New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-31

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me great masters when he taught in the Con-
servatoire at st. Petersburg of the second
movement OF Heethoven's Sonata i'm g minor.
Op. III, he declared that the human race was
not worthy Of such music
Some years ago the admirable series of Great
French Writer'S published by Hachctte, WAS
brought out, in part, in this country eve thinks
/ by McClurg. of Chicago in good translation.
but it seems not to have won all the favor it
deserved among American readers. Undeterra.I
/ by this fact the j. b. Lippincott Company of
Philadelphia, is to issue new series more or
! less on the lines of the familiar English Mca
! of Letters" save that only French writer's
to be treated in it The first volume devoted
TO Bazac will be written by NJ. Brunetiere THIS
| VIII be followed by 4 monograph on MOntaigue
! by Professor Dowden.
| Mrs. Gertrude Anterior awakens curiosity not
unmixed with apprehension by "A Prologue do
an Unwritten Play" on Alexander Hamilton,
which appears in The London Outlook" 1t de- Is
with the romance of James Hamilton and r.
chael Lavine and fixes the scene in the midst
| OF a West Indian hurricane. which is not wilder
than their passion. 1t is the story of The Con
Queror>' told in new form. While the prologue
holds attention and displays considerable power.
| 1t is rather turgid and cheaply spectacular We
not disposed to quarrel with Mrs AthertCus
| obvious desire to transcend the limits OF literI-
! ture intended for the young person" But it IS
! too much to expect to carry conviction of the
naturalness and dramatic truth of a situation
when young woman. borne along tide Of
passion is principally concerned with pro-
| phetic sense that she will become the mother Of
genius. It is the author. and not Rachael
| Iavine. who INDUCES in such DEMONSTRATIONS.
| Are We to expect more OF this2 Is the unWrittrn.
play to be written along the lines of the pro-
! logue and Hamilton to be made the victim OF a
torrid melolrama? or is Mrs AthertOn just
giving us a hint OF what she could do if sh,
would in the way of a travcsty of this fasciHat-
ing man? A curious slip for a writer as V.N
acquainted with the West Indies Mrs. Athc~-
| ton IS the Introduction of glass windows into
the Nevis house OF 1856 Even 10 this day 'h'
West Indian country house is generally htt.l
only with shutters But perhaps the ratt" #
breaking glass thought warranted for STAG.
effect to convey an idea OF the t"mpest7 Woo
lencc-
Some souvenirs Of Mr.. George MEREDITH have
lately been sold At auction. \ copy of the t,'-
umc Of Poems" published 10y Parker in ISL.
containing three letters from the poet las
publisher. fetched $50 \ presentation ,oIy
OF Modern Love- with marginal corrections hy
the author. brought SD and a presentation copy
Of The Shaving Of Shagpat" fetched 50. For
! a batch Of seventeen Of Mr.. Mercdths letters
little more than SO was obtained.
Mr.. 8. r. Crockett is at work or new novel
. work a novelO which is 10 be Gale
"radcn the Prophet" It will appear first "a
serial form. 1t is now stated that the new book
+ by Mr.. George Moore, which we announced tH'
other day, General Life" Will see the light at-
fore Christmas.
II is just possible that volume Of prose and
/ verse by the late w T. Henley may lie put 10
/ shape by Mr.. Charles whitley, with a biograIa-
ical introduction giving personal rccolectious Of
the EDITORS old friend. and with Impressions AMI
"reminiscences contributed by Mr.. Walter Eltil..
[ and others associated with Henley on The : Is
/ Observer" MIR. whitley is we'll qualified 10
/ prepare such volume. He was not only init
mate with Henley, but was associated with him
I'm several literary enterprises, notably The
Tudor TRANSACTIONS" and. in fact even modelled
his style upon that of his senior. II used 10 he
! a joke in London to speak of Henley as "Whlo-
lcy's favorite pupil"
The GoupIIs preparing for publication in
/ November Il sumptuous volume on Natter. by
| NJ. Pierre de NolhaC. II will be supcrbly Illus
| trated. and will have historical as we'll as an
| artistic significance for Natter was one of the
most prolific, ~ he of the most brill
liant of court painters, and his portraits form
| a gallery OF some of the most conspicuous ing
ures in the social and political life of his time.
! The book will be issued in this country by the
Scribners
! criticism of his own work came in receives
amusing Illustration in a letter OF his, found
the other day pasted in volume of his poems
! on the shelves of London dealer in second
hand books. Have you read what that
| bumptious blockhead has been saying about
me-" he asks, abiding to a critic who is still
living. Some day, perhaps, expressions as can
did-and probably even more pungent-may leap
| to light in letters of Mr. Swinburne's. The
! cheerfuy dsdainful tone OF certain passages
in the dedcatory epiStle preXed to the first vol
ume In the new edition of his poems suggests
that in the intimacy of private life he ought TO
be wonderfully piquant and entertaining on his
critics
MI Shorter by the way, quoting the remark
np 1on nlIpr WIN