New-York tribune., 1902-01-25

morrow" to the controversy of the moment:
All me! what tragic imbroslio,
Produced by a famous first folio.
Americans swear
That cipher lies there
To knock England's Bard rowey-powley O.
Uprises a Buddhist named Sinnett.
To hail the Swans death warrant in It;
And oxford wit,
Named Mallock is hit;
And perverts arrive every minute.
Yet Mr.. Biographer Lee
Is certain as certain can be.
No mystery turks
In Shakespearian works:
"a cipher? All moonshine" says he.
And we
We're quite IN accordance with Lee.
Mr. Henty the story writer beloved of boys.
is vigorous. burly man OF seventy years, who
shows only in his bearded face the records of
half dozen campaigns. He went through the
Crimea fought with Garibaldi marched 10 Mag
dala and Coomassie. and the chronicler OF
three European wars. He works six hours a
day for seven months of the year. and he die
tates every word OF his books to a stenographer.
THE Industrial changes OF the past century
have not advanced wages nor relieved misery TO
the degree that economists hoped. But the as
sumption that social evils are economic in their
origin is a assumption" says Professor
Simon Patten in the introduction 10 his book.
The Theory OF Prosperity" that the Macmillan
Company has ready for publication.
Several volumes of short stories are promised
by Mcclure Phillips & Co. that likely to
prove interesting. One will be by Joel Chandler
Harris, for which the title is not yet determined
containing number of stories that have ap-
peared in magazines and number that have
not; another will include Robert Barr's Merry
Monarch" SERIES many of which have also re-
ceived magazine publication. It's title is also
still IN allegiance. Another volume will be Jose
phine Dodge Daskam's THE Madness of Philip"
title derived from the first of the seventeen
stories It contains.
Another musical book Is promised by the Scrib-
ners. who have devoted so much attention to
musical literature 1t will be Music in the His
tory of the Western Church." by Edward Dick
irson professor of the history of music in Ober-
lin College. 1t is attempt to show how diff
ferent confessions in different nations and times
have approached the problem of making music
contribute to the ends which church worship has
in view, without renouncing those attributes
upon which its freedom a fine art depends
1t does not purport to be history OF church
music. to traverse ground gone over In other
treatises devoted to that history.
To the men who knew him at Princeton Booth
Harrington noted for many things. He was
the soloist on the Glee Club, he managed and
drew for college publication. wrote for
others. and he wrote and took a leading part in
the opera presented by the Dramatic Club. Now
adays when tall. broad shouldered young man
drops into the Princeton Club some recent
graduate may whisper to his companions, There
goes Harrington, the Monsieur Beaucaire
man; but If the young graduate has ever been
at one of the smokers which Mr.. Harrington has
attended. he's more apt to say, That's Tark
the man who sings Danny Deever.'"
Dr. Conan Doyle has written his history of
the Boer war and entered career of revising
it to keep it up to date but now he comes
forth with defence of his country and its
governmental policy in the South African ques-
ton in which he has put his patriotism on its
mettle. 1t Is little book entitled THE War;
Its Cause and Effect" and he has arranged
with his publishers. Mcclure Phillips & Co.. to
sell it at just the cost of printing after sending
a copy of it TO every Congressman Senator ed
itor and library.
"The Irish question has never passed into his
tory because it has never passed out of politics
This saying of Lord Roseberys is quoted by c.
Litton Falkner in his introduction to his Studies
in Irish History and Biography" as a reason for
thinking that his book is almost certain TO he
criticised from the point of view of Irish politics
though the essays in it relate almost wholly 70
persons and events of the eighteenth century
Longmans, Green & Co. have it in preparation
Mr. Nathan Haskell Dole is engaged In re-
vising and enlarging the photography of Omar
Khayyam for new edition of his Multivarorum
Edition of the "Rubaiyat." which will be
brought out in the spring by L. c. Page a 20
of Boston Mr.. Dole. whose address is Jamaica
Plain. Mass. will be grateful for any informa- |