New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-27
LITERARY NOTES.

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The widow OF Arthur Hugh ClOugh. the poet,
has just died in England. She was the daugh-
ter OF Surrey squire
Some manuscript poems Of Anne, Countess Of
winchslsea, have been preserved by her de-
scendants and have been added TO a new edition
OF those originally published in 17l3 Here is
one OF the newly discovered lyrics:
Love give thy traine Of slaves away
TO those whose Pleasure is their PRIDE
Unheard by all the world beside
soft and secret falling tear.
Whilst amrous looks, allayd with fear
And glowing bushes, speak the rest
o stin to me addresse such fires
As We're beneath the M s5Ie I knG%n'
Or Women proud or false were grown.
For. since 10 Courts and Cittys come
And vanity usurps thy room.
Unknown TO Innocence and shades
he italian photographed Society is taking
measures TO replace nearly possible the
collection Of Italian ana foreign photography
which was completely destroyed in the recent
fire in the National Library Of Turin. SiGnor
Giuseppe Giacoso. OF the society, says:
Considering one OF the greatest helps TO scholars
10 be the consultation OF catalogues or libraries
and archyes and Of The Works pS
the committee named for that purpose by the ltal-
ian aoI soG me- vobmes should be for
wnrded SocietA Bibliograca Italiana, care Of
Each work win have special ex-lbrts inserted
"a ~ with the name OF me oon0I sG t te %
siftS 49,
The "Reminiscences OF the Rev. G. r. Gleig
ere perfectly frank as regards his friend. the
great Duke OF Wellington. He says concerning
the Dukes requirements
HIS acquaintance with the literature OF his own
SouieIy n m ena1ss anS vrota TSo of them with
toierable accuracy. he had no acquaintance what
with the master spirits OF any OF them
For poetry he had not taste. and not much for
that. IN al its branches, was sealed book 70 him
On the other hand, he was devoted 10 music, and
at one time played the violin with considerable
execution. but even IN music his taste was anti
ouated
Here IS a story OF the Duke. drawn from Mr
GIeig's lately published book by the London
Chronicle"
There reached him once from Edinburgh pitt
ful story OF suffering the part Of officer
The duke sent for his son Charles. and gave him
sns se 'es, ist ne forwar5e5 70 the proper
address. Lord Charles suspected an imposture
stan ofioeT on the spot with request 70 in
qvre INTO the case y RTSyeq 20 Pe bsrss Went
20 his fathers room put it into his father hands
Il
the letter. pOcketed the note. and then said in
'chaTies, when desire you to do anything.
expect you 70 DO IL
Writing OF Matthew Arnold in The Speaker
an English critic says that it is for his poetry
that Arnolds memory Will be loved:
From this poet OF serene and temperate melan-
choly the generations Of men. ever yearning ana
ever unsatisied. striving and always falling short
deeper dranghts OF consolation. For the sadness
which comes from the contemplation Of that
Stern OF every mortal lot.
Which man. proud man. finds hard to bear
may be healed so far as healing IS possible by
the mood OF eXuberant and oVerstrained delight in
the pleasures that pass in spirits goriously gay
but rather by the steadfast mourntUl strain OF
who had probed life and had found that noble lv-
ing and high aspiration made il endurable and even
Joyous His verse. embodying grave and beautiful
wisdom. in hawless lines falls like a balm on spirits
tortured by misgvings and worn out by disappoint-
ment he drew from the Ceep fount OF tears and
peace was in the flowing OF the water.
It is said Of the late Professor York Powell
that no investigation was too remote. no in
quiry too curious but he could satisfy it. One of
n his former students writes:
Fresh from voyage 10 Spain I tried TO describe
20 him the cunning with which pilot had taken
the bar al San Lucar. He seized a pencil,
and with what seemed 10 almost professional
deep ana shallow OF the tortuoUs Guadalguivir.
The variety OF his interests reflected in his
rooms. which gave one a glimpse into his mind as
thlo caplnet OF something rlch and strange, they
had none OF the austerity Of a Benedictine scrip
forum such as some scholars affect. but a
glorious disorder. And the company that sometimes
assembled there-labor leaders, foreign refugees
socialist chimney sweeps-was less varied in
singularly wide and unfettered although OF late
years II seemed TO some Of US consciously young
Faoloal socialists that ne had fallen from grace by
leanings 10 imperialism