New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-13

Dobson:
At sixty years, when ApriTs face
Retrieves now, the winters cold.
Where tales of other springs are told
You keep your courty pride of place
W dn re ahe u GFSG @ of fP od
AT sixty years.
Not Time nor Silence sets its trace
On golden Tyre and voice of gOd
Our Poets Poet, still you hold
At sixty years.
An article on Gertrude Anterior in "The Lit
erary World" of Boston gives several biOgraph-
zeal details about that clever novelist She was
born in San Francisco. and in her childhood was
allowed to browse in her grandfather's library,
She is quoted saying that she began to write
when she was lat some tender age. The older
girls at school gave her blank books to fill with
first story she published called "The
Randolphs of RedwoodS.' According TO her
latest biographer, lit was Mrs Atherton's early
purpose to exploit the romance of the juvenile
age of the Far West There was temp,
tradition which from time to time found its
way into the San Francisco newspapers, but
Mrs. Anterior put this aside and went straight
TO headquarters They say that she made her
residence in the old adobe settlements, and with
sharpened eyes and ears mixed with these sur
viYing Spanish pioneers.
Mr.. Hardy has been unbosoming himself in
an interview about certain noted writer's He
has great admiration for lbsen, Who he says
was indeed a revelation" and he thinks that
the English stage has suffered through not Civ
ing the portentous doctor fair chance Mr..
Hardy finds Tolstoy a curious mixture giving
us new ideas disguised in old forms of Ian
guage" He also says: How Tennyson could
write OF life as he did I cannot imagine;
Browning also a mystery of contradiction.
But knew him personally, and am quite sure
he quite genuine in all he wrote"
Our readers will remember the volumes of
Indian love poetry published within the last few
Years Inv II laurence Hone" The author of those
he wifi of he ta Ma
Nicholson, of the British army. When her hus
band died not long ago grief affected her mind,
and last month she committed suicide at Madras
by taking a dose of corrosive sublimate.
Mrs. Katherine Cecil Thurston. author of 1.-The
Masquerader' the highly improbable but alb
sorbingly interesting tale recently brought out
by the Harpers has dramatized the book and
mas set about writing another Mr.. Hugh Cliff
ford's volume of fiction is to be called
sally, Study, and Other Tales of the Out
skirts" In Sally" the longest story in the
book, this authoritative writer on life in the
Malay Archipelago treats of the experience of a
native prince sent as a boy to be educated in
England where the DEVELOPMENT of his Eastern
nature under Western conditions leads to some
poignant crises.
We mentioned the other day that Mr.. George
Moore's Evelyn Inness' and Sister Teresa
were presently to appear in German versions
which. would be entitled 'Profane Love" and
Sacred Love" The announcement has moved
Mr.. Arnold Bennett to point out in print that
he has selected Sacred and Profane Love" as
the title of novel upon which he has been en-
gagged Cor time, and which will appear In
due course next year. 1t now remains to be
seen if Mr. Moore will attempt to Guido MIR.
Bennett in courtesy, or if Mr.. Bennett will as
sure his colleague that he can readily do with
out the title which both have fixed Under
lhe circumstances each of these two authors
would seem to have perfect right to the said
title
We wonder. by the way, why Mr. Benefits
DOCKS are not better known in this country.
The Grand Babylon Hotel" has been published
Tauchnitz edition Of a Great Man" by all
odds the cleverest satire that has been written
On The typical popular novelist" of day.
me heqlocrity who succeeds by the sheer power
of-medCcrity.
MOST writer's on Mary, Queen of Scots become
80 absorbed in contemplation of that romantic
lSIre mat they do not say all that might be
salu as TO her surroundings. We welcome there
lore, lhe announcement that Professor Hume
pr noT m mas a volume in press on Scotland in
ne ne Iilhe OF queen Mary" In it he deals with
nc 6enerau appearances of the villages and
.oMils' Ihe condition of society In the country
ttaue, commerce, and industry in the towns and
- re eco VI. transitions of the period He
sleies Vi otner phases of his subject and en-
aea s IN short to give the reader an idea of
just what kind OF q Scotland n vas In Which
mary iouno Der tragic destiny