New-York tribune., 1900-11-18

part of the poets house is to find accommo-
dation also in these new buildings. AL the heat
Ing OF the cottage will now be from the hot
water system III the adjacent dwelling. and ths
trustees fears OF fire will thus be relieved No
more refreshments are to be sold within the
precincts-an Improvement which all visitors
will appreciate.
The first volume of Mr.. Buxton Forman's new
edition Of Keats will be ready in December.
Various MSS have come to light since the pub
hcation Of Mr.. Forman's last edition
A biography Of Ferdinand Frergrath is in
CO.. of preparation by his daughter.
Frances Courtenay Baylor" the author OF
tIat clever and once much talked or book on
Barnurn. of Freleighsburg. Province of Qu@bec.
Mrs Barnum lives in Savannah in the winter
and at Lexington, Va, in the summer
Two questions have been put to Lord Rose
berry concerning his just published book on Ma
poleOn. What need was there for him 70 cotlate
these morbid, sOrdid. inslncere chFon1c!-S ol
Napoleon's last days at st. Helena Does iot
history Ten us that there is nothing 50 Tneitn-
choly as the aspect of great men IN retirement
from NebuchadneZZaT in MS H-a4'" 10 W.
poleon his rock"
Lord Rosebery now declares that fna answer
to the first question is incidental and prs. t-tL
him vhr ~. wrote Count Aiarcos, a drama
nearly if not quite forgotten. II was Froduc~i
tragedy. but Of laying polItcaI Gho~5-
The story haunted him and would, n -
haunt him until he should hav" pvt IT INTO
shape" And il with Lprd it'l-r--
book. 'It cannot help emt"dyins tT'--iJ- '.'t
il wa, wlitten 10 lay literary E.'-- W .ift
for yeGrs, only quo kcned into a-F'E - ny ne
analysis Of Gourgaud's last -.urtal- aHi ~
stimulating leisure.
Second Che feIu. it is an @p.- g. OF VIII
history has yet % record her final JutEnc"rt
1t affects a tim when partisan feeling ran VeTy
high Lord Rosebery himself does not srrrp!e
to prove that the British Government treaLrI
Napoleon very badly. Again LORD ftoSet..ry
holds that We haze more chance or seeing S'--
man Napoleon at ST Helena than at any other
eriOd Of mis- career
| Lord Frederic Hamilton. who has been re
editor of Mr Astors Pail Mall MAGAZINE, it5
been sr1ccea1pd by Ny George r HaIkelt NI'
has IONS, hem it's art editor lie intends 70 I0--e
important changes in the literary conduct o. lae
periodical
| Mr.. Edmund Gossa has been engaged in what
W. cannot but regard the waSteful "ccui .'-
tion If ecturing on IbSen. He urged his hed' ~
to look upon the works of lbsen without pl--i-
dice for against them. as the Prod9 9c;..t
an . nbitious writer carefully trained N -Ae
=. ..f;ar dramatic tradition Z Scandinavia %
examine the cleverness with which those " IS
constructed; and, IN snort 10 I--'I 10
they would any other odd. pOWerfu- ana sun. IL
latinp writer for the entertainment 70 h- -.t-
tained from his literature, and not with tn .'-
i-ct Of learning OF cf rejecting some new -, Z
IDEAS in politics OF morals. The trouo-a WIN --.-
CoSSa and his fellow WOrShippeTS - tHtl "
ever anybody looks upon the WORKS 't
without prejudice for or against ta-Ii-- ---
finds them not to his taste ana faT IRON l..-.,
he IS Immediately abused without measure -
th, Ihsenites Alas that there should t-- T-t =
ers incapabI- Of ''appreCiaJinG the y r"--- ~
There ne persons in the United states even 40
do not regard Mr. G0SS" cF-tlcStI J4------'- -
OF much consequence