New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-03

The BOdley Heal edition of Whites SeiDorlle
Is not after all the last of the century. An
other in two volumes. edited by DIR. Bowdler
Sharpe. has just appeared. The first volume
contains Gilbert Whites Garden Kaendar.
hitherto unpublished, and also many passages
restored from the "Pennant' letters IN the
British Museum.
Mr. T E. Aldrich writes the clearest Of hands.
which is almost like print Yet as Miss
Tcknor notes in Truth, he mas suffered not d
little from printers errors:
In one of his early poems the following line
occurs:
But the old wound breaks out anew
To his surprise it appeared in print:
But the old woman breaks out anew"
In a later poem the line
"A potent medicine for gods and men,.
was transformed into
"A patent medicine for gods and men"
Deaf as a post is an actually as regards
Mir Swinhurne. Conversation with him is al
most impossible and he lives in world or his
iwn He owns something like gold mine IN
the shape of large collection of pictures by
Dante Gabriel Rossett
Here are some "reminiscences of Thackeray
from Mr.. Sutherland Edwards's just published
volume of personal recollections:
Thackeray was absolutely without affectation
or false pride of any kind He did not mind
speaking of himself, and in answer to my in
uuiries (after a conversation which had lasted
Some time) as to whether the success of Vanity
Very much So" he replied. And not myself
alone" he added when a little time before
had asked for permission to repubhsh some tales
from 'Fraser's Magazine it was given to me
with a smie-almost an ironical One-aS much as
to say, Much good may you get out of them
They bring me in three hundred year now"
''Twelve-and- sixpence a page he said, was all
he got for his contributions to the magazine and
he expressed hope that writing better paid
now than it was in his young days He
told that Turgueneff had called upon him
without any introduction, simply in the charac-
rrorlyc N
out saying one word about his own literary
position
Mr.. Ruskin has left a large number of I'M
published MSS, including portions OF the lives of
Reynolds and Turner which he meant to write
1t is believed that most of these MSS. will be
published.
new monthly magazine, in its form some
thing like the infant "Chap-BOok, is to be
bought out in Boston. 1t is to be called The
Cornhill Booklet" and is to contain some COM
pete piece of writing, either reprint of some
thing scarce or an original bit of work. In the
first number will be found the late Eugene
Fields Tribune Primer only seven copies Of
which are known to exist.
The mysterious box left to the British Museum
by Francis DOuce, once Keeper of MSS. at the
Museum has at last been opened and has been
found to contain nothing of value. Douce had
some splendid collections of his own, but having
q grudge against the trustees and having been
treated with exceeding politeness during a visit
to Oxford, he left all his finest Ezabethan MSS
to the Bodeian. His house in London is Just
now in process of demolition. 1t here that
he dined on a leg of mutton every day without
variation. Asked one day by his housekeeper
what she should provide for a dinner to which
he had invited several friends, he replied "A
roast leg of mutton of COURSE" That will not
be sufficient sir" Then two legs of mutton"
rGared the antiquary.
That literary lady, Catharine II of Russia
lett five complete and six fragmentary plays and
various historical and geographical notes and
essays. Part of the plays are in her own hand
writing and some of them TRANSACTIONS from
Shakespeare. All have been discovered lately
and to be published soon.
Among the autograph MSS. to he disposed of
in the forthcoming sale of the Peel library are
four pages from DR.. Johnson's memorandum
lutions:
My resolutions are:
''TO conquer scruples.
''To read the Bible this
ITO try and rise more early.
ITO study divinity.
ITO live methOdicay.
'To oppose idleness.
ITO frequent divine Worship"
Mrs. Craigie is already hard at work upon a
new novel. having completed that which she
calls Robert Orange
Mr.. Charles whitley the author of "A Book
OF Scoundrels," is bringing out volume entitled
THE Pageantry Of Life This is a series of
studies of the celebrated wits and dandies from
the time of Henry VIII down to Disraeli the
Younger Included are essays on Pepys St