New-York tribune., 1901-01-06


Dean Maitland" is at work 1t is to appear in
this country in "Lippincott's Magazine"
Mr.. Stephen Phillips's ''Herod" is not much to
the taste of the critic of 1.-THE Saturday Re |
view" What Herod' lacks" he says, lis sin |
serity, and without sincerity there can be no |
Art, though art has not yet begun when SINGER |
lty has finished laying the foundation. . D..
His mannerisms are growing upon Mr.. Phillips; |
LIS lines become more mOnOtOnouS, his images
more self-conscious, the mechanism of his
processes more obvious"
The Editor of "The English Dialect Diction- |
hry." Professor Joseph Wright, is engaged in an
interesting work. He is collecting Photographic
specimens of English dialects partIv TO en-
able him to check the material for a comprehen-
Eiye comparative grammar of all the English dia-
lects in the United Kingdom and partly to hand
down to posterity faithful record of the dia-
lects as spoken at the end of the nineteenth
century. DR.. Wright hopes to get about five
hundred photographic specimens: and with this
end in view he has prepared list of sentences
containing the most salient points wanted. with
full directions for turning the sentences into
genuine dialect. In the case of people who have
no knowledge of English grammar, Dr. Wright
sends the specimen" to some educated person
in the district from which the dialect is derived
and induces him to practise the specimen with
some dialect speaking person until the latter
can read the specimen in good. genuine dialect.
When this has been accomplished, DIR. Wright
goes to the place, and monographs the result
himself. BY setting about the matter in this
way the Professor has been most successful.
and already he possesses quite a number of first
rate specimens. When the specimens have
served their primary purpose DIR. Wright pro-
poses to hand them over TO some public library
or institution 10 be preserved for all time for
the benefit of future generations. A hundred
years hence people are sure 10 doubt some of
the statements made in the grammar, and scep-
tics will be able thanks to the phOnOgraph. to
hear what any particular dialect sounded like
at the time the work written.
large amount of material has already been
collected. AS soon all is in hand. the prep
aration of the work for the press viii be begun.
The task Will occupy about three years.
The fine old gateway leading into the church
yard of St GiIes's Cripplegate is dated 1860
and is one OF the notable relics OF London
before the Great Fire. Through IL Milton must
have been carried to his resting place in the
church. 1t is to be moved back several feet,
and the four quaint houses which adjOn II. and
which are OF even older date. to be pulled
down. One by London is losing her pictu-
rescue remnants of ancient buildings
Mrs Humphry Ward has written as follows
to THE Liverpool Daily POST in relation TO its
statement that Matthew Arnold and his family
were of Jewish extraction, and that their true
name is not Arnold, but Aaron: This statement
or something like it, has been made before by
others as misinformed your correspondent. !
So you will perhaps allow me TO set the matter
at rest. Whatever Matthew Arnold might have
felt toward any kinship with the great Hebrew
race. so fruitful in genius and in art. had he
possessed it, one cannot say: but he did not
possess it, The main stuff of his Arnold stock
was pure East Anglican. and his fathers Suffolk |
forebears. small yeOmen and fishing folk from |
LOwestoft and its neighborhood, can be traced |
back plainly to the middle of the sixteenth GEN.
n, L
and there are several centres OF II in England. |
But in Matthew Arnold and his kin there was
also marked Celtic element which may per-
haps account for some of the features and color |
ing that your correspondent misnterprets. On |
his mothers side he was Cornish. descended from |
PenroseS and TreVenens; while through his |
fathers mother he connected with various |
Irish families of well known Irish names. East |
AngIian mingled with Celtic-this, whatever
may be the case with other Arnolds, sums up the |
ancestry Of Matthew Arnold and his father
The young Irish schOOlmaster, Mr.. Seumas |
MacManus, has just completed his first novel, |
and has named it Lad o. the O'Shiels."
new periodical, TO be called THE Herb |
o Grace" is to be published next week by Miss |
Laurence Alma -Tadema. daughter OF the artist |
and author of much prose and The aim |
OF this periodical is to induce it's readers i'm the
rush and complication of modern life to return |
TO simpler life. 1t is to contain poems, essays,
tales reviews and transatiOns. and it's distinc- |
tive feature, told, will be the absence of |
advertisements, fashions. personalities and illus
trdtiOnS.
The critic of ''The Athenaum' says of Mr.. |
Richard lie Galllenne: He sees a truth and in |
the expression embroideTs 1t into absurdty. |
For direct and convincing utterance he has al |
ways substituted diversion a penny |
whistle"
A newly discovered portrait of Thackeray one |
life size and in oils painted i'm Paris fifty
hVe years ago The Sphere says of IL: THE |
portrait is believed to have been brought to