New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-08

49,. b533y-fers 81 other 6stionalitIes OF course
Americans. Germans Frenchnen; but the Engnsn
were best worth recoUnting. and there was among
Dover Of narration Naturally under such cir
ing must be mainly one Of English authors
There is a picturesque story OF Cromwell IN
M Cowan's new volume Of Scottish history
The great EnEIishman met his match in sturdy
citizen OF Perth when in 1851 he entered the
town upon its equalization:
The Provost Andrew Grant. attended the Eng
siSI 0ii bo AFTER supper Cromwell asked the
Provost how in his defenceless posiuqn ne pro
ij eu that they meant to try to hold out until they
asItbv cii>zeT WAS here introduced to cromwell
10 whom he presented the bond gwen MIN by
king Charles. Cromwell returned II with smile
and said he had nothing 10 DO with the was
neither Charles nor his eTecnto,, 10 Will IL
neither king nor executor you are surely vicious s
part and with a smile, turning to the company
declared he had never met win rs, SUI s., ,bat nan
ner before.
Nine Sarah Grand, who has been devoting
herself in recent years 10 the work Of lecturing.
is reported to be writing again. and we may
probably expect a new novel from her Her
later work has not encouraged her readers 10
EXPECT a repetition OF her chief success, The
Heavenly Twins" She SCOTS at plot" and is
quoted as saying that the starting point OF her
novels is an idea. though the form in which the
idea comes or takes may vary. sometimes,
saws the London Sphere" at may be the title
for the book at other times a phrase. 1t was a
phrase which started The Heavenly Twins
The author was sitting quietly chatting with
some friends one day, when there came to her
what she has called the strange and beautiful
suggestion Of the awakening and unfolding Of
young girls mind and being-the awakening Of
her vomanhood and Of the great impulses with
IN her. The idea even thrust itself into words.
and she wrote them down IN notebook which
she always carries with her. The words We're:
At nineteen Evadne looked out OF narrow
eyes at an untried world inquiringly. She
wanted to know. She found herself forced 20
put prejudice aside in order TO see beneath II.
deep down into the sacred heart Of things.
where the truth is, and the bewndering clash of
human preoept with human practice ceases to
veK'"
The novelist we are told. spends about two
years over a story. She requires certain condi-
lions when at work. The first IS a solitary
breakfast; the second that Nine. Sarah Grand
must be dressed tidily and IN black though
black IS the one color she hates. Were she to
attempt 20 sit down to her desk wearing
wrapper her grammar would become sovenly
nj once as she once humorously put II. Finally,
there must be some fetiches on her desk which
friends who have been permitted to enter the
sanctuary Of her study aver is "a hopelessIy
confused heap OF rubbish"
Mr.. Maurice Hewlett has been visiting Ger
taldo. where Boccaccio was born and died.
That merry authors own house remains. part
OF It being a fine tower. There IS nothing to
be seen in the house, the Englishnan says but
what is outside il, so to say-the great open
view Of the downs. the incidents Of the cheer
fuI street" OF the Certaldesi Mr.. Hewlett writes:
Their women are handsome. as they ought ought TO be-
T,at- eaTTi themselves bolt upright like ali noun
taiueers but with better reason than most for
songs sTe happy and fee AanneTe and Il Boo
caccio is not at the bottom or II the mischief Is
YOU will be wrong. I here what I have never
@ gF a open IN sreS No oen6e a heT He
was baker who came-a houry amortno--Faw,
and stopped and Kissed her she sat sewing at
her door. her lovers and acqHaintanG9es soo1 t
After SO fragrant an achievement the madcap went
none reeeniine his freedom He danced with one
good wife chucked another g chin, and lifted q
third bodily into the air. singing all the while
Various interesting items appeared at a
cent autograph sale in London. One of these
wss an II. o. L" for 400 written by Gibbon.
the historian. on the back Of a ten Of diamonds
he had lost the at cards to A. Blondel.
in May. 17SG. Rlcndcl was his valet, and we
gather from Gibbons memoirs that he often
Obliged his employer by taking hand. by
many" writes the historian at Lausanne. con
versstion is esteemed a theatre a school:
hut after the morning has been occupied by the
labors OF the library. / wish to unbend rather
taan to exercise my mind, and IN the interval
between tea ard supper I am far from dis
cainfrg the innocent amusement Of q game at
cards" Five hundred dollars worth OF unbend-
ing in an evening was. doubt. much TO the
taste OF the amiable Blondel-
Another item IN this sale recalled Carlyle's
unmitigated contempt for autograph hunters.
''Hcre is the autograph May It do you far
more good than I expect. T Carlyle"
Another document showed the wrath with
which Browning regarded Gladstone after the
introduction OF the Irish Home Rule bill. This
week." wrote the poet, in July. 1887. 'I have
twice excused myself from dinners because
Gladstone was TO be present Now. years ago
used to like the notion that SO many OF my
friends were in the habit OF asking me to meet
him. and now the meeting handshake would
be too painful oh. world! where all things
change and nought abides!"
Sir Isaac Newton's little memorandum book
bought by him for twopence in 1859 and filed
with astronomical notes In his own handwriting
was valuable addition to the sale.
IN his Pioneer spaniards in North Amer
lea" dittle Brown & Coz, Mr.. w. H. John
son shows himself to be as keenly alive To
the picturesque and stirring features Of the
roInailce OF exploration he was in his
Inc "oi4U Dlsceverers." The present work
Is aohs similar lines. and may be briefly de-
scribec as popular narrative OF the trihula-
lions and achievements NJ ,ho e-....,-