New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-06
LITERARY NOTES.

A reproduction in fac-simile Of he earliest eii-
ton of all that portion of Shakespeare's work
which found no place in the First Folio is in
course of preparation by the oxford University
Press. This includes the play of "Pericles' and
the four volumes OF poems-''Venus and
Adonis" "Lucrece" the "Sonnets" and the
passionate Pilgrim" The five volumes are to
be reproduced by the colIotype process from the
best accessible copies of the original issue. Mr.
Sidney Lee is experimenting the work and is
preparing int-oductions setting forth the latest
results or his researches regarding the biblio-
graphical history. Only go OF the 1850 copies
Of the edition Intended for America.
Some relics Of Nelson 10 be exploited In
two forthcoming papers in "Chamberss Jour
nal" The Rev. A. J. Scott, who was secretary
TO Nelson board the Victory. and with him
during his last moments at Trafalgar. inherited
two low armchairs with deep pockets, into
which many opened and unopened private let
tiers had been stuffed. These letters appear to
have been considered by Mr.. Scott his own prop
erty. and his grandson. in the articles mem
toned, makes extracts from them, and prints
one letter written by Lady Hamilton.
Here is a not uninteresting quotation from a
letter written by the late DIR. smiles-it comes
from The -Athen@um'':
The sentence from ''Endymon'' that you men
toned last night 1.-THE religion OF all sensible men,
fs BY TnlIeyrand a great man for mots The St
20 the Efe. In the introduction of Endymion TO
Barbe may sum him up and Introduce him into one
OF his novels. Perhaps you may remember that the
iope was entitled The Three Clerks the subject
course. from memory I like ''Endymion'' very
much Whatever political prejudice may say about
thousands Of the trashy novels that now appear fit
only for the dust bin What if he borrow some OF
days? Emerson says that the ancients wrote all
h oe oo S enc .b ri1S w Tan n tb-esbnT. -,
straw that has been already threshed
George Cruikshank made in the Sos twenty
five drawings wood in illustration of The
Pilgrims Progress"--drawings which have ever
since remained unpublished. The collector who
has owned them for many years will now per-
init them TO be used, and they are to be added
10 edition de luxe Of Bunyans work which
IS on the oxford University press. The text fol-
lowed in this reprint is that edited with a bio
graphical introduction by the late Canon Ven
ables since revised by Miss Mabel Peacock. A
newly compiled general index and an index OF
marginal references to the Holy Bible have
Deen added. The edition will be limited to one
Thousand copies all numbered. OF which $50 are
offered for sale in England and America, and
copies will be reserved in rotation the orders
are received.
The German Emperor, II we may believe
Mile. Vacaresco Cwriting in Kings and Queens
] Have Known'D. holds that a woman who
writes is an absurd. ridiculous being. She
quotes him further:
Clever women are dangerous women, one and all
who ought TO be muZZled before they bite; but
do you believe IL is necessary TO be a clever
30 be who writes? On the contrary
women's cleVerness consists in avoiding ridicule
and clever women those who for their
good looks. Now a woman who writes poetry
remain pretty? The gestures, the attitude of a
woman scrawling away with all her might must
utterly rout every Rsthetical effort on her part
! am going to concede one or two points to
gou. though you DO not seem to whether
consider womankind pushing not. Music and
painting render wOman's existence
happy, even beneficial 10 her family, and I will
allow that a is not quite unsexed for being
o. poet. Women unreasona bic, poets
horn to comfort and to enhance the JOY
OF living, and so poets Well. a poet you may
remain without eXasperating completely
Bismarck. as everybody knows, had an amaz-
Ing capacity for strong drink. Herr Eugen