New-York tribune., 1905-02-12

os Il iolHEih U OUHu, LONDON.
ship was sound. His biography of Sheridan is
a careful and interesting work The dentiica-
ton of Junius the subject to which he
devoted himself with the most ardor. At the
time of his death he believed that he was
within sight of the solution of the mystery. He
had discovered, THE Athenaeum'' saws some
very rare poems apparently due to the author
The personality of the m Lanin'' who pub
lished some years ago number of brilliant
CcleS on Russia has lately been revealed. He
Is Dr. Dillon. the present representative of THE
London Telegraph at Berlin and st. Peters
burg. He is an Irishman by birth, but may be
said to have been educated in Russia, where he
has held professorship His wife is a Russian
In the lately published biography Of Balzac by
Miss Sandars is included this description of the
novelist's strange method of work:
When he intended to begin novel, and had
ne wrote plan of his proposed work in several
pages and dispatched TINS to the printer who sep
each on large sheet of blank paper. BalZac read
critical faculty Some he rejected aItogetherS
others he corrected, but everywhere he made addi-
uons. Lines Were drawn from the beginning, the
middle and the end Of each sentence toward the
verb. At the end Of several hours the sheet OF
al Lind cr51eeiyr The iiDae IZ-e Scr-ns of naner
with sealing wax to the margins This sheet Of
herogiyphics was sent to the printing office and
was the despair of the typographers, who, Bal
zac overheard, stipulated for only hour each in
turn at the correction OF his proofs Next day the
amplifed placarsds came back. and Balzac added
further details: and labored to Mt the expression
line and symmetry of proportion. Sometimes one
usurped the central position on his canvas and
then he would herocally efface the results Of four
were the proofs sent backward and forward before
the great writer satisfied
The new edition of Sir H Gilzean Reids book.
"Old Oscar, the Faithful Dos, and other
Sketches is inscribed Dy the author to Secre-
tary John Hay, whose career as journalist
man OF letters, statesman, patriot and the
simple nobility of whose life have earned the
confidence of his own great country and the ad-
Tnration of the world"
oscar" which had a great circulation in its
day, has been out OF print for many years
AIr. Temple Thurston the new novelist and
the husband of the author Of THE Masque-
raider" is said to be kinsman of the Palmer
ston Temples and TO count among his ancestors
Sir William Temple. the patron of Swift
The Letters and Literary Remains" of the
author Of John Inslesant' viii not be pub
lished for some time to come, his widow hav-
ing determined 10 bring out a completer biog-
raphy than was at first intended.
The Pail Mall Gazette says Of Mr.. Short
houses fastidiOusness in literature: He had
the wide interests Of a genuine book lover, but
he never induged them at the expense of his
ideals When this became known among Sc
off the shower of new books with which the
publishers used to lombard him, in the hope
Of winning his approval for some production or
other IansdOWne his house in Edgbaston,
was also the destination Of many parcels OF
books bought from a few chosen dealers, and it
was a jest with him that he used TO allow them
to accumulate until they invaded his favOrite
sofa when one of these dealers was called in for
4 consultation and clearance
Miss Marie CoreIi is publishing a number Of
cries in the wilderness under the title Of Free
Opinions Freely Expressed" They are tart
criticisms of various phases of social life.
The volume of the Letters Of Queen Vic
tora" which is TO be brought out next October
viii cover the years 1S37-'61