New-York tribune., 1902-01-19

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He hopes she does not deprive herself ~ a.
little drop of coffee she is so fond of. and tha,
II still wards off attacks of neuralgia Tbs
quality that is most felt in these letters is in
deed, afectiOnateneSs-
The memoir of Kinglake the historian vvbio,
the Rev w, TuCkwell has long been preparing
will be brought out soon. No separate biograpbv
OF kinglake has ever been published
A French translation of DIR. Frazers valuable
work. The Golden Bough'' is to be brought ON,
shortly. Nj. Solomon Reinach has written an
introduction.
Dealing with Lowell and his Boston contem-
poraries The Saturday Review" QOndon) mur-
murS this: Emerson, ThOreau. LOngfellOw
Whittier. Holmes. Lowell. the Boston galaxy:
none of them were of the 'Bards sublime whose
distant footsteps echo through the corridors OF
time; though they did write some noble verse
much cultured. witty and humorous verse
and much that was affecting and pathetic
They were of the essayist-pOet school, VINO
could write articles for magazines. give
! lectures the poets, and write verses
with skill and facility; but though thew
were interesting personalities. and possessed a
certain distinction and originality which gave
them a hearing beyond their own country. in
England especially, they were not more than
accomplished men of letters such old coun-
tries expect to find a matter of course among
their literary classes They did not create a
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outcome and the voices of the best literary
cultivation and the humaniteS generally OF
America. They were lovable, charming. fas-
cnating group, and yet so local that writing or
reading the biography of one appears to be very
much like the writing or reading the biography
of any other of the group LOngfellOw. sup
nose was the most purely poetic of them though
he was by means the abest, and they We're
all professors of something or other. and IA
nous writer's of magazine articles, which. Of
course. implies Cleverness of itself
The name of the author of AN English
woman's Love Letters" is soon To be revealed
too late, imagine. TO rouse any puohc in
tereSt.
NJ Emile Zola's book. His Masterpiece" is
on the point of publication in England
Professor a. W. Ward. of Cambridge. writes
to 1.-The Atheneum' to state that the proposal to
erect a monument to Shakespeare at Weimar
which. after being adopted at conference sum
moned TO the Wartburg on April II last by the
Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar. was approved at
a general meeting held at Weimar IN May, has
now taken definite shape. An influential COM
mittee. presided over by Dr. w Oechelhduser.
with HOfrath z. Won BOjanOwsh as vce-char-
man, has been formed TO carry the scheme into
execution. the which it is hoped 20 raise be-
ing $4,000 marks. Weimar is the seat Of the
German Shakespeare Society. Subscriptions 10
the Weimar Shakespeare monument VIII be re-
ceived by KOmmerzienrath Dr. M0ritz tof the
firm of Jul Elkan) in Weimar.
Sir Mountstuart Grant Dun has borrowed
from Mr. Stedman a title for his Just issued
book of poetcal selections The English critics
are finding much fault with this new Victorian
Anthology"
Madame Maurice Sand. who died not long ago
spent many years in arranging the correspond
ence of her famous mOther-in- lava CORE
spondence which is soon to be published There
are thousands of letters. many of them from the
most distinguished men of her time and the
desks CupboardS and shelves of George Sands
house are filled with them. The Chopin
respOndenCe was burned by the novelist herself
and the De MuSset family obtained an injunc-
ton from the court fOrbiddinS the De Musset
correspondence to appear
TOIstoy who is described as quite we'll again.
is busy upon a book about which he will say
nothing. all entTeaties are in vain
Mr.. Austin DObSOn'S new and enlarged edition
of his Collected Poems is 10 include some OF
the verse in his privately printed volume. Car
nina VOtiVa." and other recent poetry by him.
Mrs w X Clifford has written new novel
Its title is Margaret Vincent" and it is to make
its first appearance as a serial
THE DRY4D'S HOUSE.
W w Campbell in Tie Spectator.
This cool and gIocmirs summer wood
Is wise and silent IN It's mood,
For ever moving in its dream
OF breathing leaf and sunny slean-