New-York tribune., 1905-12-12
Liferary Neae,S and Criticism.

ordinary channels of publication and the public
VII VII ma "a N their pages body OF more beautiful
inaI English gldsi publications. any ''i's' org
Charles Heath. with his 'Keepsake' his 8ooi[ If
Pictorial annual His ssfeTIRs sIst9n enera ;Rd vIs his is
, we FaIlo9s ar Anmuals had induced him to attempt
Keepsake edited by William Harrison AIMS
lS2S the volume cost LOCO guneas to produce. and
upward OF 1900 copies were disposed of in few
subsequent t issues. thus showing to what wide
tanned. The issue for 1929 cost for its literary con-
.ehts only the great sum Of 1000, E500 being pad
sketches None of the great literary writers of
ne Iae oay Gouia IeIuse The enormous sums paid for
portion was subordinate artistic designs ,hy
Thomas Lawrenee T9rner sfothard shn eadews Iese Fk s
1taIlIstG ttS anu fIaXinan Ihe Keepsake had an
edited t at various times by the Hon. Mrs Norton
i Los4y I stuart Mortley and Lady Blessngton. The
The persecution OF the Jews in Russia to-day
and other political disturbances in that unhappy
country. give certain timely interest to the
strangely uneven story told in 'dinna Wife of
the Young Rabbi Consolidated Retail Book
sellers), by Wihelmlna wIttigschIager The plot
is too wildly extravagant to merit consideration
and when the author changes the scene from the
ghetto TO court circles in Russia she loses all
hold on reality and probability. But in her
description of the adventures of the half Jew
ish heroine in Russian village in Hamburg
in London and in New-York she shows her
self to be on more familiar ground The life
in the Jewish quarters of those cities is laid
hare in all it's unloveliness withs an unsparing
yet not unsympathetic hand. Had the author
been content to con1ne her story to this phase
of Jewish life without seeking to add fac
utious interest by recourse to the methods of
Oh a..
valuable as a whole in its revelations of lower
class Jewish conditions as it now is only in
parts
George Lewis Dickinson's "a Greek View
of Life" has just been published in this
country by Mcclure, Phillips & Co. Mr.
Dickinson is the author of Letters from a
Chinese Official" and 'Religion-A Criticism and
Forecast" issued by the same house He was
born in 1862. and hfs father was a portrait
painter, contemporary and friend of Dante
Gabriel Rossetti- Mr.. Dickinson went to Char
terhouse School, and. after obtaining important
scholarships, to Kings College, Cambridge
where he was graduated with the first class in
the classical tripos and was made Fellow
Later he became librarian. and in 1896 was ap-
pointed a lecturer Of Kings, a position which
he holds at present Mr.. Dickinson lives in
Cambridge, but lectures once a week at the
School of Economics in London He has done
considerable editorial writing for 1.-THE fnde-
pendent Review monthly paper published at
Edinburgh representing liberal views, of which
he was one of the founders. He was in Amer
lea a few years ago, and gave lectures on the
British Constitution at several colleges and uni
versities.
Among the hardships suffered by Oscar Terry
Crosby, the author Of "Thibet and Turkestan,"
while exploring the plateau of Thfbet were
the bitter cold and the fact that he could shave
only once week. Wood was scarce, and at
times the only fuel available was the straw
taken from the packsaddles of dead horses. This
quickly flaming material allowed only one heat
ing of water, which was devoted to making the
tea, so essential to comfort, and for soaking the
hard bread which formed his staple diet. 1t
therefore became necessary for him to shave
with tea which he found served admirably for
the purpose. Most travellers would prefer to
grow beard and to drink their tea; but judg-
ing from the anti-tea crusade now going on in
England, perhaps the external use was the more
wholesome.
DR.. Guido Biagi. the we'll known Italian |
scholar, who is engaged in editing "Ro-
nola'' from the historical point of view for new
edition in preparation by A. c. McClurg & Co, |
has recently come across some interesting mate |
rial for his purpose, as described in a letter, |
from which the following is extract:
The work is more important than imagined. I |
have unexpectedly stumbled upon valuable material
which throws great light upon Eliot's sources of |
have found the original cards Of !
all the books studied by George Eliot here in the |
National Library for 'ROmOla." These books, /
with their ancient views of Florence, gave to her
the first idea of the scenes of the novel have
reproduced the cards signed by LeweS, studying
with her. can now furnish more than hun
ired and twenty illustrations and give documentary
evidence of the historical materials utilized by the
great novelist for her book.
The work when completed is to be issued in
wo volumes, uniform with Mrs McMahan's
Florence in the Poetry of the Brownings" and
With Shelley in Italy"
Herman Bernstein. the author of "Contrite
Hearts," the novel of Russian Jewish life, just
by the A. Vessels Company, has been
ess well known hitherto original writer
han as the translator Of Anton Chekov's and
Maxine Gorkys novels and stories. He
porn in Eastern Prussia in 1876. but taken
o Russia as a child, and lived there for nearly
welve years, coming to America in 1893.
John c. Fitzpatrick of the Division OF Manu-
scripts Of the Library of Congress has prepared
, valuable calendar of all the manuscripts in
he library relating to Benjamin Franklin, in
,luding those of the Henry Stevens collection
purchased by Congress in 1882, but only trans
erred TO the library in 1904 from the Depart
nent of State, which mas retained merely the
liplonatic documents. The calendar which is