New-York tribune., 1901-04-07

Holmes went out to pay him last visit at his
| house E.lmwood. The two had always been
like brothers. calling each other by their hrst
names AS the doctor entered the room he SAID.
i'm his usual benisnant and breezy way, Well.
James. how you to-day" And Lowell book
in hand. looked up with a bright smile and an
| swered Wendell. do not know how 1 am, and
don't care. am reading Rob Roy
Concerning Dickens's books. Mr. Choate re-
I minded his hearers that as they came out they
were eagerly devoured in America. ''DOmbey
and Som came out in numbers long before the.
laying of the first Atlantic cable. and several
numbers went in fOrtnightly steamers. the
most frequent communication of that day. In
early part of the story little Paul was brought
10 the verge of the grave the last number 70
hand leaving him lowering between life ana
death. and all America was anxious to know
his fate. When the next steamer arrived bring
| ing decisive the dock crowded with
people. The passengers imagined some great
national international event had happened.
But it was only the eager reading public who
had hurried down meet the steamer and get
the first news as to whether little Paul was alive
or dead.
| Mr. Churton Collins. who has just reused the
| lesser literary folk in England by his vigorous
attack. on the putting and logrolIing methods of
| acquiring fame is a middle aged man. fair
specialized and inperturbabIe IL is said that
his manner of leCturing is % open his notebook.
draw up his feet under his chair and then
/
! ''These from the Land of Sininl" is the quaint
title of Sir Robert Hlrt's forthcoming book on
China. the Chinese and the Chinese Question.
| Mr. Richard Whiteing. whose latest novel was
so pleasing to Americans. has quite recovered
from his dangerous illness. and has been made
happy by the return from South Africa of his
! only son. who was wounded there and supposed
TO be dead.
! The English Royal Literary Fund bestowed
| bounty upon four nOvelists last year TO th.-
amount of Sl.s2:' To the drama and poetry was
devoted the sum of Sl.3Do, divided between TWO
| authors
| Benjamin Swift. the novelist is about pub
| hsh another book. but not under the of
/ swift The title page of this work. TO be
called The Eternal Conflict" will bear his real
name. ". r. Paterson. The volume is men
toned as a survey of the state of modern knowl-
edge. with special reference TO human conduct
| IL gives the inner experiences of a modern mind
which has lost hold of the orthodox beliefs ami
has attempted 10 restate the problems of life and
knowledge in an unconventional way.
/ There is probability that Mr.. Sidney Lee in
preparing preface to the Clarendon Press.s C1I-
lotype facsimile of the Shakespeare First Folio.
will evoke some interesting details. The Shake-
speare First Folio is from the literary point of
view. Mr.. Lee remarks the most VALUABLE.
book in the literature of the world. Much un-
certainty exists at present to the precise
I number OF original copies now extant: and as
a.
vorabe opportunity for making for the first tim.
a census of the copies that survive. Mr.. Lee
asks owners in all parts of the world 70 facili-
tate his endeavOrs To make the record accurate
and exhaustive. 1t is 10 be hoped that America
will respond
Mr.. III. t. Marriott Watson. the novelist was
born near Melbourne thirty-eisht years ago. and
was educated in New Zealand liz. has been an
assistant editor of The Pail Mall Gazette" His
wife is the lady known 10 readers of verse as
Graham TomsOn."
There is To he a complete edition in English
OF the works of Cervantes. The editor is that
competent person MIR. Fitzmaurice Kelly.
Perez Gil16S. whose Electra gave rise To tbs.
recent anti-clerical demons Strations in Spain
shows himself. not only in his drama but in his
own life, the true representative of this prac-
tcal age. In all the flights of imagination be.
does not forget reality. and is even mindful of
the financial advantages tO be derived from his
literary success. Having in the beginning of his
career been exploited by unscrupuOus publish
ers, he made up his mind 10 become his own
publisher and bookseller He opened a book
store IN one of the most freqUented streets of
Madrid, and there he exchanges the children
OF his imagination for prosaic. vulgar but nev-
erthrlesS very useful ''peSctaS." seeing TO il
that ne gets full value for both his mental and
physical labor Thus he solved tht. problem of
combining business with pleasure. and il seems
that the poet and the business man fare Well