New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-16

Inc strange experiences of the Baroness de
Bode, the English wife of German nObeman.
during the French Revolution, are the subject
of volume which the Longmans will
bring out
The industrious Charlotte Yonge has written
a story Of mission life in China 1t is coming
from the Whitaker press under the title OF
The Making of a Missionary; or, Day Dreams
in Earnest"
mask of Blaise Pascal taken after death by
the sister of the philosopher, has lately been
discovered, and moulding from it is to be ex-
hibited in Paris. Pascal always refused on re-
ligious grounds, to have his portrait painted
while living.
Mr.. Gilbert Parkers new novel, THE Lane
That Had No Turning" is a story of life In
Canada. The heroine, Madelinette is famous
singer and the hero is her husband, Seignior OF
Pontiac.
The promised additions to Marie Bashkirtseffs
diary appear to be interesting is to
say, as full of Stiffness and vanity-as those por-
tons already given to a tired public Among
the features Of these supplementary pages are
four letters from Guy de Maupassant to whom
Marie Bashkirtseff had written without revealing
her identity. She herself explains why she
gagged In this correspondence. Her passionate
desire to win fame as an artist did not suffice
to absorb her entire energy; she was strongly
possessed as well with the desire to write. Il
aWoke one morning. the diary records with a
feeling that / should like to have my literary
talent appreciated by connosseur" Maupas-
SAINT the cOnnOSseur she chose. She con-
fesses he not quite her IDEAL but she was
somewhat at a loss whom to choose, as great
writer's are scarce, and great writers who are
young scarcer still AS she plantively observes:
"Balzac is dead, Victor Hugo is eighty-twO. and
Dumas ftls-whom 1 have admired to alteration
sixty Il regret now" she adds that l did
not address myself to lola instead Of to his lied
tenant, who, however has talent. and talent in
plenty" Maupassaut soon lost patience with his
unknown correspondent The fourth letter she
received from him was 'impertinent and silly"
and she wrote to him no more
his project of an American lecturing tour this
autumn. hut he expects to visit this country
early in the coming year The American Win
ston Churchill Will shortly bring out his
novel Of the civil War.
The literary paragrapher OF The Pail Mall
OF Dumas's great guardsmen. who is there"
he asks. who could realize D'Artagnan? I
wonder And the strong man of the quad
rilateral how shall we see him? Porthos OF the
MousIuctares. | hope; not the Du WALTON OF the
latter days-Porthos on the road to Calais.
POrthos at La Rochelle; not Porthos the
Bourgeois GentiIhomme." From this il would
appear that the Englishman has never seen
Maurice I.eIoir's delightful illustrations which
not only do full justice to the big guardsman
with all his Gallantry and all his vanity, but
also show his three companions to the life.
The most successful OF the recent cheap re-
prints in England has been Mr. Hardy's Tess
OF the D'Urbervilies' OF this a hundred thou
81 nd copies have been sold
Mr. Joel Cook Of The Philadelphia Ledger"
has prepared concerning this country work
which he calls America: Picturesque and De-
scriptve.' 1t is the fruit OF many years or
travel in the United States. Notes Canada
are included IN the work, which is to be brought
out in three volumes.
The biography of Gilbert White. which his
Srandncphcw. Mr.. RashlciEh Holt-White is
about to publish, is based on fresh material in
the possession II the family. This includes
unpublished letters. journals ard manuscripts
We are told by Mr. Frederic Harrison that as
Il burial place Westminster Abbey is now abSo-
Iutey fun Not foot of ground remains for
burial. not a square yard OF space for a memo
rial The Ruslin Committee, with the archi-
tect, searched every available corner and barely
found tree square yard for their memorial TO
the author Of the Stones Of Venice" Mr.. Har-
rison suggests that an annex should b" built.
If This is not done the great EngliShmen OF
the future will have no monuments in the
abbey.
TRANSACTIONS from the French novelists form a
large part of the reading of Germany. lola,
Naupassant and Marcel Provost particularly
popular in that country. Mr.. Kiplng's work is
said to bc making its way there.
After an interval of forty years spent in con-
vertionaI urban ways, Francis Parkman, lover
Of woods took Il month of camping. His COM
panion. Mr.. G ii. Fdrnham, says of this cpl
sodn in his forthcoming biography of the his
thrf., no. Ipo u