New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-22


There is to be a new edition OF n p willis's
People Whom l Have Met" with all the sup
pressed personal passages which not al
lowed to appear in England presented in full
Mr.. and Mrs Egerton Castle have written
new novel which they call French Nan
Carlyie's letter declining to give valedictory
address as Lord Rector OF Edinburgh Uuivcr-
sity has Just been placed in Dundee Museum.
II Is a mournful. kindly letter OF little general
interest except perhaps in its somewhat
VentionAI advice 70 the students:
Bid them in my name. II they still love me
fight the good Tight and quit themselves like men
and consecraed and Witch lies ahead as Te tn
70 consult the eternal oracles mot yet inaudible
and 10 disregard nearly altogether in comparison
The temporary noises. menacings and deiriums
yield her treasures. must be loved-piously val
anuy. humbly. beyond life itself or the prizes OF
life. with al ones h art all ones soul In that
Ease Shall vi" III say s psan and not IN any other case
friends. a long adeu.
4 series Of reprints Of unusual interest is to
be brought out in London. These volumes com
prise the contemporary chronicles of the lives
or the Tudor and early Stuart sovereigns-writ-
lngs which are now almost forgotten. In the
list are such books as Sir Thomas More's Rich
ard Ill" Camdens Queen Elizabeth" and
Halls Chronicle of Henry VIII" Mr. Charles
whitley is editing the series
Three octave volumes are to contain -The
A~CNtc4S VI queen ltlOIlas ana they viii prOba-
bly, be published during the coming autumn.
Thomas Hardy has been at work upon another
volume of his NapOleonic drama in verse This
wasted effort is mournfuI TO contemplate in n
man of great genius in another field of utera-
ture. Is IL possible that advancing years have
dulled his powers as novelist, they dull
those Of most poets?
Mr.. Crockett is preparing a new novel TO be
called The Loves of Miss Anne" Miss Anne is
the fascinating, headstrong daughter Of 4 High
land laird, and her dealings with the various
men who fall in love with her make up the
tissue of the story.
volume Maria Edgeworth by Emily Law
less is to be added TO The English Men Of Let
ters' series.
Mr.. j. NJ. Barrie the novelist is described as
wearing the appearance of an unassuming and
rather untdy man with a secret sorrow.
Those who assume saws THE
that any Scotsman must have Celtic blood
might set him down suffering from the
chronic gloom which is understood 10 affiict per-
sons Of that strain. OF whatever origin il is at
least a very sound and pure article Of melan-
choly which looks out of the eyes of this charm
ingly humorous writer"
The autograph manuscript of Burns's ballad
The Whistle" with the letter to the Duke OF
Queensberry which accompanied it, has just
been sold at the amazing price Of S175. II Is
supposed that the manuscript will come to
America. The ballad is of about eighteen
stanzas. and begins thus:
I sing of a whistle a whistle OF worth,
sing of a whistle the pride of the North.
Was brought to the Court Of good Scottish King
And long with this whistle all Scotland shall ring.
Another Burns manuscript that of The Cot
ter's Saturday Night" is to be sold next month