New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-01

MI nri,inn these peculiar lines in a copy OF
the works OF Poe:
81 wonder when America will know
That much her greatest Dard is Edgar TUG
| say this reminiscent ana dehaht ,,. ".
or Hoker Tabb. and Longfellow. and Bryant
"Nai, Currents in Nineteenth Century Lit
erature' is the title Of the translation OF Dr.
Rrandes's recent volume Of literary history
The translation will appear In the spring.
Lord Curzons book on the Indian frontier
the result OF his travels in that regloh-Wds al
ready for publication when he saiieo lor mn" t
the other day But we not TO see IL ior
some time to come. it has been conciuueu
that it is unwise for the Viceroy to publish d
book the subject at present.
against Tolstoy as the recent disturbances IN
connection with various heterodox seeis are
ascribed to his influence. 1t is said that every
strike every conspiracy. every approach 70 po-
ltical activity on the part OF the masses IS at
tributf-l to him. A semi official organ say ,,
"There can be no liberation of such views, ana
not only the arch-fiend. Tolstoy, but an MS ioi
lowers must be crushed and destroyed
1t is reported that the human problem IN ioi-
stoys new novel, Resurrection SUCCESS LII
some degree Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter.
Some "curiosities from the School-room' have
been published as illustrating Mr. Lowers
statement that I'VE are the most Coni"ion
schooed and least educated people IN .ae
world" Here are the specmens-tdo letters ao-
dressed to Houghton, Miiiiin * Co.:
Gents: Please send me by mail twenty copies
of Division of Sir I.oungfelcw. Respectfully
Dear Sirs: want Emmerson's Essay on Love-
in phamplet form. Address Miss -
Mr. John Murray, the publisher. recently
stated that his father and grandfather collected
a large mass of material concerning Byron
which has not been used in the new EDITION OF
Byron's works as the facts and details do not
arise directly from the poems and letters. TINS
may suggest subsequent biography
4 new comedy-drama on julius Cesar is the
latest work Of Mr. George Bernard Shaw. Cleo.
patra as a girl of seventeen. is its heroine ana
when Cesar first sees her she Is lying curIeu
I'D i'm the arms Of the Sphinx cuddling the
sacred cat. She addresses him, we are told
as odd gentleman.
Mr. Rudyard Kipllng tells amusing story
at his own expense. During his stay in VIII
shire one summer he met little Dorothy Drew.
Mr. Gladstone's granddaughter, and being very
fond of children, took her in the grounds ana
told her stories. After time Mrs. Drew fear
ing that Mr.. Kiplng must be tired OF the chlIu,
called her. and said Now. Dorothy, nope
Won have not been wearying Mr.. Kipling." ION.
not a bit. mother" replied the small celebrity
"but he has been wearyinS me-
Mr. Kipling's delightful locomotive sketch
"GO7 reminds 1.-The Cane Tines that when
| the author was last at the Cape he amused him
self after his fashion. and one fashion was rld-
ing engines. He got permit 10 play WIN
the locomotives Of the Cape government Kali
ways and used II freely. An englne-drlVer re-
porting himself not up to time one trip at Beau
fort West, explained that it was because one
OF these literary swes" had boarded him ana
insisted on running the engine. He really does
know something about it," certain superin-
tendent admitted with mild surprise The re-
suit OF studies such as these is seen, 1t Is sug
gested in the technical engine dialect talked
by engine No. OO7 in the story above mentioned
An old schoolmate Of Kipling writes In The
St Jamess Gazette some entertaining reminis-
cences Of the authors early days. which show
that there really were Stalky. McTurk and
Beetle Kipling, however, was not called
Beetle" but Gigs" in reference, of course, to
his particularly large spectacles; and II was
by this name that he was continually adJured
by his comrades to tell them stories in the dor
mitory at night. During these seven or eight
years of school life this writer declares Gigs
did not appear to his school fellows as prodi-
gy I'm the first place. he was always extreme
ly nearsighted. which was, perhaps the reason
for his not taking any very keen interest In
either field sports or atheticS-a proficiency
that almost alone makes English boy hero
In the sight Of his school-fellows. On the other
hand Kipling was not by any means sweat
He not always to be seen porting over his
books He was seldom at the top of his class.
though to be never at the bottom. He did
not take all the prizes that came in his way.
and he was not even in due course promoted To
the office Of sub project although when he left
the college I'm 1882 he carried with him the
weIl-earned first prize in English literature.
Only he dill seem to be able to solve problem
in ten minutes over which another boy might
have labored for hour. He chiefly
noticeable in hts school-fellows' eyes for keen
wit and n flow OF langua ye that would only be
suppressed by depriving him Of his spectacles."
Mr. Cecil Rhodess literary tastes are thus de-
scribed Reads chiefly the classics. of which
he has a fine collection. with a separate library
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