New-York tribune., 1902-07-27

the way-there are left various miscellaneous
papers. which are 10 be brought out together
some day.
! Mr.. J. \ Mitchell. the Editor Of Life is
preparing an illustrated holiday edition or his
book. The Last American. Tie has revised
the text. adapting H. We are told. To present day
conditions.
] An American writer. it appears. is to receive
British Civil List pension. This Is Mrs. Fraser,
the widow of Hugh Fraser. an English diplomat.
/ She is. of course. only an American by birth.
| and is actually British subject. She IS the
| sister of Mr.. Marion Crawford
| Among the new civil List pensions announced
| is one bestowed upon the widow of Mayne Reid
To Mr.. Austin Dobson has been awarded The
| distinguished literary attachments and OF his
eminence as a poet
The final volume of Mr. AIurray's dednitive edi-
! tion of Byron Will contain Don Juan the cpl
grams, photography and index 1t is now
/ In the hands Of the printers and Will appear IN
/ the autumn. Ii IS understood that the work in
Voived in the preparation Of the edition has been
very great, that the original MSS. have been eX-
| amined with minute care. and that little new
ground can now remain for the Byron student 10
/ investigate.
| For copy of the KeImscott ~Chaucer" $4l5
was lately paid at an auction.
| other day a copy of NOltaire's works in thirty
six volumes. presented by David G3rrick u
Kitty olive, with the following autograph in
scrptiou;
If that delight Voltaire can give
Which thou hast Siv'n To me.
more luxurious feast, dear Give
cannot give 70 thee. n c..
Sir Gilbert Parker's History of Quebecc'' is
nearly ready for publication. 1t is to be illus
trated. and viii fill two volumes.
More than forty thousand copies of Mr.. Wis
ter's brilliant novel The Virginian" have been
sold. This is good news. and are glad
learn also that the demand for the book shows
no sign of diminisbin.. " is one of tbe b-st
III SfD of any her
tiOn ard if il receives the public appreciation il
deserves many times forty thousand copies viii
ultimately be sold
\ new American edition of Matthew ArnoId-s
Literature and Dogma is announced by the
New-Amsterdam Book Company. 10 will be the
second issue of their Commonwealth Library
Talking Of Arnold the other day. the Arch
bishop n: Canterbury said that no one could
know him without loving him; he was 50 kind.
so thorough and So invariably sweet He
seemed II BE- man who could never quarrel.
his powers cf laind too. were SingUlaFly great.
Sir Leslie stephen tells us that George Eliot
could nOt be called beautiful Her personal
appearance he says. was Intellectually at
tractive, and had a peculiar pathetic charm.
She looked fragile oyerweighted perhaps by
thought. and with traces of the depression of
which she often complains in her letters. Her
abundant hair. auburn-brown. in later years
StTeaked with gray. was covered by a kind Of
full" '''''7''
There is much wondering as To the destination
Of the late Lord ACtOn'S library. just purchased
by Mr.. Carnegie. 1t contains 100000 volumes.
including a remarkable collection OF works deal
ing with the PapaCy and its associations
throughout the centuries
The PostpOnement of the coronation worked
havoc with the Illustrated journals of London.
Ii is said that the prOprietors of one Well estab-
lished illustrated weekly had spent 81 OUO upon
4 special coronation issue and We're not able 10
sell a single copy Some other weekly papers.
especially religious journals, that had prepared
anticipatOry issues and gone To press the
Tuesday morning, were badly hit.
Mr. Andrew Lang believes that music and
poetry are antagOnistic as mathematics or
science and the classics. though he comedies
that there are happy people who can take pleas
uTe in both-Mr. Browning. for example. But.
a rule. he declares. poets and lovers of
poetry rather hate music than otherwise and
lovers of music are Indifferent To poetry Music
is the most expensive Of noises said ThSOphile
Gautier: Dr. Johnson could not abide il: Scott
liked 1ilt.' OratOTiO would have sent him
to sleep; and though Shelley wrote charmingly
about music. he had turn for that art. The
people To whom scientific music appeals vastly
exceed in number those who care for verse
They pay for seats at concerts; they grudge the
There is competition in their minds. They
want music poetry. OF to-day, they do not
want. except that of MIR. Phillips and Mr.. Kip
ling. We pipe unto them (nOt that personally
Eipe any longer) but they do not pay for
sweet pipings. Why not? Because 1 fear the
piping is not good enOugh Even if il were
good, not many people for poetry: IL they