New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-16


Issue It in parts. to form ultimately twelve vol
un,es They will use the Golden type, and will
brfne the volumes out in gray boards with linen
hacks A note on Morris by his biographer, Mr..
J. w Mackaii will be prefxed TO the first part.
poo,s about William Blake are in the air. Il
f. only, few weeks since the Macmillans pub
l,shed a study OF his art by Miss Irene Langridge.
Two more publications on the subject are an
nounced :. monograph by MI Archibald Russell
ard en- elaborate analysis by Mr.. Laurence
Binyon Mr.. Binyons second volume will con-
tain afty-four plates of the Songs OF Innocence
and Experience" reproduced in the size and
color Of the originals from edition lately In
the possession of the Earl OF Crewe.
one OF the chief publishing houses in ST.
Petersburg is bringing out luxurious edition OF
the Koran 1t is reproduction of the Kuphit-
chesk Koran signed by the Caliph Nsnnan ana
issued in the years 644-656 A. d. Copies Will he
presented to the chief rulers of the Mussulman
world, among others the Shah of Persia. the
Sultan OF Turkey. the Amer of Bokhara. the
Khan Of Khiva. the Khedve OF Egypt, the Sui
tan Of Morocco and the Ameer of Afghanistan.
The edition will comprise only fifty copies.
twenty-five of them for sale at about $3.50 each
Ne alluded last week 10 the uliliSOANS "a PiO
ducing a good biography. and suggested that
when the conventional two volumes were put In
shape one should contain purely biographical
narrative and the other critical monograph,
different authors producing the different con-
tributons. Now comes Drs Robertson Nicoll, no
more satisfied than with the average
biography. and he in his turn. has a sugges-
ton TO make. The inaccuracy OF most bogra-
pliers where anecdOte is concerned especially
exasperates him, and he says:
My proposal is that the State should undertake
tain all the best anecdotes in their best form. 1t
should be prepared by some literary experts, who
Salary While their Work lasts It Should then be
pgbshed ana placed IN all horaIies OF
to print any of the anecdotes which appeared In
Se 9s to be o ss
haze no hesitatGn in saying that this Pan
show most welcome and beneficial curtament;
be a large book. There are not thousand really
good anecdotes in the world
The late Lady Dixie left estate OF 100000.
Her executors. following her wishes, have hand
ed over to her husband. Sir Charles Dixie, her
books, jewery. laces, and on, and he has UNI
derta1en to select certain of the books to be-
queath to the South Kensington Museum. Lady
Dixie assembled a considerable number Of VOL
and other rare editions.
Mr.. Kenyon Cox made the rhymes and pictures
of his Mixed Beasts Cox, Duffield & Coz for
three small people" presumably his own
youngsters. but glad that he has put
them into book. and thereby made them Access
sible 10 many other children. His combinations
are very funny, the Kangarooster. the Tomato
cantelope. the Camelephant. the Hippopotamus-
tang ana These cheerful monsters
sketched with great simplicity and humor, and
the that go with them turned with
quite as engaging a comicality.
A letter rejecting a noted authors apprecia-
ton of this country is printed in Fifty Years
of Fleet Street" the memoirs of Sir John R. Rob
inson of The London Daily News" which has
just been published by the Macmillans. 1t was
written to Robinson by Conan Doyle. then paus-
ing at Amherst in lecturing tour that he was
making in the United States. The cordial trib-
ute is worth quoting:
I have been I'VE weeks here and It's a great
pectations but the realty far srpasae them
XatuTay / have only seen the plSasanter side OF
sands Of miles and seen many towns, that
have s9s t from Which ha to talk The
good humored and afable. infinitely more so than
Inalgned BY the travelling Briton this one. He
has picked out all the little things talk about
and missed all the big ones Every globe trotter
has paragraphs about the number Of spittooEs in
a hotel bar las II 1t mattersD, but they pass
such tIifes as that there hereditary cham
Der and no landlords. There is absence OF atfec-
tation and a kindly frankness, too. on all hands
which Is not TO be computed In spittoons. They
naturally hurt al being naligned and
estranged them considerably. though not |
think, irredeemably.
BY love! when see all these folks with their
British names and British tongues, and when
consider how far they have been allowed TO drift
from us, feel IL ought to have a sta tes-
man from every lamppost In Pail Mall. We've got
go into partnership with them. else be
Swallowed by them The centre OF gravity of the
is over here. and We have got to readjust
ourselves.
Some ponderous Wiseacre was observing the
other day. evidently TO mis- great satisfac-
ton, that the fairy tale literary form for
the deectation of the young played out
We have already dwet upon this genteman's
absurdity. We wonder what ne would say to
the group OF volumes now before us. all of
them. in our opinion, pretty certain to find
popularity The Brown Fairy Book U-ong-
mans Green & Coz is a Enthusiastically charm