New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-08
title of Miss Clara Morris's forthcoming move
of life on the stage.

of life on the stage.
Once upon a time when Alexandra dumas WAS
staving in the South of France he conceived the
idea of erecting on the Cap d'Antibes a great
institution refuge for broken down literary
men, poverty stricken geniuses- suppose
says Frank Harris, that Dumas was the only
person living who could have persuaded that
cool Villemessan mt, whom BalZac caricatured as
Finot to put one penny into such scheme or
even to consider fantastic an enterprise LOT
half al hour
But Dumas conquered Villemessant' as he con,
quered every one; half persuaded hal1 charIheu
him. and at length Villemessant consented 10
embark in the undertaking. To make long
story, short Villemessant found the million or
francs that Dumas thought necessary and sent
it down to him, and Dumas did buy a paIt Oh
the Cap dAntibes and erected on IT a hugs
square building with rooms 40 feet square ana
20 feet high for his almoners. But, alas! all
the money was spent on the ground ana mouse
and Nillemessant thinking lhe 1ndlseI onel III
the cool air of Paris refused TO send down an
other farthng and there, for thirty years, the
huge building stood at the point OF the cap
d. Antilles looking the blue Mediterranean.
a monument of the fantastic generosity ana
heedlessness of Dumas and of his persuasive
power. Now the huge building has been turned
into a hotel, and is more or less successful ana
Dumas's dream of home and resting place Tor
worn out men of letters still remains plous
wish. In looking at the great Monastery OF
Monte Casino. Tame burst out:
II wonder will science ever do much for Its
votaries as religion has done for hers! WONDER
IL there viii ever he laic Monte Casino!
The man who had the idea of laic Monte
Casino was Alexandra Dumas. Some day this
idea of the great romance writer will come TO
fulfilment
"A Bit of Human Nature" is the title-the
suggestive title-of the novel lately completed
by Ellen OIney Kirk. It is TO be published in
"Lippncotts.'
Mr.. Hilaire Belloc's Forthcoming book THE
Path to Rome" has eighty illustrations from his
own drawings
In the Maryland Diocesan Library is a copy of
the first Bible printed in English in this coun-
try with an American imprint-that brought
out by r Aiken in Philadelphia during the Rev
dictionary War. il being impossible then to i'm
port Bibles from England. Concerning this issue
Congress passed this resolution
Resolved That the United States in Congress
assembled highly approve the pious and laudable
undertaking of Mr.. Aiken . and they rec
olnmend this edition of the Bible TO the inhab-
itants of the United States and hereby author
lie him to publish this recommendation in the
manner he shall think proper"
1t was not until several years after Tennyson
sang the coming into Britain of ''the sea kings
daughter from over the sea" that the beauti-
full Alexandra met the poet in private In the
course Of their talk the young matron asked
him TO read his welcoming ode to her. We are
told that the poet proceeded the personal eu-
logy began 10 strike the princess being a little
amusing when repeated in her hearing, and
Tennysof also showed signs that the position
was awkward. Both kept their countenances
until the last word uttered, and then as the
Laureate raised his eyes to the princess she gave
him an arch and merry look but in such a man.
ner that instead of disconcerting the poet it
set him at ease. and finally they had a hearty
laugh together over the comcality of the stua-
ton
Librarian Eaton Of the "Booklovers Library
makes plea for the current fiction about which
Mr.. Carnegie is dubious.
Beginners he says, read from the pres
ent back into the centuries-to-day's newspaper,
then the latest magazine then the current book.
From this baseline the plodding is slow and
back toward the masterpieces"
The word Sentimental" a good word, word
with matter of mirth and irony in it. is believed
to have been coined by Laurence Sterne Mr..
Herbert Paul says that it was first used by
Sterne in 1740 in letter to Miss Lumley, whom
he married year afterward.
Every imaginable kind of practical hint to the
man of may be found in the Soldiers
Pocket Book the first edition of which
published by its author, Lord Wolseley. long
ago as 1869. There is a story that, in the days
when every soldier was supposed to carry this
book on his person, Lord Wolseley who
inspecting the til. asked private what part
of his kit he would most readily part with. The
reply was, The Soldiers Pocket Book SIR
The reports Of Thomas Hardys i'll health We're
discounted by his appearance. the other day, at
Lady Helen Stewards wedding. He seemed to
be in the most comfortable and blooming condi-
ton
The two historians. Freeman and Green, trav-
elled in Italy together to the great joy and com
fort Of BOTH though they did not things in
the same Hight. Green's interests in travel"
says Mrs Creighton, were many sided
than Freemans. who generally had some spe-
cial object Of investigation for each journey and
demonstrated in his overbearing way at any at
tempt of his fellow traveller to call his attention
to other things. Mr.. Green used say that
when he called his attention to a specially beau
tiful sunset Freeman only growed in reply:
Sunsets your business. Johnny. I did not
come to Italy TO see sunsets