New-York tribune., 1902-02-02

and Clark expeditions went up the great West.
ern river. and is to be called THE Americar
Fur Trade of the Far West"
Mt Max BeerbOhm's caricatures of the great
wise and eminent" recently exhibited in -
ooh, nave Won unusual sncomiums from ~.
critics, and, it is said, even from some OF tbs
persons carIc2tured. So much has been said
about them in English journals and in ArneriCoS
letters from London that have lively boDa
that Max' may see his way to sending the
collection over here for exhibition. In the mean
trne We reproduce selections from the eleven
examples given in the current number of The
Pail Mail Magazine"
Touching the new book by Mr.. Charles Cod
frey Leland which was recently announced in
The Tribune under the title OF "FIaxius. or
Leaves from the Life of an immortal" soms
interesting information has just come to hand
in a private letter. 1t appears that the hero or
this book Through the ages interviews sucb
characters as Pluto, during a three days visit
to Hades; Hamlet, Mr.. Pandulf, the werewolf
who turns up thousand years after in WaI
Street, and, among others ''ROOSeveldt' when h.
was King of the Netherlands. about the time
when the Dutch first took Holland In this
capacity the monarch has for poet laureate the
Ritter Hans Breitmann. Northern hero who
sings in a fervent ballad the praise OF his mas
ter. paragraph having recently appeared in
many newspapers TO the effect that the sale OF
the Breitmann ballads has amounted to ten
thousand copies, the author supplements il by
a statement to the effect that, including the au-
thOrized editions of Peterson Brothers. of PhiIa-
delphia. and OF Trubner in London (now Kegan
j.
lea, England. Canada and Australia, there have
appeared in all at least sixty thousand copies
including pamphlets with complete works, as
was verified by the late Nicholas TrUbuer.
Some notes on Lord BeaconsfeId's last days
were set down by the late Janetta, Duchess OF
Rutland and have appeared in two just pub
lished volumes of her writings His friends
rejoiced." she says. when he became possessed
of a home in London, where he could gather
them round him. and where his papers and his
books would be collected and arranged He was
fortunate in finding near the site of Chester
field House, where he must have passed so many
brilliant evenings in former times He secured
the lease for nine years, and, in mentioning this
to a friend, added, with his own peculiar smile,
That, I think. will see me out He took pleas
ure in the arrangement of his abode. Glowing
colors he always felt, cOunteTaCted the de-
pressing influence of gray skies. Oriental
carpets and delicate light woods made his
roundings cheerful. Perhaps one of the most
striking proofs of the courageous spirit IN which
he bore his Sufferings and cOmbated the feeling
OF exhaustion that at times overwhelmed him
may be found In the fact that il was only at
very late period of his illness that he said 10
Lord harrington: The time has now come when
must ask you to write TO the Duke OF Port
land TO tell him 1t will be impossible for
at WeIbeck' few days before he corrected
the proofs of one Of his last speeches. observing.
He did not want TO go down TO posJerity as
using bad grammar"
A new book on Shakespeares life and work
is coming out In London 1t is collection OF