New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-24

itino etrav letters written by Carlyle. In
one of them the Sage consoles frlehd "llo nd "a,
aDDarentIy been Tilted by "a person or genus
se7Tbese women of genius, sir, ne says, are tIle
very ID when you take them on wrong tlCh-
/ know very we'll that myself ever ma =,
which seems possible at beSt-am 10 nave oie
of Thorn for my hepHlate; and / expect hothlHS
but that our life will be the most turDuleIt, III
congruous thing earth-a mixture OF IoiiVS
and v-ormvoOd the sweetest and the bitterest-
or as it were. at one time the cIeaTeSI
weather in nature. then whIrlwmdS anu ST.
and frost: the thunder and lightning and furious
storms-aiI mingled together into the same SCI
son-and the sunshine always IN the sIlia d,i
quantity! Judge how you would nave rtlisIei
this and sing with cheerful heart r en- let
the bonny lass gang"
Mr. n Rider Haggard is one of the British
authors who do not believe in Il literary actu-
envy He puts his finger on the IrreconcliaDie
points when he asks. Who would elect the I-eiIi-
hers and what would be the standard OF guam
fcation? Was it to be popularity? If an author
could dispose of two thousand or three tnouSdIlH
copies on OF before the day of publication was
he to be a member of the academy IhlhsS
might not be entirely satisfactory, but ne pre-
ferred 10 go they were without an actd-
envy.
The publishers in this country Of the much
talked of edition of Hakluyt's Voyages, pre-
pared in defiance of the HaklUyt Society, Will be
the Macmillan Company. 1t viii be an edition OF
twelve volumes of about four hundred and HftE
pages each. and the first volume viii soon be
brought out. the other volumes appearing there
after at intervals of month The edition VIII
be printed antique paper from type OF Oh
CaslOn Style-One of the most notable OF the
eighteenth century types.
commentator on the Shakespeare Bacon
heresy has been apty setting forth the fact that
the two men had totally different conceptions
of love Love is strongest when men are weak
est: it must not be suffered To interfere with
business" SO wrote Bacon, in curious antItheSlS
TO countless noble lines of the great poet
Sometimes wonder" says The Spectator
not so much at Mrs Pott and her disciples
1G at " While
flute them.
Mary Arden's house a WilmCote is private
property and is cared for without much feeling
for its association with one of the grea test Eng
Ishmen of all time. What repairs nave been
made upon it by its owner. one MI smith, nave
been made in the most taSteleSs fashion. ana OH
vines and trees which gave it beauty have been
unneceSSa rily away Mr.. Smith lets the cot
tage to two or three tenants and says that the
property has been expensive rather than proht-
able for many years This Is the only snake
spearean house still in private hands, anu II IS
a pity that the British nation should not De
come its owner
The trustees of the Shakespeare birthplace I
are much aggrieved at the cutlery against the
erection adjacent site Of modern req
brick free library building we belIeNe Jh'I no
one who has an instructive feeling for the value
of historic and literary associations can sym
pathiZe with them. ShakeSpeare'S town should
he kent as far as possible a town of his period
that is to say. in those parts of it. at least IN
which share of his life was passed Inc niue
have been preserved in its Olden qualntneSS Tor
the benefit of the wide world TO whom the petty
affairs of the modern StratfOrdians mean nOth-
ing whatever. We free to say that all
that makes for StratfOrdS fame belongs much
more emphaticaIIy that wide world. com
ing on pilgrimage" than to the perfectly unIHl-
portant citizens who largely live on the re-
sults of that fame. If those worthy citizens
want red brick free library building in the
current British taste let them have it-bUt let
it be put in some excellent, slightly place away
from Shakespeare's little street with its RENT
niscences of Elizabethan times The town mas
already been vulgariZed by hideOus structures
erected in the name of Shakespeare; II IS time
to stop this stupidity if any illusion at all Is TO
be preserved for the few relics of the poet
Scholars and travellers alike Will appreciate
Miss Corelli's gallant fight against the spollaton
of the Shakespeare thOrOughfare. 1t would be a
graceful thing in Mr.. Carnegie. the giver OF the
library building. if he would suggest to the
townspeople that site less destructive to the
Shakespearean atmosphere of the place would
be agreeable to him.
In a recently published volume of family
papers there are some interesting "reminiscences
of the Shakespeare readings which Fanny KEN
BILE once gave at Elton, with quotations from
her notes on 1.-The Tempest"-her favOrite play.
This is what she said concerning Ariel.
Ariel seems to me to represent the keeneSt
perceyng intellect separate from all moral con-
seriousness and sense of responsibility. His
greater than those of his master; he can do
what Prospero cannot he 1ashes up the Tenn
pest round the Island: he the king and
his companions from the shipwTeCk; he defeats
the conspiracy of Sebastian and Antonio and
discovers the clumsy plot of the beast Caliban: