New-York tribune., 1903-03-22
LITERARY NOTES.

"Ruskins Comments on Dante" are included
in a forthcoming volume for which Mr.. Chtrle9
Eliot Norton has prepared an introduction 1t -
to be added to the list of Dante books puOLSIeu
by HoughtUn Mifiiin Co
What is truly Il remarkable discovery has been
made in tn, Imperial Library 1T st PeterSDuIs 3
1t Is a manuscript history OF Franc 70 'IG Leii
of Charles V. 1t was written IN the Lluu1e and ~
thu. fifteenth century by Simon M@rhOIl' anu
was bought in 17G3 by Baron D0ubrowsky' sI sec,
ret;try of the Russian Embassy III !dLl9, CT ,t
presented hy him To tn" library we are t'0|
told whether this find is to be put into PrIHI'
Lady Mary NiIbanke. I;yron's -reat-grlnd-
daughtpr is about to publish Il book or VERSES
which she calls Fair children Lacy Ai'fE rs -
in her early thirties. and is the only enid ui tHe
Ea ri of Lovelace. Only in her and in ner fdt4'a :,
does Byron's blood survive The GarIs heT t ~ -
his haIf-hrotter Lionel MiItanke, the son OF the
first Lord LOVelaCc'S second vile
between Max Muller and an unknown corr, ,
spondent in this country was published some
years ago in Germany. translation ol '"iS
buC K into English is noN ann lunC"d ,,
MY interest in all Religions, Slii MINI
on one occasion. is chiefly HISTORICAL NdhI
to see what has been in order to understand
what is one religion is certainly better and
purer than 9th but in the essential POINTS an
raIiqions ha We something in common. They all
start with the belief that there Is s0methihs
bpy ond and they are all attempts to reach OUT
to it, Personally. l have no doubt OF the
DPrSiStpnCe of the lnulS IQuil 'tIleF utfAth Dis
raI if I cannot imagine the very crown ana
flower of creation being destroyed by us
Author"
hnous Woman" n novel which attracted much
attention in 1894. is about to bring out a new
story 1t is a study Of the vice OF VANITY anu
Is TO be called The Poets Child
Miss Brooke is student of economies. and
member OF the Fabian Society
A new edition Of .'NuttaIrs Birds is coming
out in Boston. The work will b" complete IN
one volume instead of tWo and II mas DeeH
carefully revised, brought to date anu an
nOtated.
Man OverbOard,"-a title with start in It,
1t is that of a ghost story which Mr. Marion
Crawford has written for "('nllier's Weekly IL
is long; it is really Il novelette,, II IS d haR
rowing weird, and mysterious tale
In the far off days of 1866. the year in which
Goldsmith wrote his immortal Vicar Of Wake
field" THE Universal Magazine" contained TINS
Lately Rev Mr Mattnson. curate of Pat
terdale Westmorcland. for sixty years Ihe
first infant he ch1istcncd afterward his
wife bv whom he had one son and three daugh-
ters all whom he married in his own church
HIS stipend forty years l.. and Tor the l1st
age of eighty-three worth Il 600 $500 of which
was saved out of his stipend"
The correspondent of Notes and queries VINO
quotes this astonishing record of frugality asks
if Goldsmith may not have received the hrst
impetus to the composition OF MS mover Dy itoiu-
ing tn announcements
Professor Hugo Munsterbergs clever book,
american Traits has gone through hVe edl-
tiuns. 1t is a book which will have particular
interest fOr the twenty-first century man, VINO
goes browsing i'll an oil library.
Mr. Cut,Iifre Hyne has written new novel
f1trod,lclng 4 character who has already ap-
pr;lrcd in his ''Advcnturrs IF Captain Kettle
This character, McTUdd gives his name to the
book.
Mr. Kip1ing has written two new stories.
named respeCtiyely The Bonds of Discipline
and Their Lawful Occasions These are to
appear presently in "CCllicr'S Weekly. rms
same enterprising periodical-one Of the most
sprightly and interesting publications Of the
tinle-wiu hereafter have the monopoly in Amer
lea Of Mr.. kplings poems on political and So
cial topics. These poems will appear sirnuI-
taneously in The London Times" and the pub
fishers will risk the dangers Of cabling verse
dangers which obvious. The London para
graphers are estimating that the cost to THE
Times" of cabling from South Africa Kipfng's
Settler vas something like $2S0