New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-31

In the recently published autobiography OF
Mr. HOrsley. the Royal Academician. there is a
story OF Brunei, the great engineer. who was
a half sovereign the world of London breathlessly
awaited the result Of the treatment Of SIX dis
tinguished surgeons. THE public interest was
immense" says HOrsley. and II may De men
toned that IL was Macaulay who rushed int
the Athenaeum and exclaimed. 1t Is OutE 50
Another new book OF recOnections, that Of
Mr.. PlOwden. the London magistrate. contains
this story about whistler: Whistler was the
only man have met In whom personal coEceit.
whether real or assumed. not only gave no Of
fence, but was positive charm The greater
his self assurance the less it ofended-the more
II amused and gratIfed On the occasion to
which 1 am referring there was a private view
at the GrOsvenOr Gallery. Almost the fist
friend met was Whistler and he very good
naturedly took me up 20 4 fun length portrait
which he was exhibiting OF Lady Archibald
Campbell. After had done nv best 20 express
my humble appreciation OF a beautiful picture,
asked him il there were any other pictures
which he would advise 70 look at Other
picturesr said Whistler in a tone OF horror
Other picturesl There are 10 other pictures.
Two more volumes OF Carlyle Ietters-and
good sized volumes at that-are on the way.
Therein. no doubt, their author viii "fume and
stamp. and roar and chafe" as in those epistle5
which We already possess How much OF Car
lyles gloom. We wonder might be traced 70
the daily oats-that dyspeptic 'parritch" -
which be clung?
The late Albert vandam left the MS OF a
book which is about to appear II supplements
his volume, An EnGlshman in Paris" and 8
TO be entitled Men and Manners OF the Third
Republic"
This IS a period OF autobiography ana re-1i-
niScence-mankind is just now immensely in
teTestinS TO itself. American possibilities are
for the moment not plentiful but several books
are in prospect in England Mr.. C. J. HolyoaSs
is bringing out new series OF rer1iDiScerceS
dealing with people like Gladstone, Dis-4el,
Golden, John Stuart Mill. Herbert Spencer and
GaribaIdL The autobiography OF the Late Duke
Of Argyll (Which Is mentioned as in some sort
political history of our own tines VIII not lie
published at once The Duke was generally
dull writer, but the matter OF his "reminiscences
ought to be attractive enough to carry heavy
manner.
The memoirs Of far-ofr days are even more
popular than are those belonging 10 our own
times, and many excellent reprints are in course
OF preparation The London firm OF kegan
Paul will soon issue a series OF such books
under the general title Of Dryden House
MemOirs'-this title being derived from the new
home Of the firm, which occupies the site OF the
house (tOrn down not long ago. in which Dry-
den once lived Their plan provides for the pro
duction In excellent, but not expensive, form q
many books which are not now readily avail
able Among the first issues will be those
Memoirs Of the Reign Of George II which
were set down by Lord Hervey-POpes LORD
Fanny" that
- familiar toad.
Half froth. half venom. splits himself abroad.
In puns. or politics, or tales. or lies,
or spite smut or rhymes or DlaspheI1lleS
DR.. Birkbeck Hill knew how TO write play Ih
nonsense in the intervals OF grave literary WORK
His daughter has just published volume OF
selections from his fantaSticalitieS written Tor
children-a volume which she calls Letters
Written by a Grandfather
NJ Paul Rourget Is the subject OF some truth
full comments In The Saturday Review.
''When Ralzac digs in the earth" II says
.sboveIlinc up stones and clOds together, il n
rare that he does not strike, as II by accldenI
uDOn buried treasure. In the midst OF a Slory
which is partly tedious and partly improbable,
Won come suddenly upon the truth, naked ana
alive But in NJ Bourgeois deity woven anec-
dOtes which wind from trtviality into truiSIIL
and from truism back into Uiviality, there -
never "A moment of revelation. never a moment
az intensity They remain anecdotes. diScOurseS
about life anecdotes whose significance IS
superficial, discOurses in which thought never
passes into intuition In an art cOnceFheu
wholly with the creation OF NE. tneS 4eH4A4N
restless and lHeless-
SibiIIa NoveIlo the youngest daughter or
Vincent NOvellO. and the sister OF Mary CO"-
den Clarke died the other day az Genoa "HeIe
much of her life had been spent with the gentle
author OF the Shakespeare Concordance She'
IiI,a the third NoveIIO sister. Clara-the heroine
OF Charles AuChester''-was an acconlpIS Ii
musician In her youth she sang IN At<lIl>Ah
onera and on the concert stage She was one
OF the few left who at the opening or tne year
1904 could recall the members Of Charles LAMBS
circle