New-York tribune., 1899-07-09

deed what Il relief for an EnShshnlan WI" 'i'
English ear; but a Frenchman would inVert
the order Of the quotations and say the sd'"c
thing
81 admit that Shakespeare is a moro sugges
tive poet than Racine; but surely TINS is no.
because French is a less suggestive language
than English: but because Shakespeares $ genius
and ideas were the more mysterious Cii tnc
ether hand the poetry Of Nill0n Ronsard' Nlcl"l
Hugo Musset Baudelaire ard Verialne Is To me
every bit as suggestive as that Of Sir Phiilp
Sidney. John DOnne. Wordsworth hea's'
TennysOn and Mr.. Swinburne. heard Ter
nan say. How poor your Engilsh iaheuase 'i5'
have to say Home" instead Of "Mutttr you
are reduced TO saying Mother. Ugh; MS his
seems to to put the matter in nutSnell' p %,
perhaps a still better example is the oid Tuhch
story of the little girl who said to her nurse.
And you must know. Parker. that IN fialI,'
they say Wee" for yes" La! MISS anSwereu
the nurse. now patry' This Is pteciSsy III,
same sentiment that expressed by Max d
sentiment against which wish to protest
Mr. Gilbert Parker has written six short
stories all dealing with the Anglo gyptah ne ilH
Of to-day. They will be published III Inc Id'I
Mall Magazine"
The best thing in Mr. Robert Buchanan's new
volume of verse-as a whole n grievously dis-
amounting performance-is this little "proem
with which it opens
An, the dream. the fancy!
No power. no necromancy
Peoples Heavens thrones again or stlrs the
poet throng!
Nought can bring unto me
You who loved and knew me,
The boys belief. the morning red. the May-time
and the son.
Faint,y up above me
Winter bells ring warning
Ave mel the spring. when we were young, Al
the golden gates Of morning..
Mr. Maurice Thompson is writing a romance.
partly historical of life in the Wabash Val
ley. He looks forward TO making 1t his most
important piece Of fiction.
Mr.. W J. Stillman's just-published book on on
Signor Crispis career is somewhat spoiled.
The Pail Mall Gazette" says by the terrible
English in which it is written" That journal
adds that long residence in Rome seems 10
have rusted his familiarity with his own
tongue"
The forthcoming third volume Of the Byron
Letters will contain a considerable quantity ot
correspondence which has not hitherto been
nublished Included in this correspondence are
several letters addressed by the poet 10 Miss
Milbanke the girl who was to become Lazy
Byron
It will he remembered that in April the only
copy then known II MI Kiping's "Schoolboy
Lyrics" was sold at auction in London at the
remarkable price OF yG.D Two more copies
have now turned uD. and we shall soon see If
that price can be rlValled.
Professor william James will deliver in Janu-
arv his first discourse clifford lecturer at the
University Of Edinburgh.
Mr. Winston Churchilrs novel "Richard Car
vel" is now in its fifth edition; twenty thousand
copies Of the book. 1t IS said. have been sofa
thus far. OCdly enough not one copy the pun
fishers declare has been ordered from st. LOUIS.
the birthplace of the author.
The Millais biography will he ready in Sep
tember "A large part Of it being already III type.
There will be included in it great deal OF IN
teresting matter about the Pre-Raphaellte
Brotherhood. and it has many letters written by
famous people.
THE Scwanee Review edited by that clever
Southern writer Professor w. Z. Trent is to
be published hereafter by Longmans. Green
& CO.
Mr.. James schoucr is finishing the sixth and
last volume of his History Of the United
states" 1t deals with the period Of the Civil
War and Lincoln's Administration. 1t IS to be
published in the autumn.
Mr. swinburne sends to a London hospital
bazaar souvenir little fantasy AT Dogs
Grave:
TO lie 4 ioS lt'ilN pllif NtH I'lb lpl NiiiHc.
Not all men 50 beloved md mourned shall lie
As many Of these whose time untimely came
To die.
His years were full. his years were joyous; why
Must love be sorrow when his gracious name
Recalls his lovely life Of limb and eye?
II aught " blamecss life on earth may claim
Life higher than death. though deaths dark
wave rise high,
Such life this among US never came
TO die"