New-York tribune., 1900-08-12

her diaries now on the eve of publication These
diaries hidden away, we are told, by
relative and they are in strain as morbid as
those first published. A romantic correspond
ence anonymous on the lady's parD between
Marie and the novelist, Guy de Maupassant Is
to be included in the book.
A COPY of the first edition of The Pickwick
Pauers" in the original parts. with wrappers
and with the illustrations by Seymour and PhiZ.
has just brought $40 at auction in England
At the same sale 4 gray felt hat and a collar.
once worn by Charles Dickens, brought a Htlle
more than Sl5.
fourth edition of the Letters Of Robert
Louis stevenson" will be brought out in
London.
Maine has given birth to many clever writer's,
and is rife with more less authentic anec-
dotes of the early days of these authors OF
Harriet Prescott (Mrs. Spofford), whose AT
lantic" stories had a notable vogue, II is remem-
bered that occasion Hope was given
her class as a subject on which to write poem
What was the surprise of teacher ana class,
mates alike when she appeared with large ron
of manuscript and proceeded to read lengthy
metrical narrative, in which personified Hope
was carried through all the stages from lhlaHcS
to old age, each period being described in a
separate canto!
Secretary of the Navy, has written for NC
Clure's Magazine" an account of the ta1 l4 OF
Richmond and of the succeeding events ending
with the capture OF Jeff Davis.
Dorothea Gerard's forthcoming novel bears
the suggestive title of THE Conquest OF Lon
DON" Mr. Hichens calls his new book Tongues
OF Conscience"
Mr. Hall Gaines new novel. THE Eternal
City" has been in process OF construction ior
about three years. The idea of the story is de-
scribed startling and the hero is largely
drawn from real life The love story or the book
is the chief thing in it.
Certain words and expressions in Mrs.
pia OaW Robert
turbed the reviewers, and the lady is cOntem-
plating a reply to their criticisms. Her little
boy being i'll, this reply has been postponed
The London Chronicle" writes concerning one
of these criticisms:
Somebody has caught Mrs. Craigie at a
plagiarism, but has failed, perhaps, to see the
plagiarism's point One young lady says to an
ether in Robert Orange: The great vice of the
present day is braVura, an attempt to do some
thing beyond the truth puzzled reader
locked out bravura in 'Murray's New English
Dictionary But Mrs Craigie had been there
before him. For what did he see? To illustrate
the use of the word was given the identical SEN
tence that sent him there The great vice of the
thing beyond the truth And the reference at
the end of the sentence to a number Of
'Blackwood's Magazine in 1S45. The dictionary
student was, OF course delighted with his dis
covery, and very respectfully tolerant about the
theft. But he might, had he looked closer, have
seen in it merely the Illustration of a favorite
Disraelian method If DisraeH found a sem
tence he liked in the Hon. George Smythes
speeches. he put it forthwith into the mouth Of
one of his COningSby' characters; and when the
Duke of Wellington died, his panegyric, dev-
cred in Parliament, contained unacknowI-
edged passage from eulogy pronounced on a
French general by NJ Theirs"
A fine copy of the first edition of Keats's
Lamia," with Charles Loyd's autograph on
the half title, has just been sold in London for
the large price of $142.
Explanatory titles are not always definite
as that which Mr.. Josiah Flynt and Mr. Francis
Walton have affixed to their forthcoming book
on the criminal classes THE Powers That
Frey IS sufficiently expressive name-so is
The Criminals Idea Of Himself and His Work
the title of the book with which Mr.. FIynt is
now busy.
Captain A T. Mahan's history of the war in
South Africa is to be published next month by
r. r Collier & Son 1t will contain over six
hundred Illustrations
TO what may Ruskin's literary faculty be at
tributcd? His latest critic says that il was due
10 the effect of hearing his father read aloud
both prose and poetry, and TO his early habit of
recording his impressions in a diary.
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