New-York tribune., 1900-03-04

looted and many of her possessions dispersed.
! The recent organization of a "Ruskin Union
for the purpose of studying the masters works
and discussing their charms and virtues has
! been greeted with much enthusiasm in England.
| The sort of genius that Ruskins was" says
| THE Pail Mall Gazette Ought to be the COM
mon treasure of everybody who can read Eng
lish and it Will scarcely be made more valuable
| by the institution of a periodical powwow in
his honor"
|
| 1t is related that who thanked Ruskn for
| the good he had conferred on the whole world
saw a sad and yistfuI smile come over the
famous writer's face. He turned a little away.
| saying: "Oh, do you think so? 1t seems to me
as if l looked back only on a misspent life and
wasted opportunities
The poems of Mrs Browning to be
Included in the Cambridge series of the English
poets. the edition being in course of preparation
| by Miss Harriet w. Preston.
| NJ Huysmans. the novelist has finally left the
world, and is a Benedctne "oblate'-that
| is to say, he is a monk without the habit, and
with permission to live outside the monastery
The reason why he is not a Benedictine i'll full
IS that he wishes to continue authorship, and
print what ne likes, and that Is inconsistent with
the strict rules of the order. He declares that he
will return to the old life. He never
wishes TO hear again OF his old office, the Min
istry of the Interior. where he was once chief
clerk. Paris interests him no longer, aWakes
only one regret-the lounge along the quays at
4:30 o'clock, and the turning over of the old
| books in the old book boxes That regret must
needs still endure, otherwise. NJ Huysmans is
conscious of no nostalgia whatever.
Mr Bret Harte 1t is understood is writing a
new series of parodies on popular novels. Some
of the noveIists of the day are tempting game,
! and imagine that Mr. Harte's pen has not
! lost Its cunning in this direction.
The editor Of The just published collection of
autographs of celebrities taken from the treas
ures Of the British Museum points ont that
autographs of an earlier date than the sixteenth
century Of "A character fitting in with the
Nh,o .nffh are
iucludinE "Crosses" OF doubtful authenticity the
first royal signature is that of Richard H. Prob
ably none OF mis- Norman predecessors could
have written their names except Henry !
''Beauclerc' and the idea that John actually
signed his name to the Great Charter must. it
| seems he given up as myth After i'"" the
choice of autographs becomes much Wider. and
there are many available specimens from the
correspondence Of Henry VIII
Another book descriptive of Russia is in pros
! pcct the author being MIR. ". lie Queux. the
| novelist The Russian Government has given
him permission to visit all the penal settlements
mines and prisons in Siberia, and also to in
vestigat" the progress of the new Trans Siberian
b railway
/ Ouida is again lifting her pen in impuisive
wrath al everything as II Is. There never was
I time" she says in her new novel when there
was littlr freedom and So little justice as In
! ours Two gigantic dominiOns rule the
human race; they the armies and the money
ilaN'i 49, SS ,rrni nm "S ,h rui H. ,i anu re-
c"iNrs from each IT'S wage" me historian
Mommscn has written that probably in
frriOr both in Intelligence and in humanity. in
prosperity and in civilization. at the close OF this
century To what the human under
SeV-rus Antouinus and it is true
There To- be new biography of Or. Pusey
not n pond"rous one like Dean I.ddrn's.
an abridEcmcnt of that massive workout
independent one OF a more picturesque and per-
son.l character.
translation Of The Private Memoirs Of
! Mime. Roland" is announced by y. c. McCurE
4 co. The firm is bringing out also
/ translation ~ the "IiistoriCal Memoirs of the
Emperor Alexander and the Court of Russia
10y Mime. de Chuisscul- Coulter.
OF Blackmoro IN, novelist old friend has
said in 'TIt,ratUry' that his kindness animals
ana birds was nearly divine Dogs loved him,
pigeons followed tlm about. y hlackbrd built
in a hul, ia his garden W,U year. and he
, pianked the we'll lest thu young ones, when
they became V,nIures"iuc should bc drowned.
From the plauks over the water ne had a sort OF
ladder constructed for them tu escape, which they
all did and repaid him by hountitull! deVour-
ing his straw berries. There Is Il pICtur" of him
self as vine dresser in of his lleVOnShire
tales 'ChrSt0Wcll' His love for women and
girls. especially girls. great as MIR. Rus
kIn's but less ou;Spukcn. though evident in his
books There is always Lorna or a Darrell, as
shy and retiring, and not given to tongue. Ona
Pzt o.