New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-13


A pessimistic EngIishman. Mr.. F. r. Money |
COutts has. in a just published book, set down
some solemn things about poets. Women TINS /
author has no patience with. He says that IL !
they take TO art nowadays, IL IS only as an /
alternative 20 alcohol: he declares that they /
are mainly responsible for the fact that men |
are altogether given over to the making OF
money; and that if they married to poets |
they think of them chiefly as keeping them poor |
and obscure
His suggestion to young poets is worth re-
membering by budding geniuses-that one who
intends to write poetry should Nil up his time
by writing nonsense verse, not for themselves.
bat for the sake Of the technical ability they /
give him.
In just issued volume on Queen Victoria. by |
Mrs. Crawford, there is an aneC1Ote OF the fash
ion in which the children of the nobility some /
times met the little VictOra's German pride of
birth with English hauteur- IL was related BY
an actor in the scene. Lady Wilhelmina stan /
hope. whom the writer's husband used often 70
meet at the house of Miss Susannah Thrale
one rainy day she stayed in the parlOr and +
amused Miss Thrale by telling her how she put
down the Princess Victoria, who wanted TO he !
hOty -tOity. but. my dear observed Miss /
Thrde. who being a brewers daughter. and
brought up in Or. JOhrSOn's principles. did not
understand Stanhope pride. the princess IS to
be one day your Queen" ooh, dear Miss
Thraer' cried the other. let her wait till she I
is my Queen Meanwhile she had better re-
member that she is granddaughter OF George /
III, who was what YOU know, and that / am |
the greats granddaughter Of William Pitt"
The pOssesSive prOnOun.' says Mrs. Craw-
ford was strongly rooted in the Queens head .
from childhood Captain Conroy in giyin; I
traits of her character. said that she never al /
lowed any other child to play with her toys. /
These are my toys. and you are not to touch /
them. was the PREDATORY remark to an exhibit /
tiOn Of them In old age. when the toys had
been discovered in a press and sent to Kensi nS-
ton, it was My army NV navy. My empire.
NJ. Jules Verne. it appears. is not so badly /
off s to his sight has been supposed He |
has written to friend stating that there are |
symptoms of cataract in the right e~e. but no /
/ letters
to the subject. l should certainly end by |
going blind" concludes the author cheerfuly-
There is to be a new Dickens book-one pre-
pared by the nOvelists sometime friend. Percy |
Fitzgerald. 1t is to contain little known pieces |
by Dickens on Christmas topics, ana VIII De \
called Christmas Days with Boz
The house at Portsmouth in which Dickens .
was born February 1872, is to be sold /
shortly by auction. and it has been suggested /
that it should be purchased by the authors
admirers and turned into 4 Dickens museum
Colonel Basil Jackson whose "reminiscences
were lately published was on the staff Of Sir /
Hudson Lowe at st. Helena, and has naturally .
given some glimpses of Napoleon. Here II
an amusing one. showing the great exile IN L
somewhat absurd light a critic
Meeting MonthoIon again. armed with his roll
Of fooIscap. and asking how the memoirs were
proceeding his reply that he had just quar-
relied with the Emperor, who would insist that
proscdy signifed the art Of versnylnE. we
were speaking Of ROGniat, who says that war
can be reduced to certain principles and thit
he who is master OF these principles counalt Ia
guerre: the Emperor observed that this asSer-
ton was n granJe bttSe: that, although the /
study of tactics teaches how TO manPuvre
troops. il requires genius to become great
captain which assuredIy cannot be acquired by \
study and that ROguiat might as well have said .
that the study Of solftEe teaches US how to COM
pose Chefs-d 'Ceuvres (sic) Of music and that or
Trosody to become poet like Homer or Virgil
L said MOuthoOn, ventured to remark th1t II /
was pO6tique he meant. and not pT'Soiy- Nhlch /
has quite another Specification. He replied: NO; /
that poetidue sounds poor. insipid, ne frappe f.
pas ToreilIe. whereas prosOdle, prosopopee /
celia frapp6 TOreille' I took the liberty 10 OBJ /
serve that neither prosOdie nor prosOpopee /
taught the art Of making verses. say. then I
rh -toric' was the rejOirder. Neither does rheJ-
oric' ! replied. Then the Emperor became an /
crv telling me so altered his dictatiOn quill [
ne s'y reconnassait pas. completely spelling ms
style. which all the world allowed to be orig /
inaL"
The next volume in the delightful Medieval
Towns Series" will deal with Seville The au- /
thor is Mr. w. NJ. GalliChau; Miss @. Hartley /
will contribute three chapters on the artists OF /
Seville Reproductions Of works BY these artists /
will accompany the text
II is said that Major Martin Hume, when 4
searching the Spanish State Papers IN the Eng I
Iish Record Office for the purposes of his book
on the courtships of Queen Elizabeth discOv- /
cred evidence that the activities and motives or
Mary Queen Of Scots must be regarded IN 4
different light from that which has hitherto
been thrown upon them. He finds, it IS added, |
that Mary is to be considered as a states"OInan
and diplomatist. representing great cause, and /
aspiring in imitation OF Elizabeth. to employ |
matrimonial intrigue as an instrument OF policy
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