New-York tribune., 1904-09-11

ature. Too many of these Industrious students
end in pedantry and dulness.
Mr.. Hewlett has been travelling in Italy again.
and under the title of The Road in Tuscany:
! Commentary" he is contributing to The
| Speaker" some interesting pages on his adven-
! lures. The ideal traveller in Tuscany, to whom
! he addresses his remarks, will not, he main
| tainS. carry in his pockets the authors which
| Shelley had with him when he flung dead
| upon the shore at Lerici, Keats and Sophocle'.
! but will content himself with copy of the 'Ti-
| vine Comedy" Mr.. Hewlett believes that Dante
was a wonderful maker of pictures of travel
| pictures which he made with terrible terseness,
a terrible grip of the essentials, a terrible faui
iarity with the within and the without both of the
| thing seen and of the average behoder of it
| and that he could do this as no one dead or to
| be born has ever succeeded or can ever sue
ceed" in doing it, Mr.. Hewlett invites the reader
TO consider one more quality IN Dante's poem
| which is Invaluable to the traveller.
That is his way OF eptomizing cities or nations
IN one fgure-pathetic terrible, monstrcus o. love
y M as as may be but standing not not without design
Do not suppose yourself above below, the
TS There OF cam 1s T have S 6een veT % IN &
w %ho o. mas as nc not R fit the me urgent desfo 10 bo bn
vision OF some storied place; 20 see. not the en-
sentally Verona Pisa. PerGaia2whaj does one
see when n one looks upon such as, IN, EyaSjy
| ly remote hills, OF green plains, IndlttFsy Ft"~;
Wild and wicked old history ia hidine. OF Industry
unlike ones own-less strenuous app'rSrtiy. aud
! yet infinitely more strenuous rclllE-ut i1ssl".S
| and beliefs which only wonder at not
saaTG Az 2oFe 60s 'og so yue Sse s' and 5 @ So "a @
as 10 be distresEns &ou Nm and {haT y'n III Want Want !"
! an old Morality. like Theological QEiddity in IN
rid OF the effect SO that yod may h2rrrH and
Pou4ce upon, The cause En- En9HEh OF Ni[gaa an
| great solemn churches of those ba.conied pa..,-.
Let me See Verona herself. that may u. e-sto-
why II is all so beautiful and and way, on eaT,h & ,f
Italy.a land o. people & meyer at o"G %it gyE'T
! [
and at every revolution OF the centuries, she is ale
You can DO without Dante that is 1'l nonsense. II
dred nations in half a hundred tragic figures. h,N.
the mischief are YOU to do without him? And that
purpose is one Of the articles CT MY belief.
More time thar was anticipated has been
found necessary in preparing the later volumes
| of the new edition OF Grove and Cava,caseie's
! History Of Painting in Italy. umbria, Florence
and Siena, from the Second to the SiXtecnth
Century" The four remaining volumes will be
devoted 10 the Sienese school, Florentine paint
| ers OF the QuattroCentO, later SieneSc and I'm
brians, and Forentne painters OF the CinQue-
cento. Mr.. John Murray is unable to fix an "p-
proximate date for the issues at present
Mr.. \. E w. Mason, author OF The Truants.'
| which the Harpcrs soon TO publish, and Of
other books like The -Four Feathers" and Mi
| randa Of the Balcony which have helped to
give him wide repute, is standing for a seat in
the House OF Commons. and naturally talk about
him is finding its way into print. An account
of his career in THE King" contains this pas
sage on his entrance into the literary field:
The young writer came to London like a modern
| Dick Wilmington, all his worldly hopes for the
! future a bundle Of ideas and a very determined
| will. He took small rooms in the Strand, and
| set to work His savings limited. and he
tionS newspapers he looked neither to the right
nor left. but worked all his time at his novel
| His idea that if he could write a successful
novel it would land him in one stride on the high
road to success.
There came time when he laid down his book
! yielded the pressing demand Of the moment.
| and wrote short story He sent IL 10 MacmillanS.
| the first publishers name that occurred TO Elr'.
| His first novel The COurtship OF Morrice Buck
ler." followed suit. = published on February
/, 1896 and by March 2 1t had run into second
| edition third. fourth. fifth, and sixth editions
Some fatuOus busybOdy has arisen to propose
n 'reVerent examination OF Shakespeare
grave contending that light might thereby be
thrown on various problems in English liteT-
ature" There is. OF course no likelihood that
the suggestion will ever be acted upon. The
general sentiment of English speaking people
must be that which is expressed by Mr.. Henry
w Ncvinson in this piquant note to The Daily
Chronicle
When people seriously ask whether "the time has
not arrived for careful and reVerent examination
of the most interesting tomb in Britain, under the
supervision OF selected official and other authori-
ties" there is only one answer when can bOth
their brains and appeal to their teellnSs
And that Is a poleaXe, which l shall be happy 10
apply whenever they WISH
While this Shakespearian matter has turned
ND in England, another similarly ridiculous has
| attracted attention in Italy. 1t has been pro-
posed that statue of the poet be erected in