New-York tribune., 1903-01-25


A Dukes Son \ Cooks Son. \ Son Of q
Hundred Kings
Mr. Frank T BulIen is writing an historical
novel Admiral Blake being its hero
Mr. QuilIer-Couchs novel. "Hetty wesley, IS
promised for next autumn: Mr.. Clark RusselIs
novel Overdue is forthcoming. and there
will be new collection of the short stories eft
Ey Bret Harte-
The 2OOth anniversary Of the death Of Samuel
Pepys occurs on May 20, and 1t is proposed 70
take some public notice of the date We shan
never have any more of Pepys's writings than
Mr. Wheatley's edition of the Diary gives US.
since the unpublished passages in Ms are aDso-
IuteIy unprintabIe. PepySS library at MaSIa-
len College, oxford, remains ln the old presses
mentioned in the Diary as having been set Up
TO my most extraordinary satisfaction; so tnat
1 think it will be as noble closet as any man
hath There are three thousand Volumes
One of the pIeasantest things that Tennyson's
niece has to say of him is this: I thInK no
man that ever lived came nearer than ne dla %
perfect truthfulneSS. He was oIten mar IJI 70
his determination never to say anything that
was not strictly and absolutely true; Tor none
could be more sensitive than he was ABOUT pam
ing people, and yet he would discard all smooth
speeches that would have given pleasure, DQL
would not have been quite sincere, and Wol4d
just say right out the wholesome though soil5-
times unpaIatabIe, truth instead, feeling utterly
miserable for days afterWard, with the rear
that in this moral surgery he had not hanQltu
the knife as gently he might have done. IN
less by his keeping silence the cause Of truth
would have suffered. he would never mention
any matter that might injure single human
being and he always put the best constructl0h
upon peoples words and actions ne
was always far more severe with hlrnSelI lh1h
with others. and would bitterly reproacn nun MN
self for being brusque IN manner 70 ~ uhtdcli -. ~
strangers and for allowing fits Of depression 10
get possession of him at times
The new series of letters by Charles Darwin
will soon be issued and will be welcomed with
sincereSt pleasure
Mr.. William Watson's verse has been absurdIy
praised by many a half-baked fanatic, but now
and then is uttered a wholesome word OF crltI-
cism apropOs of his productions. The Athe-
nsaun" for example declares that "it is prob
ably not too much TO say that there IS not q
cadence in his verse which has not been heard
before. BY what miracle it is that out OF the
same number and order OF syuableS no t"C
cadences of Shakespeare and of Browning. OF
Keats and of Herrick. of Crashaw and of Blake.
can be precisely matched, no man knows or VIII
ever know least of all the poet himself He
writes what comes to him, and he may work on
his writing until hardly word of the orlgIItI
stuff remains and with all his care, or IN spite
of it, the thing turns dOggedly into his own
manner of speech, and comes to US with
cadence that We have never heard before. rte
may have read much or little, and 1t VIII make
barely an appreCiable difference. The music
that is not learnt in books comes from some
unknown source which is as variable the sea
or the wind Music learnt from books, how
ever much beauty may be breathed into II Oy
the singer. keeps the taint Of its source about
IL II - Oy SUCH AluS4C tAL( l4AC 4LNCi 81 -~-r
not the artist in literature. is known
An FngIshrnan who has been travelling in
this country is quoted saying that at a dozen
centres here he found libraries which would
have enabled him TO write a minute history Oh
England.
Psychologists are looking forward eagerly to
the appearance Of the posthumOus volume by
the late Frederick w. H Myers It's title ls
Human Personality and It's Survival OF Bodily
Death
One or two Of Ibsen's early plays still exist
IN MS only. Let US hope they viii stay there