New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-15

| Of urban nomads the residents OF apartment
| houses.
| Tn .rJnn,ncotts'' we find fragment or hith-
| erto unpublished history which we scarcely know
whether TO call pathetic or funny. II is secret
| dispatch sent IN 1919 by the Spanish agent III
| New-Orleans to King Ferdinand VII. MI Lea
| who writes a brief introduction to the document
| considers II 10 explain why the treaty negotiated
| for the Florida purchase was Kept suspehueu
| for sly months awaiting Ferdinands signature
His CORRESPONDENT In New-Orleans deplored the
| cession Of the Peninsula. The Americans are
| bankars merchants tailors and shoemakers, he
says without patriotism or any national charac-
| TOR The States have no military strength what
| ever he declares and he urges the King 10 re-
fuse all overtures looking to the transferrence OF
Florida saving: THE Kingdom OF Mexico ana
tho Island of Cuba possess vast resources. sum-
Giant IN assure your glory without sacrihclng
tho Peninsula With a slight change In your
farm, NJ colonial government you have In Mexico
| end Cuba resources enough not only TO restrain
| the pretensions of the Anglo-Americans out
also TO carry the terror Of your arms TO the very
CAPITOL itself in Washington. The day in when
! Your Majesty will delegate your power In these
! regions TO worthy and honorable persons the
| American pride will tremble at sight or your
! victorious standards Oh, My Lord. do not af1ix
| your signature to that treaty" The whole DIS
patch which fills about six pages, Is extremely
curious and interesting. The complete novel IN
| "Lippincott's' this month is The Livery OF
| Honor" by Mark Lee Luther.
There is sound sense in Booker Washingtons
| article THE Case Of the Negro" which opens
the November Atlantic" Mr. Washington does
| not agree with those who would attempt to
| tighten the pressure Of the negro problem In
! the South by having the emigrate more or
! less to the North. "In the future" he says,
1--WE want to impress upon the negro, more than
we have done in the past the importance OF
| identifying himself closely with the inter
! ests Of the South; Of making himself part OF the
! South and at home in it," OF course. this does
! not dispose Of the racial antipathies which nave
| played so large part in the development or the
negro question in the South. but Mr. Washing
ton is certainly persuasive when he goes on TO
state that that problem will be stripped of many
| Of its most perplexing elements If more is done
| to educate the Southern negro in farming, dairy
| ing and stock raising horticulture, and all the
various phases of agricultural labor. Back OF
all those things which Mr.. Washington dis
cusses lie the racial difficulties to which we
have already alluded. the human nature so hard
| to change by even the most eloquent appeals
But every article like this one SO reasonable
and so sympathetic. must be of sterling service
in fastening the approach Of satisfactory
solution.
| We have turned with keen interest to the
new letters of Turgenieff only to be. compare
lively speaking. disappointed. There is not
enough that Is new or intrinscally interesting
in the bundle. Still will be thankful for
the little that is good for the illustrations OF
| he fan diSDOSitiOp
quently to undervalue the work of some Of his
countrymen. and for the few piquant notes Of
| criticism. II do not ascribe any importance"
he says Ito Theophile Gautier as poet" And
in the same letter. abiding to some new pieces
Of journalism by Victor Hugo he observes: Il
regret that | do not possess sufficient powers
of expression to tell TO what degree despise
these articles and the whole of his prose In
general" In letter Sarah Bernhard too
long to quote intact, he says that she has moth
ing natural about her, no artistic temperament
whatever, and adds: Her gait is that Of a hen;
she has no play of features; the movements
of her hands are purposey angular in order TO
be piquant; the whole thing reeks Of the boule-
wards Of Figaro and of patchoun"
The opposite things in "McClures" are Kip
ling's verses on the Transvaal crisis The
career based on conversations with the actor
He tells capital tale of bad attack of stage
fright he suffered in his early years. Il man
aged" he says, without any preparation, to
create sensation in the company The play
was The Winters Tale The potential des-
TIMES Of the part Of Cleomenes were on that oc-
casion intrusted to myself ! made by entrance
| finely, and they waited for my speech. I'm
fortunately. it had gone. 1t had gone from me
as absolutely as if it had never existed. Ny
tongue was parayzed, and horror invaded me
With tremendous effort l cried out fercely
Come to the market place. and 1 will tell you
further" Then l dashed into the wings. YOU
must understand that the line pure i'm.
promptu. and had nothing to do with the play
as the characters had nothing 10 do with any
market place. In fact, 1 might call this my frs
gag When order restored, the play wa:
resumed, but I trying to sink through the
floor Of my dressing room"
, There is so much good text in THE Pal
I Mall" that 1t seems almost unfair to speal
? first of the pictures yet compelled t
: do so by the really striking character of the
r latter They frequently have the serious his
I torcal value which attaches, for example, t
4 | those given in the article this month on "Th'
d | Ladies Of Langollen" those two quaint anC
d delightful figures in Britans minor social an
> nails and they are, again and again. OF tn
= highest artistic character. Mr.. Raven Hill Il
n doing better work than he ever did before II
IS his sketches for Mrs. Steels serial THE Host
of the Lord" Mr. William Archer the Englisl
le dramatic critic, publishes in this number tn
a first Of three articles on the contemporar
II American stage. There is some interesin
"A material in the illustrated article foreig
n newspapers contributed by Mr.. George A. Wade
r. President Hadley's contribution to the serie
- OF papers on modern education in THE Cosmc
politan" appears this month. His views ar
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