New-York tribune., 1901-07-28


edition of Walpoles Letters has had, says the
London "AthenaUm." further stroke of good
fortune in connection with the correspondence
of Horace WalpOle.
After a prolonged search she has succeeded
in tracing the originals of the bulk of Walpoles
letters to Mary and Agnes Berry QGo in num-
be-). This is a find of considerable Importance
in view of the fact that the text of these letters
as hitherto printed proves 10 be very incomplete
Mrs Toynbee has had in her hands for the
purposes OF collation. the originals of Waipole's
letters to Mann. to MontagU, to Cole and TO the
Miss Berrys. besides several smaller collections
and larger number Of isolated letters. There
still remain TO be traced the originals of the let
ters to Mason and to Lady Ossory."
Mr r. c. lehman. student and athlete hos
just published a volume Of verse-verse which
however attractive to his old Cambridge COM
rades. does not much interest the general reader
Only one thinE-the witty Consra tulatory Cde To
the Master of Trinity on the birth Of his son
will probably appear in the anthology OF tn
future. DIR. Butler, who Senior Classic in
1895. married the brilliant Miss Asacta Ramsay.
who was Senior Classic in 1851 and Mr.. Leh-
mann jOyfuIly looks forward To the erucite
achievements Of the son of such learned parents:
Then IL asked to choose I story book. this
prodigy viii nod at us
And demand the Polyhymnia or the Clio Of
HerodotuS.
At three he'll take trpos class in Aryan my
tholoEy.
And at four confute all Germany in Roman
archaeology:
And If his Teuton rivals print huge quartos to
suppress him. OH
I'll back this cycopRdc child. this English duo
deCimO
And. bless me, how his checks will glow with
iufautiuc clatou.
Should he catch his parents tripping in a cIassi-
cal quotation"
Mile Yvette Guilbert is it appears writing
romance which is to be published in October II
describes the life OF the Partisan cafe concert
the hero and heroine being both singers
Miss Gwendoline Keats. otherwise "Zack" was
educated in five different schools, and not one Of
them. II is said. gave her any name for brilliant
achievement. The Tatler'' notes that her tirst
book. written some fouTte years ago was sent
TO Haichard. VINO wrote TO her courteously
enough in returning 1t. After thif she lost the
manuscript and never touched pen for SIX
years, when she made a second attempt which
also missed the mark. her manuscript again be
ing returned. Thus ii VIII be seen that -Zack'
has had her share of the diSc0ura EementS which
are supposed To hang round the beginnings of
authorship, 1t was not in fact, until 1S!lS that
she sent To 'Blackwood's Magazine a short story
that the ever kindly Mr.. BlackWoud accepted
Since then success has been easy. until we have
the general approval that has come to her with
the publication of The White Cottage"
MIR. Quiller-Couch who in looks is a typical
Kelt lives at Fowey. in Cornwall the Troy
Town of his fiction. He gets his PRINCIPAL
recreation in yachting. and is rear -carlIuo iora
OF his local yacht club Wesleyism is the DOM
nant religion Of the Cornish and the novelist has
forthcoming story. dealing with the life of Wes-
ley.
Mr.. w. T. Yeats is writing a quantity of short !
pO ms dealing with events in the heroic age OF
Ireland. All his poetry, we told is written !
In his own country where alone ne finds il quiet
enough for work. Mr.. Yeats has a genuine vein |
of poetry, and 1t is pity that he is content to /
spoil 1t with windy affeCtutUnS II is much to be ,
feilcd that ne takes himself too seriously.
An unpublished letter of DR.. Johuson's dated /
April 10 1IS3, is quoted by The Athen;pum'
The State of the Publick" writes the Doctor |
'and the operations of the Government have |
little influence upon the private happiness of !
private men. That dreadful illness that |
seized me left consequences which will think /
always hang upon me. | have never cared since
much to walk. My mental abilities do not /
perceive that it impaired. one great abatement +
of all was the attention of Mr.. ThTale which from /
our first acquaintance never interrupted /
| passed the greater part of many years in his /
house where l had the pleasure of riches with
out the sOlicitude. He took me into France one |
year. and into Wales another. and if he had /
lived would have Shewn me Italy, and perhaps |,
many other countries: but he died in the Spring |
OF 81 and left me to write his epitaph .
Beauclerc died about two years ago and i'm his |
last sickness desired To be buried by the side of |
his mother Langton has eight children he /
lives very little in London and is by no means |
at ease. Goldsmith died partly OF Il fever and |
partly of anxiety. being immoderately and dis |
gracefully in debt Boswels father is lately |
dead but has left the estate incumbered. Bos-