New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-09

The Editor OF Punch" Sir Francis Burnand,
will publish in October "Reminiscences OF My
Life 1t will tell of his life at Elton and Cam
bridge and give his entire literary and theatre
cal history. His associates the stan OF
Punch and his notable acquaintance in and
out of society viii. OF course. be commence
rated. The author will treat particularly OF
what he calls prehistoric Bohemia"
Mr. Eden PhiIlpotts. the scenes OF whose
stories have generally been laid in DevOnshire.
has written book about the county which is
described as being in the Richard Jefferies
vein" The volume. which is to be entitled My
Devon Sketch Book and viii contain many
illustrations. will describe nature in all her
aspects as the year passes month by month. the
physical features of the land, and Devon birds
and flowers
The book which Mr. John Lane is soon to
publish under the title Of The MS. in a Red
Box" because it reached him in a red box with
no clew to the name of the author or the title
which the latter might wish 10 give IL. may be
n mystery for only little while longer. The
book has been traced 20 Newport, Fife, and a
clergyman of that town. Mr. William Wood has
recognized in Mr.. Lanes advertisement to
which have recently referred, a book for
whose publication. though not for whose author
a recIuse at Falmouth. The book IS historical
story Of the time of Charles
CHAPMAN & Hall. Dickens's old publishers Will
issue in the autumn The Real Dickens Land
by Mr.. and Mrs. SnOwden Ward 1t is a sketch
OF the novelist set forth, as it were. through the
sociated. The places mentioned in his books
have also been carefully identified and specially
photographed.
Apropos of Dickens there has just been sold
in London letter of his referring to the re-
view of ''PickwiCk'' which Hayward wrote for
the Quarterly in 1887. 1t TJns as follows.
Murray, suppOsing. presume, that any no.
tice in the Quarterly must drive So young a
man as myself nearly distracted with delight
sent me the Quarterly yesterday. 1 think
Hayward has rather visited upon me his recOl-
ance. but as the notice contains great deal
that l know to be true. and much more which
may be, but of which am no impartial judge,
L find little fault with IT. l hope may truly
say that writer ever had less vanity than
have, and that my only anxiety to stand well
with the world in that capacity originates In
authorship being unhappily my trade, it Is
happily my pleasure"
In the same collection which contains this
letter, one of Talfourd relics there was this
quaint reply of Lambs to the announcement
that the author of Ion" had named his
Charles Lamb TalfOurd:
You could not have told me Of more friend
~ thing than you have been doing. / am proud
of my namesake. l shall take care never to do
any dirty action, pick pockets, or anyhow get
myself hanged for fear of rejecting ignOminy
upon your young Chrisom- 1 have a
tive to be good. L shall not Omnis mortar. my
name borne down the black gulf OF oblivion
l shall survive in Eleven Letters five more
than Caesar. Possibly shall come to be knight
ed. mOre-Sir c. L. TalfOurd Bart Yet hath
it authOrist twang with it. which will
out with my name for poetry. Give him smile
A writer in 1.-THE Daily Chronicle" wonder
ing, aprOpOs of recent events in Rome. how
many noveliStS have included a cOnClave in
their list of effects, quotes correspondents
reference to c.. w NJ. Reynolds having de-
scribed Papal election in his novel Faust
more remarkable example, il is noted, is the
cOnclave described in John Inglesant,' at which
FabiuS Chigi. Cardinal and Secretary of State,
was elected Pope.
THE Academy and Literature has seen so
that, 1T protests, il seems pleaSanter to recall
Mr.. Lang's rendering of the POpe's Praise OF
Frugality." 1t quotes the concluding lines.
which it is certainly pleasant to reproduce here
with:
Nor shun the bowl OF foaming milk that feeds
Inc infant, ana may serve the seniors needs.
Next the board to Heavens gift. honey, placed.
And, SparlnS. or HyblSean nectar taste:
Pulses and salads on thy guests bestOw-
Even in suburban gardens salads grow
Add chosen fruits Whate'er the times afford.
Last comes the beverage OF the Orient shore.
Mecca. far off, the fragrant berries bore,
Taste the dark fluid with dainty lip.
Digestion waits on pleasure sip.
Such my preceptS for diet sage
That leads thee safely to green old age
Dr. Lippmann. of Berlin, published between
gether reproductions of two hundred drawings
by Rembrandt. a second series, containing q
hundred drawings, appeared three years ago.
and now 4 third series is announced, TO appear
in two volumes of fifty sketches each \ de-
ScriptVe index in English is given with these