New-York tribune., 1901-06-16


assembly, both from the front benches and the
back. above the gangway and below il, who
has been greeted with every kind of cheer, not
excepting the ironeal, who has known both
failure and success, what il is 10 win and what
10 lose an election. to be in and out of Parlia-
ment-and yet, when it comes To the making of
a little book, this hero OF hundred fights, this
tanned veteran, is as shy as girl at her first
dinner party, trembles at the task he has UNDER
taken and claims the aid of the first literary
gentleman he encounters in the lobby
Librarians who keep track of affairs in the
great libraries of the world were not moved by
the report that the British Museum would come
10 the end of its storage room with the close of
the present year. They knew that Dr. GarnettI
adoption of the sliding press had provided dis
posal space sufficient for many years !
NJ. Max O'ReIl thinks. the whole, that ~
literary man and the artist ought not 10 maIA
/ II have come across hundreds of cases"
says where artistic and literary efforts -
been checked and sometimes killed Outr X
10y the petty cares and worries Of domestic ~
The brain worker is easily irked and torment ~
by the most trivial things He is irritable and
most sensitive. l have known literary men put
right off their work for days simply because de-
voted woman came into their studies, and, after
giving them encouraging kiss. carried Of:
their pens to make out their washing list
The admirers Of Heine will not enjoy a
work dealing with his career which has just
been brought out in Leipsic. The author, GeOrs
karpelrS declares among other things that
Heine constantly lied to his age. and that. in
stead of having written The Two Grenadiers'
at the age of eighteen, he was at least twenty
one when the song was produced The bioSra-
pher also endeav1rs To show that many of the
pots verses are marked by iSnOble hate or
degrading prejudice and that. in spite Of his
supposed detestation Of I'russian despotism he
was ~ the very moment that he was rousInS
the liberty lovers anxious 10 join the Junkers
Here are materials. il must be Acknowledged,
for very pretty quarrel
Herr Karpeles represents the poet as being at
different times ia his career immersed IN COM
merce. He was az one time a srocer's assistant
Frankfort. a
the same city ~. removed according to kdr-
=, les To Hamburg. where he carried a thriv-
ing commission business. and having accumu-
lated "a small fortune made his way To Prague,
Whcr" he lost every penny Of 1t in a gas BOOM
The rumor that the British War Office intends
To ri,, th, official history Of the Boer 10 an
American firm n printers is beginning 70 eause
auNi.ty i'm England.
\ n~w book about the Su'tan describes that
sovereign a. the Iossess"r Of an ovcrmast"rins
hobby nm" collection ~ animals IL is said that
on or. occasion. in lSN9 Musurus Pacha. the
Turkish AIahasSador waited three days in great
ANXIETY i"i "a r'IIE I" =" C9nnuii ttIon 10 me
sultan. az rho instance II Mr.. Gladstone, on the
subject - E=vrf ~ length long dispatch
arrived. it vas an order fer some Wild sheep
which Abdul Hamid wanted for his park The
Sultan Is very fond ~ parrots Eut once a IA
vorit- bird called out The name Of eunuch,
pJlf.r. who came ir obedience. he thought.
o. th.. voice ~ his master. Abdul wrung the
birds neck with niS oHu hands saving, In this
palace there must De- on'y one voice to COM
mani
TaI-toy IS I'm FAR from satisfactory health. lie
suffers from intermittent fever and has liver
trouble.
The reasoning q th- weak Drained gentry who
trv o. prove mat Bacon wrote Shake speaT-'s
Uiays Is amusiuey srt forth hy The London
Daily %rUs" 1T need hardly t~ said" IL OBJ
F serves. "thut any one who has any knowledge
~ the spirit and nature of that iFzabethanl
era would no more believe that Bacon wrote
Shak.spear- thtn that Lord I;os htry wrote the
poems of Mr ". -. Yeats. II an that was re-
quiretl We're condolences and cry Programs. We
would che, ,rfully undertake ~ prove that Mr..
Yeats Was Lord EosrLery. The title Of Mr..
Nrat~'- chief prose We rk. The Secret Rose -
un almost clum-i'y transparent disguise; il In
dieat-@ at once the shy or modest rose hence
friW- Rose. and again. the 'ltose which IS
Buried hence I;o~- berry. and th, word secret
its. Do surr' ~tS that thcr" is mystery in the
matter " hon once We had so clear a nucleus
this the rest might l,sitimately be- in
direct. The only lesson 10 Doe drawn from
I thu EaCouitH craze lies here. II any man of
education We're confronted with this theory
about Lord It1s, berry he would not trouble his
head about this class of proofs. The para leIs
might he most Ingenious. the dates consistent,
u Tho cryutuSraiu lucid and sustained The only
objection 20 il would toe that nobody who knows
anything about Lord Rose berry, Mr. Yeats or the
/ life Of the nineteenth century would ever think
+ of believing il. II would be clear 10 any one
with any vital grasp Of the literary seCts and
noNeInt nts ot oar time that Mr.. Yeats is the
man 70 have written the poems and that Lord
I;osebery is not
LougfcIlow Of the poets of the last
/ century % hOm he making ofS Sr.ecbes was a