New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-18

Apropos Of Mr. MorIeys portentOus three
volumes. anecdotes and gossip about him are
appearing here and there. In The London
career was very largely influenced by the late
Mr.. COtter Morrison, with whom he formed a
firm friendship i'm early life at Oxford MORRISON
married daughter of the proprietor or The Lit
erary Gazette" Morley was appointed editor
Later it was through Morisons influence as some one
of the founders and first proprietors OF The
Fortnightly Review that Morley was ap-
pointed editor of that periodical on the retire
ment OF Lewes.
THE BOokman" also has this TO say in speak
ing of a illustrated Russian edition or
Shakespeare which is in course Of publication
at ST. Petersburg under the supervision Ct the
literary critic of s. A WengerOf:
"Shakespeares plays have been known to the
Russian public for over one hundred and fifty
years, the first translation of Hamlet being
issued in 174S. This. however. was an adapta-
ton by SumarakOf of the inadequate French
rendering of Ducts. The first complete Russian
Shakespeare the work of ketcher. followed
about 1860 BY a translation in verse by -. Ger
bell in collaboration with other poets, Later
editions were undertaken by SOkOlOwsky and
Kanshin. thus making the new version the fifth
complete Shakespeare in the Russian language
1t will be considerably fuller than its predeceS-
sOrs as the list of plays is to include The Two
Noble Kinsmen,' Edward ILL., etc, and the vari
Gus plays already translated by well known
writer's will be embodied in the work The
editor has also made arrangements for at least
twelve entirely fresh TRANSACTIONS. a rendering
of the SOnnetS being undertaken by dlStln-
gushed poets Prefaces will be written 70 all
the plays. and numerous explanatory notes
added to each volume.
a special feature is to be made of fllustra-
tiOns. which will be drawn from every available
source. each of the best known scenes being in
terpreted by several artists Including engrav-
ings. heliOgravures. autOtypes and drawings in
the text the illustrations will number about a
thousand. comprising the work Of celebrated
school of painting is to be represented by X.
MakOvsky. Rjepin and others. Dramas Of
which the scene is laid in Italy will be Orna-
mented by reproductions Of Renaissance build
ings, landscapes dresses, etc. and the antique
dramas by corresponding Greek and Roman &C
ceSsOrieS.''
Mr.. Edward German has set the verses in
Mr.. Kipling's Just So Stories to music
Doubleday. Page & Co. will publish them this
year in a Just So Song Book"
Mr.. r. A. Potts has been examining a Sc
lection OF Poems, Designed Chiefly for Schools
and Young Persons" which was put together by
Joseph COttIe and published in 1903. In il he
finds an unrhymed sonnet. ITO Poverty" which
in letter to The Athenaeum.' he ascribes. ION
the evidence alike of style and contents IN
COleridge, who is otherwise. represented in tn
book by three pieces known to be his We re
produce the sonnet herewith:
Low in a barren vale I see thee sit
Cow ring. while Winter blows his shiv'rna- HAST
R Dyer my reedy Ire-Pale comfortlessi
Spurns thy low dwelling. whilst the sons Of low
Iurn from thy clouded brow, OF with a scowI
y
Famine and wan DISEASED two meaSre forms
my only VlstantS, who tho repealed
OffcloUS tend thee-wretChed Eremitef
Around thy cell, aht wherefore see | grav'd
The sacred names Of geniuS2 Spencer here.
4 Ound his last REFUGEE Otwlyi Butler. too
And ScouaS Last not least heroic Bard!
The scene Of Mr.. Joseph Conrads new novel
on when ne is at present working. is laid in
south America. country which he has never
hitherto treated in his stories. but with which
ne Is familiar. 1t is said that in plot and CON
STuctlOn IL VIII mark a departure from his ac-
cuStOned lines of composition
MI. Conrad has just written in Ilabora ton
with Mr- F. NJ Hueffer new volume entitled
Romance: y Novel;
Mr.. Harry Furniss. the we'll known Car-r,-
turlSt, Is now writing his first novel a love
story, which he is said 70 be constructive ON an
uncommon plan. The book viii be Illustrated
by the author.
some or the photographers writing in Eng
lish weeklieS are cOmicaIy distressed inst now