New-York tribune., 1901-04-28


All the three country houses of Sir Walter
Scott present To let-Lasswade Cottage.
Midlothian. which ne occupied from 1l9S to
1St4; Ashestiel House near Selkirk where ne
resided from 1904 to 1872. and AbbOtsfOTd.
which his home from 1Si2 onward. Lass
wade Cottage. standing in it's grounds,
tending to four acres, is offered at only S4oo a
year
bismarck has just been quoted by the drama
tist Won Wildenbruch as having said 70 him.
years ago: Il have always regretted hat Ger
man history has never been dramatzed in such
a manner EnsIand's by Shakespeare, for.
sublime English history is. German history Il
at least equally so" 1t is doubtful if anybody
out of Germany would agree with the Chan
cellOr.
Julia Crottie" is a name in Irish fiction.
the woman who bears it having lately published
much praised book called The Lost Land"
1t had a curious history Mr.. Justin Mccarthy
tells us When written il shown 70 a woman
friend of Miss Crottie, who took it away with
her to read, and without the consent of the
authoresS sent it for inspection To a London
publisher. The publisher lest the manusc cript
and no trace Of it could he discovered. Miss
Crottle went 10 work again and rewrote the
whole book The new manuscript was then sent
to the editor Of a London magazine. and the
second manuscript was also lost and has never
been recovered Miss CrGttie the sec
ond failure have felt for a time something very
like despair. She bore up however went 20
work again and wrote OUT her book for the
third time.
The question of putting hooks in paper covers
Is coming up in England IL is a practice So far
unknown there, though long in favor on the Con-
tineut and in America. IL will probably be the
next successful innovation on the customs of
the conservative Briton.
The Deacon Rro3ie' of the little drama If
that name. written by r. l.. Stevenson and w
p IehIeE, was a real parsonage. most read
ers know Mr. j. r. MuddOCk otherwise Dick
DonOvan') has written a book about him which
will soon appear. He has discovered much in
berat
cernInS the DeacOn's career This extraordinary
person was a member of the Edinburgh Town
Council. a supposed philanthropist and the. end
ot him was the scaffOld Mr.. MuddOck says of
him: The son of intelligent and Ciod-fearils,
parents We'll brought up. and a highly cultured
man moving IN the best society of Edinburgh
he deliberately forsOOk the path of rectitude
and plunged into life of crime for crimes sake
aSSoclauhs himself with gang of rufials men
Tar beneath MIN both in intelligence and So
cially.''
In Tuscany" Mr.. Carmichaels charming
% DOOR recently reviewed in these columns has
had so emphatic a success that he has been
commissioned to write u life of 81 Francis az
Assist. -
Dermot and Grania'' is the title of the ,bre.
act play which MIR Yeats and Mr.. George Moore
nave Just completed. Ii deals with the period
OF the first century in Ireland. Ii is To- be- pro-
duced in Ireland i'll the autumn and ar the
same same time VIII he put on the stage DR. Douglas
fydeS one act play written in Irish Nr ye,+.
says the language has the abundance of E,li1.
Dethan English. and adds 1T i, full of nfctpr
tslue Phrases and pathetic and hun1nrcus
lal"nls' ard IL has the vividness of Iauguara
sun unworn. fer all unworn languages are r1ir
poetry in old languages like English 1n. Las
To reject many words before one tirds the right
one but IN a young language the word which
emotion brings first is the proper nue tn.
play therefore, has an air of ease and Dn,,.r in
its It's speech which no one could get in rnoiern
me theory that novels strongly intIuence CON
uuct Is possibly sustained by the sta teynent thar
= -; t.e.il monarch IN Eastsr-I Europe had based
mis- matrimonial adventures ON tbs ayan,nI -
! MI anthony Hopes hero. Rudolf the Ruidy