New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-16


number Of hitherto unpublished letters writ
ten by Fanny Burney. the author of that quaint
charming old book. 'Evelina," are 70 make their
appearance in George PASSIONS new volume,
"SideIightS on the Georgian Period" The VOl-
ume is to be made up of group of short studies
of certain phases and characteristics OF thar
time.
'I<ing Lear has lately been translated ints
Japanese by native official of the Rioto UNI
yersity and "sOshi'' troupe intend to perform
the play at Kioto. The "sOshi' actors. we are
told the revolutionary performers who de-
sire to introduce Western theatrical Innovations
who has been amusing Occidental audiences. Is
a sOshi actor. and Japanese theatregoers de-
voted to their own classic ideals have no very
high opinion of her talents.
Julius Cesar exists In japanese version,
and has often been performed in Toxic and
elsewhere. but the native audiences are said to
have remained in dense ignorance as 70 the
meaning OF the play.
The Confessions Of Wife have stirred
British author to the preparation of volume
of Confessions of a Husband" This PrOduc-
ton will be published soon
The rumor that the Sultan intended to pub
ltsh a volume OF memoirs has been fatty con-
tradicted-with the additional statement that
he would be the last monarch in Europe 70
think Of taking the world into his confidence
If casual observers may be trusted his
majesty is in no mood for literary cOrnpOsitfOn
He is described as being obviously in fear of his
life. When you look at his haggard white
face" says The London Sketch" the FREEDOM
mating feature which arrests your attention IS
the long nose, which has given rise TO the nick
name given to the Sultan by the revolutionary
portion of his subjects He has black. piercing
eyes and white hair. He is thin and about mid
die height"
| In deeply interesting article in '@The At
lantic'' literature in the tenements. Eliza
beth McCracken tells many suggestive anec-
| does. one concerns Vanity Fair and its effect
Il YrOu a flVpV CEiF qS[ a6 vC0i NJ
the people she liked best Becky" said the
girl; she had the most to her. OF course.
sOrter think Amelia just happened to be good;
| she didn't decide to be. Becky would er been a
hundred times better than Amelia IL she'd been
brought up dirrent-"
There is a report that the journal OF Zachary
Hicks one of the officers who served under Cap
tain Cook on his first southwark voyage on the
Endeavour. was lately discovered behind a
wainscoting in the Deptford Victualing Yard
In her new Lombard Studies Countess Mar
tinengO CesarescO pays tribute to the truth OF
the feeling in George Meredith's novel, Wit
tOria': He caught the flame of passion that Lie
up those vicissitudes as with the crimson OF
Italian dawns. He caught it, because no heart
vibrateS in closer union with Italian patriotism
than that of the English pOet-nOvelist. Only the
other day, in letter received from him. he
spoke of the RisOrgimentO as the first and
greatest enthusiasm OF my youth
scholar from the United States at Oxford will
form the material of forthcoming book II Is
COuched in the ''Verdant Green" vein It's
author is George CaldeTOn, OF the late Brit
ish painter of that name.
There is to be a curious edition-a complete
edtiOn-Of ByrOn'S pOetical works. The house
of his old publisher, Murray, is bringing IL out
There are to be seven hundred pages in the vOl-
ume-and il will cost only a shilling copy!
Jack London. the ChrOnicler OF far North
western adventure and emotion. is a sturdy per
son with sailors roll in his gait His mental
and physical nlakeupS express force and energy
He has worked his way before the mast, has
tramped many month through the toughest
West. and has packed his own thousand
pounds over the ChilcOOt Pass.
a fine copy of the "COSmOgraphie IntrOduCtio."
1jOl-wheTein is to be found the earliest pro-
pOsal TO give the name of America to the newly
discovered wOrld-WaS sold in London the other
day for $3.50 At the same sale the numbers
from to OF Disraelis Tigidly suppressed star
Chamber" brought So.
THE GATE OF HE4TEN.
BY T. BOURDULON.
Whittier leads the gateway
That stands at the top OF the hin.