New-York tribune., 1901-05-19


tude of the Egyptian desert He spent month
on the sands with escort of Arabs and cam
els most of the time sleeping under the sky
without tent.
At the recent sale of Sir William Fraser's
library a very fine copy mot quite perfecO Of
the third folio Shakespeare brought S1,?25.
George Cruikshanks Works, humorous, social,
satirical and political caricatures. plain and
colored' mounted in eight imperial folio volumes,
brought S2,22I.
The chief character in Mr. Quiller-Couch's
forthcoming novel is John WesIey's Younger
records her as being the one mocking member
of the family. Her brother extremely fond
of her-she was, indeed. the pet of the family.
She made most unhappy marriage, a fact
which doubtless provides plenty of moving op-
portunities for the novelist.
Mr.. Herbert Spencer has just entered his
eighty second year. Though more less of
invalid, he continues to entertain his friends in
his Brighton home. Comic operas have much
amused him in his time, but he has given them
up now, and he has given up also the prolonged
games at billiards. at which he adept
rather proud of his skill. 1t is recorded that on
one occasion he found at his club his master in
very young man, who beat him thoroughly.
When his defeat was no longer to be disguised
Mr. Spencer leaned on his and delivered him
self of the following: "A certain proficiency in
this game is possibly a desirable accomplish
ment, but the extraordinary ability, sir, you
have Just displayed can only be the fruit of
misspent youth"
Mr. Spencer has not. are told, found the
publication of philosophical works remunerative.
His publishers have been obliged to mind their
ps and Us in the make up of those books. for it
has been the authors invariable habit closely to
supervise the work of the printer, and insist
on the carrying out of his instructions. The fol-
lowing copy of autograph postcard Of 1893
illustrates this In making up into pages avoid
sundry things which | dislike. Cd The division
between sections must account correspond
with the endings beginnings of pages. (2)
dislike also To have paragraphs beginning
f1fea.
of the spaces habitualIy left between text and
extracts. There must be more space than
between two lines of text"
Mr. James Mortimer. the translator into Eng
lsh Of Captain Dreyfuss book is a journalist, a
dramatist and an authority on chess. He is the
author OF the Chess Players Pocket Book and
Manual of Openings"
Signora Matilde serao has experienced
change of heart, and in her novel "Snor
Giovanra della Croce." tells story from which
the unpleasant traits of her earlier books are
mostly eliminated. She describes the sad fate
Of poor old nun who turned adrift upon
the world by the spoliation of the religious
orders in l>GG The author declares in a prefa-
tory letter that with Increasing years the veri-
ties which encompass her have become clearer
and more luminous; she has found the true
way and learned her true work; she turns away
from the tale of love.
Not every author appreciates the comfort of
debating To an amanuensis. One well known
few sentences, found the amanuensis regarding
him with plying expression Il suppose you
think me awful fool he said. apologetically.
Worse than that. sir; worse than that said
the amanuensis, he took up his hat and de-
parted.
The just published life Of Gilbert White of
Selborne, by his great -grandnephew, Mr. Rash
leigh Holt-Whitc, is in two volumes. 1t has
ben prepared from family papers, which include
many recently discovered letters and documents
OF whites. a Journal, To be printed in fun,
which kept at SelbOrne in the summer of
1853 by of the Miss Battles" to whom
the naturalist addressed his well known verses
upon SelbOrne Hanger in the autumn of that
year and complete and interesting series of
letters 10 White, covering almost the whole of
his adult life. from his friend and contemporary
the Rev. John Mulso.
The late distinguished churchman and his
torian. DIR. Stubs, profound scholar
tut possessed withal of a fund of dry humor
Here is a story quoted of him in The Pail Mall
Gazette: DR. StubbS was once addressing an
audience of Reading High School girls at a prize
distribution The eXcelled at prize giving) and
expressed his regret that he no longer had lei
sure To devote to general literature. Indeed,
my dear young friends he added, there is but
one book which l now find time dip into at
all. Its name begins with a Il. Perhaps YOU
response. No bradshaw gravely replied the
bishop 1t was on Stubbs and his euIogistic
brother historian, Freeman, that Thorold Rog-
ers made epigram:
While Iadng butter in alternate tubs
StubbS buffers Freeman Freeman buffers
StubbS.'
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