New-York tribune., 1903-11-29

| retary rernarking that AN this VIII M -.
| appear In your forthcoming Life OF -
/ Beaconsfield'T' Lord ROwton would M, -
| definite An. my dear fellow" he replied -ths
question is whether there will ever be life -
/ ALL IL would be very difficult" He paused q, &
| a moment and then added. II shall never -.S -
| Iish IT." Referring 20 Lord RoEton ana -
BeaconsfieId biography THE Daily Teia.,r,I,nnss ,ns
/ says: Nothing definite IL divUlged on thu -"
| ton but Il is not improbable that a va-, -
known publishing house may be in a poqitfos "eu ~
/ make an announcement before long" I"
| The authors OF Russia are not, apparsnf1z -
numerous and as competent at the present ~ q,
/ as one would expect. From report fafoI- ~ ~
sued 10 appears that when the Imperial AcaSs-
| Of Art came TO award the POushkin nri1o ~
500. which is offered annually for the 5es,
literary production Of the year. only forfv Sss -,
manuscripts were offered for fnspoction TO 40
of these were refused. and not one of 81 ~
naming twelve was considered worthy ~ re-
whole prize. Two poets were given goa .l .1s
They were Mr.. +. J. Weinberg the tra,.Ie..L
Of some works Of Schiller and Heiue a,5 -.
Ivan Bounin, who submitted a translafio, =,
| the Song OF HElwatha" and a volume OF orr
inaI verse
There is to be a new biography OF Sir A,,,,,.
Sullivan. and IL is expected that h viii :.
authoritative and altogether adequate. Mr. p
w Findon. nephew Of the composer. is tbs
author.
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travelling in Palestine. and has written booI
about her experiences In The Sketch" We fra
this extract in which the author pictures fss
landlord OF the hotel in which she lived al Jara
"He is a hotel keeper but also first rate Cnria-
tian a moralist. philosopher; he does not deiaa
to speak to his guests On the doors OF the
rooms are inscribed. instead OF numbers tha
names of great persOnages Of the Old Testament
In one landing there were Abraham. Jacob
Ezekiel and Elias chambers On a table In each
room to be found copies OF a treatise on
moraIs-by the hotel keeper-in English and
German and Italian. with a symbolic cover de-
sign representing all the beasts Cf the ApOea-
lypse.
who's Who In America" Chicago: A NJ
MARQUIS & Coz. for 1Js5-19I0. has Just ap-
peared under the editOrship Of Mr. John "
leonard II contains 4.443 names an increase
of nearly four thousand over the number given
In the previous edition OF the book. though
nearly two thousand names appearing in that
edition have been omitted on account Of deaths
or for other reasons. This handbook now runs
10 over eighteen hundred pages. IL has been
thoroughly revised. and altogether Is first rate
piece of editing Like its English prototype.
" hich it equals in fulneSs and authority. Il has
become Indispensable. and the new edition Is
cordially TO be welcomed
The last two Of the twelve volumes in which
the buttons are publishing Mr. William Mac
DOnald's edition Of the works or Char.es LAafno
are to be devoted TO the Letters Il is announced
that a considerable amount OF the material pre-
sented will appear IL print for the ilrst time
The characteristics Of the literary decadent
have never been better hit or than in a friendly
but candid criticism of Mr.. Arthur Syr1Ons IN
4 recent issue OF The AthenRun." Mr.
SymOns lives IuxurOusiy on his sensations"
saws the critic. He treats life as the fuel Of
mood not caring so much for what things are
to each other as for what they are 70 him This
voracious egOism of the soul is cUTiOusly af-
frighting. liz is the subtleSt form Of that cruel
decadence which is eating into our hfe- 10 3
the disease Of civilization uttering itself in art
II is the soul flying from its own safety and
seeking to renew it's sensations, like a spiritual
vampire by devouring the souls in others
AItruism is banished from this search after the
quintessence of feeling The soul experiments on
ITSELF as a viviSectOr experiments on a monkey,
but without the vivisectOrs passion for truth
or his desire to alleviate human SUFFERING .
It is strange horror. this spiritual OosessiOn,
this elimination OF unawareness and uncOn-
sciOusness from the process OF existence. II re-
SeTnbles in some respects the pItlleSS tyranny or
the SuperCOnScienCe which Is found IN certain
forms Of reli igiOUS mania; but the tyranny OF
supercOnsCiOusnesS has no external sO-ace or
sanction being absolutely insulated and isolated
outside the moral sphere. 10 lives in perpetual
death for it's activities consume themselves, and
gradually lead to that spiritual paralysis an
aIyZed by HusymanS in that tragic study Of de-
cadence, Des Esseintes- In short, il is the
disease Of personality, that supernatural locked
within the natural. that mystery which drives
men mad"
To talk in this vein Is 70 take the literary
decadent perhaps too seriously. yet IL Is. after
all worth while TO have the dangers that beset
him stated IN such fOrcible terms.