New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-16


publish.
1t is proposed to erect in one or inc Pu unr;o
souares OF Geneva a statue to Henri Freezer"
hmio the author OF the journal ihtlthe'
Subscriptions have been asked for.
81 ,yrote of the American Revolution" said Sir
George Treveyan. in speech TO t ! norseo'r
Authors Club the other evening. because L
loved to write about it-bccause IL was an I'M
mcnse privilege to spend the mornings Oh wen n,
after week and month after month IN .iie 'loa.
fascinating and pleasing epoch when Is ko"n
10 me | know no more interesting epoch imam
the last half of the eighteenth century. 1herc
have been greater and more august periouS' pu'
that the most interesting wnen nu
nature and especially English human nature.
was at it's strongest and certainly not d. ~. ,.o
worst Think of the men who moved across , s"u
stage then-what thorough Ensnsnnheh -
,ycra an whichever side of the Atlantic tney
liyed-Johnson. Garrick, GlDDon, behJh'n''
Franklin. John Wesley. Arthur Young hes,
ODDS and Goldsmith And then you come "
public men-Washington. John Adams. Ednuhu
Burke and Charles Fox. They were race vi
giants. The English they wrote-and Ehsisn
has been written before and since, out never
more yigOrousiy-the heart they threw ihto
their work whether political or military. their
debates were of reasonable length uauBhteiI.
their Parliamentary style was as plain speaking
as ever plain speaking was, their very Diut
books were ineligible and readable. and their
very Kings Speeches-for George III knew now
to speak out as an Englishman-the very hing
SppecheS
getty what they meant. (Hear' HearD Iheir
battles were not encounters on strategic lines oil
immense hordes Of mercenares; they were the
encounters of stout fellows who knew wnht tiiey
were fighting for, and never forgot that they
were citizens.
The works Of John Cover are in process or
editing by Mr. c. c. Macauay. The oxford
University Press will publish the four volumes
Mr. John Morley is said to be working steadily
at his Gladstone biography, and is very happy
at this task
new edition of Dean Plumptre's transla-
ton of Dante is To be brought out Immediately.
1t will take the form OF five pocket volumes
The translation preserves the triple rhyme OF
the original
The chief topic OF conversation in Johannes
burg Of late has been, according to a CORE
spondent of The London Morning Post the
health of Rudyard Kipling. Il overheard "a
significant conversation the other day at
Eandsfontein Station. man had Just come
out from town and was met by friend
Brought the fourth STAR" asked the friend.
Yes was the answer. Anything in it, only
the latest bulletin How is he? A little bet
ter Thank God Constantly | have been
rung up on the telephone by mine managers and
secretaries Of my acquantance-not an uncom-
mon proceeding when the market is good-but
always in the last few days the first question
has been not 'How's the market but How's
klplnEy The other day j was driving Win Il
manager. and we had to pass the house of ar
other manager. Seeing that were from the
direction Of town. he rushed out and asked
Amy fresh news Of Kipling? Another manager
told me that every night when the day shift
quit work in the rhine or m.ore men would
come up to his stoep and ask, How is he?
There was no need to define the he a small
girl OF my acquaintance overheard a conversa-
tlon on the subject unobserved. and startled
the company by rem lrking: Then shall pray
God to take Mr.. KRUGER and give us Mr. Kip
ling back again
1.-THE first authentic news of his recovery was
tclegraphed by w. Y. Campbell. and if some
great battle had been won the general joy could
not have been greater. Some of those who had
met him at that cventful dinner at the Rand
club. when Mr. Kipling delivered a speech leav-
ing moral effect which can still be Observed.
and having a simple and sincere eloqGence
which can never be forgotten by those who
heard it, have telegraphed their congratulations
Oh his recovery. Never in his whole life did Mr.
Kpng win so many hearts as he did here. and
If any literary influence prevails in Johannes
burg ii is his. In the churches yesterday al
most universal thanksgivings were offered to
the Almighty for his recovery. II is a singular
fact that the leading Uitlander journal would
probably have been for some days without any
biography beyond what is provided by Men or
the Times or the ordinary sketch Of his life n
he had died More than one man who can
write was approached on the subject. several
Of them being men who have watched Mr.. Kip
Iings career from the first. The answer was
invariably: No can't; later on / may be able
to say something. but for Gods sake don't ASK
me now That is how we think Of Rudyard
Kpng in johannesburg.
Noting that VI. Zoas iity-ninth birthday oc-
CURED on April >, THE St James's Gazette"
adds: This is about the time of year that NJ
Zoas annual volume arrives. The next book
due is F6condite.' the first piece in new te-
tralogy Of which the succeeding numbers are
to be Travail 'V6rite and Justice the heroes
being the four sons. named respectively Mat
thew. Mark Luke and John. Of the Able Fro
ment the hero of the preceding trilogy. Some
thing also has been said of a history TO he