New-York tribune., 1901-05-26
LITERARY NOTES.
surdity.

LIIEEIEl NOIEN.
forthcoming volume is to present some
unquestioned ability. James l of England and
VI of Scotland. These poems in an autograph
Ms have only lately been discovered in the
Bodleian Library at oxford. The frOntispiece
IS TO be fine portrait of King James which
has never been published
Concerning a clever American lady who
visited Dublin not long ago. the London
| Sketch tells this story: "A we'll known profess
sor made arrangements for her 10 meet the
vice-chancellor of the university, DR.. Madden.
the author of that charming book The Diary OF
Master William silence Unfortunately the lady
In question had not time to read the book before
meeting the author, but the title suggested a
! good topic OF conversation. and she dlscOuTsed
| at some length on the character and history OF
William the silent. She noticed that the author
was hardly responsive, but it was not until some
weeks after, when she began to read the book,
that she discovered the reason. ne IIi'Y ui
Master William Silence has, need hardly say
nothing whatever do with William Of Orange
! but is a study Of Shakespeare ana t-llzape IMAM
! sport" SoOth to say, this tale IS rather nara
! on Or. Madden. since new books in the EnSHSs
/ language which are really worth while promptly
/ get themselves reprinted here and become known
to American readers with little delay.
Paris is changing her mind, perhaps. about
| Germany At least she is busily fttns the Ger
man historian Mommsen, who in 1870 took the
/ initiative in a petition 10 the Emperor Wllham
for the immediate and pitiless bombardment
OF the Capital OF Universal Corruption, OF Mod
eTn Babylon
In one Of two san Francisco houses, built side
by side and connected. lives the widow of Robert
Louis Stevenson; the other is the abode oil her
son. Lloyd Osborne and his family. 1t IS said
that they know every ship going in and out or
the Golden Gate. having official sailing lsts'
strong glasses and window in the right place
The Sargent oil sketch Of Stevenson hangs IN
the drawing room also the bronze relief OF h!in
by St Gaudens.
iaf orr1ic fpSfi 4
byron cafe" in London-comic. but exceeding
ly we'll meant The proprietor is a Greek ~ho
has selected the name in honor Of Byron as the
champion of Greece. iiyron's portrait set be
tween the flags Of England and Greece adorns
the bill Of fare
Miss Mary Cholmondeley will not have her
new novel ready for some time, but she pro-
poses to publish soon a collection Of her short
stories
The latest recruit to the so-caIled "Erse'
movement is Mr.. "Dooley' Dunn. He Is report
q 10 be already framing further Doolcy dia-
logues TO be written in the ancient Irish Ian
guage. The London Daily Mail quotes him
Il See my chance If Mr. Yeats is to be the
poet and Mr.. George Moore the novelist of the
Irish revival. | shall be the humorist. l find no
record OF a funny in the literary history
OF the Erse tongue, and therefore l can have
the first chance at saying all the good things.
1t is true that l do not yet know the lam
guage, but that is a detail may say but not
boastfully, that my attempts to be humorous
while taking my first ErSe lesson the other day
got good laugh. and. they say in the thea
tres went well in front l really believe that
II would be a good thing to make the New York
police force bilingual fer il is nothing less than
a hardship TO keep Irishman off the service
because he is not versed in the Saxon vernac-
ular.
Such a step would encourage the immgra-
tion of those highly patriotic Irish who have
scornfully refused learn the language of the
invader. At present a rudimentary knowledge
at least of English is essential To securing po-
litical place in New-York. This, maintain, is
injustice"
Victor HUSos house in Paris, the one in which
he wrote "Notre Dame and Marion DelOrme'
is now the property Of the Municipal Council of
that city and is 10 be maintained as a Victor
Hugo Museum. II will contain relics of the au-
thor, portraits. first editions of his works. and
the originals of their illustrations The museum
will be opened February 26 next year, that
being the anniversary of Hugo's birth.
The shrine of the "NOctes Ambrosiane." the old
time tavern in GabrieIS Row, Edinburgh, Will
soon be more Against the appeal OF
counsel TO let it live for the sake of a great
memory" the magistrates have condemned it.
The given is that il little else than