New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-06-14

| tinguished Orientalist, Professor Clement Huart
| The volume brings the subject down to the
| nineteenth century and the periodical press.
| The novel Of the moment in Germany is said
| tn he "J6rrl Uhl.' by new writer named Frens-
sem some 10000 copies have been sold within
| the last few months
| The Editor of THE Academy and Literature"
| no doubt meant well when he alluded in a recent
! issue to Mr. Maurice Hewletts new novel, THE
Queens QUAR-" But he promptly DIRE" from
! Sir: I hope you will allow me to point out,
with reference to a paragraph in your issue %
/ the 23d that I did not assert QUAR- to be a
cashier but a cahier, which is very different
| thing Yours, etc,
/ London. MACfSlCh IiE"A1FsAA.
| Tho first volume in the new edition Of the
writings and letters Of Charles and Mary Lamb.
| which Mr. z. v. Lucas is editing, is ready for
! publication 1t appears that owing to the copy
right law, edition Of the correspondence can
be complete until many years have passed By,
but it is said that Mr. Lucass edition Will.
ner-artIeIess be unique in several points 10
will print in full for the first time between fifty
and a hundred new letters. Mr. Lucas has IN
preparation THE Life OF Charles and Mary
Lamb" in which he is attempting 10 reconstruct
| the Lamb circle.
OF the printing of popular art books in handy.
inexpensive form there seems 70 be no end
The latest series in this field Is projected by
Newnes in London, and viii consist OF volumes
dealing with the works OF the great artists or
the world cOpiously illustrated. the 1rOntIspieces
being in phOtogravure- The books VIII resemble
in daintness the thin paper EDITIONS O. TINS pup
Usher made familiar in America by the Serb
ners BotticelIi and Sir Joshua are the heroes OF
the opening volumes
II somewhere in the world some one is always
/ irving TO W hitewash the character OF an uhedl-
some one else is attempting 70 tear Gown an az
cepted idol. Here is Mr.. Ernest Newman. IN
The Weekly Critical Review" fing1ng ms pep
bic with great gee at that engaging giant me
author of ..Lavengro.' 81 can never understand,
in the first place." he says, how George Borrow
ever came to be printed at all, and in the second
place why he is ever reprinted Judging
him from his books alone, he stands revealed as
one of the most unlovabe characters OF Ehglisa i
letters Apparently, in the very Heii
in which Borrow would fain have US admire am
most he is a poseur and something or a QudcA
Truly he had more objectionable q4ahues 70 cue
square inch than any other writer can reI1lell-
Der: and for many day. in all probability peo-
pie will wonder how he ever acquired a quarter
OF his past and present reputation OF oIl
own part we cannot understand Mr. Newman
We wish could feel his bumps
An interesting note has been added to the
mass of matter printed with reference 20 tne
LvttOn centenary. by Mr.. r st. ]. Corbet I
asked" he says the late Lady CONFERENCE,
who. in her long life of nearly ninety years IL
known almost all the men and women or marx
in her tine, which was the pleasantest evening
she ever spent in good company She instantly
replied: The evening which I sat at dinner
between DisraeIi and Bulwer Lytton. and You
may be sure had 10 keep my wits about me 70
berTnere was replete with Irish mother w.t. with
sharp conceits and repaTtee, and was. moreover,
an accomplished hostess, I feel sure she came
off we'll even with Disraeli and Bulwer, and she
certainly gave the most racy and spirited ac-
count Of the conversation"
Russfan-SIavOnic congress was recently
held at St. Petersburg, the delegates sitting for
six days in the latter part of April The sa-
Iient topic of discussion was a scheme Tor an
exhaustive 'Pan-SIavonic Encyclopedia" which
is to include the language, literature, history;
ethnOgra ply. art, law, and archaeology OF all
the Slav peoples 1t was decided. against the
appeal and protest of several foreign SIavlstS
who had been invited to the congress. that the
work is to be written and printed in the Rus
sian language, but that no copyright shall be
claimed in the articles, so as to enable them 70
be freely translated into other languages. The
Berlin Archiv fur slavische PhilOlOgie has al
ready undertaken to provide for German
projects were debated at the congress: First,
the compilation Of Ecclesiastical SlaVonic
Dictionary; and, secondly. the regular publ
cation of a photography OF "Slavistik Botn
were postponed. however. until the meeting OF
the International SlavOnic Congress In the au-
tumn of 1904
quaint advertisement has just appeared in
a London literary journal. 1t is addressed sim
ply ITO Authors" and it runs thus: IF the
Writer of a Historical Novel without Title.
Authors name or address, sent some weeks
ago to the Bodley Head in a Red Bcx. VIII
of something TO his advantage" 1t Will be in
teresting to if the absentmfndedness or the
elusive author OF this manuscript turns out to
have been adopted for the occasion, so 70 say