New-York tribune., 1904-08-04

Mr.. r. A Potts has hunted up this poem in
The Morning Post and sends It TO The Athe-
naum," from which we quote it herewith:
DICK STRIPE;
OR. THE FORCE OF HABIT.
A TALE. BY TIMOTHY BRAMBIE
Habits are stubborn things
And by the time man is turn'd OF forty,
There is nom, no Clipping so Of is sUS Wings naughty
The amoTous s roots have taken n, earth and aK:
IN TN 4, H-y quits his mitre with hs pride.
Till Observation-Disclosures cease TO rant.
And Mister We leaves of TO cant
BY a familiar instance Of our
DICK sTRYPE
Was a dear friend and cover of the pipe:
he usd 10 say, one pipe Of Kirkman's best
To him twas meat. and drink. and physic.
And the black fume
Nlotne All The room
IN clouds as dark science metaphy sic.
80 still he smok d. and drank and crackd his joke;
And had he single tarried,
He might have smokd. and stin grown old in
But Richard married
His wife was who carried
The cleanly virtues almost 10 a vice
And thrice a week above, below,
The house was scourd from top to toe.
And ell the floors were rlbb'd so bright
You dard not walk upright
For fear OF sliding.
OF all things else Rebecca slrype
SHiq SSS qaji5 le5s5 n566 eneqFs re aI1 PIPE. ,
Protested that the noisome vapour
Had spoird the best chiatz curtains and the
And cost her many a pound in stucco:
Ae aSaco raS she qqStea @ & cur King Sames who saith
When wives VII govern. husbands must obey:
Dick :nourn'd and miss'd his favourite tobacco.
A. ls,2sth TIE gay sggToaeh'd, his wife die:
% female friends, old aqnts, and cousins,
The unds-rRker's men and mutes
Stood at the gate in sable suits,
Just like so many melancholy rocks
Folks Sigh. and drink and drink ana sigh.
For EoF ETls,f Es,f n makes people DRY:
They searchd the house throughout
Each hole and secret entry
S2uite. from the gaETet 70 The pantry,
And ali CONCLUDED he had hsngd himself
At last they found hin--eader. guess YOU where
Perchd en- Rebecca'e comm. at his rest
Smoking 4 pipe of Kirkman's best
Sir Conan Doyle on proposing the toast The
Literature OF the Scottish Borders" al a recent
banquet, had. OF course, something to say about
Scott. and went cut OF his way 10 laud Count
Robert OF Paris" the last OF the novelists books
which most OF US would think Of praising. He
told OF a scientist who had spent all his life In
profound but not very profitable study OF
ancient Byzantium. AL last he read Count
Robert OF Paris" whereupOn ne declared that
whereas his lifelong efforts TO know the ancient
city and its life had met with little success here
was Scotch lawyer who in the pages OF a novel
made the city 10 i've and its people 10 move
about before his very eyes.
Dir. =. Barton Baker has rewritten and brought
out in single volume his History OF the Lon
Cor Stage and Its Famous Players" Oc p. Dut-
ton q Coz, FIRST published in two volumes in
1889. The book, now embracing notes on the
performances OF 1903, gives a credItable sketch
Of its subject. II is not so much a grave and
elaborate history as it is a popular mixture OF
anecdoIe aid Information. Treating OF Covent
Garden N one Of it's most brilliant periods Mr..
Baker thus illustrates the blending IN the good
old Gays, q splendid with tawdry conditions:
June y -slt, John Philip Kembe bade farewell "a
the footlights in his greatest character Coriolanus
AND never did he play the part gTandly
As ne approached the last act writes Mr. Flfz
gerald IN his book the Kembles "a gloon
seemed 20 settle down the audience and wher
at the end he came slowly forward 70 make his
q 10 sareWeE- II was long before he could
obtain silence, could control his feelings sun
clently 20 speak Al last he faltered out I hav,
ngE appeased before you for the last time. Th
night closes my professional life' At this a tire
EaenoOus tpnult broke out. with cries Of No no,
At the END he withdrew with a long ans
4nsellng gaze. just as GarTick had done" Tn
Ike MTs siddons. he retained all MS grandeur Z,
the lass, and seems 70 have retired IN the rip
sAkR5nn Or his powers. grand dinner givel
shnlr ana the Duke OF Bedford. the MARQUIS o
= ladGsne and others Of the highest nobility 10
teuhef VIA tns most eminent men connected wiki