New-York tribune., 1903-04-13

coveries in Assyria described in his books.
''Nineveh and It's Remains. fresh Dfscov-
cries at Nineveh and Researches at Babylon,
etc He won distinction traveller, saw the
Crirnea during the war, India during the
Mutiny, and Italy in the War Of Liberation
He Ambassador to Madrid during the
Revolution Of 1870. and to Constantinople dur
ing the Russo-Turkish Of 1878.
The Saalield Publishing Company announce
a novel by Carlen Bateson called 1.-The Man i'll
the Camlet Cloak" for publication shortly.
The story Is told in the first person by frontier
editor 1t will be illustrated by F. Gilbert Edge.
Ernest E. Thomson has drawn series OF
illustrations for "Nuttalls Birds which Little.
Brown & Co bringing out in a new one
volume edition There Will be nearly two hum
dred engravings showing the birds of the East
ern United States and Canada. The text of this
edition is the revision made for the previous
two-volume form by Montague Chamberlain.
Thomson, with without the p would to
be favorite name for those who pursue animal
life with pencil In hand.
The diary OF John Quincy Adams. while
student in the Office of Theophilus Parsons, Of
Newburyport, Mass, has been edited by his
grandson. Charles Francis Adams, and VIII be
published by Little. Brown & Co. Boston, this
spring, under the title Life IN a New-England
Town 17S7-17SS"
Signora Serao is planning to make wide
tour of the States next year. The object OF her
visit is twofold-she has long desired to see
America and its people and to study It's
ditions: she will also take this opportunity of
delivering a series Of lectures, which will be
spoken in French or Italian, according to the
reQuistion Of her audiences
The appointment or the Rev. DR.. Henry WAGE
as Dean Of Westminster. succeeding the la
mented Farrar has recalled to notice the for
mer famous controversy with Professor Huxley
some years since. which has been preserved IN
christianity and Agnosticisn," published in
this country by Thomas Whitaker.
Professor z. A. Gardner. ex-director Of the
British School Athens. in a. just-published
book the ancient City of the Violet Crown.
sits down with emphasis the idea that the
Dionysiac Theatre is the to-day 1t
in the days Of Perices He asserts that ''al1 the
plays of Hschylus, the majority of those OF
Sophocles and Euripides. and the earlier ones of
Aristophanes all performed in earlier
structure Of which nothing is left except. per-
haps the circle of the orchestra and some traces
Of foundations in the Western parodos.'
Katharine Frensham' is the name of the
heroine of Miss Beatrice Harraden's new novel
and IT is also the title Of the book George
Meredith's lines,
To them II was revealed how they had found
The kindred nature and the needed mind;
They were two hungry souls that needed It,
indicate the motive of the tale. 1t is to be pub
1ished as a serial before appearing in book form.
The sale in London of the notable Gibson
Carmichael library particularly interesting
to the bibliophile IN its distribution OF real treas
ures. A copy of Dantes "Divina Commedia''
brought for the first time the sum Of 5000 1t
specimen Of the first Landno edition,
with Landno's commentary and the nineteen
designs for the Inferno by Sandro Botticelli and
Baldini It published at Florence in
14S1, and is IN an excellently well preserved
condition. Few copies we are told.
extant in that state. THE London Telegraph"
says Of it: when the Hamilton Palace Ii
brary sold the late Mr.. Quaritch bought 1t
for $780, and since that time the exchange of
ownership has always been q case Of 'Quaritch
Intervening First Mr.. Crawfurd had the prize.
and at his sale Mr.. Quaritch rebought 1t at the
slightly diminished price of f320 selling 1t anew
to NJ. Maglione. of Paris When this owners
library was dispersed some years ago Mr..
Quaritch again secured it, and passed it on to
Sir Thomas Gibson Carmichael" Again the
firm of Quaritch has secured the prize-to sell
il again. doubt, at something over the i1,OoO
it brought The firm bought at the sale
other valuable Dante editions including the 1872
Numeister edition. at S1,2G0, and the second
edition of the same date (edited by Colombino
Veronese) at s., ,2225,
A copy Of the original Kinaarnock edition Of
Burns's poems brought $3.50; it not so good
the Hilbert copy sold last year for S945.
A copy of the 1892 Edinburgh edition brought
$685., because in the first volume the poet had
written this: VIII Mr.. McN1urdo do me the
favour 10 accept Of these volumes; trifing but
sincere mark of the very high respect I bear
for his worth a Man, his manners as a Gentle
man, and his kindness as a Friend. However
inferiour tsic) afterwards I may rank
a Poet; an honest virtue to which few Poets
can pretend. I trust I shall ever claim mine
TO no man. whatever his station in life his
Power to serve me, have paid q compli-
rnent at the Expence of Truth.-The Author"
The closing day Of this sale was marked by
remarka bic tribute TO Walter Scott. Eighty
three autograph letters of the novelist, bound in
a single volume, brought S2.425 from Mr..
Quaritch-an advance of $500 on the amount
paid by the late owner. set of seventy-four
volumes representing first editions. published
between 1914 and 1929, Of Scott's novels, was
purchased by Mr.. Quaritch for the sum OF
$4,000. This was great advance on the price
Isl 425) paid by Sir Thomas Gibson Carmichael
some years ago. Scott's Latin Grammar used
in school, and signed on the fyleaf. Walter
Scott Junior" with a legal document also writ
ten by him, the fyleaf. brought $500.
A sound copy Of the fourth folio Shakespeare
was sold at $500; first editions of the first and
second parts of Sponsors "Faerie Queene"
| brought ST. 105 A fine uncut copy. in the origi-
nal boards Of Poems by Two Brothers." A and
c Tennyson brought S177 For $3.50 was sold