New-York tribune., 1903-07-05


the tortured beasts, s;ain indescribable of the
bufght, TO understand imagine the suffer
ngs of cheap worn out horse costly animals
receive admirable treatment invariably; but
yesterday saw an English woman of the Well
to-do class her children and their governess
driving complacentIy up Il steep hill heavy with
thick mud in three horse omnibus the leader
of which had large sores on both sides OF MS
body and was altogether unfit to be in harness
at all. The driver used his whip with nice in
genuity on the sensitive wounds OF the anlHal'
and, although | Ventured to call attention 70 ms
action, the occupants of the vehicle Chlred Tor
their own uSe) seemed to think II n matter 100
sOrdid for refined minds bent happy after
in a beautiful garden, once reached
Reformation can come only from tourists who
will take the trouble to decline cOnveyanceS at
tached to agOniZed horses, and refuse the ser
vices of coachmen who are. perhaps. more un-
imaginative than wantonly brutal
"The Life and Letters of the late Lord Cole
ridge will be edited by his nephew. Mr. Ernest
Hartley COleridge who has for some years past
been engaged upon the Murray EDITION OF
Byron. The book will be published by ID. APP
pleton & Co. 1t will contain letters and Other
matter introducing into the narrative English
men like Gladstone DisraeH. Bright and
Matthew Arnold and such Americans as Lowell.
Richard H. Dana. Oliver Wendell Holmes and
William NJ. Evarts. 1t will probably not be pub
lished for about year.
The story is told of a certain young author
that he had received from his publishers the
proofs of a new book he had written. They were
too large to go into his pocket he seized
pair of scissors and cut off all the margins!
When he came to correct his proofs-but a veil
is drawn over the painful scene.
Apropos of a recent visit of Mr. Thomas
Hardy's to Mime. Tussaud's. one of his friends
remarks that the famous author has from his
earliest boyhOOd taken keen interest in the
subject of NapOeon-sOme relics of whom are in
the curious museum in the Marylebone Road
and has for years been a collector of books
about him 1t is said that American publishers
an hd TpPPDtlV
to persuade Mr. Hardy to write a serial for
publication in this country, but he has not yet
definitely consented.
Mr.. H. w Nevinson. writing in THE English
Illustrated Magazine" about Thomas Hardy.
compares him with Wordsworth. 1t is an odd
comparison. but interesting We reproduce the
fragment herewith:
ITO compare the man who has created such
poignant scenes of pity and terror the meet
ing of Troy and Bathsheba over Fannys coffin.
or the discovery OF Tess at Stohehenge. or
Knight clinging to the sea pinks upon the cliff
without a name, CT Jude and Sue turning back
writer with undramatic a poet Words
worth may seem strange, but the comparison is
inevitable The resemblance has little to do
with the obvious love of both for the face of ex-
ternal nature and their intimate knowledge of
all her aspects IN benehcence or desolatlOn II
is not here their secret lies. In spite of their
country life and country themes, neither of them
has any connection with idyllic art. To them
nature is not the home of pTettineSs and rustic
peace. and their men and women have nothing
whatever in common with nympns and swains.
Both love the mankind that lies close to the
breast of earth. and is truly sprung from her
as the grass and trees In speaking of man.
kind, they never lose sight of this ancient world,
so full of strange history, full of unconscious
influences and associations which for genera
tOns have nuTtured the children of men and
form the setting of their lives"
For the new edition of Miss Edgeworth's
Helen" printed by the Macmillans in their
series of illustrated Pocket Classics" Mrs.
Ritchie has written introduction. In it she
quotes this description of the author in her
later years written by Mrs. S. c. Hall:
In person she was very small-smaller than
Hannah More, and with more than Hannah
More's vivacity of manners; her face was pale
and thin her features irTegular-they may have
been considered plain even in youth-bUt her
preston was so benevolent, her manners so en-
tirely we'll bred, partaking of English dignity
and Irish frankneSS, that you never thought of
her in reference either to plainneSS or beauty
she was all in all; she occupied, without fatgu-
ing, the attention, charmed by her pleasant
voice. while the earnestness and truth that
beamed in her bright blue-very blue-eyes
made of value every word she uttered. Her
words were always well chosen her manner of
tences were frequently epigrammaticaL'
Mr.. George W. Loriner's Letters from Self
made Merchant to His Son. which was favor
ably reviewed in The Tribune not long ago is
meeting with excellent fortune in England.
Thousands of copies of the book are being sold
there. We glad to hear of it. 1t is a really
representative American book, interpreting the
spirit of country in some O its TnanifeSta-