New-York tribune., 1905-03-17
LITERARY NOTES.

Mr.. Stanley Weyman, IL IS sald, DecaHIe d
professional novelist at the mature age of thir-
ty-fve. after nervousness had made his career
at the bar a failure In idle hour, with a
cigar at his club, he turned over the pages Of
Professor Balrds history Of the Huguenots and
ft suddenly occurred TO him that there was a
good novel in the subject There was. 1t came
from his pen as THE House of the Wolf" and
81 brought him a thousand dollars and made
him a novelist.
That most devoted student OF the portraits
Of Mary Stuart. Mr.. ]. J. Foster, has excluded
from his just published book the subject all
the Zuccheros to be found in British country
houses The Janet portrait now in the Biblio-
theque Nationale at Paris is the which
Mr.. Foster seems to place most reliance as a
touchstone for later depictions. To modern eyes
this portrait does not convey the idea Of beauty,
and so far from representing a girl in her teens
-as Mary must have been when Janet drew
her-it is apparently woman Of twenty-eght
thirty who is set before us. Some Of the por-
traits OF Mary which have actual loveliness
are the work of unknown artists of her time.
The banished ex-Crown Princess of Saxony
has published a booklet containing about a
dozen little poems. AS TO the literary value of
these productions it is enough, perhaps, to quote
the sentence Of a cautious commentator, ITO
submit these outpourings Of afflicted soul to
criticism would be like breaking butterfly on
the wheel"
Mr.. Gladstone, who hated arithmetic as a little
boy. told one Of his friends that this feeling ex-
listed until he got into the higher mathematics
which interested him. AS Chancellor of the
Exchequer figures became moving realities to
llirn. One Of his friends says in some recently
published recolIec:ions:
He once told me that when in years Of greater
prosperity he came. in his Budget figures. to the
OF the working penpIe II was ali he could do nor
70 break down with emotion
He always considered that he fully earned his
salary as minister Of state Mr. Bright said
10 him one occasion that he always felt
ashamed Of himself when he had to take his
official salary. There 1 don't bit agree with
you. Bright" said Mr. Gladstone. Il had rather
take my official money than anything receive
from land, for 1 know I have earned every
penny OF it."
Mr.. G. J. Hoyoake. who has just published
& volume of "reminiscences at the age of eighty
seven, offers therein prescription for longevity
which may be commended 20 DR.. Osler's critics:
IN the first half Of my life ate whatever came
moderation. But then was disposed to be mod
srate on principle s,a having read in the Penny
81 1896 who was reading magazines when George
" was King!l that DR.. Abernethy told 2 lady she
might eat anything in moderation. In the second
and later half Of my life I gave heed Cornaro,
necessary for health The limitation of quantity
included liquids well solids, decreasing the
amount OF both in relation TO age and activity -
sx Sir Henry Thompson advised. Not thinking
much OF meat. limited that 10 a small amount
and cereals 10 those that grow above ground.
by general mode of work has been TO avoid excess
fn food. in pleasure, in work and in expectation.
The abstinent Venetian Cornaro lived almost
q hundred years.
AS 10 literary conversation, Canon Anger has
pointed out that persons viii ask you
questions requiring a month or two 10 consider,
and then another month two to answer be-
tween the courses at dinner party. In one of
his lectures he said
remember once lady I sat next to asking me
suddenly, Canon Anger what is your opinion OF
brought UP. L did not the rejoinder which
would have best expressed my feelings. l did not
reply Goodness gracious, nadaIni How you
ask such preposterous question under such pre-
beginning my lsh) For, you see, my neghbor was
not even opening discussion merely-n itself most
improper at such a serious moment. She wanted,
apparently, encyclopaedia article ofhand, and
that, too without my knowing "a thing in itself
most importantly the previous history Gas q physi-
clan would say) "of the case" But there is q time
for everything, the wise has said. and there
times for discussion and times for conversation
and the two things are far from being the same
thing.
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