The Washington times., 1901-11-17
LITERARY NOTES.

iuI an ouu memorial OF the autnor oi tile
| Stones of Venice" He has presented to
the Ashmolean Natural History Society a
'Ruskin Plot--a bit of property near ABB
| ingdon, consisting of about five acres of
woodland. marsh, bog. and water. and
containing many rare local specimens of
animal and vegetable life. The idea Is to
| preserve it for all time in its natural con
dition as place of sympathetic obserNa-
| ton. 1t is an idea eminently pleasant,
| poetical, and practical
In the catalogue of II library in large
hotel in Europe are to he found a number
of books attributed to an author called
Bart Closer inspection reveals the fact
that both 'Ivanhoe" and The Last Days
of Pompeii' Were written by this author.
and the truth is forced home that on the
title page of the former was written Sir
Walter Scott. Bart. and in a Continental
edition of the latter was Sir q. Bulwer
Lytton, Bart.
Profs. George Burton Adams of Yale
and H. Morse Stephens of Cornell have
recently completed their Select Docu-
ments of English History" now on the
press for immediate publication. The au-
thors intentions have been to include the
documents necessary to illustrate every
| important stage in the development Of
the English Constitution from the Nor
man Conquest 10 L4t nineteenth tGtiNLi
including many minor institutions, and to
furnish also material illustrative of the
history of law, especially in it's earlier pc
riods. The volume differs from StubD
Select Charters in containing constltu-
tional and legal material only, and also
in the fact that all the Latin and
French documents are rendered into
English 10 facilitate their use in
secondary schools. where 1t is hoped they
may prove useful, as well as in more ad-
vanced study. Slightly more than 200
pages are devoted to the medieval portion
before 1885, and something more than $50
to the modern part. Such documents are
included as those embodying the judi
cial reforms of Henry II; the Magma
Charta the Provisions of Oxford and
Westminster; extracts from the great
statutes of Edward II, with those re-
lating to land in full; the statutes of
treasons ldbCrers, provisors, and praemu-
nire: the first impeachments; the depo- |
sitions OF Edward IL and Richard II; the |
documents relating to the privileges of |
Parliament. the first navigation acts; the |
ecclesiastical acts of Henry VIII and la !
ter; the chief documents of the Stuart |
revolutions: the mutiny, liberation, and |
septennial acts; the peace bill; the union |
with Scotland and that with Ireland; |
questions of privilege and rights arising |
in the eighteenth century; the electoral |
and judicial reform acts of the nineteenth |
century, and numerous Illustrations of |
financial legislation.
THE Story of the Art of Building" by |
p l.. Waterhoase, one of the publications |
of d. Appleton h& Co, would have been |
called The Story of Architecture" had it |
not been for the previous publication Of a
work of that name by Charles Mathews. |
1t gives a concise outline history of archt- |
lecture from its primitive beginning to |
the American "skyscraper.'
italian Sculpture of the Renaissance"
is the title of book by Lucy J. Freeman. |
NJ. A. which the Macmillan Company viii |
publish Immediately. The author has |
tried to arouse the sense-imaginatiOn |
rather than the literary. She has tried to |
treat her subject from the estheric, not |
from the anecdotaI or the archaeological |
or the ethical standpoint
Though Sir Richard Burton died some
years ago, the MSS he left behind him
are not yet all published. A number Of
these have been included in a forthcom-
ing volume, which will bear the title
'Wanderings in Three Continents" The |
period covered by these records is from
1853 to 1870.
1t seems paradoxicsl that the navies of
the different nations, which build ships
to fight each other with, should be willing
to publish in an international naval an
ual the plans of all their battieships. with
the fullest information concerning them.
This has been done in "All the Worlds
Fighting Ships recently published by
r L.
A life of Queen Victoria. by her son-in-
law, the Marquis Of Lorne, now Duke of
Argyle. is published by Harper & Bros. 1t
is a large volume deliberately illustrated
with photographs and original drawings. |
1t contains many letters written and re-
ceived by the late Queen. The marquis
had access to all of her papers.
Andrew Lang, in ''Longman's Maga-
zine discusses Bran Stoker's "Dracula'
as follows:
The rules Of vampiring, as indicated by Mr..
Stoker, are too numerous and too elaborate One
does not why the leading vampire, Count
Dracula could not bolt out Of the box where
Jonathan. Ii he could hy about a bat. why
did he crawl down steep walls head foremost2
The rules OF the game Of Vampire ought to be
printed in appendix; at present the pastime
is as difficult Bridge. Perhaps | do not
derstand the rules.
First-Esery vampire, all day, must lie in con-
secratod ground. He can be stumped when in
his ground not when out of it.
Second-AlI day a vampire is off side.
Third-No vampire may enter house unin-
vited
Fourth-No vampire may salt water ex-
cept at ebb tide and full tide.
Fifth-Eyery person bitten by vampire be-
comes vampire. Crhis rule strikes at the root
OF morality.)
Sixth-No vampire can vamp person protect
ed by garlic. CFhe peasintry Of Southern Europe
always smell Of garlic, perhaps as security
against vampirea-)
Seyenth-A vampire staked through the heart
with sharp piece Of wood, IS out.
Eighth-Every man should stake his own young
woman if She is a vampire.
These appear to be the chief rules. There are
Others TO which person Of taste would rather
not allude