New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-07

uuce the mover or the soap is not recorded.
In his preface to The American Natural His
tory" which the scribners are now publishing.
the author William T. Hornaday. director OF the
New-York Geological Park. has this to say:
- There is no royal road 10 a acquaintance with
living animals. Entertaining and truthful story
their way but they do not and can not go down
20 oedLoek and lay foundations which the pupil
can DulId Tor aye. II has been decreed by Nature
that he who will not work shall not know her
can be placed automatically in a giddy nina The
author maintains In this volume and also it,
doors of Animate Nature be unlocked
MI Hornaday has striven to accomplish two
ends: first TO make clear each animals place
IN the great system OF Nature, and second TO
introduce the animal in such a manner as TO
enable the reader to become personally ac-
quainted with *
A pleasure which lovers of Carlyle NAV an
ticipate is the promised new edition Of oliver
Cromwell's Letters and Speeches" which Messrs.
Methuen will issue in three volumes An in
PRODUCTION will be furnished by Mr. C. H. Firth.
and Mrs. C. S. Tomas will provide notes and
appendices.
DR.. Rabe has undertaken the editing OF the
scholia of Lucian, which the G6ttinger Gesell-
schaft Wissenschaften plans To bring ont
Miss Hunt, whose latest novel The Celebrity
al Home" has just appeared in London. once
entered and a competition which called
for list Of the twelve best living authors and
their best books Miss Hunt ignored her own
opinions giving those which she thought were
held by the public Among the authors she
gave Robert Browning and as his best work
The Ring and the Book" Some time after
ward she was present at a dinner at which
the poet was also guest. lie up to her
caught her by the shoulders and fairly shook
her. And you think The Ring and the Book
my best work do your No" she replied IT
don't" "Ah!" said Browning releasing her. mo
more do L.
Mr.. Hilaire Belloc's latest novel, Mr. Bur
den.' has been running seriaIy in The Inde-
pendent Review" The Methuens will bring il
out in book form In the autumn
TIE autobiography of ex-Ernpl css Eugene ia
said TO be virtually complete, though it viii not
be published until twenty-five years after her
death. The manuscript is kept under lock and
key, and no one has yet been allowed to look
through g.
At recent sale the original manuscript Of
Hawthorne's "Feathertop" was sold for $3.50
and that of Ancestral Footsteps" for $500
Five hundred and five dollars was the price OBJ
tanned for the original manuscript of Poe's
System of DR.. Tarr and Professor Fether."
Alfred Russell Wallace. author of Mans Place
in the Universe" evidently believes that it can
best be maintained, in his own case at least by
work Although now eishty-one years old. ne
has begun new book, which. with fine, old
fashioned scorn of typewriters and other ad-
ventitious aids to composition. he writes with
his own hand In a firm. clear script. that bears
witness TO his undlminished health and energy.
Mr.. Hall Game has hied him back to the broad
fields OF his former novels THE Deemster" and
THE Bondsman." and has written new tale