New-York tribune., 1901-07-14

sharp bang. thus conceaIing the French novel
which amused the secretary leisure or the copy
of his own forthcoming work from the gaze OF
aay visitor who desired information about the
exploration of the Holy Land. But speedily the
success of his hooks was sufficient TO enable
him to- his authorship. and the rewards of
literature in time became SO considerable that he
able To renCunCe his secretdryship-
The Duke Of Argyll. still struggling for literary
honors is not only writing the memoirs of his
mother-in-law, Queen Victoria, but is doing th-
ibretto for a new opera ON which Mr.. Hamish
MacCunn is engaged
Zola is quoted in The Literary Era as talk
ing thus of his student days: Il had my first
schooling at the College of AK, and / did not
get into the eighth form till was twelve years
old. 1t was rather late to begin Latin. So that
when | was eighteen. and my mother placed me
at the Lyc6e Saint Louis in Paris, l was con
. Sldered extremely backward had been a good
boy at AK. though never brilliant pupil; at
/ Paris / became very idle and troublesome one
/ had already caught the literary fever and I
felt myself body and soul part of the great
literary world. / neglected my classic authors
to pore with avidity over Montaigne. Rabelais.
Diderot and Victor Hugo. All Victor Hugo
. / was mad about him in those days, So now
YOU understand why Though 1 have heard other
eNpIanau0ns) 1 have never taken college de
gree
The last days Of Robert Buchanan were made
comfortable by a large fund which was sub
admirers 1t was so generous that consider
able balance was left after the funeral expenses
were paid.
The last male representative Of the Grimm
family. Professor Hermann Grimm. grandson of
the younger of the famous brothers. lately
passed away There IS, accordingly, an end Of
/ the possibility of Grimm nursery in which
the charming Marchen may be read with
proud sense Of personal ownership
Mr.. Leslie stephen has been. it appears. a
pedestrian OF extraordinary powers. He used.
half century ago. 10 walk from Cambridge u
London in d single day. and il pressed could
a good road do seven miles hour y clerical
friend of his has lately discussed with admira-
tion Mr.. stephens victory in the Jw0-mie uni
versity running race at Fenner's in 1850
Trusting 70 his extraordinary stamina. he Id
the field at great pace for mile and half.
and aupareatly had them all beaten. About
seven hundred yards from home however, he
was challenged ny FIiuton. OF Emmanuel. who
possessed sufficient speed To have Won comfort
ably il he had waited and rI1ade one effort the
last hundred yards However, he did not wait.
and the most surprising exhibition of pluck and
endurance took place. The TWO competitors
Were never, up 10 the goal. separated by the
space of yard First one led then another.
Throughout the last quarter of mile they We're
both in a high state of distress They staggered
like drunken men. bumped each other. and their
legs twisted like corkScreWS under them II
q badly judged and badly run race, but never
WAS greater courage displayed in any athletic
contest stephen Just carried away the tape.
but II seemed 70 the spectators a dead heat Mr.,
Flint0f is now rector OF Dovedaie. DrOitwich.'
Here IS variety \ fair writer who Is entering
literary ways a contributor To "LippinCOtt'
declares that il rests her to have several things
the stocks at once. She is therefore writing
at The present moment her first novel a life Of
Christ and a work on the development anI
meaning OF English surnames.
Edward FitzCerald had odd habit of cut
ting out ali the parts of "A book which interested
him and binding them together y copy Z
Crahbe R0hiuSon's Diary treated by him n
this fashion. has just been sold in London.
The long promised fac-simile reprint O that
pre- Rap phaelite publication The Germ Il now
ready. Mr.. W. Nj. RoSSetti has furnished 4
preface of thirty-SiX pages. wherein he give
every possible detail concerning the unirItakint.
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