New-York tribune., 1905-11-05

new edition of Chatterton's poems is COM
ing out IN the Muses. Library of the Routledges
1t Is edited by Mr.. H. D. Roberts who con-
tributes an introduction, and who is said to have
given much time and energy to fresh collation.
OF the Chatterton text and bibIiography.
The distinguished Americans Of the earlier half
OF the nineteenth century made to live be-
for several forthcoming numbers of 'Scribners
Magazine" These have been drawn from the
diaries and letters of member of the Bayard
iarnliy woman emlnentIy clever and observ-
ing. The general title of the series will be 1.-The
First Forty Years Of Washington Society,"
useful man of letters who died in London the
other day, touching revelation of Henry Irv-
pears, was to Irving sort Of almoner-"once
a week"-the Chronicle says-'paying out
sums regularly to the old friends who were side
tracked. Irving never figured the giver of
huge sums to advertised charities. But one
members Sir George Trevelyans discovery in
Lord Macaulays private notebook. MacauIay
never put his name on charity lists But Trevel-
yam found that his life had been one Of almost
unexampled generosity. The phrase will fit
Irving"
Mr.. Richard Mansfield has written for THE
Atlantic professional study which he calls
THE Art Of Acting versus the Art of Talking"
1t ought to be an uncommonly interesting bit OF
work Another article in this field which will
be brought out in the December number of the
magazine is entitled, rs the Theatre Worth
While?" by James L. Metcalfe, dramatic critic
of Life"
1t is reported that Tolstoy. just after the pubf-
cation of the novel entitled Eleanor" called
Mrs. Humphry Ward the greatest OF living au-
thors- 1t is a curious commentary on the
traordinary ignorance lack of taste possible
in a of genius. To go further than Eng
land, what may be said of George Meredith and
Thomas Hardy if Mrs. Ward is the greatest
living" etc?
The novelist Dorothea Gerard (A1ne. Long
ard de Longgarde) is a handsome Scotch woman.
among whose relatives have been two eminent
professors OF divinity in Aberdeen University
She is married to an Austrian army officer, and
her home is near the Carpathian Mountains
One of the desirable series coming out in
London is devoted TO German classics in the
original. They sold only in SETS GOethes
works are issued in sixteen volumes, SchIerS
in eight volumes and Heines in seven volumes.
The volumes carefully edited and include
notes and introductions. The enterprise is Mr..
Unwin'S
What promises to be story with something OF
tragedy about it is announced for the Christmas
number of .'McCIure's Magazine" 1t is by Jack
scrihes fateful struggle in lonely waste Of
snow between man and wolf.
The poet known Violet Fame is dead,
leaving behind her verses and novels which are
already nearly forgotten. One of these novels
was dedicated to Kinglake She a clever
woman much admired in her time by English
men of letters She married some years ago SLY
Philip (now Lord} Currie, British Ambassador
10 Constantinople and later to Rome.
Mnoe Daniel esueur, the novelist and play
wright who has just brought out successful
Irarna in Paris, is Of the few women III the
World who wear the red ribbon OF the Legion OF