New-York tribune., 1900-03-04

were Virgil and Matthew Arnold. Like most
silent men he was strong willed, not to say OBJ
stinate; witness his decades of failure in Fruit
Raising
he cultivated the thankless muse, not on little
oats but on few grapes and pears. Poems by
Melanter, Frinsia, the almost perfect tralsla a1l
tion of the Georges, all fell very nearly stone
dead. His ancestors and most of his more I'm,
mediate male relatives We're clergy, and he haG
q boundleSS respect for clergyman or the Sooo
old sort He did rot believe in what he called
the modern craze for education. and he hated
with his whole soul anything approaching the
rev woman Tennis hockey and bicycles for
women We're to him anathema. The late fro1es-
scr Owen one of his closest friends In
America he was held in high esteem. His books
were pirated and read there by the thousands
and in that he was a fellow sufferer with Car
lyle and Rushin, hut neither Of them probably
received offer Of marriage from America lie
held the Christian faith humbly, with some
honest doubt 1t is not SO much what L be,
lieve what wish to beIeVe-but he dleu
and was buried in it,"
NJ. Pierre Lott has written a series Of thirty
articles describing his recent travels in India,
and the Paris Figaro" will begin to publish
them next month.
: The late Richard Hovey had been at work
fppon a biography of Edgar Allan Poe, which is
probably left in ali unfinished state
In a book about Yorkshire lately published in
london there some chapters treating OF
Haworth and the Brontes and therein may be
found an old gamekeepers "reminiscences of Char
Iotte-'little Charlotte o the Parsonage, as
weakly. understood piece of goods as iver ~, l
Clapped cen on. Her write printed books? III
niver believe it." And then his complaint
against the tourists: They nun run here, and
they mum run there. peeping and prylnS fright-
ening the grouse, stepping into the nests, likely
at breeding time. Nay, cannot thoyle it; . .
me sight O. worry, an if that's what comes o
making printed books, I'd boil my kettle over
tn lot on 'em, that l wod
Mr. Kiplings new animal stories finished,
and are to be published in-"The Ladies Home
Journal" They deal with the wild creatures OF
India South America and Australia.
The introduction to the new edition of "Gulli-
Ver's Travels" brought out in London by Bell.
notes that one of the most prominent Oh tne
sources to which Swift was indebted for ma
terial the Comic History of states ana
Empires of the Sun and Moon, written py
Cyrano de Bergerac, the memory of whose ex-
ploits. not to speak of his historically famous
nose, has been recently 50 ViVidly recalled by
Nj. De Rostands comedy.
1t is hinted that DR. Conan Doyle means to
tighten the toll of hospital work in South Africa
with the writing of novel based on his ex-
perences there.
We are told that an interesting Byron manu-
script is to be sold in London next month 1t
varies in many ways from the printed version
which was published under the title OF Wind
sor Poetcs" 1t reads thus;
"Famed for their civil and domestic quarres
See heartless Henry lies by headeSs Charles,
Between them stands another sceptred thing,
1t lives it reigns-'Aye. every inch king
Charles to his peOple-Henry to his Wife,
In him the double tyrant starts to Life,
Justice and death have mixed their dust in vain,
The royal vampires join and rise again.
What now can tombS avail-since these diSgOrge
The blood and dirt of both to mould Il George
The subject OF the poem says English
commentator is, OF course. an incident Of his
tory-the finding Of the coffin of King Charles
at Windsor in 1913. Alterations We're being
ried out under st. Georges Chapel when
aperture accidentally made in wall. This
showed vault containing not only the collins
Of Henry VIII and Queen Jane Seymour. but
third. on 1t there found the inscription
'King Charles 164S." and direct examination
left n doubt that the remains inside
those Of the beheaded King. The whole story
IS told in the life of Sir Henry Halford, the
physician Of the Prince Regent aftcrward
George ~.
The suppressed portions OF "Iavcngro" have
The many mistakes in the printed version found
by direct reference to his manuscript have been
corrected in this edition.
TIE BOLD BUCCANFER
BY THE LATE GRANT ALLEN.
STwas a bold buccancer, and he strode the street