New-York tribune., 1901-03-31

have had their little day and on the way to
oblivion.
Mr. Augustine Birrell once incautiously pur-
chased the works of Hannah More-nineteen
fat volumes of them-for something like 81 %
They became a nuisance and he was puzzled
as to how to get rid of them. "As for selling
therm il is easy to sell nineteen volumes
of 4 stone dead author. particularly if you live
three miles from n railway station. ana do not
keep a trap.
Mr. Birrell resorted to a desperate expedient:
81 had to do something. and quickly too, Tor
sorely needed was Miss More.s shelf so
buried the nineteen volumes in the back garden
out of sight. out of mind. said l, cheerfuiiy
stamping them down" He will not dig them up
again: Il shall leave them where they are
buried in a cliff facing due north with nothing
between them and the Pole but leagues upon
leagues of a hungry ocean
\ second series of the Voyages of the Eliza
hethian Seamen America" as edited by
Edward John Payne. is coming from the Claren-
don Press. These narratives selected from
Hakluyt comprise the voyages of Gilbert Anna
das and Barlow. and Cavendish and Raleigh's
discovery of Guiana.
Pope will be erected on the site Of his famous
villa at TWickenham.
Sir walter Besants Method Of the Future
in publishing lis simply" he says. for writer
Of position in any branch to take over the pub
lication of his own works with a commission
Major Martin Hume who has already pub
lished a very interesting book concerning Queen
Elizabeth. has another on the point of issue
II deals with the last years or her reign and Is
called Treason and Plot" \ book. by the way.
that belonged to Eizabeth has atey come
TO light 1t is bound in brown velvet covered
with silver embroidery. and has the royal
and the monogram "E r. on either
side.
NJ Anatole Frances latest production.
Monsieur Bergeret Paris is said to have
attained its thirty-nin edition in three days
"Hetty Wesley is TO be the title of Mr. Quill
ler-COuch's novel-a Wesleyan novel for
the purposes of which he has made extremely
careful studies
Mr. Morley is getting reasonably well with
the Gladstone biography. but some time must
elapse before even the date OF publication can
le settled
Mary Kingsley the author and traveller is
said have been ambitious only in the matter
of her funeral. and she had the burial she de
sired Borne gun carriage To tho port, she
dropped from ship of war into the sea.
which ruled Of right she held by the en-
piEe. whose servant she desired to be rec
Ognzed in death.
There are few autOgra phs of George sand in
eXstence-so few that il is said that of
her autograph letters Is worth more now than
several of her most popular works.
Thomas Hardy. the novelist. IS quoted by
The Pail Mall Magazine SAY ing that h..
has sympathy with the criticism which
would treat English dead language-"a
thing crvstallised at an arbitrarily selected
stage of its existence and bidcen To forget that
IL has past and deny that it has a future"
"Pursrn.' he added whether in grammar
vocabulary, almost always means ignorance
Language was made before grammar not gram
before language. And for the people
who make it their business to insist the
utmost possible impoverishment Of our English
vocabulary. they seem to me to ignore the les
of history, science and common sense"
Mr.. Maurice Hewlett is giving up his post in
self entirely to literature. He is at present
writing a short story.
Mr.. w. J. Courthope is preparing To publish
a volume two series of lectures which he de-
one series discusses Life in Poetry and the
other Law in Taste" Budding versifyers
should take notice.
MANNINGHAM AND "TVELFTH NIGHT"
From Notes and Queries
do not think attention has been called before
to the following parallel:
''Fabian-NOW, thou lowest me. let
his letter
"ClOwn-Good Master Fabian, grant me an
other request
.tFabian-Anything