New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-06-06

Henry Holt & Co. have undertaken new edl-
ton of 1.-The Merchant of Venice, which II IS
hoped will be ready before the close OF TINS
month. The editor is Professor Thomas Marc
Parrott of Princeton.
Frank J. Scott presents the result OF patient
and enthusiastic search among the art collec-
lions of Europe and its libraries in a book
which is likely to interest students of the elias
sizes antiouarians and iconographists, issued by
Ionemans Green & Co. under the title HPor-
traitures Of Julius Cesar In this illustrated
monograph it has been the aim to assemble an
representations of Caesar, good and bad, that re-
main in marble and bronze. and present them
with carefully reasoned comparison. Refer-
ences in ancient literature go to snow that puSlS
and statues. of the man who reached the office OIL
Pontifex Maximus at the age of thlrty-SeVeh'
became Consul the highest place in the Roman
civil service three years later, and after his
campaigns in Gaul was made perpetual Dictator,
were common in all cities of the empire Inc
strange thing is that these remains nave so COLL
pletely disappeared; or, rather, 1t would De
stranger if the northern invaders who came
frequently down through Italy had not been so
thorough in their expression of contempt lot an
things Roman Such statues have survived
have been those which, by design or accldehN
were buried For the last four centuries these
are now to be seen for the most part in the prl-
vate and public museums of Italian cities,
though many such antiquities, Of more or less
authenticity are to be seen in the north. where
travellers and collectors have carried them. MI
SCOTS volume issued in imperial octave form,
with twenty-eight plates and forty-nine por-
trait engravinGs-
"Flodden Field" the three act tragedy by the
yybic BPpTbOhm
Tree is to produce Monday at His Majesty $
Theatre London. will be published in this coun-
try by Harper & Bros
Among the fall publications announced 10y
Dodd Mead & 60. is a story called Honor,
by Barbara Yechton. author of Young Mrs.
Teddy" we Ten and other stories Of modern
American life This tale is devoted to the Ire
of a young girl on an island of the Caribbean
Sea
A man in Newark recently read Charles Wag-
ner's simple Life and carried away an i'm
preston which was ia say the least. unusual.
The thing that seems to have struck him with
the most force was a statement in the lntroduc-
ton that the author was born on Sunday morn
ing January g. 1852 The majority of people
would hardly have paused upon this statement
But the man of Newark mas a more eXacting
discrimination Strange, SAID ne 10 hluiseil'
Sunday morning. January J, 49,! Now the
man of Newark, il should be said, can give you
Easter day for any year in the Christian era
rast or future with hardly a moments heslta-
ton He could probably state the combined
ages of Napoleon Zwingli. NebucEadnezzar,
Bill Nye and Humpty Dumpty on the spot II
you were to ask him. And in his mathematlc-
ally adept head he carries an ingenious formula,
which to be sure is not his own invention, but
which. nevertheless is not carried around by
every body. by the of which he can syn
chronize the day of the week and the day of
the month for any year since the Gregorian
calendar. Sunday, January g. 1852! Could any
thing be more monstrous? He sat down at once
and wrote to Mcclure, Phillips & Co that the
Sd of January in that year fell on Saturday.
The company respectfully referred the matter
to Miss Grace King, who had been guilty of the
introduction. She respectfully referred the mat
ter to Charles Wagner. who had been guilty of
being born on a Sunday which ought to have
been a Saturday, at any rate in the wrong
week. In the course of time the defender of
exact statement received a postcard addressed
to him at Newark. N j., New-York L. S. A.
which read as follows:
Paris April > 1908.
Answer to the question made Miss Grace
King in your letter from April II.
Dear Mr.. Vail c. Wagner is born a Sun
day, the 4 and not the 3 January, 1852
morning At 10 o'clock With kind regards,
c. WAGNER.
Anna Katherine Green's novel THE Filigree
Bali is TO be issued in England in the fall
DR.. A Berthold Baer is making the authorized
German translation for a p|Alishng house in