New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-06
LITERARY NOTES.

LITERARY NOTES.
| entitled Rulers OF Kings" The next book TO
| be published by FIR. Charles MaTrlOtI auInor
of The Column" will be called Gineyra
/ Since thousands of Germans are eager TO
| read Lieutenant Bises now celebrated novel.
| "a Little Garrison" the prohibition OF the
book has only put the smugglers on their InetJe-
| Copies cross the frontier disguised as French
/ or English classics Six copies which were
confiscated the other day bore the title OF
| Bible"
! While we are waiting for the official biog-
i raphy of Lord Beaconsfield there is TO be no
/ lack of publications dealing with him In one
way or another The book by Mr.. Wilfrid Mey'
Lell. which was published not Iong ago. is 20
| have a rival in one by Mr.. Walter Sichel. In
which that writer will aim at presenting Dis
/ raeIis outlook life and politics. the long
consistency of which. from first to last, has not
] yet been realized" The book is described as
| biography of the statesman's mind. por-
trayal Of the development of his ideas. II Is
| also announced that each volume IN the new
| edition OF Lord BeacOnshed's works which
Mr.. Lucien Wolf is preparing Is to be pro-
vided with biographical introduction
! In the house Of French burglar who was
| recently arrested the Partisan police have dis
covered not onry mass of pawn tickets for
stolen property, but a number CT poems oy
/ the unlucky craftsman Here are some lines
from a lyric of his called The Robbers Hour:
reign as master in the woods.
| The rich mans purse belongs to me;
| ease him Of his property
| What matters conscience here belovf
| Its voice to Is command
| The law is geld and II belongs
| To him who has the strongest hand
| The new book about Lady Diana Beauclerk
| the clever granddaughter of the great Duke Of
/ Marlborough, shows that she was, as a deco
| rative artist, very graceful But IL also shows
that she was deft caricaturist There Is some
thing very dron and to the point about the
earicature Of GIbbon By her which We repro
| duce
| Apparently week can pass without It's re
port OF literary lawsuit in France The latest
| litigants are NJ Theodore Calm and NJ Cous-
| turier They signed contract with a publisher
| binding themselves TO produce In collaboration
| a novel to be called The COnscript Of 1870"
| each to receive half share OF the authors
| rights. But on the appearance OF the book NJ
| COusturier claimed threequarters OF the rights.
| maintaining that NJ. Calm had neglected TO per-
| form his full share OF the stipulated work. and
| that most OF the writing thereupcn fell upon
| his shoulders. The affair has been taken into
court, with what result We have yet TO learn
| The new edition Of the letters Of the Words
! worth family upon which Professor knight has
been engaged for many years. Is soon TO be
| clude nearly eight hundred letters written by
| Wordsworth himself. his sister. his brother
John. his wife, his daughter and others of the
family. II IS said that there viii be new matter
IN the book throwing Light on the early man
hood Of the poet
The next volume to appear IN the First Novel
Library a series started. we believe, not very
long ago. VIII be The Cardinals Pawn" by a
young Irish writer. Miss K L. Montgomery.
The scene IS laid IN Venice IN the days when
the formidable Ten were IN their glory From
the glimpses have had OF this tale as II
has serially through the pages OF an Eng
iish magazine inclined to expect good
things Of It
In an auction sale at private house IN Eng
land recently there was offered "a very antique
oak table, with history proving IL to have been
the proDertv of John Bunyan on which he
wrote Pilgrims Progress" AS was
willing to bid more than two shiIlingS for this
piece Of furniture, II was withdrawn from the
sale
At the recent celebration at K0nigsberg OF the
centenary Of the death OF Emmanuel Kant a
memorial tablet was unveiled in the street
bearing the philosophers name On II IS in
scribed this quotation from him: Two things
and respect the oftener and more constantly
think about them, namely. the starry heavens
above and the Moral Law within me-
A sleepy scribe In England has tust ciscov-
cred Fenimore Cooper. He reviews The Path
finder with huge delight, as what is to him a
new book. He states that "the scene OF the
| romance IS America" and that ''the Characters
| OF the Pathfinder and Mabel are well drawn"
| Also he considers that this book IS equal to
any from the pen OF this popular writer