New-York tribune., 1901-02-10

| MME SARAH GRAND.
OFrom 4 photography
she makes us acquainted with any of the types
she must have encountered in the course of her
| experience as a lecturer. Such work brings
some queer manifestations of human nature TO
the alert watcher
Mr.. Thomas Wright. Of Olney has already
begun make ready for the Dickens museum
which he has been enthusiastically advocat-
irg. He has set apart room in his house as a
temporary museum. and has asked FOR books,
prints. photographs. anything relating 70
Dickens.
| Abbotsford. Walter Scott's beautiful house,
IL 10 be let with it's 1900 of shooting The
noveIist's family has always found the place
cruelty expensive one to maintain. II is
owned by his great granddaughter the Hon.
Mrs Maxwell Scott
MIR: Edgar Fawcett has written new novel
entitled "New-YOrk-" 1t chronicles many
| strange phases of life in this city. and has
! convict for hero. MIR. Fawcett now lives in
London
Among the memoirs to which look
forward are those which the late Duo de Bro
luminous, for this grandson of Mime. de Stael
was extremely fond OF the pen. and Industrious
by nature
Professor Stanley Lane-Pooles History Of
Egypt in the Middle Ages is the newest work
of consequence in this department Founded on
the Arabic chronicles. it deals with the Arab
and Mameluke periods.
In his recently published Parliamentary rem
iniscences Sir John Mowbray writes with EN-
phasis of DisraeITs foresight in regard to the
American civil War From the first he realized
the maSnltude of the struggle. His language
was always the same in public and in private;
This is great nation. il is not going to be
broken up The feeling in the country and
m in mn iCh he Of -
way. But Disraei steadily diseountenanced any
Conservative action in this direction"
Mr. Marion Crawford's sister. Mrs. Hugh
Fraser is about to publish q novel; This
story. called "a Little Grey sheep" deals with
English character and social life. The scene is
laid in Dcvonshre and in the Thames valley
The BuIwer Lytton claim to long descent is
remOTsele eSsIy shattered by MIR. Horace Round
in his lately published book on family history
Here is What Alison. the historian. said about
the novelist: Born of noble family. the in
herttor of ancestral halls of uncommon spIendor
and interest, hc-LyttOn. the nOveIist-has re-
ceived from his Norman forefathers the qualities
which rendered them noble No man WAS eve,
more thoroughly imbued with the elevated
thoughts. the chivalrOuS feelings which are the
true mark of patrician blood; and which. how
ever they may be admired by others never Der-
haps. exist in such purity in those who like
tte Arab steeds of high descent. can trace their
IediSree back through long series of ancestors
he dining room at knebworth originally buit,
by a Norman follower of the COnauerOr is hung
round WIN the arnlor which the family and their
retainerS Wore at the battle of BOswOrth and
ended by the gallery in which the minstraIs
poured forth their heart stirring strains" And
row MIR Round tells that the present I.vtton
family. the nOvelist's family are descended fron,
a certain William Robinson. and are stran~ers.
IN blood To the old LyttOns; that the Robinsons
got the i'Sttcns place of knebworth in lTl0. and
that even the old I.yttons did not purchasal
kneoworth until after BoswOrth had bee-,,
fought.
IL Is said that Robert Browning used "a 81.
with see the story of his meeting Queen VIZ
toria AT the house of Lady Augusta StanIo,[
ihe royti iady did not speak To him of his oyf
WORK but said that she admired his Viz.
aurora floyd! What would the author -
Aurora Leigh" have said TO thisr "'1 OK
An enort Is being made 10 establish Il, or
we sh SSot.h universities chair for the studv -
me SCOTS language and literature tn
oSot.sn tongue as written by James " In ,Ia oIu
unin'eiisinie to the modern Scotchman-