New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-06

Europe
Whatever may be thought Of the literary pro-
auctions OF the late George Macdonald the man
himself has merited vene-ation. His life
says THE London Telegraph" as all who know
hin, are aware has been quite as beautiful in
its adherence to high ideals and its complete
absence of selhshness as that of any of the
heroes whom he has depicted in novels
The erratic Lady Caroline Lamb once wrote
10 Crabbe the poet, q half incoherent letter.
which Mr. c h Shorter quotes in The
Sphere" You cannot think what an impress
sion you have made me-, she writes;
Seeing You soothes me- I am violent and eager
You gentle. but you wrong if You think |
cannot be happy because two or three people r mit
not forgive that IS not the tlns ~ mief+ +t
gives me pain to remember that have slyen MY ny
g oge ,S 9 Gen as %Rsq5 my e9RRy NE
This is really all the veXation have ana, blaS
fbat s;rT5l IN hurried say life sleeping when
good sleep. there IS not great leisure TOT re-
Election. When some were stern with me had
the zest and eagerness Of self-defenee now that al
is smooth and prosperous teei my et f i
given pain others, and Knocked at the gray hairs
only thank God he is able defend himself and
wants nothing from nc frg iorsnye an aliS u
precious time with scribbling to those who scarce
deserve il.
a novel. the scene Of which is laid in the
Middle West. and the author of which is Alice
1TcAIflv. has just been published by Moffat
Yard &. Co. The title is The Larkins We'd
ding"
The daring Of the dramatist IS illustrated by
me of the fall announcements of Fox, Duffield
& Co. crawford 4 Play" by Marguerite NIer
ington. is stated to he "A dramatization of Mrs.
c4askelrs novel. 1t viii certainly he interesting
70 discover what material for the playwright
Mrs Merlngton has been able 10 discover in
that most charming but least dramatic of pict
ures Of English village life.
II iE a dismal picture of conditions in Russia
that Alexander Ular gives in his volume, Rus
STA from Within published recently by Henry
Holt & Co. The degeneracy of the ruling house,
the corruption of the government. the rapacity of
officials, the dishonesty of the oligarchy, are
painted in colors so gIaring and described in
Language SO unrestrained that the reader is
strongly inclined to discount the statements of
one who can find CLEAN of brightness, no ray
OF hopefulness in the present internal situation
of the country. save in the revolutionary tenden-
cies of an oppressed proIetaIiat Beginning with
the assassination of Plehve. the author sets out
TO give an account OF the general conditions pre-
vailing what he terms the outbreak Of the
his audience to put aside ell generous impulses
which may incline them TO dispute the ''appar-
entity improbable facts which he cites in order
TO bring out the character of contemporary
> Carbon" Il is in these pleasant terms that
he speaks of the present occupant of the throne:
Nicholas is only the climax Of centuries ; Of de
fSIp 7o',I5 tsXe piTan any. one b1t a sovereign
whose prestige is his only strength-the right TO
quiet retreat far from the political cares and the
The mental content of Nicholas II IS mere figure
of speech: from his earliest youth his tutors were
well aware OF the fact One Of his military in
have been exempted from military service for in
suficency Of intellect in country by any army
the Russian empire! = The same form OF pre-
Cocioils erotonania which exhausted the lib
orator Tsar.-' has drawn little vigor Nicholas
was endowed with: the same Iapses of memory,
emotions-rnanffesting themselves on every occa-
sion on which his reason Is 9ot strong enough 10
sentinentaIity Of tEe believer and the arrogance
psychology of Alexander II is repeated in Nicholas
Fl, that the psychical vices are intensified 20
alarming degree in the latter
long chapter on Whites Regime is of es
1eciaI interest in view Of that statesman's re- |
cent prominence in the Peace Conference at
Portsmouth. The author praises Whites ambi-
ton to make Russia into modern state,
ami declares that his activity is the life of Rus
STA. from the accession of Nicholas II TO the
eve of the Russo-japanese War" But Mr.. Ular
views with alarm the methods by which Wltte
has sought to accomplish his ends. He writes:
witte. bureaucrat by force Of circumstances.
an autocrat by prediction. could do nothing less
than set budsetary considerations above all others
The result. he declares, was The applying of
the screw TO squeeze the last kopeck from
impoverished people to swell the enormous re-
serves His attitude is admirable Mr.. Ular
concludes but dangerous in the midst Of So
iciety bound together by thousand ties Of in
itrigue-"
The demand for Holman F. Days new story
of the Maine coast, Squire Phin.' necessitated
q second printing before the day Of publication
The scene is laid in a town called Palermo, but
St is not the real Palermo Me- which is stu
ated well inland, and the character of the old
weather prophet of the novel, Aquarius Wharf
has led certain Down casters to identify the
town with Dexter, which boasts Of a very similar
''guesser'' on meteorological subjects.
Martin Hume has dealt with an extremely
picturesque subject in his forthcoming book
The Wives Of Henry VIII and the Parts They
Played IN History 1t is a subject dramatic
from the beginning Of the Kings matrimonial
experiments, when he married Katharine of Ar
Tagon with the most gorgeous ceremony that up
TO that time England had ever seen. Many of
the great nobles.' says Lord r. Cover, literally
bore their fortunes on their backs:
The King blazed in habit of crimson velvet
lined with errnine and covered with diamonds rl-
through the streets, bare headed, on charger
Rrrayed in danasked cloth of gold. he was sur
rounded and Followed by a suite of knights and
mobiles, all in crimson velvet or scarlet cloth Sir
5be most splendid figure in the oI ce ioTse oei9g
the King Brandon. the ehronicler tells us was