New-York tribune., 1902-08-31

came school teacher and later a gOvernrnent
official in Australia
| The coming volume. Life and Letters OF IT
Taine" has much that is intimate and pergonai a.
| in it, though Taine himself held strong yieIs
on the right of public people to home privacv
| His will expressly forbade the publication Of
intimate private papers but it is hard fo
/ deny that description 10 some Of the letters
which are TO be given to US. There is nv
/ the way, interesting passage in d note 10
/ friend and pupil, one in which he advises the
| younger to write "a study a la Sainfa
Beuve" There are" he says, "but two pleas
ant kinds of writing. dear fellow; on the one
] hand. monograph studies Of character OF life
details of the soul. things OF Art; and on the
| other. exalted Philosophy. generallties whose
| arms are as wide as the world. The things he
| tween these two lack grandeur or interest
There is to be biography Of Ii Hung Chang
| by who knew him-Mrs. Archibald Little
| the industrious traveller and capable author
! A revised version of Dyce's Glossary -
| Shakespeare has just been issued by Profess
sor LttIedaIe. The bulk of the original worx
| he has not touched. but he has Incorporated
| the plays and did not bring into the glossary
He has also added various supplementary notes
setting forth the useful results Of modern re-
| search
Another short story by Mr.. Kipling is to b
published soon-
| Alexander Mackenzie's journal OF his travels
| through North America and down the great
Mackenzie River in 1889 and 1893 original
| ly published a hundred years ago, and was
| reprinted in 1914. No edition has been issued
since then. and. convinced that this pioneers
story should be easily accessible to the general
reader, the New-Amsterdam Book Company will
| shortly add a new edition Of it to their Com
monwealth Library.
"a romantic history" are the words applied
| to Sir Gilbert Parker's book on "OId Quebec
| 1t is to be lavishly illustrated
0r in Mra
gie's forthcoming novel. Love and the Soul
Hunters:
Prince Paul of UrseviHe- -BeyIestein-
Prince Constantine his elder brother.
The ex-Queen. mother of Prince Paul and
Prince Constantine
Clementine Gloucester. the heroine Of the
MT Alfred Gloucester. her father.
Mime. de Montgenays, known as La Belle
Valentine" American
Mr.. Golden Duryee, an American millionaire
and dysoeDtc-
Oscar Sachs and - Bickersteth, aTlst0cratS
OF the financial world.
Rachel Bickersteth and Nadeshda Sachs. their
wives
Hermann Gessner. millionaire
DR.. Felshammer secretary to Prince Con
stantine-
Mrs. Craigie's article George Eliot in the
new volume Of the Encyclopedia Britannia
does not please the English critics. The
Athenaum' quotes her statement that George
EIiot's humOr not that genial broad, un-
equivocal humOr which is peculiarly virile- Hers
apprOXimated, curlOuSly enough, 10 the Satlre OF
Jane Austen. both for its irony and it's applica-
ton to little everyday affairs. Mems hUmOr
under all it's headings is the heroic rather
than the average scale 1t is for the uncommon
situation not for the daily tea table" To this
THE AJhen9um'' adds: We do not believe
that sexual differences in humOr justify any
such remarks as these some OF then lndeed'
seem to US positively misleading George EIOts
best humOr take to be that of the Warwick
shire farmer and peasant, and one needs. per-
haps. to be born and bred in the MidlaHd5
among the country folk to appreciate it fully.
This is hUmOr of the sOiI-brOad uneQuivOCaI,
but in actual life often sinister than genial,
and not confined to man. George Eliot has also.
in less effective way, the humOr of the scholar.
who loves the irony which his very command
and knowledge of language suggest to him II
is the humOr of Horace, of the polished writer
and taIker, of that educated insOlence which
versatility encourages. 1t has nothing heroic
about it that can see which units it for the
tea table, round which it fOurishes''
Another Claiming has lately passed away
one of the family identified with both Old and
New England. This Miss Blanche Chan
ming, youngest daughter of the Rev W H
Claiming. of London. and sister of the present
Member of Parliament, Mr.. F. H Charming
Miss Charming clever writer of prose and
verse.
man. is still discussed by the correspondents
of THE Saturday Review The latest letter
addressed to the editor runs thus.
Which is correct? Truly il is hard to say.
Does it really matter? Sir Walter Scott, who
should have knOWn-if any One-dOeS not seem