New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-10

| eager to live up to them, and was honestly dis
| tressed by the meretricious forces at work in
| contemporary letters. But he provincial
! in his tone and sophomorical in his manner and
| it would have been kinder Of his literary execu-
tors to have left his famboyant essays In the
oblivion of the periodicals to which they were
| originally contributed
| Mr.. James Gardner Is hard at work upon his
new edition of the Pastor Letters" which he
hopes make defnitive- The second volume,
which is to issue from the press. will be
| the first to appear. The editor does not wish to
hurry the first volume as that Is to contain his
Introduction. which of course can be better writ
ten after the annexation of the text of this ia
nous correspondence has been completed
| The late Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer was
! indefatigable worker, and her death must be
| regretted by a wide circle of readers to whom
| her informal historical studies brought both in
struction and entertainment. In a series Of in
! teresting volumes she treated OF France. Eng
land. Russia and Turkey. Europe in Africa.
| Italy and Spain in the nineteenth century. and
| these books. while making no pretence to pro-
found scholarship. were filled with the fruits
| of intelligent investigation among the authoTl-
ties. Mrs. Latimer's last book, published only
a few months before her death, was transla-
| ton Of the best parts of Gourgauds Journal.
which Lord Rosebery has described as the one
| capital and superior record OF Ire at 81
| Helena" In this volume. Talks of Napoleon
at ST. Helena with General Baron Gourgaud'
| (Chicago: A c. McClurg & Coz. the translator
| not only gave a good version OF her original.
| but put together the extracts she had chosen
| with Just the right editorial aptitude. 1t is a
| useful book. and ii is readable from cover to
| cover. Readableness indeed OF
| Mrs Latimer's merits She leaves a vacancy in
| the ranks Of popular historians which will not
| easily be filed
| II Is stated that Mr.. Edmund Gosse has taken
| an unexpected step In the course of his work
| on the monograph on Jeremy Taylor, which he
| is soon to publish in the English Men OF Let
| ters" series. Every biogra pher OF Taylor has
| hitherto made use OF Lady Wray's "reminiscences
| Of him Mr. Gosse. after careful consideration
| of those "reminiscences. has decided that they
| are apocryphaI. and has accordingly rejected
| them altogether.
| Every stanch Chaucerian insists, OF course.
| upon reading his poet in text whose integrity
| has not been diminished by a hairs breadth
But there are lovers OF Chaucer who yield to
| none in reverence for him, and yet find his
| spelling block of stumbling which they would
| fain have removed For them. and for laymen
generally, Professor Skeat. whose loyalty to the
| poet can scarcely be questioned. has prepared
| a moderniZed" version Of 1.-THE knights Tale"
| the chief virtue of which will be spelling which
| all will be able to understand. We are quite
| sure that the book which is very to be
published. will meet with approval everywhere
save among hidebound pedants-
| The bust OF Chaucer. by the way which has
just been unveiled in the GuiIdhaIl in London
Is described "a beautiful piece of work" Mr.
George FramptOn made it He has represented
the poet as looking book. with a smile upon
his lips as he reads The bust was modelled
after the familiar portrait. but the sculptor has
| used a certain freedom I'm his work making it.
so 1t is said. really eloquent Interpretation OF
| character.
| The question to the authorship OF the off,
cial life OF Lord Beaconsfied. which Lord Row
| ton at his death left unsettled still continues
10 excite good deal Of gueSswOrk. The de-
| ciSiol rests with Lord RothsChHd. and he has
| rs yet given sign OF what he intends to DO.
Meanwhile mention is made of Sir Herbert Max
| well as 4 happy possibility. He wrote gOod
life OF Wellington, but it is not SO good
make one feel sure that he would prove the best
b!oSr1pher Of BeaConSield
Room for Mr.. Arthur Synons. II having
| there are four pronominaI references to A.
mighty God . . none of which is speI-I
| with = capital" and his reviewer having hint
| ed belief that Mr.. Symons. but his
printer and proOfreader. committed the soeCisIl.
he PUSHES into print with this sublime deliver
| ance: May l therefore say that all the pro-
nominal references to Almighty God in these
| pages were spelled the proof sheets with
capital letters and that corrected what seems
10 me modern typographical affectation. pre-
ferring to commit a soleCism If such II be. in
company with the Authorized Version OF the
ibleT MFR, Arthur Symons sweeping away In
his airy manner a typographical affectatjon
an observance honOred even by unbelieverS in
the modern civilized world. presents. indeed. 4
great and glorious spectacle.
/ Mr.. F. F. Ahalo, writing IN the December
"FortniGhtly, states that upward OF fifty VOL
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