New-York tribune., 1903-07-26

nent at Munich, and expects to live for some
time in that city.
We alluded the other day to the report that
an American magazine editor was trying to per
suade Mr. Thomas Hardy to write novel
II is now announced that he has definitely de-
clined the proposal
M Maeterlinck has been talking TO a repre-
sentative Of lie Temps about his career tell
ing how, with two other poets, he started d re-
view which failed how he was Influenced by
Eilliers de TIsle Adam. and how much he owes to
Shakespeare and the EliZabethan dramatists.
Here are some of the biographical notes he
gave:
q was born in Ghent and studied there. AS
a pupil Of the Jesuts / followed the secondary
educational course and learned Latin and
. Greek Ny college years have left far from
agreeable remembrances. The discipline and
methods OF the Jesuits were repugnant to my
mind and character. For instance, we could
make Latin verses at our own free will, but
We're forbidden TO read French poets.
With two schOolfellows-one of whom is now
poet the other an electrical engineer tried to
repair this Injustice but We were vigorously
punished. Having finished my course at the
seminary, l entered the university TO study law
and realize one Of the dearest wishes of my fam
lly. Relatives often term obedience 10 their
fancy vocation Having become advocate
by the grace OF diplomas, l found ! had to de-
fend some criminal cases; but assassins. incen-
claIles and satyrS-at least. those l have met
have in the main only mOnOtonous and rudi-
mentary psychology. They furnish specimens Of
humanity which often have nothing human
about them. l soon tired of this protest. n
So one fine day. I doffed the long robe
and took the train 10 Paris. 1 passed literary
season Of one year IN the Latin Quarter"
In Double Harness" is the title of ANTHONY
Hopes new novel a society story which VIII
come out next spring. Apropos of Mr. Baw-
kins recent marriage divers anecdotes concern
ING him are going The rounds. one of them
represents him as sitting at dinner next to a
young lady who talked enthusiastically to him
on such subjects as she judged would interest
him Did you" asked one Of her friends after
ward talk 10 MT. Hawkins at all about books ?'
'Oh, dear no." she replied: he evidently
wasn't that kind of man at all"
1t appears that the late Cardinal Vaughan was
a great reader OF newspapers, and believed in
the power OF Journalism. He was proprietor of
The Dublin Review" and The Tablet
NJ Louis Fabuet who has q great entbusi-
asm for Mr., Kipling, and has translated num-
bers of his works into French, asked the author
if there was any truth in the assertion that he
had the French nation in his mind when he de-
scribed the Bandar Log in the Jungle Book"
Mr.. Kipling absolutely denied it.
The thirteenth and last volume of the defni-
tive Murray edition of Byron, published in this
country by the Scribners, is nearly all in print.
Like its predecessors in this edition. it Will bring
forward some new material 1t will be devoted
largely TO verse, but viii embrace also q bibli-
ography and very full index.
Mr.. Edwin ]. Rawle has recently completed
volume on The Doones of Exmoor." in which a
good deal is said about the famous outlaws fig
uring in Blacknore's best novel But in letter
TO THE Daily Chronicle signed West Sorner-
set" we find this remark: Il have known the
country for the last fifty years and never heard
even an allusiOn to the DOOnes, until the lovely
Lorna came and introduced US TO her ruthless
knsfolk nor have I met with any one else who
had"
Next November the 150th anniversary of the
foundation Of the town library of Ferrara viii
be celebrated ley the publication in fac-simile
reproductions of the autographic fragments of
ArIosto's "Orlando FuriOso" in its possession.
The collection IS to contain fifty-three sheets,
with 1O6 facsinies and ii will be illustrated
by d reproduction of Titian's portrait of the
poet It viii be edited by Professor Giuseppe
AgnelIi.
Mrs. Craigie John Oliver Hobbes) went to the
recent Durbar festivities as the guest Of Lord
and Lady CurZon, and she has recorded her i'm
pressions of the pageant in little book which
viii soon be published Imperial India: Letters
from the East"
While waiting for the life Of Lord
Beaconsfield, which everybody has been expect
ing Lord Rowton 10 write, Mr.. Wilfred Meynell
edited Cardinal Manning's essays, has prepared
a book which Will soon appear under the title Of
Benjamin Disraei: An Unconventional BiOg
raphy." The work is to be packed with anec-
dOtes. 1t viii be a personal rather than
political a literary biography. II viii be pro-
fusely illustrated and viii include "reminiscences
and anecdotes contributed by some Of Beacons-
fields personal friends
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