New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-25
LITERARY NOTES.

In the Memories of a Hundred Years. which
r1le Macmillan Company has published in two
volumes Edward Everett Hale tells story OF
his younger days, which he considers worth
the precious three hundred words II mas
cost, because It marks almost to a minute the
period when the United States became real
democracy:
In was on the third day Of November in 1873
that / who was then six years old, was LED by
the hand Of Fullam we four Of us children
returned after dark, from tea party at Kath-
crime Fosters in Avon Place. 1t was the night
following the day when Massachusetts had
given her vote for J. @ Adams in 1873. As
E1lIaro half dra gged me and half lifted
across the Main Street" mans voice broke
the silence Of the evening by the cry, Hurrah
for Jackson I think that such cries We're then
unusual I doubt whether the New-Englanders
We're in the habit OF expressing themselves IN
such ways A counter cry from another dlrec-
ton Immediately replied, "Hurrah for Adams
But alas, third voice, evidently from ne"
interlocutor, replied at once with second Hur-
rah for Jackson" I was but child, but IN one
matter 7 the future of seventy years as Wen
ae I now see il in retrospect Impossible not to
observe that two men hurrahed for jackson, and
only one for Adams, Impossible not to reflect
that IN the street neither my father, nor my
uncles. nor any Of the gentlemen whom / was
used TO see. would have hurrahed for anybody.
And the time, how clear even to
child's observation, that there were many more
in the world of the kind who like to hur-
rah In the street than OF the kind who do not
Eke TO: All that we children understood or
the business was that General Jackson had once
hanged six militiamen and that his election
would be the ruin Of the country Observe also
that this was at the close of an election day in
which Adams had four votes in Massachusetts
for one given TO Jackson.
Alfred Ayres who died last month In this
city at the age of seventy-five, has been the
subject Of a number Of well vouched for stories
The doctor-the real name of the old purist OF
IrIrists was Dr. Thomas Embiey Osmun-let
the hobby Of correct speech and pronunciation
grow upon him that he fell into the habit OF
picking friends I'D for faults in the course Of
conversation. and even gave evidence of the
ruling passion on his deathbed In Bellevue
Hospital one of his pupils. young woman
from Cleveland, Ohio, who came TO help in
nursing him, undertook to divert his mind by
referring TO the proper way of reciting Hamlet's
advice 10 the players. and giving the passage
IN intentional monotone. Immediately the
dying elocutionist reused himself, and, protest
ing that the rendition was eXecrable then and
there gave il with all his old expression and
vigor. An instance of how the serious pursuit
Of perfection may involve a momentary loss of
fhe safeguard of humor furnished when
DR. OsmUn walked into the offices of his pub
Fishers one day and asked for a member Of the
firm The clerk. strangely venturesome in such
a presence, replied that the wanted had
FLEW de coop
Young man." cried the habitual mentor
Eravely. "you should say he has flown the
coop"
Horace 4. Fry's one act tragedy, Little
Italy" which is favorte in Mrs Fiskes rep
ertoire, has been published by R. H Russell
There is 3 frontispiece portrait Of Mrs. Fiske,
The survey Of the history Of the Stuarts from
the days Of the Solway Moss to those of Cul-
Ioden. which has been prepared by J. J. Foster
in two volumes, bearing the imprint Of the Bal
Iantyne Press. is being published in limited
edition in this country by E p. Dutton & Co.
The illustrations from portraits, relics,
medals and forth in the possession of King
Edward and number of titled Englishmen,
many of them reproduced here for the first time.
The aim has been to present pictorial, history.
There reproductions of ten facsimile let
tiers from Mary Stuart James I, Charles II, the
. Duke Of Monmouth, the ChevaIier St George
and others. Among the paintings reproduced
are examples by Van Dyck, Honthorst Mere
veldJ, Cheeraedts Lely, Kneller, and miniatures
by Samuel Cooper. Petitot and the divers
President Eliot Of Harvard writes in the De-
oember issue Of THE Worlds Work" of the
present need Of American education He advo-
Gates the institution of school system which
should introduce the elective system from the
time the students We're nine years old. the cleo
high school subjects, In the details of admin
tstration he thinks that business agents should
perform much Of the work devolving upon
the school boards Pensions for old teachers are
advocated. and greater expenditure recon-
mended for buildings and equipment
noteworthy example Of woodcut block print
ing is furnished by the limited edition Of vol
ume Of "Old English Songs and Dances which
rs being imported by Longmans. Green & Co
Designs, printed in color. supplied by w
Graham Robertson The book is in royal ouarto
and only fifty copies viii be sold in this country
Such old songs Blue Muslin" Crimson
Velvet" Love Lies Bleeding "Oh, the Trees
They Are So High" have been selected, and
among the dances Put on Thy Smock O.
Monday" "Bobbing Joan and others. A quaint
Illustration Of fearful and wonderful bygone
fashion Of dress accompanies the song 80
Mother. a Hoop
What fine thing have | seen to-day,
o mother. hoop
must have one, and you cannot say nay,
mother, hoopi
For husbands gotten this way to be sure
Mems eyes and mems hearts they neatly
allure
Q mother. a hoop 4 hoop,
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compendious discussion by NJ Ostrogorskf
has been published in translation by the Mac
milan Company, Democracy and the Or
ganization Of Political Parties" Frederick
Clarke. formerly Taylorian scholar in the Uni