New-York tribune., 1903-06-30

awake" published by John Lane. was Dorm IN
London in 1880 He was educated al beoloro
School and substituted for a university career
two wears farming In Canada, having nad
enough Of books for the time being. ana feeLhs
the fever for colonial life AS Is the case Win
rnanv such rovers however. Mr. Bashloro re-
.o,.a-e5 from, his fever. and returned TO London
to study medicine at one Of the hospitals "here
y. Is AZ present employed. His father is naval
So His mother is q daughter OF previous
sc,o- n. ST Georges. Hanover Square HIS
maternal grandfather was appointed chaplain
20 Her Majesty Queen Victoria
,1,uu.-, = Butler has issued a new Enshsn
,,.-s,o, o> the treatise by the Venetian cehte-
marian. Louis Cornaro on The Art OF LiEiHs
Lang. with the reprint is Included the poem
m Coruaro written by John Witt fsahoaii' g
yreat.prandson Of Samuel Adams. and sketch OF
Cornaro's life. an account OF the IaIliy' Jan
has euIogv delivered in 1917 and the paper oy
nv Emilio Iovarini on the villas built oy Cor
naro. AS appropriate TO the general subject
selections from Lord Bacon's History OF Lie
and Death" and from Sir William Temple s
Health and Long Life have been incluoeo' as
s1so Addison's paper In THE Spectator ror &c
tober 13 iii. The book is addressed to a people
of whom less than two-hundreotn part oi
per cent reach an age that Nature 2nIe1oS aIi
should pass" CorRaro lived 10 the age OF one
hundred and three, though at forty his lie was
despafred OF because incorporate habits had Sc
1,erelv undermined a constitution naturally del
icare He set about curing himself and o1o So
practising great moderation in diet bis treatise
which is written in four discourses composed aI
Tho ages Of eighty-three eighty-six. ninety-one
and ninety-fve is interesting reading curious
compound of autobiography and tract. Cor
hat is O
only sensible solution Of the Ills which flesh
is heir to- and hoped that he might persuade
mankind to follow in his footsteps by reducing
his experience to record He rarely lacked an
assurance in himself, this quotation may
serve to illustrate:
If to great and nomentous things it De proper
to compare lesser ones, CT rather those, should
say. which are by many considered as haroIy
worthy of notice, l shall mention as anolner
fruit which have gathered from the temperate
life that at my present age Of eighty-three
have been able TO compose delightful comedy,
full OF innocent Inirth and pleasant sayings
manner Of poem, which. as we all kno" Is
usually the fruit and production Of youth only,
Just as tragedy is the work Of old age; the for-
rner because Of its grace and joyousness, is
more in harmony with the early years of life,
while the melancholy of the latter is better
suited TO old age. Now, if that good old man,
z Greek and poet (Sophocles), was so highly
commended for having written d tragedy at the
age OF seventy-three and was, by reason OF this
deed, regarded virtuous and sound minded
although tragedy. have just said, is a sad
and melancholy form Of poetry-why should l
be deemed less fortunate or less hale than he,
when have. at age greater than his by ten
years written a comedy. which, as every one
knows, is a cheerful and witty kind OF compost
ton? Assuredly If I not unfair Judge Of
myself / must believe that 1 more Wig
orous and more cheerful than was that poet
when burdened with ten years less of life
Professor Paul S. Reinschs volume on Colo
nial Administration" which he is still at work
upon, will probably be published by the Mac
milan Company in the fall. The book, which
is q successor to the authors previous studies
IN World Politics" and Colonial Govern
ment,'' will make comparative estimate of the
experience Of the English. French. Dutch, Ger
mans and Americans In the working Of admin
istering foreign dependencies.
The Harpers TO publish e edition
of Thackeray's books in twenty-five volumes.
The drawings by Leech. Cruikshank, Du Mau-
rier and Thackeray himself have been repro
duced in illustration