New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-29

Israel ZangWlu mas been travelling in out OF
The way places in Italy in the interests of Harp
sr's Magazine. Louis Loeb accompanied him.
and will contribute the Illustrations to the
forthcoming articles next year
The narrative Of the Boer war from one
r, the fighting generals is promised by the
scribners in the Three Years War OF
rbristian Rudolf De Wet, which is to be pub
,isbed next Saturday. There are no frills in
General De Vets story. He gives subtitle.
ven. merely begins Three Years War and
,sn plunges into the tale directly with Il Joined
+,s Boer army on such and such date, and
,r-oceeds at once with a march There are reve-
,a+ions from the Boer side of a goodly number
. feints and surprises which the British al
lowed the enemy TO carry off. On one occasion
ne Wet attacked forty thousand men with six
,,,ndred and by causing the impression that
the entire Boer army appearing from am
hush made off with baggage train OF sixty
wagons. The audacity that went into such
.ernrises as this could, of course, only be known
hr the Beers and General De Vets account will
have many new versions of battles heretofore
-snorted almost entirely from one side. The
hack is supplied with various plans and maps,
and q frontispiece portrait by John S. Sargent.
ptrhard Aldrich the musical critic Of THE
Times" has translated the "Gesangskunst" of
LII Lehman Under the title How to Sing"
;fis appearing from the press of the Macmillan
Company. Speaking Of her studies and aims
Nine Lehman says:
I have been on the stage since my eighteenth
xAar. that is, for thirty-four years. In Prague
took part every day in operas, operettas plays
and farces. Thereafter in Danzig 1 sang from
eghteen TO twenty times month in coloratura
nd soubrette parts: also in Leipsc. and later
ffteeu years in Berlin. In addition, I sang in
very many oratorios and concerts, and gave
AsN~4~ tee as1ra
have passed, of which spent eight very exact
ing ones as a dramatic singer in America, after
languages, in Germany, Austria, Hungary,
France England and Sweden. For many years
] have been devoting myself TO the important
questions relating to singing, and DelleVe that
have finally found what am seeking. 1t has
been my endeavor TO set down as clearly as pos
, sible all that I have learned through Jealous
conscientious study by myself and with others.
and thereby TO offer my colleagues something
that Will bring order into the chaos Of their
methods Of singing: something based on science
rs well on sensations in singing; sometnlng
that will bring expressions often misunderstood
into clear relation with the functions OF the vocal
organs
Routine will have it's little joke now and then.
When the Century Company published The
Sentimental Journey in their series Of classics.
and when a San Francisco newspaper reviewed
II lately, neither thought IT necessary TO ex-
plain that Laurence Sterne lived and died in
eighteenth
are in some embarrassment to know what TO do
with a communication addressed to their care.
which they have received from news clipping
bureau:
Laurence sterne, care Of Century Company.
80 East Seventeenth-st
Dear Sir: Will you not give me an order TO
send you all the newspaper articles Wnicn APP
pear about you and your book from the lead
ing daily, weekly and monthly puolcations
in the United States and Europe? II you
publishers notices please state so -when SUD
scrfbing and your orders will be carried out
Trusting TO receive your ORDER, yours
very truly. ---'.'..'-- 80 '''''''''
T.ongmans. Green & Co have just published
2 study Of the work OF a French journalist IN
the time Of the revolution, which though it has
been the subject Of considerable inquiry among
Frenchmen, has not heretofore been properly
presented in English. This is the stranger. as
much OF his work had reference to that coun-
try. Carlyle, Sainte Beuve and Tame refer to
Mallet du Pan as pioneer of modern Journal
ism He championed the constitutional mon
arcbv during the days of turmoil and civic
bloodshed and was confidential adviser OF
Louis XVI. The biography by Valette Is no
more than q short monograph, and that OF
Savous was written before the recovery OF i'm
portant Vienna correspondence. Bernard NAL
let the great-great grandson Of the Journalist
has endeavored TO present the results OF ld'e It
search TO English readers in the volume which
he calls 'AIallet du Pan and the French Revo-
luton" Among the newspapers which Mallet
du Pan edited were Annals politiques civiles ct
litteraires du XVIIIe steele" conducted from
1915 to 1850 in collaboration with Linguet and
by Mallet du Pan alone, from 1871 TO 1875
Memories historiques, politiques ct litter
aires sur Petat present de rEurOpe" (ten num-
bers from March, 1888: "Mercure de France"
07S3 to 1892 in fifty-three volumes). and "Mer-
cure Britannique" London Cfrom August 1913
10 March. 1900 thrty-six numbers).
L p button & Co. will issue, about the
first Of next month. folio volume Of some bulk
on Constable and His Influence on Landscape
Painting The author is c. J. Holmes over
seventy paintings have been reproduced in
photogravure, and partial chronological list
Of paintings and sketches is included The edl-
ton is limited to one hundred copies for this
country The text aims to be not so much a
biography for which purpose the author holds
that Leslie's account is still adequate an
estimate The rise of naturaIism in the treat
ment Of landscape is treated, the influences I'M
der which Constable developed, the variations
and extensions Of his practice and such infiu-
ence as they had on English and Continental
landscape artists. and some consideration OF
the character of his achievement form the body
OF the authors discussion. He takes issue with
Ruskin in that critics declarations that Con-
stable refused to be taught by his predecessors,
approached nature without veneration, would
draw adequately. and was false In his
realism. AS 20 the acceptance Of his work,
letter OF Constable is quoted giving his own
expectation: My pictures will never be popu-
lar" he wrote TO friend, for they have no
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