New-York tribune., 1901-12-06

T Mot TO rescue Mary from prison, he gave II
away or sold it, to the English Ambassador IN IN
pariS Thic odd adventurer seems to have got
out of the Tower and TO have hVed III r1olis' Il
telling stories more surprising as ne ste" 49, t
and diving at a great age. He would nave peeIi
= canitai Subject TO interview. Indeed nice set
OF interviews with the great people OF oysoiIe y
davs might be written-such as an lntsrNle"
,z-ifh Cecil lust after the Gunpowder plot; an IN
Terview with Bacon as TO ms ueaili.sS 1oa.
Shakespeare who as Mr.. Leslie Stepneh lI -, -
wrote Racon's philosophical WORKS, leaNIns an
anagram to attest the fact That accounts To-, Iol
the amateur character of the NoFun vi Isa1Iuin ,i -
and the De Augmentis, Shakespeare knoMi,,s ,
nofhfuo about physical science and just invent
ing as he went on. -, ,os of M.
other odd things turn up in the chaos OF pa pa,
r,are For example, a long poem by my owl
bonG, II is on q classical subject, in new
metre and absolutely unreadabie. AS 70 olu G Ise
ters here is one from NJ Jowett, adVlslng me, me,
unworthy. TO commence author anu lofs"ea "a
the wretched business of Journalism. ana
wberewithal should the author have peen clo'Iieu
and fed? Then there is gay letter rom W. W. :
Matthew Arnold. full of high spirits ana ge-
niaIfty And there is a letter containing nys-
teriors check thirteen years of age whose nus nus
torIr and nurpose is known only to the Recording
Angel A queer set of papers contain arrange
ments of names in the shape OF fans me NAMES nalnss
Ilaipg examined prove TO be those OF famous
authors and the fan shaped arrangements are
literary pedigrees Memory now recais the
pleasant hour when these geneaogldds 2i senus
were drawn up by an author OF Worlu"ioe iepu-
tation and myself. Here is one:
..r,rincesse de eCleves"-Richardson
Nanon Lescaut-Elemental CD
zac-PuShkin-Popular songs.
Flaubert. Theocrltus
Thomas Hardy.
= :. , ~ood descent but what is ''Elemental?'
A name occurs which is either Pater or Guy
Partn" Then there is a pedigree' also also rathe1 All
obliterated. and ending with the halle Vi
modern writer. It runs thus;
Folk Tales
Cervantes Defoe. smollett. Mrs; Fry
Schiller, Mac2herson Pfs,se (0ssian' Goy4 Reports
and then the author-Who is he? In Mr.
Stevenson's literary ancestry think we louIlu ll
Sir Thomas Browne, scott Dulnas' ah1 GO
should have found Patrick Walker the Cove
nanter | have not all the pedlgrees. nut IN MISS
CoreHs literary ancestry my companion oD-
served Rousseau The Arabian Nights, Rich-
ardsOn. John Knox, Schiller, Guy Livingstone,
Tohn Wesley Ouida and Charles Kingsley. In
Mr. Rider Haggard's literary shield We're quar-
tered the arms Of Martin Luther the lcelandlc
Saga writers. Schiller, Paracelsus ana Bul"er
Lytton. The Papers Of the Portrait Clup are are
lost l fear The idea was that so many men men
were TO write "portraits'' of each other in the
manner Of the eighteenth century ana read
them Candidly to each other after dinner oeN-
eral OortraitS were done, my own among them,
but the dinners and the readings never occurred
The meeting might have broken up IN confusion
Another paDer vas Il catalogue Of JacoDlte
relics very desirable, in the possession OF a laoy
and poet now no more. Here are the prdai
rings of "Ciiacomo WIZ and Carlo III the
latter bore a turquoise engraved with a royai
crown. set with brilants; the stone when raised
revealed una beIissima miniature del Re
Carlo" Unhappy ring, l found at Windsor
Castle the pOesy. not we'll rhymed in the hand
of II Re Carlo There were other rings with
miniatures or canoes of the Cardinal Duke
of York the Duchess Of Albany. Louise of Stol-
berg. James VII Cd, and so forth Ihere is
also the George in enamel worn by Charles
l. about which there has been good deal or
ANTIQUARIAN controversy. After Worcester hght
ii was for some time in the keeping of-suess!
.IZaak Walton. How Prince Charless money
chest when in Scotland was preserved, and came
into this collection (bouglt at Rome), who can
say? Perhaps he left II with Cluny, as he GER
tain!y left other objects of value. There are
inlaid pistols of Prince Charles, with daggers.
and a place for poison. inherited from his great
grandfather. John Sobieski. Frederick the
secret place. The relics mentioned are now In
the best of hands and not out Of the Stuart
family.
Such are a few of the odd things that the
heart breaking process of 'redding up" reveals
Let me end with last trouvaille a poem by
some anonymous Caledonian genius:
THE SCOTCH APPRECIATION OF HUMOR.
The sense of humor in the Scotch
Some say is rare indeed.
Because a Scotchman seldom smiles
When English jokes made.
But find a dozen Englishmen,
As witty you can,
And try them with joke in Scotch,
viii they all the fun?
Besides. I've heard some Scotchmen say
The sometimes may be.
We do not see the point because
There is point to see.