New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-03-07
LITERARY NOTES.

The late poet Aubrey de We're was. are
told by M A. p" always regardless Of his
appearance and even when called upon TO act
as best man" at a wedding saw reason for
discarding his shabby tweed suit and white cot
ton umbrella in favor Of a wedding garment
I'm later years he still chung TO this white cot
ton umbrella, and one occasion electrified
London by appearing in Hyde Park IN Mary
Anderson's carriage at a time when she was al
the zenith of her popularity calmly holding up
this dilapidated machine the sides OF whlch
were ornamented with long ragged Sits"
In the lust published volume OF oxford
Studies by the late ]. r Green. there are
some pathetic pages dealing with the poor
scholar" Of the university. We are reminded
how HYDE the Orientalst, burned his unsai-
able books to boil his kettle and how all allow
deep read Mr.. Hales to have been in a manner
starved Johnson il is added. had to give up
visiting his friend Taylor because his SHOES
were worn out and he was too proud to accept
the new pair placed outside his chamber door
by an unknown donor When in after
years DR. Adams ventured the remark that
the photographer was as student "a gay
frolicsorne fellow" and passed at Oxford the
happiest days of his life. the latter replied:
'Ah sir I was mad and violent-it was bit
terness they uaistook for frolic- was miserably
poor and thought 10 fight my way by my lit
erature and my wit. so I disregarded all power
and all authority"
The late Lord Dufferin just before his final
illness. finished the commentary on sheridan's
plays which are about be published from the
original manuscripts.
In the current "Athenaum" is quoted this
anecdote Of Lord Duferin's diplomatic life;
He was ambassador at St Petersburg at the
time when the runlors Of Nihilist plots were IN
the air, and Russian society was tortured with
the tension of horrid expectation He had just
arrived TO dinner in the house OF another am
bassador when the vague runor was brought
that the Car had been blown up IN his winter
Palace He ar once proposed TO go or send Tor
accurate news, but the assembled diplomats
with their traditional caution, hesitated 70 take
any step, and proposed TO wait for news next
morning This not to his mind Running
downstairs, he caught one OF the guests car
riages and drove to the palace. The gates were
open. the guards scattered, the officials dis
traueht most Of the lights blown out. Never
theless he penetrated the palace, and, passing
through empty suites at last found the Car IN
a room with a single light with a single COM
panion, in state Of intense excitement To
Lord Dufferins warm congratulations Tor MS
safety he replied with torrent Of statements
which man will ever know, but which urged
Lord Dufferin TO take his leave with all his
wonted courtesy From that evening no one
from without the Gar for three weeks
But next day IL went abroad through RUSSIA
that in the first panic OF the crime the British
ambassador alone Of all men, had faced all
risks, had despiSed all precautions and mad
dared to offer his homage Of loyalty and friend
ship to the emperor in his trouble This quick
sympathy, this rapid decision, this perfect tact
made him the greatest Of all our great civil
servants in his generation
Probably no one has had more exceptional
opportunities for studying the lives and habits
of wild animals than William Davenport HUI
bert whose book. Forest Neighbors," Will soon
lie published by Mcclure Phillips & CO. He
was born in 1868 at Mackinac Island Mich,
where his father was engaged in the fish trade.
III health kept him from attending school, and
he got his education mainly from bountitul
supply OF good literature and an intimate &C
quaintance with the woods and water He
spent several years on large tract Of timber
land owned by his father and lying around the
beautiful little lake which he has called in his
stories .fCIinnrnerglass" While here Mr. Hull
bert's health was such that he had to be wheeled
in an invalid chair; but this did not interrupt
his ACQUAINTANCE with wild animals. He would
have his attendants wheel him into the woods
and leave him there. The animals seemed 10
realize that their friend was i'll and would ap-
preach him without fear. He gained an init
mate knowledge of them all-of the deer that
sometimes jumped the fences and helped them
selves TO fresh vegetables; the porcupines that
came in at night, and made themselves nul-
saace by attempting to gnaw the house down;
the looms that nested on the shores Of Glimmer-
glass, and the beaver. few Of which were still
TO be found in the neghboring streams
Another addition to the library OF outdoor
books that IS growing TO great proportions
in these days viii be made in Ernest Ingersolls
Wild Life in Orchard and Field" which the
Harpers have in preparation. 1t will be fully
illustrated with Photographic reproductions.
Professor Paulsen. whose book Kant is
Issued in English by the Scribners, has some
remarks on Rants style that interesting,
coming from a German savant, type gener-
ally totally indifferent to style. He says:
He who reads through the 'Transcendental
Analytic for the first time will perhaps feel as
il he wandered the whole day through endleSS
Elndhills He constantly keeps hoping that he
his climbed the last barrier and viii see his
goal before him, but ever new obstacles appear
in his path. Even the construction of Rants
sentences add 10 the difficulty. They are some
times enough 70 reduce the most patient reader
to despair especially in the two later "Critiques
If one turns to almost any page one finds SEN
fences Of from ten TO twenty lines in length
One has scarcely begun TO read before eXplana-
tons, reservations, in brackets and without
brackets, in the text and as foot notes, begin to
appear It seems a if Kant felt compelled at
every lire to recall the entire 'Critique" to the
readers mind. so that he should not forget that
here everything is to be understood from the
critical and transcendental point Of view.
The inversion of the Latin construction in
German subordinate clauses, the frequent use Of
the relative pronoun, whose antecedent the
reader is left TO seek among half dozen sub
stantives, makes IL often necessary for one to
read a sentence two or three times in order to
understand merely the grammatical construc-
ton.
A new edition of Henry Harland's book
ehort ie in