New-York tribune., 1900-10-01
LITERARY NOTES.

ments SHOW that the remains of the poet were
taken from the Ravenna church and deposited
secretly in the outer wall of the chapel of Brac-
cioforte where they were discovered in 1865.
Enrico Pazzi the sculptor. had for several years
the iron containing the ashes Of the poet.
but he consented to hand over his treasure to
the city Of Florence. which was Dantes birth
place.
The Life Romantic" is to be the title. are
informed, Of Mr. Richard lie Gaiennes next
novel. There is undoubtedly public for this
writer's fiction. publishers wouldn't issue it.
but II is difficult to form idea of the intellect
that can find good provend" in this stuff. The
''Book-Bills of Narcissus" is another matter
We learn from The Atheneum." of London,
that the elaborate study of the Coptc nation
and their history published little time
ago, under the title of The Story of the Church
Of Egypt" by Mrs Butcher. the wife of dean
well known in Cairo society, has received an un-
usual compliment. 1t is in course of being trans
lated into Arabic and the first volume has al
ready appeared The author of the translation
is a Mr.. Alexander Effendi Theodorus. clerk
in the Ministry of the Interior, and the ex-
penses are borne by the editor and proprietor of
the ''Masr. an Arabic newspaper>of wide circu-
lation. 1t is a great undertaking for op
pressed community like the Copts. and marks
advance in the Oriental attitude toward
Western literature and research
Happy Herbert spencer-doubly happy in
knowing himself so! He has just written in re-
sponse to q congratulation upon the completion
Of his System OF Synthetic Philosophy MANY
who have spent their lives in the development
Of their ideas have not had the satisfaction of
meeting with recognition; only after their
deaths have their ideas been appreciated. l
have been more fortunste and having lived long
~ i1red
long enough to see that it has not been without
fits effect"
In the new Cthird) instalment Of the Harley
Papers" there is a letter written by Humphrey
Wanley. the librarian of the Harleian Library.
which forms ominous comment on the fashion
in which book collectors grabbed treasures IN
the last century. Wanley, it is said. kept his
eyes open. and extended the Earl of Oxford's
collection by purchases which would now be
impossible. He held no place sacred. not even
a college library, and did not scruple to bid for
any book that would add distinction to his
patrons collection. For example he writes to
Lord Harley Oxford's
Il have a great mind that you should have
the fine Bible you at st. johns College
Cambridge among their MSS. and have spoken
70 Mr.. B. about IT, who will willingly serve you
therein. 1t is by much the finest book of the
English nation Of its kind and but
that dare in the least to enter into competition
with 1t. and that not to be had for any money
whatever The college know not when. OF
whom, nor how they by it; which will
make for you"
The last complete life of Richardson, author
OF "Clarissa Harlowe" was the work of a woman,
Mrs. Barbauld. It published in 1904
new life Of the novelist. also by a woman, is
now in course Of preparation. The writer. Miss
for her work She has derived 1t not only from
Richardson's unpublished letters in the Forster
collection. but also from other contemporary
sources.
1t was at Fulham that Richardson lived for
fifteen years and in a. Just published history
of that London suburbs is quoted anecdote
told by Sir Richard Phillips, illustrative Of the
difficulties encountered by even early cleaners
Of personal items" Wishing to make that
this was the novelists house. Sir Richard put
some questions 10 aged widow who kept
public house near the corner Of North End Lane
where she had lived about fifty years "She re-
membered his person, and described him as a
round, short gentleman. who. most days, passed
her door, and she said she used to serve his
family with beer. He used to live and carry
on his business. said I, in Salisbury Square
AS to that, said she. I know nothing for I
never in London. Never in Londoni'
said I; and in health. and the free use Of your
limbs? No replied the woman I had no
business there. and had enough to do at home
We'll. then. I observed, you know your own
neighborhood the better. Which was the house
Of Mr. Richardson in the lane? I don't know
she replied. I cm I told you no traveller
never was up the lane. I only know he did
live somewhere up the lane Well said L do
you go to church? No said she, I never have
time On Sundays our house is always full. l
never at Fulham Church but once, and
that was when 1 was married and many people
say that was once too often, though my hus-
band was as good man as ever broke bread
God rest his soul" -
Booth Harrington the author OF Monsieur
Beaucaire," Of which Mcclure, Phillips & Co.
with the great Booth family of actors. from
which he named.
There ought to be some new and interesting
data the life Of the English gypsies-even af-
ter all the brilliant studies Of them that have
been made heretofore in Crawford's "Autobi-
ography OF a Tramp" that Longmans, Green &.
CO. will publish next week. In it the author
wandering folk not the tramps as we know
them in this country. but the veritable gypsies
OF Great Britain.
At the last moment Messrs Henry Holt & Co.
have had 10 change the title Of Miss Marion
Bowers novel THE Puppet Show" to John
Thisselton," since it appears that novel by the
former title had already been published by
Leonidas westervelt
The veteran Miss Braddon has not lost her