New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-08


A list of new doubarreIled words
Would be intenseresting
mixedley of whey and curds
We might enjoy processing;
As all our shtand cleventions
Growing tremensely popular.
To write a book in glowthmic rhyme.
Or sing song swevtnely,
Or paint in portraiture greyblime.
Would take my fancy splneIy.
The only consequence prebsurd
Would be to pay me at per word.
Sir Thomas Brownies tercentenary is to be
commemorated publicly this month at Norwich,
and the proposition that the Hospital Museum
of that town should return his skull TO its origl-
nal resting place in S. Peter Maucrofts Church
ought to prevail. Browne certainly deserved at
the hands OF his medical countrymen better
treatment than that indicated in the riiing OF
his grave
The book on E1izabethan dramatists which
Mr.. Swinburne determined to write more than
thirty years ago is nearly fnished-has only
waited 'HThe British Weekly says for Mr.. Bull
len TO bring out edition of Rowley's works
Year after year went on and Mr.: gullen has not
service. Therefore it was necessary for the two
not read to be studied in the British Museum, But
during this time Mr. Swinburne had come to share
snd h fsns CO.. coud neer I PERSUADE him to go
and read Rowley's uneonected quartos nor yet per
suade him to leave these plays untouched and to
give the world his study Of Rowley as far as he
knew him.
At last however he was persuaded by friend TO
e. to the British Brit 81 Mus ad ns @ seem @ai in the
Museum for quarter Of was sn seen n
extracts The interesting feature connected with
this story is that a writer allowed mass of work
life. TO remain scattered and lost in magazines for
s SAKE an Of a sn3nf f een Of he artistic
science and an amazing faith that time YOU'D ali0~
Nj T. v Lucas in his new book, "a Wan
derer in Holland" quotes an epigram by Roern n
visscher, who INDUCED his cynicism toward the
end OF the sixteenth century:
Jan sorrows-sorrows far too much; tits true
sad affection hath distressed his life;
EoUrns he that death hath ia en- ms cn6 ore twof
Those contemplating journey In Holland
may like to know the Dutch name OF a motor
car. 1t is ooszoonderspoorWegpit-
roolrijtung" q word of forty-four letters thus
compounded: Smell rapid; ..paardeloos."
horseIess; 'tzoonderspoorweg," without rails;
..pitrooIrijtung" driven by petroleum
A new edition of Miss Braddons novels-ffty-
eight in number, those stories-has Just been
completed. She popular author fifty years
ago; and she is not yet seventy.
Tributes to the personal worth of the late
George Macdonald continue to appear In tho
British Journals. The Rev. A. ]. Church says
that the man and his books were wonderfully
consistent: "In his family life he was the most
tender hearted of men, He loved children with
an intensity that seemed more like womans
than a mans. He would put the little ones to
sleep in his own working ROOM.
remember seeing him in little play Of Beauty
and the Beast" where he took the part OF the
Beast Beauty being of his own daughters:
how he reared himself up-he was clad IN a bears
skin-and with paws hanging down exclaimed In
tones of infinite pathos, won't you love me.
Beauty" I hope that am not venturfng on for
hidden ground when l say that In early years, be-
fore he attained the comfort which one is glad to
think attended his later days, Mrs. Macdonald
must have experienced of the "ProvocatiOns
of Nine PalisSy." The sovereign was not al
ways expended it should have been Instead OF
a leg Of mutton he would bring back a book.
Macdonald it is said. was never overanxious
for a long life. How strange this fear OF death
is" he once remarked to friend who had
spoken with sorrow of his advancing years, yet
we are never frightened at a SunSetP'
Londoners who love literature are beginning
to chafe at the fact that there Is no monument
to Charles Lamb in the city for which he cared
so much. 1t is extraordinary thing that the
Temple where he was born and where he lived
so long has given him no memorial It Is not
to its credit
Mr. Sidney Lee has made an interesting dis
coyery in regard to Chapman's poem, 'NThe
Amorous Zodiac"-i. E., that it is a literal trans
lation line for line, from French original.
Time has been working havoc Barnard
Castle-the Barnard of Walter Scotts "Roke-
by'-but it's master has come to the rescue and
is repairing it enough to save at least the Rich
ard III window.
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