New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-06-15
SUNDAY, JUNE 10, 1902.

If vvouId be good to know what Ruskn, with
his candid and f0rceful way of speaking, Wouin
say if looking down from the Elyslan flelus'
he could take hand in the discussion pIo-
yokcd by certain announcements tOuchhS Ihe
forthcoming new edition of his works. Inc re-
tort 10 the complaint made here and i'll England
that he will be wronged by the 1nsefloh III
Ibis edition of matter which he had ieleted in
his MSS is a weak retOrt indeed. 1hlS mat
fer will be printed we are told, as footnotes, or
aidenda this being merely the regular li"c-
tjce in definitive editions in which there is some
min, IN show the workings of an authors mind
Rnsh! This is the weakest of reasons often
.,iven for the indefensible use of n catcnDenhy
device The writings which man in the fuH
Ii.sor of his brain chooses to publish should De
left in the form which his final careful JudS-
meut gave to them-thcy show all that the
world is entitled to know of the workings OF
his mind" To Publish that which for his own
GOOD reasons he deleted is treason, ana no cX-
rlanation in the circumstances can be oiher
than specious We would like very much 10
feel the bumps of the people who are always
RISING ND to set a dead author right as they
would say before the world
Poor Mr. Stephen Phillips. The controversial
TEMPEST
with = ferccncss calculated to shatter even tie
stauteSt of teapots, has no doubt done MIN soihe
GOOD II is hardly conceivable that poems ana
1livs so hotIy discussed could have tailed 10
GET themselves asked for ut the booksellers by
hundreds who would perhaps otherwise have
NEGLECTED. them altogether. But the subject, we
fear i beginning to be made ridiculous. MT.
Sidney Colvin was stirred TO his depths when
he found in the severe article in The Quarterly
Review" to which we have recently referred,
certain sentences and paragraphs WHEN lie hau
already found in THE Saturday Review ana
in The AthenHum.' He straghtway wrote 10
The Saturday," pouring form his Soul upoh
the dunrity thus betrayed. Whereupoh MT
Arthur SyInons, to whom we offer our coh@ratu
latiou sends To The Saturday" demure con
fcssion that he did. indeed, crittcisc Mr.. nm
lfps in the three different periodicals ram6d,
ana what is more, he does not seem {" be IN
the least sorry for his conduct Also he PERU
ncntlv retorts upon Mr.. GOWNS list OF 'lpde
7cndcuf pcrsons Of widely different training and
association" who have expressed in print Their
admiration of Mr. Phillips. with this question
'.WiH Mr. Colvin assure me that not one OF
these widely different gentIem has written
more than one review OF any one hook o. Mr.
PhfIIips:" The outside observer softly
chuckIcs. Mr. Andrew Lang, Ivy the way. is
as usual. delightful the whole business
When he took Il hand in the fray and made
remarks about Aristotle. Mr.. Chur:0n Collins
who had been exprcssm" himself on tlat writer
concluded that Mr.. Lang wanted 10 v"N Inn
But saws that unrcpontant individual. in truth,
my purpose was 10 DO for this literary cohlTo-
versy what cavalry does for war. lon nay
remember how the young officer being invited
by examiners 10 explain the uses # cavalry, re