The record-union., 1899-09-17


Messrs. Macmillan in November. His
brother, Louis Zangwill known in the
literary world as ~ r. is engaged
on long novel. Louis Zangwill is an
ardent student of psychology and a
warm admirer of Professor William
James of Harvard, whose talks to
Teachers on Psychology was recently
published. One day Louis Zangwill OBJ
served the announcement-"I Interview
with William jameson the bill of a
London society paper and made haste
to secure a copy. Imagine his dis
gust when he discovered that the will
liam James described was a gentle
man whose title to distinction is that
he entertains the Prince of Wales, and
not ''the psychologist who writes like
a novelist
Referring to the fact that w. l..
Courtney is writing a monograph on
Thomas Hardy the London Morning
Post" observes that 1.-The relation of the
author to the subject is not without
piquancy, seeing that Mr. Courtney
was one of those who collaborated in
that remarkable selection of The Best
Hundred Novels wherein the name Of
Mr.. Hardy was, in a sense, so conspic-
uous." 1t was conspicuous by it's alb
sence.
1t is reported that there is much fresh
material in THE Life of Charles Dick
ens'' upon which Thomas Wright of
Olney has been working for several
years, and which he has now finished.
Prominence, it is said, is given to many
incidents of Dickens early days, re-
garding which Forster was totally ig
norant
The London Academy" asks, "Is an
other sign of the general relaxation OF
manners to be seen in the saleroom?'
There every now and then, it adds, fare
put to public auction private letters
private, not necessarily secret, but pri-
vate in the sense of being intimate and
domestic in their interest. Letters that
congratulate on a birth or a. marriage,
or that condole on a death, are some
times sold as autographs for a few
shillings by those closely related to the
men and women whom the letters
name. Poverty, of course, may some
to the dictates of an instructive natural
piety. That, however, can haroly be
the excuse where the. private papers
sold belong to a brother-in-law of Lord
Salisbury, an uncle of Lord Gran
bourne, of Lady Selborne, and of both
the Balfours.'
A new translation of the Arabian
Nights Tales" from what is held to be
the best Arabic version-that of Boulak
lis in course of preparation in France.
The translator is De Mardrus, a. highly
educated young physician of Marseilles.
He says of himself: 'I am a true son
of the city of Cairo, where my father
and grandfather were born. And even
for nurse beginning of the Arabian
Nights Tales in my childish EYED had
a pure -bIooded, amber-hued Egyptian,
whose finger tips were darkened with
henna, and who wore a collar of tur-
quoises round her neck to avert the
evil eye, and silver bracelets on her
ankles to conjure the witchcrafts of the
terrible Ear" DR.. Mardrus has lived
much in Arabia, but received his edu-
cation in France. The publication of
his translation will occupy a period of
five years, three volumes a year being
given to the public.
Two new daily papers are shortly to
be established in London. one by Pear
sons as rival to the DAILY Mall
which has been an. enormous success,
the other a Nonconformist journal.
The latter enterprise is regarded as a
doubtful one, since there are already
two papers Of this class-the Daily
News and the Daily Chronicle
Mr.. Kipling finds England hardly
safer retreat from the inconveiences Of
publicity than was America. w. L. AL
den writes Of him as follows in the
New York Times: Mr. Kipling has
returned to his home at rockingham.
He is said TO be looking much better
than it was feared he would look. Per-
haps the sea voyage has done him
much good He was compelled to steal
away from London in order to avoid
being mobbed at the station by his in
Vulnerable admirers. fact which goes
some way to indicate his enormous pop
ularity. Beyond all question he is to-
day the most popular man in England
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Harold Frederic's posthumous novel,
''The Market Place. is having tre
mendous success in London. "It is an
instance Of the irony of fate" says w.
L. Alden in the New York Times
For twenty years or so poor Frederic
labored to become a successful novelist.
and when, after half a dozen failures
that is to say, financial failures he
finally made a brilliant success he sud
denly died. And now after his death
comes the still greater success of The.
Market Place" OF another American
Mr.. Alden writes: Because Lady Ran
dolph Churchill happens to have title,
her appearance as the conductor of a
review is treated as if it were the mere
fad of a rich woman with plenty of
time on her hands. Those who know
her assert that she is a woman of un-
usual celeverness, and that her review
viii be far from being the amateur pub
lication which many people assume
that it is. She is certainly entitled to
fair play, and most of all from Ameri-
cans, for in spite of her marriage she
is and always will be an American"
A Fight With a Jaguar.
The upsetting of a jaguar's cage up
set all Hampstead, L. l., recently, and