New-York tribune., 1905-01-15

sea iS , T'dll5ng arm machine is adapted fer on
sea. on land, or in the air and il can he made
10 move at the rate of $50 miles an hour!
y letter of Carly!e's, written in 1895. in repIv
10 some one who had asked him questiors as
10 the various biographies of Napoleon then in
existence, has just been bequeathed 10 MeIho1sr.,a
OiIVerslty In it the sage says
good fe e 4fvsF Gf been able to fan in with rea
gether ythI TInLe a good many are bad and alto
9on doufTie efSs rs. Walter Scotts Napoleon
new new spaIers Of the time and gives in glowing Ian
Tory justice Of tS ~ NaPodeon which any Engsh
nuts and wine. ~ 0i I'D
Ihe late Norman MaccoH was willing enough
70 nave the world know that ne edited The
Athen8um,' but he drew the line at allowing,
me public to see his portrait in an illustrated
paper II IS said that his successor, Mr. Vernon
ItendaiI, adopts the same attitude This gentle
man; oy the way has won the blue ribbon Of
English literary journalism at an early age He
was born in 1869 the son of an 0xfordsbira
clergyman. He was educated at Elstree School
Rugby, and at Trinity College. Cambridge where
IS99o. IS9o. The only book he has brought out is an
edlIlon OF Tom Browns School Days"
Ihere is talk, by the way. of a possible memo
rlal volume of Mr. Maccoll. In regard to this
Inc Athen9um' says that such pa pcrs and let
ters as have been left will be placed in the hands
OF Mr.. John c. Francis for publication should
they be sufficient and suitable for that purpose
John Oliver Hobbies. in her little book OF
essays on half a dozen men OF genius called
| The Artists Life" has compared Browning
with Brahms. This leads Mr. John F. Runci-
man man the brilliant musical critic of the London
saturday Review" to make a note on the sub
1ect which is worth quoting He says:
The cqmpariso3 of Browning with Brahms startled
b. to Bulow's three-Bach Beethoven and
Brahms and Mrs. CraiSie has fairly outdone Bulow
Brahms has ever lived and if Trowning is not tir an
a ike lz1Qv
v What ne is. Brahms had facility. he was preco-
Browning had no facility, ne was not precocious
he remained to the end a clumsy handler of so
catey sensuous effects there is nothing Of the sort
clsm or people VINO know music only from the very
outside; and anticipated something stimulating
chosen to be stimulating: instead she makes a
smart comparison which happens to be hoQelessy
wrong.
A new Learned body has recently been
formed under the style of the Sociological So
clety. The papers read before Il during its first
session have been put into a book which the
Macmillans will publish before long The con-
trlbutors include DR.. Westermarck, Mr.. Francis
Dalton and Mr.. Bryce, whose address delivered
at the opening meeting will serve as an intro
ductlon to the volume.
Mrs. Katherine Cecil Thurston begins in the
January number of ''Blackwood's Magazine her
new novel, called The Mystca' 1t opens with
a death scene in a house on the coast % Scot
be the hero of the tale, watches at the bedside
of his dying uncle, a dour individual, who be-
longs TO group of believers in a creed the prin-
ciples of which ire set forth IN "a secret book
designated the Scitsym." The old man dies
leaving this volume temporarily in his nephew's
care. Incidentally he bequeaths only $500 to
the young man, who has been waiting to step
into a fortune, whereupon the disappointed heir
resolves, in his rage. to fling the precious book
into the fire. Some hint of what the novel prom
ises to be like is given in the passages which
bring this first instalment to close:
Instinctively he bent forward opened the book,
and gathered the first sheaf Of leaves into his I'm
gers. Then invOluntarily he paused. as the bold
characters Of the printed words shot up black and
clear in the fierce glow from the Goals.
Almost without VOlitOn he read the opening lines:
"Out of Obscurity will He come. And-having
proved Himself-no man will question Him. For
the Past lies IN the Great Unknown BY the
Scitsym-from which none but the Chosen may read
will We know Him; and. knowing Him, ye Will
bow dOwn-AIystics. Arch-Mystics. and Arch-COun-
cillor alike. And the World will be His For He
will he Power made absOlutei"
For He will be Power made absolute" Some
thing in the six simple words arrested Henderson
SUSPENDED his thoughts, and checked his hand. BY
an odd psychological process his rage became
chilled, his mind veered from its point of view
With a curious stiffness of motion he drew
He will be Power mad absolute" he repeated
mechanically, as he rose slowly to his feet
Signor D'Annunzio has written two new
tragedies, both of which will presently be put
upon the stage. According to "The Pail Mall
Gazette the scene of the first of these plays,
which is called THE Ship" and relates to the
tween RaVennl and Trieste, more particularly
where Venice now stands, to which the ref
ugees from the surrounding country fed from
the barbarians. The hero and heroine belong