New-York tribune., 1902-07-06

Mr. Crockett's Raiders" has been one Of his
most successful books. 1t has gone into i forty
third thousand
What is slang? An English critic declares
that it is for America a kind of euphuLsm and
as significant a sign of the times as the euphu-
ism of the Elzabethan age. He thinks that out
of this deuge of slang may issue literature
which will he worthy OF the glsaHCiJ Gneasy OF Ot
American age. The slang word OF today may
be the poetic word Of tomorrow All OF which
seems to US merely silly. for most American
slang is essentially Un-literary and unpoetc.
and the passage of time cannot alter IL IN thS
respect.
The collection of one hundred and fifty IN
known books which has been made by the Lon
don bookseller. MIR. NOynich, is 10 be sold IN
tact to some public library. probably tnat OF
the British Museum. Most of these books are
of fifteenth century date The secret OF NJ
Voynch's success in finding his rarltles IGe
Academy" says "is "A rather quaint one He
buys only books which he does not know Inc
ordinary bookseller buys only books that ne
does know. In a word. Mr. NOynIch has reii'z-d
that what he does not know about books is pay
tculary worth knowing. Among ms treaSure IS
Mr. YOynCh stands. the picture or an enth4St-
asst puIsng with interest and information ftiS
career has been a remarkable one role by
birth he has known the inside OF Russian poiit-
unapproached in his own sphere OF ;lctlS''y.
He is a man of great learnins-he knows by
the way. seventeen languages intimately
NJ Hurry Furniss is to be the mainstay %
the forthcoming humorous paper. John EulLT
II is in one sense revival. this paper for Theo
dore Hook founded a John Bulf IN lN-O. and II
brought him $4,000 year IL was witty. and
its personalities were cruelty sharp
There is to be a pocket edition of Mr., Hardy's
novels the first being that delicious piece OF
rnsti~ portraiture Under the Greenwood Tree
This book made the authors hrst success Mr.
Frederick Greenwood. il is related. was standing
~ a railway bOOkStall and caught sight Of a
pile of yeIlow-back novels, and being attracted
| by the title which incorporated ms own name.
| purchased Mr. Hardy's story read 1t with In-
/ Tnense zest and Immediately wrote 10 the au-
| thor for another story for serial puolcation in
| The CornhiH Magazine. OF Whlcil ne was thea
| the editor with the result that the world was
/ made the richer by that splendid novel, Far
/ from the Madding crowd
| Mr. George Russells forthcoming book.
! series of chapters on the social changes which
| have taken place in England within his MEM
ory is 10 bear the title For Better. Tor worse:
/ Defoe.s account published in 171S1 of the DE-
/ struction OF the island of St Vincent has al
! ways BEEN regarded as a brilliant piece OF
I CircumstautiaI invention Now rises m EnsllSh-
/ man who mousiEg among old newspapers has
| discovered that the news OF that destruction
/ MAS received and dealt with the day
/ by another writer in another newspaper Tne
/ news turned out 10 be false hut DefOe did not
know that and he brought his realistic journal
I ism To bear on statements or fuHJrS "AleA
| were common property
/ Something resembling the Brook Farm expert
: ment is in progress near Berlin. " here about
! forty German poets, prose writers and philOSO-
! pliers have undertaken to live with their faml-
! lies in a single large house Each family IS
( given an allotment of garden ground, which i
{ can cultivate IL pleaStS, hut until the inStE
: tuition is endowed il must pay one mark head
, per diem to the common expenses. In addition
/ 10 this il must also pay Tor its ,ldrtmeHJS
] which range from 81 To 40 marks q month
The late Lord Acton left a splendid library q
I st tcular and ecclesiastical history. which IS
I surpassed. told. by few public iCstita-
/ tions and equaled by private library IN
/ Europe or America. The books were al bought
to be read and almost all IF them bear the
. marks of perUSal Acton 0f the mos:
/ learned men OF his time. His memory ex-
tTa0rdinary and his studies were vast though
his literary productions were few We are r.
minded that among them Wera ar article on
the Massacre of St Bartholomew Il Contribu-
ton to the Historical Review" German
schools of history. and the introduc ZION TO the
edition OF the Principe" OF MacEiayelh. pub
lished ny the Clarendon Press HI knOweds9
was so great. and his love of accuracy and con-
pletenesS so strong, that he ShTauR from tasks
which less competent person would have
boldly and perhaps successfully attempted MS
literary style Cramped and obscure. ana
| suffer ed from badly arranged and excessive CO