New-York tribune., 1905-06-28


-. story In the August number OF Inc
,'..s,,-,, afaeaziner It will deal with American
,,.onIe and English life, and it VIII be caileo
IAN Habitation Enforced
II hehooves the critic TO have care lest ii
iudeinr of a matter by accessible eVloeiee H'
..7o .ta object of his criticism to overwheIn
-, ,,-;,,sta documents witness the poor
,I,oht of the reviewer who wrote ABOUT JON.
nliyer Hobbes's new novel, The Flute OF Fau
4. ..7ba Academy" the other day MI
,--.ieie, he said "s one Of those who VIII lo'
take no for an answer. When her pray "'''
Al received she attributed its condemna'io" -
,be hostility or ignorance of her AUDIENCE anu
..,.iqhtyvav went to the highways ana oy"dsS
end bsde those who liked her come ana reeliis
t.e ynfsirdgrnent of the herd sun the NeluiN'
was unfavorable and yet once agalh siie iia9
carried her case to a higher court of appear
by publishing the play as a novel rms naS
aroused Mrs Craigie's wrath ana she "i''e' -
THE Academy as follows:
1t is not my custom to reply 70 anenynous anIs cs
unless il contains r1isrepfese taon ~ OF
The verdict given after the sPecai pfy0rnbie and
thansands of letters were received-froin .aI
II received On its first production. nave also d
number Of letters from the most distllls 1-
les eSs'oaI s an5 Of modern English teratureall of
-,1o,, ffera5 me the highest possible encourage-
mno T eviever vie IS al liberty have his own
opinion of nv work, but am not bound 10 Ies'i0
it as infalibie.
The reviewer retorts that he knows nothing
of Mrs CraigIe's private correspondence pu'
wrote from a general memory OF the press
notices" and his editor adds protest against
Mrs Craigie's characterization OF the reVle" ds
abusive" To the disinterested observer 1t Ger
,s,nlv seems as If the introduction of private
correspondence into questions of puohc crl0clslii
would add a new terror to life
AIRS C.raigie by the way has been moved 10
write to 1.-THE Spectator also. since the reviewer
Of that paper ventured TO ailude In dealing WITH
.rhe Flute of Pam to lecture she recently
delivered before the Dante Society, ana she
quotes herself in order that there may be no
doubt about just what she said lncloehtdllS'
she gives US this peep into her workshop; May
also say that l cast all my books FfSE III
dramatic form. as L like to draw character as
much as possible by means OF dialogue! MY
theory is that the best known characters In nc
ton and imaginative works are remembered
rather by their sayings than by their thoughts.
After all this is how we know each other
Mrs. Elizabeth Hubbeu Schenck has published
= second volume of her History of Fairfield
Fairfield County Connecticut. from lIO0 TO
1900" With it she feels compelled by the
pressure Of advancing years TO relinqulsh
her undertaking. AS it is, the strain
of reading the closely written State records
nroved too much for her eyes, and IN the
present volume she has been obliged to torsahe
these original sources for the records pupIsheo
by the late State Librarian, Charles j. Hoaoley-
She makes an earnest plea to the connecticut
Legislature TO appropriate promptly sum suffi-
cient to publish and to preserve these valuable
records. and calls upon members of the various
,,atr;otic societies to do a like Office for the
town probafe and parish records, now well
worn and faded" of Fairfield. Mrs. Schenck
contributes much interesting information III re
gard to Fa!rfeld's part in the establishment OF
Yale College The Rev. Joseph Webb. of that
town, was one Of the ten original trustees ITO
found erect and govern the future university
They met at New-Haven in 1893 and donated
forty volumes, beginning The author, in
fact does not strictly confine herself TO Fair
field. but gives a resume of what may be called
the national history of the colonies-with which
the reader might safely be assumed to be ia
lniliar-in order to define whatever place Fair
field may have taken in it. She also goes with
particularly into the general history of Con
necticut. Still, Fairfield is the main subject of
her story, and 1t is worth recording that in 1721
a close season was established for bayberries.
They We're used for making candles, and a fine
Of 2s. Cd. was imposed for every peck gathered
before they. were fully grown and ripe. To
what use green bayberries were put is not speci-
Cad. Tt is also to be noted that in 1774 Fairfield
contributed 634 bushels of rye 116 bushels of
\ wheat and three pairs of shoes TO 'the common
v and glorious cause Of nberty"-specifcally for
the relief of the blockaded citizens of Boston
Under the title of 1.-The Book of the United
States Navy" the A. B. Benesch Company pub
fishes an oblong quarto more than two hundred
thick filled Wit hal
graphs Of our warshps and their officers In
most cases the illustrations fill an entire page
They are clearly printed from good originals
and the book makes. in fact an admirable SOU
venir Of the navy.
Another poet has undertaken to paint this citv
IN his verse He is Mr.. William Ellery Leonard
ana MS sonnet IN THE Atlantic for July, called
New-York in Sunset" runs in this wise:
The island city of dominion stands
crowned with all turrets, DER the waters. crest
Ihroned, Like the bright Cybele of the West
Around her yet sereneiy 81 she dom@nnds @lon 6snds
The newborn mistress of the worlds unrest
Inc beauty and the terror Of the lands.
She sees the fields Of harvest sown for her,
enc sees the fortress set beside her gate
Ter Her hosts her ships she sees thro' storm and fire.
Ana ana hers hers az al gifts Of gold and spice and myrTh
And hers the fame of Babylon and Tyre
Mr.. Francis Warrington Dawson, a Charles
ton journalist, long resident in Paris where he
represents two American press associations. has
written novel of Southern life, called The
Scar" 1t is TO be published in London by the
Methuens, and an edition will be brought ont in
this country. The scene of the story is laid on
Virginia plantation, and all the characters are
southerners save the heroine, who is a New
York girl
The late ArTnine Thomas Kent was a BallioI