality which the public dearly loves 20
fird IN an author. Each regards noNei as I.
semi-inspired ''nessage'-Miss Corelii WaTNlsSt
admirer can never equal Miss Corelh IN his
opinio. OF ner work: Mr.. Hall Game himself APP
plies the epthet colossal 70 his farlago OF an
surd theories founded upon imaginary lacls'
Again the accident that NJ. Hall came, WIN
ali his defects writes admirable English. while
Miss COrelli's style embodies wenlgh every I@ull
known TO the student Of the language ahec.S
in no appreciate degree their relative pQpu-
larity with the bulk of the reading public. which
Is blissfuy unconscious that such n quahty as
sty,e exists. on the o,her hand. IL loVes Dooh
NhCa it fondiy believes 10 be lnteIectua
loves go think that ii thinks Being lllltera'e
II a degree itself, il neve- DOUBTS Tot a nloHeh
that the scraps Of theosophy. the anuquated
theories Of psychology. the fragments Of ele-
ynentary science which Miss Corelli sets win
such Infinite pOmp before her readers are not III
truth the epoch making discoveries o, a pro
found and original thinker. Once more. II is
impossible to disguise the fact that 1t prefers
its food highly spiced. In the pages OF wee
Versa mn Anstey remarks on the happy form
OF compromise known Sunday Reading, y
and observes that great many persons Of the
straiter sect will peruse novel with great
religious magazine" although they would be
shocked at the idea of reading Il on sunday
when. later on. II comes 10 them from the IL
brary In volume form. And by species Of half
unconscious hypocrisy that is somewhat analo-
gous, the same persons who would shrink with
horror from a professedly advanced or 'Tea-
listic" book devour eagerly whole pages Of "sug-
gestive'' writing when presented 10 them under
the guise Of a religious novel" They relish i'm
mensely passages which can scarcely be called
be no doubt about their meaning. strongly col
ored descriptions OF Illicit love making, lengthy
muslc-hal episodes IN which the sensuality IS
scarcely yelled. these are. IL seems. TO be
the inseparable accomplishments OF the re
ligious" novel. and. under the pretence Of attack
ing vice. its writers contrve to minister TO the
vicious appetite no less fully than does the
frankest Of French realists. SO II Is not alto
gether surprising that the religious novel sells
in mammoth editions that as many copies OF
1.-THE Christian" should have been bought in a
month as OF kidnapped" IN ten years while
who shall compute the sale Of Miss Corellfs
works?
'"rhe Life and Letters Of Kant" which the
Macmillans are about to bring out IN an Eng
fish version IS the work Of DR.. NJ. Kronenberg
a young Westphaian. who Is at present Editor
Of the weekly journal "Ethissche Kutur" pub
iished in Berlin. He is a Phi. D. Of Heidelberg.
Queer Is the rhyme OF which Mr.. Walter Leaf
n guilty in one Of his odes from Hahz:
Hafz, arise. and in that temple DO
Devotion duel
General O. o. Howard is said to be approach
ing the end Of the memoirs upon which he has
been for some time engaged.
An instance OF James Payn's kindness an
editor is related by Barry Pain. II once sent
him." says the latter. "a little series Of PAROLES
Of 'Cornhill' James Payn accepted them: but
there was difficulty. One OF them par
ody Of an author whom we will call X. He was
a personal friend Of James Payn. and James