New-York tribune., 1899-07-15


Co.. is to be life of Salmon P. Chase written
by Professor A. B. Hart of Harvard.
American playgoers who witnessed the per-
formance Of Hauptmann's "Sunken Bell III
this city at the German theatre, VIII proodp'y
be interested in reading one of the princlpai
passages as rendered into English. FROM
"Blackwood's" we take this excellent version
Of part Of Heinrichs speech TO the representa-
tive Of the Church:
who pays me for my work? priest sood
Does bliss crave blessing? Shall the crown be
crowned? ,,,
For though you call my WORK. as nave eaiieu
II,
4 chime of bells yet is II such chime
AS never belfry tower Of minister yet
Contained. and in the crashing of its peal
Echoes the thunder Of the earliest spring,
Which drove across the burrows Ike name. L.
1t sings a song forgotten and forlorn.
Fresh drawn from crystal depths of faery
Telling of homely things. and children's love,
Known unto ALL but never heard before
And as 1t sinks, in sweet. consuming strains
Like plaintive nightingale or Laughing hing doves
1t breaks the ice in every human heart,
And hate and scorn. and rage, and pain, ana
grief,
Melt into burning. burning, burning tears"
The cabled extracts from Mr.. Kipling's letter
with Messrs. G.. P. Putnam's Sons. are an
notated by the latter in circular just pub
| lished To the statement that a settlement
could have been made at any time between
March 18th and April ODD, II the publishers had
desired. letter is opposed from Putnams law
yer TO Kipling's lawyer, concluding as follows:
! I'VE do not care to limit our concessions to
| Mr. Kipling's claims to strictly legal one. and
are quite willing to have the case considered
from the broadest possible view Of fair dealing
between authors and booksellers" 1t is stated
that ito this there was no response, until the
/ notice of suit. April ODD" The charge that the
/ edition causing all the trouble was incomplete,
but offered to the public as complete, the
Messrs. Putnam answer with the statement
! that "the set contained all of Mr.. Kipling's
writings that had been published In book form
under his authorization. 1t did not contain out
of India American Notes. city Of Dreadful
Night and some other works which we under
stood Mr.. Kiplng did not wish preserved. The
set as 1t stood was more complete than any
other that had been offered for sale"
Touching the authors objections in regard to
the details Of the form in which the edition
was published, the publishers reply that the
sets were bound In variety Of styles Just
fifteen sets and no more were put up In buck
ram with the elephants head and 1t has been
shown that neither was the elephants head In
any way an imitation Of the cameo on the Out
ward Bound edition, nor was the general ap-
pearance of the binding in any sense an m-
tation Of the binding Of the Outward Bound
edition." Criticism Of the character Of the text
printed In the Putnam edition is answered In
! the circular by detailed description OF the
sources from which all the volumes were drawn.
Appropriation Of copyright material for use in
tpAa &c Nhar
made. THE index" say the publishers. was
purely and simply general index to the stories
and poems, and index Of the first lines Of
! mems We do not think II has ever before been
claimed that the printing of titles in this way
! constituted an infringement of copyright" Re
plying TO the allegation of having taken ad-
| vantage of the public interest In Mr. Kipling s
| Illness the publishers say The sets originally
| made up were put in hand In the early fall, and
the later ones were started some time before
Mr. Kipling's illness-namely, in early January
AS there was delay in securing the sheets OF
certain Of the books which the publishers were
reprinting the books were not ready for sale
until the middle Of March"
Herbert s. Stone G. Co. publish to-day Charles
Egbert Craddocks new book, THE Bushwhack-
ers and Other Stories
Mr.. Moncure Conway having dedicated book
to his brother Omarites Of the Omar Club" ar
irreverent commentator wakes scornful over
the word "Omarites" and says It suggests thai
those whose devotion to the Persian poet bas
taken an ucutc form should bo described q,
victims Of "Omar!tia." That in a good word
fitting perfectly most obnoxious disease.
.ar Frederic Harrison. In his recent address
or Lamb and Keats. dwet with force on th'
memorable lesson taught by tho l.ves Of thes'
Two men. Here was Lamb" said ha. "a mar
born In the class OF office servants In tho Tenn
Pile, educated In the Blueeeat school, where h
never reached the upper class, chained AZ !
subordinate eieHk In public efiiee, never muei
sheve iRdaeHssi afflicted with terrible 10
aasstis calamity. and yet to-day recognized al