New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-09

Tho forthcoming Autographs Edition OF
Mark Twain's writings In twenty wv tntro-
will have many illustrations ana an into
durtion by Mr. Brander Matthews, CHASING
Twain with Ceryantes.
Mr.. Richard lie Gallienne. In his new hoD on
young Lives introduces hlnlSeH ..t pru
other writer as easily recOgnized' IeS' 49,
there entered tall young man WIN Ioi,s
mir face curtained on each side with enormous
masses Of black hair-like SIP OF tne y'u"s
moon gIimmering through pine wood' 70 -
AT the same moment there entered as ~ ~
design his very antthcsis, snort nrHy IN w -,
clerkly fellow with a head like Dinidrd ,D''l ~
need of n shave, Dig Drown HluS'" ~
enormous spectacleS. , 4. .ho
That said the publisher. referring to the
rnoon-in- the pine-woOd young man, - "u.
Young apostle Of sentiment our new man vi
SooIino Tho hest hated man we have; ana the
other is our young apostle of blood lie IS al
for muscle and brutality-an1 he makes Ill me
money 1t is one of our many tasi'I we, NV
now TO sing Britain and Brutality 5ut ily
irnpression Is that our young man OF leeiihs
will have his day-though he VIII have To "ait
for it, He would hasten it If he would cut M, ms
hair. but that ne SAYS he will never do HIS
hair is his battIe-cry; and hair. too. ne says Is
a Off Well he enjoys himself-and loves
fight though you mightnt think IL 70 look DIT
him"
Poor Mrs. Ethel Lynn Beers is not suffered
even in death to retain the credit OF her IA
NOUS poem, All quiet AlOnS inc IDtO"4e''
Major Lamar FOntaine, who claims or t0r
whom is claimed by admirers-the authorship
Of the poem may possibly have written another
with a similar title; but it is not the piece OF
verse which all America knows.
or the late Francis Turner Palgrave THE
Saturday Review" justly says that he was
constitutionally incapacitated from discovery,
that he had no faith in anything to which he
had not all his life been accustomed This IS
in reasonable explanation of the failure Of the
second series of The Golden Treasury. HIS
tastes in 1891" adds THE Saturday were eX-
actly what they had been in 1861. For the last
thirty years of his life not one new star swept
into his ken. The movements Of literature ana
art were unobserved by him. or observed only
with a shud1er of reprobation To the close OF
Pagraves life as a critic Swinburne is dan
geIous young man. and Leighton must be very
careful not to do rash things. That since Leigh
ton and Swinburne the world had possessed any
aesthetic history never dawned upon PagraVeS
intelligence. In consequence more antlquated,
a more fossil appearance than he presented at
oxford during the years Of his prOfessorship
could hardly be conceived. He lectured there,
like the wind in hollow tree, with voice
pure. indeed, and exqusitely accomplished but
entirely out of sympathy with the age. 1t is
difficult TO how he continue to attract
attention as the world and life sweep on. ana
yet if the compiler of the original Golden Treas
ury' is forgotten, an injustice will be done to a
man who permanently added to the intellectual
and imaginative well-being Of the race. Not as
a poet. hardly as a critic can PalgraVe nope 10
h. ought to remain in memory as our best an
biologist"
new volume Of stories. legendary. psyche
logical and the like. is announced by the writer
known as Miss Fiona Macleod" The book is
to be called The Dominion Of Dreams
A great deal Of poetry. mostly very bad, has
been written about Mr.. Kipling's illness-and |
this Is certainly good test Of popular success.
In England sympathizing versifers went to the
length of writing memorial odes i'm anticipation
Of the authors end. neat little parody on
"Bobs" came from the pen Of j. w. II. c., and
ran thus:
"Nay-we couldn't let i'm go
Little KiDs,
Cos we found we loved i'm so.
Our Kips:
f. has suffered grief and pain
'Nuff to turn a feers brain;
But 'e's getting well again
Amt yer. Kips?'
Miss Florence Marryat. the novelist-nOw an