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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-24
"MR. WORDSWORTH."
I'M The London Telegraph.

From The London Telegraph.
II Is like touching hands with history 70
think that Mr. De We're, who might have been
seen In London upon his annual visits. as 1t
were but yesterday. had often stayed at Gras-
mere in his youth. He always spoke OF Words
worth Mr.. Wordsworth" an expression
startling in its formalism which at once made
the imagination see ghosts. They recalled the
closing touches in that speaking likeness in
words which Carlyle once drew from life with
all his astonishing power OF poTtraiture: He
was large boned. lean but still firm knit tall.
ana strong looking when he stood: n right good
ora steer gray hgure, with fine rustic sim
plclty and dignity about him, and n Veracious
strength looking through him. which might have
suited one OF those old steel gray Markgrafs
(Graf-Grau. steel grayO whom Henry the
fowler set up to ward the marches and do
Dattie with the intrusive heather in u stalwart
and 1udiciouS manner"
This is the sketch of memora ble but nc evI-
IDENTIFY of n somewhat formidable character
There are many anecdotes which suit it. among
IheIn one which may or may not have been
published Wordsworth had a high opinion of
Sir stephen De Vere's sonnets fine scuIpture
as they were. indeed, in the same Dure Patror-
can marble from which the greatest we have
In that form were hewn. Mr. De We're" so
Mr.. Wordsworth used to say ct consider
your fathers sonnets the best OF this time
with the exception OF my own" Even THE
Excursion" is full. Wordsworth once wrote
IN another unconscioUsly amusing phrase OF
VdIooabIe thoughts; and If you will try il
you will find it far more readable and prodtabIe
than II IS the fashion TO pretend. 1t is mostly
prose. indeed. but then the prose Is rnosfI,, -
celIent. 1t also is immortal by intervals when
JEFFREY wrote This will never do" he invented
the epitaph Of a lawyer not of a poet: ana John
stuart Mill was far nearer the mark of modern
criticism when he said that reading Words
worth in heaven would be his ideal of immortal
Felicity. He is a part of all that we have seen
on English ground. He is TO us as the soul OF
us meaning. Even in those who know him not
ne works with the passion for nature which
more than all things else besides has kept the
race sound OF heart and sane of brain. and fresh
for new destinies. The grave in Grasmere
churchyard has above all. that final admonition
which expresses more majestically than ali
other words the highest spirit of race itself:
There is
One great society alone on Earth
The noble Living and the noble Dead
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-24

gle never left him. and tinged the whole OF his
uIe. but 1t was seldom that his friends could
was a delightful talker. and his meIOdious
voice was special attraction
'Veranilda." one OF the two unpublished
novels left by Mr.. Gissing goes back 70 The
period OF Justinian and the Byzantine Frnpjrs-
Neranilda, the heroine, is the grandniece OF
interest and it's author said OF it some weeks
before his death: 1T is harder work than any
ever dld-nOt a line that does not ask sweat
OF the BRAIN
Mr.. h BeIloc offers a criticism OF Zola's Ia
Terre, which Is so terse and SO tr1le that M
other Is really necessary He calls IL a .booS
tul OF facts which could be matched In the
actual life OF the peasantry. but facts arranged
IN Such manner. interpreted in such a way as
to produce an ugly and heIlish nightmare Tor a
picture of the happy and well balanced thing
Whch the peasant himself at least discovers Ia
his own life
Marvellins over the failure OF the intensely
imaginative Irish temperament to prOdrca a
great poet. The Athenseurn' declares that ON.
tragic destiny of Ireland seems to be unrrOred in
her poetry that long procession OF bafled efforts
and unfinished labOrS." The critic noting that
diuusenesS is fatal to poetry adds: Reading
irish poetry, one longs to hammer ii together,
10 weld its diamond dust into diamonds" Mr.
AealS verse Is not forgotten by this cOmmen-
tatOr, and indeed there are few OF the Irish ysr-
slhers who have produced more fOrmless well
teIIuS' meaningless and unpOetic lines than he
And with all this disappointing stuff comes now
and then a delicious strain like that OF Tbs
Lake Isle of Innisfree:"
i will arise and so now. and go to Innisfree.
and a small cabin build there of clay and wat
ties made;
Nine bean rows Will have there. hive for tia
honey bee,
And live alone IN the bee-loud glade
And shall have some peace there. for peac.
comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the wells OF the morning to
where the cricket sings;
There midQight'S elimu,ar oc5 r,or, q,
pie glow.
And evening full OF the Iinnet's wings
I Will arise and so now. for always night and
day
hear lake water tapping with low sounds By
the shore:
While stand on the roadway. or on the pave
ments gray.
hear 1t In the deep hearts core
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-24

result IS easily imagined. Complications ensue
involving soldier who IS not only innocent Of
any evil doing. but has special claims upon the
friendship OF his superiors- These claims are
powerless, for n time at least, to save him from
suffering the disgrace that should be inflicted
upon another man-and the heroine Is TO blame
for everything he has to endure! 1t Is an anus
presents. The book Is Of trifiing weight. but 1t
Is sincere, wholesome piece of work
Mr.. Nevinson has collected in the volume en-
titled between the Acts' a number OF miscel-
laneous pieces. most of them short stories The
poems scattered through the book are clever, and
there is merit in the two essays which fill the
opening pages But it is in his fiction that Mr.
Nevinson is at his best He draws his theme
now from Bohemianism in London, now from
the life Of a German University town and now
from scenes of war IN Africa or Greece. Writ
ing with light touch. he nevertheless makes us
feel that there is truth and really poignant
emotion in the bits of human life he has treated
There is cynicism but there is likewise pathos
in his work If he pleases US first through his
faculty Of invention. he ends by conveying the
impression OF a alphabetically observant
writer. This Is rather odd book. odd in plan
and suggesting throughout an original tempera-
ment 1t Is interesting in substance and artis-
Tic in style Altogether II deserves place apart
as a minor but still unusually capable pro-
duction.
The five stories In Mr. Osbourne's book. Love-
the Fiddler" are Just readable enough to carry
the good natured reader along for half an hour
or So but that is about all that can be said in
their favor. The types sketched in these pages
are types of certain kind of mediocre fiction
not OF life itself Mr. Osbourne places his pup
pets in poorly contrived situations and then
puts them through their PAGES with some spirit,
but with no apparent instinct for character or
it's normal development under the pressure Of
circumstances. The book nowhere rings true;
everything In it seems treated from the outside
The old woman whose talk fills Mr.. Bells new
book. Mrs. McLerie." uses was to be ex-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-24
THE GILLOT COLLECTION.

NJ. Durand-Ruel. in whose Partisan galleries
the Charles elliot collection of Orientalia is to
be sold next month has sent us thick cata-
Iogue of that we'll known assembage of Eastern
paintings sculptures. porCelains and miscella-
neous objects Of art. The collection was formed
by man of high connoisseurship. md repre-
sents both knowledge and taste The catalogue
is richly Illustrated, and the fine plates full
of interest. We have noted especially the
productions of Japanese paintings, which
evidently of a quality unusual in the auction
room. One OF these plates we reproduce. 1t
gives a capital example of sixteenth century
japanese art. the work OF Iwasa MataheL The
sale begins on February and lasts for a week
We wish that some OF these paintings. notably
the superb portrait of a priest, by an unknown
artist OF the first quarter OF the thirteenth CEN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-24
FICTION.
II No0el of the Vest, and Some
Short Stories.

THE CAPTAINS DAUGHTER By GwendOlen
OYertOn. With Illustrations by Frances ID.
Jones. limo. pp. go. The Macmillan Company.
BETWEEN THE ACTS. BY Henry w. Nevinson-
Emo PIP. viii. SS7 f. p. DuttOn Co.
LOVE. THE FIDDLER BY Lloyd Osbourne.
limo, PIP. 27& Mcclure Phillips & Co.
MRS. NrLERIE. BY J. J. Bell 12mo pp. go
The Century Company.
There is little romantic sentiment in Miss
Overton's new book. and we have not read il
with any the less pleasure for that reason The
truth is that the average story of life at
Western military post is too apt to subordinate
the more human elements In that life TO some
conventional and more or less incredible affair
of the heart Miss Overton. In a simple and
natural manner. treats OF such episodes as seem
more clearly to reflect the daily atmosphere OF
the kind OF settlement that has always had a
character peculiarly its own Her heroine Is a
foolish girl who witnesses. unseen, theft IN
her fathers house. and is soft hearted enough
to be beguiled when she charges the criminal
with his deed. into giving him a chance" The
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-24

pected, a fearful and wonderful Scotch dialect
The author proved that he could be amusing in
spite of dialect when he wrote Wee Mac
greegor," and in the present volume he sue
ceeds. now and then. in raising a smile. His
humOr, however does not emerge with entire
success from the test Of quantity. n little of it
is quite enough. Though it served to float the
earlier book, it cannot save Mrs. McLerie'
from being somewhat tiresome. The central
figure is not as piquant the small boy of
Glasgow and her remarks soon pail
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-24

One who loved the late George Gissine saw.
or him that he was IAN erudite man, well versed
IN classic lore, had the Latin historians and
some OF the Greek ones at his finger tips and
could read both languages easily when he cared
10 do So He was a very shy and fastidiOus
man, and was much troubled by adverse crit
lcisTn. as he was peculiarly sensitive TO it He
was almost morbid in many Of his thoughts
and had a strange vein of romance running
through his sad life Into the details Of his
early career do not care to enter. They were
very hard and very cruel and the learning
which he accumulated was obtained at vast
cost and through much suffering. He was one
OF the klndeSt of men, one Of those who would
take any trouble to help another. especially il
the man REFUSING help was a writer who was
striving to live by his pen. and to such a one
his heart went out, and he aided him secretly
and splendidly, asking thanks in return
The memory OF his own old days OF hard strug-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-24

The three old cottages which adjoin the Shake
speare birthplace at StTatfOrd-On-AVO have
been purchased and presented to the trustees
by Mr. Carnegie. and will be used hereafter as
offices of the trust. including rooms where the
books and MSS belonging to the trustees can
be consulted for serious purposes of study The
objects on exhibition in Shakespeare's house are
to be rearranged, and it is to be presumed that
there will be some wedding out. A collection of
authentic copies prints of all Of Shake
speare's personal associates OF whom cOntem-
porary portraits eXtant will be procured.
Reproductions OF the portraits at Dulwich of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-24

The Creevey Papers-reviewed in these columns
last week-are having a notable success in Eng
land Statesmen. historians and women Of So
ciety are buying, reading and talking about
them with equal zest. a rumor that the sue
CeSsive reprints largely bOwdleriZed
brought to the booksellers a flood of orders for
the first edition. The rumor proved to be a mis-
taken one-as the reader of the Papers" may
readily believe.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-24
LITERARY NOTES.

It is stated that eve4 day last year thirty
three new books produced by the writers
Of the United Kingdom, and that these books
now on the shelves of the British Museum
occupy quarter of a mile of space. And more
than half of them uSeleSS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-24

"NOstromo' is the queer title of Mr.. Joseph
COnrad's new novel Its author, although he
has not yet completed it, is already thinking
about it's successor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-24

poet Drayton and Of the actors Burbage. Field
and SLY have already been ordered. The Duke
beck Abbey portraits OF Lord Southampton and
John Fletcher. Now that MIR. Sidney Lee and
Mr.. Lionel Gust are managing affairs At Shake
speares birthplace may hope to see no
further meddlng by the town officials
The late Princess Mathilde Is said to have
positively refused to prepare any "reminiscences
or her long and interesting life. One book she
ala write some years ago-a graceful little
sketch or the adventures during the Siege and
tue commune OF her little white spaniel. 1t
bore the name of "Didi'' Ohat OF the dog ITSELF.
and only few copies printed for pres
entdtion to the authors intimate friends. Its
rarity will no doubt make it exceedingly ex-
pensive at future book sales The text was re-
printed in the Revue Retrospective nearly
twenty years ago.
strange family story is told in the just pub
iished "Reminiscences of Mrs. Pickering" 1t
has to do with her sister Jane, married to Lord
Andover, eldest son of the Earl Of Suffolk:
she Q-ady AndOveD had always been noted
for having the most remarkable dreams and one
morning she awoke feeling nervous and uncOm-
Portable, having dreamed that Lord AndOver
mad gone out shooting when there battue
sion on her mind that she entreated him not to
shoot that day, but TO stay with her which ne
at once consented to do. and they resumed their
painting and reading. But the day came out SO
line and the winter shone so brightly that
my aunt. feeling she had been selfish at last
begged him not To lose the day for her sake, but
to go out and join the others. so he went. After
he had gone she became so restless and uneasy
that she started to walk across the park to the
covert where they were shooting. AS she
crossed the park she observed one of the grOoms
EaUoping hard toward the house on her own
favorite horse. BarOnet Strange to say no pre-
sentiment Of evil seems at that moment to have
struck her. and she only remarked, How very
angry Lord AndoVer would be If he could see
that man riding my horse IN such way He
was riding to the house with the news that Lord
AndoVer had been shot dead by OF the
keepers
Mr; Sidney Lee. the Shakcspearian scholar
ana Euitor or the Dictionary OF National Biog-
raphy' has undertaken to edit for the Methuens
IN London a new collection of classical Iitera-
tuIe Whlch viii be issued under the title OF
MethuenS Universal Library" The books In
the series VIII be published at very short reGu-
Ir intervals. at a low price. and will Include |
works OF classical renufa NOT only thOsa thot
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-24

umes Of which no cheap edition exists n ..
hoped by the projectors OF the enterprfss tbst
the Library may bring in due time ali the basf
literature of England and other nations within
the reach OF every class OF readers. TextuaI
accuracy will be aimed at, as well cheapness
completeness and typographical cIearDess tn
works in the series will be given UNABRIDGED
and competent scholars viii edit them tbo71g6
not with any excess Of purely editorial rnatte-
Mr. Lee will supply a brief biographical ara
photographed note for each volume
The late Seton Merriman Oh. s. Scottl len q.
novel in manuscript, and il will soon be brorIob,
out in serial form 1t is a curious coincidence
that this last book Of his is entitled The Iast
Hope"
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tury. could be bought for the Metropolitan
Museum
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THE CAPTAINS DAUGHTER BY GwendOlen
OYertOn. With Illustrations by Frances ID.
Jones. limo, pp. go. The Macmillan Company.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-05

ton in all parts of$the nation, and con-
1ditions generally were favorable to It's
enjoying such success as is practicable
for q great combination OF the trust char
acter. Mr.. Saxon shows how at first the
promise Of the promoters and the hopes OF
the investors were amply realized. In
time, however, jealousies and misunder-
standings arose among those who were In
the management of the corporation, and
one official after another left to enter into
competition with it. The result was that,
in increasing measure, it lost its hold upon
the market, and for some three or four
years the stockholders have received no
dividends. while there is scarcely any i'm
mediate prospect Of one. The trusts sur
plus has been replaced by a bonded in
debtedness Of millions. and 1t is now max
Ing little or no profit upon the business 1t
does. 1t has number Of well established
competitors, and where the stock sold In
the market a few years ago at from loo
to 120 for the preferred and from 60 to IS
for the common, 1t is now quoted at from
one-half to one-third Of those figures. with
no purchasers. Mr.. Saxon expresses the
opinion that this history of a trust is a
typical one, and shows that there is nc
,, ground for fear of continued industrial
tyranny from any similar combinations.
| Other things In the number are Inter.
national Arbitration Made Attractive,
| Wayne MacVeagh; Canada and Recipro
! city," John Charlton, M. p; 1.-THE Art Of
the Stage Manager" Brander Matthews
Poetry and Poets Of America" H., Chur.
ton Collins; 1.-THE Son Of Royal Lang
brith.-1I.,' a novel by w. D. Howells.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-05
Big Men and Big Pay.

President Pritchett Of the Massachu-
sets Institute of Technology thinks
that the way to get good municipal
government is to simplify the ma
ch1nery, entrust the general direction
OF affairs to a council whose members
should be paid $4,000 a year apiece,
and place at the head Of the various
administrative departments Of the
city men worth, and getting, salaries Of
not less than $4,000 a year. To this
generous financial provision he would
add long terms OF office.
: This is suggestion worth thinking
about. Good government is certainly
as important as good railways, good
insurance companies, good manufac-
turing companies, good telegraph
companies. It takes big salaries to
enlist the services of the big men who
make these companies good.
At the same. or even somewhat
smaller salaries the city might have
the services of many Of these big
men. Assured Of a generous income
for a reasonably long period they
| would rather work for the people
than for a private corporation.
What we greatly need in American
| politics Is good admixture of the
men who are making our business
corporations the most successful il
the world. They are generally, how
ever, men who do not underestimate
the desirability of the material goods
Of material world, and If the state
gets their services it will have to pa!
! for them.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-05
GLORY OF A COLD DAY
vermillion Is. D. Republican.

Vermillion Is. d. Republican.
There is a splendor and glory about a
magnihcently cold day which even our
limited human frames, in the midst Of
their strenuous discomfort, readily recog-
nize. Walk out on the bluffs, or in the
valleys, or across the wide fields, in the
face Of a singing north wind, which blows
the fragments of white snow-clouds like
feathers before its force. and the feeling
is one of fulness Of life. Never does the
vital current flow SO freely. and even so
fiercely, in the arteries and nerves, as in
this glorious opposition. We will not
yield; we will fight for life, and gain it,
even tho our enervated house habit rebels.
and cries for harborage and help. Help
against what? Against the great tonic of
pure air, swinging in superb indifference
from the fields Of the north, and not for
us manifesting its inspiration, tho 1t
brings us blessing with which we quar-
rel! The strength Of the earth is in these
atmospheric currents; they are what make
life tenable and productive. New life,
new thought, restoration Of principle;
renovation Of purpose, are in the. north
winds. Let us drink the cod health in,
thru energetic breasting of the clustering
blasts.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-05
Street Cars for Women Only.

The Brooklyn league, which in
cludes some Of the leading retail mer-
chants Of Brooklyn has asked the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit company to
set apart a large number of street
cars for the exclusive use Of women.
The thrifty Brooklyn retailer has
made up his mind that more Of
Brooklyn ready money would go into
his Golfers and less into the savings
banks If shopping were not such an
arduous enterprise. One Of the most
arduous features of shopping in a
large city, and one which is soberly
considered by every woman in weigh
ing the question OF to shop or not to
shop, is that Of personal compression
in the street cars.
The shopping woman doesn't like
to stand up. all the way down town.
and she objects even more strongly
to standing up all the way home. r
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-05
School Books.

Parents are complaining Of the
textbook or arithmetic used in the
public schools. There are two books
in use in the public schools which
seem to be serious mistake. One is
the arithmetic complained Of, and the
other the book for beginners in gram
mar. The teaching Of arithmetic de-
ponds, Of course, a good deal upon the
teacher, and it is not much Of teach
er at any time who cannot rise SUI
perior to the book. Competent teach
ers, however, are seriously embar-
raised, not by inferior textbooks, the
deficiencies Of which they might be
able to overcome, but by the large
number of children committed to. them
and the practical impossibility to give
much personal attention to each one
This arithmetic. however, seems to re-
quire a great deal more work on the
part Of teachers than book properly
prepared. 1t gives no satisfactory
explanation Of processes or principles
and If these are not learned from the
teacher or somebody else, the pupi
Is likely to get very inadequate
knowledge of arithmetic and acquire
a dislike for a study which properly
taught can be made extremely fas
cinating.
| AS for the beginners book in gram
mar, it assumes on the part Of an 1:
or 12-year-old a capacity for meta
physical study which might proper1!
be required Of high school senior
but would hardly be expected at al
earlier age. It reads more like wor]
on psychology than a beginners bool
on grammar. E~.a
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-05
A Good. or Evil, Gift I?

Daniel J. Sully, the cotton king, who
has accumulated nunumbered mil
lions Of dollars in the last year, has
been distributing largess to his en-
ployes.
The office boy got $1,000, the head
Of the Sully office in Providence drew
an income of $4,000 a year for life.
and other employees have been remem-
bered In proportion.
1t Is the gift to the office boy that
interests us. Has he been started on
the road to wealth and responsibility,
or has he been thrust onto the road to
ruin?
Unless he is about one office boy in
ten, that $1,000 will make him a
devotee Of speculation. 1t came too
easy. He will want to make money
| as easily all the rest of his life, and
he will likely degenerate into habi-
| tue Of bucket shops, haggard, nervous
his life measured in eighths, his am
bition confined to the possession Of
unearned, undeserved wealth.