New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-17

feIt able to resume literary work He has
new volume of poems in hand ana mas taAex
up again his work upon the collected eollion ~
all his verse
Mr. Lucas and Mr.. Macdonald. who have each
edited of late edition or the "orhS y.
Charles Lamb and his sister. have both prousit
hitherto unpublished matter to light no" :.
is announced that Canon Anger so ven nj 49, d
to lovers of Lamb has in preparation a ne" anu
'enlarged' edition OF Elias letters DoeS -
mean that he. in his turn. will have soiheI iNe
new to give us!
THE Academy gives quaint Illustration ~
the ups and downs of authorship IL ail4our IL.
that Mr.. Writ Guerrare, whose Greater t 10
sja.. Was published a few months ago, has been
offered an engagement for long term ~
manufacturing firm in Germany, WIZ lis -
condition that he shall not contribute 20 any
periodical or write books The whole or the m IN
formation obtained by Mr.. Guerrare while on ms
travels will be purchased by his employers, IoI
their own sole traders In the mars sel:
of the world. This appears to Indicate new
career for observant writer's VINO DO not clh =,
publicity and are content to 1oreso iaiAe -
they can gain livelihood by their pen
Partisans of Prince CharIie-and their name Is
Iegion-will be interested to hear that a new IIe
of him by Mr.. w Drummond Norie Is IN couL oI
of publication in London. Two OF the -FOUR Foi-
umes in which it is to be competed nav - g.
ready appeared. Whatever its literary qualy
NAV be- the book ought to have n certain Vaiue'
inasmuch it is lavishly illustrated Win naPs.
portraits and other material. the whole FORMING
a kind OF pictorial narrative or the lie Oh lie
prince
through THE Island" Number 5 John Street
and The Yellow Van" An admirer or those
books has been looking up the history OF i ,ne
writing the name OF "Whyte Ihorhe ne
published story In three volumes entiIeu iue
Democracy 1t would not be surprising II uiAs
work were To be e1huned and republshed
The Athenaum- announces that movement
has been started In Dublin by the Natlonai LIZ.
erary Society OF Ireland to erect bronze ousI
OF James Clarence Mangan in some public place
1t seems that no public memorial OF MN a' pres
ent exists anywhere in his native land
Lord Tennyson has been telling some stories
about his father to a literary society in Aus
tralia. To poet OF that country the late laure-
ate once wrote: II have received your poems.
but unlike John the Baptist. 1 cannot live on
locusts and wild honey" What in the world did
he mean? The other story runs as follows: ~
gardener was conversing with friend OF the
poet That Shakespeare's a great poet, Ism
her said the gardener. and he was answered
Yes And that Tennyson's great poet, isn't
her asked the gardener again. and vas again
answered in the affirmative Then, says the
gardener. digging his spade angriy into the
clod. then don't think nothink OF nayther OF
themY"
A writer in IT P's Weekly tells curl
Gus story about Herbert spencer. He saws
that to friend OF his the philosopher once said
that he had abstained from marriage in order
10 ueNOte MS me W HIS p3iiAo9OPLiS' anu IL
GREETED having done He would have been
happier he thought il he had married and let
the philosophy CO."
More Rossettanai There has just been pub
lished in London a book by the late Henry
Treffry Dunn. entitled ''ReccllectionS of II. G-
Rossetti and His Circle (Cheyne Walk Life)."
Mr.. Dunn began life as n bank clerk but he Left
that employment to enter school OF art He
became acquainted with Rossetti and finally was
admitted to the intimacy Of that individual,
whom he always regarded with "admirinS awe"
His book is described a collection of gossip.
but doubtless devoteeS of the noted pre-R phael-
lite will want to add it to their collection OF books
about him
We have received from Stan v. Henkies. OF
Philadelphia, q copy of the catalogue OF the
Hampton l. Carson collection OF engraved por-
traits OF George Washington. which Is to be
sold at auction beginning Thursday after
noon. January 21 The catalogue runs to more
than a thousand numbers. II embraces nearly
all the portraits that mentioned in Bakers
book and many rarities unknown TO him. and
includes also the ST Memn collection of proofs
OF the portraits the latter engraved The cata-
logue would in any case have historical interest
Us record. but its value Is increased by the
inclusion OF a number OF reproductions. II Is
a pity that these have been defaCed. each with
line of red ink, simply because otherwise
1.-THE catalogue would have been sought after by
many for the reproductions alone As Il is
this volume will be preserved with appreciation
by those interested In Washingtoniana
Miss Marie CoreIlfs suit against Mr.. Fred
Winter. of Stratford- on-Avon which out
OF her entrance into the controversy over the
proposed library building In the town. ended in