New-York tribune., 1903-06-28

excellent young women they were, and far ehetR
sakes did and could endure much But they
spect and think that to just friendship some
| thing like proportion In stature as well az mind
| is desirable. Now, I five feet and a trfda
and one exceeded by Two inches. The brothers
are prOportionately taller 1 nave sometimes
| taken the altitude of this friendship, and on a
modest computation / may be said 70 haVs
| known at one time a whole furlong OF Beachams.
But the young women are married on and dis
persed among the provinces The orotners are
left Nothing is more distaStefui than these
relics and parings of past friendships -unmean-
ing records Of agreeable hours flown. There are
three OF them. If they hunted in triples or
even counIes Il were something; but by refine
ment of persecution they contrive to come
sngIy and so spread themselves out into three
evenings rnolestation in a week Nothing is SO
distastefuI as sight of their long legs couched
for continuance upon my fender They nave
been mates of Indiamen. and one of them In par
ticular has a story of a shark swallowing BOY
| in the bay of Calcutta 1 wish the shark had
swallowed him.
Abiding to the story of Lambs having once
been placed in the stocks, brought out in the
volume by Mr. Bertram DobeIl which was re-
Gently reviewed in The Tribune. Mr.. Lucas con-
firms it by quoting John Brook Putnam a
friend of Elias On the 1yleaf Of a copy OF
''Wither,' in the possession Of Mr. SWIM
burne. Pulham. who received TINS book from
Lamb, recorded that during a country walk on
a certain Sunday Lamb was set in the stocks for
brawling while service was in progress. The IN
cident occurred at Barnet. 1t was probably in
tended a joke by everybody concerned, in
cluding Lamb himself
Boehm's bust in white marble Of Carlyle was
purchased at the scUlptOr's sale about ten years
ago for $500. Recently il put up at aUc-
ton at Christie's. but the reserve price was not
reached md it was bought in Now it has been
purchased and presented to the London Library.
of which Carlyle was president for many years
The revision of the Berne Convention and the
adhesion to that convention of Russia and the
United States will be among the ten subjects
relating to the protection Of literary and artls-
tic works which will be discussed at the twenty
fifth congress Of the International Literary and
Artistic Association. to be held at Welmar next
September.
The eagerness Of some people to get themselves
noticed in print is amusingly illustrated IN the
parag graph which was recently sent to a London
paper by the reverend gentleman to whom 1t
refers. Amongst the flowers that covered yes
terday the tomb of Charles Dickens In west
minister Abbey was a cross Of red geraniuIns
bearing the following inscription: "A humble
tribute of admiration and gratitude from Rev
I-" 1t was cruel Of the editor TO suppress
the name.
Mr. William lie Queux. the novelist. has re-
ceived from the republic of san Marlno the
title and cross Of Chevalier. ''in recognition OF
diplomatic services rendered to the republic and
to Italy" This leads the London outlook to
say with Joyous irreverence: In due course We
may hope to hear that Mr.. Guy BOOthby has
been invested at special war dance of the
Jub-Jub tribe with the Grand Tuft OF the Spot
ted Cocoanut and that the Star and Ribbon Of
the Long Tailed Humuling Bird have been con-
ferred in a full pow-wow of the BangaIese nota-
bles on Mr.. Thomas III. Caine.'
The Inscription upon the bronze bas-reIief to
be placed in ST. PauFs Cathedral in memory OF
Sir Walter Besant is well calculated u coun-
teract the influence of those beItJInS remarks
which too many of his contemporaries have seen
fit to pass upon him 1t runs as follows;