New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-13


.Hark.s said the bird. 81 sing
And many a sweet small thing
That coneth not again. .-fl
swift from the trees green heart
R sPsfs IS SnE ,sa seer 9Rs a song = 4
So rich and strong"
NAY" said the bird mot So r
have skill. no art;
Only the thanks that flow =
From fun, glad heart
''e Ssizs the sun EIpg Psle .s ssTsams =
rS s ssI s; Sg ssss that CLEANS i
"Na sg;s.s SAID ID the the bird III. Il sing
Nsithe9 most Of SOY s2ea nor IS p sbs thing
That coneth not again
The sweetness and the tenderness of these
iaintily turned lines are repeated in practically
au of Mr.. Benscn's poems. We like, too. the
quietude in his work. the suggestion Of spirit
which loves brood over reposefuly beautiful
scenes. The tituIar poem In the book really ex
presses mood of peace Mr.. Benson is skilfui
in his vignettes of landscape. In THE Charcoal
Burner he gives us some lovely pictures of the
forest In short, he is a sensitive well as a
polished writer. and cordially welcome his
book We must take leave of it with another
quotation:
MAKING HASTE
s'Sooni" says the Snowdrop. and smiles at the
o1ssr The sprine with her ranguors
Snow was my cradle. and chilly winds sang at my
Winter is Overland I must make haste to be
gonei"
Soon said the Swallow. and dips to the wind
Grain IS all garnered-the Summer is over and
Bleak 70 the eastward the icy battalions CLEAN.
Summer is Overland / must make haste to be
''soon-ah. soonr' says the Soul. with pitifuI
soon.-for rose like star. and for aye would
See the pale shuddering dawn. that must wither
Leaps from the nogntain-and must make
haste TO be gonei"
There pleasant exchange of interna-
tional courtesies at Bath the other day The
local authorities placed bronze tablet on the
building OF the Bath Literary Institute thus
commemorative three of its members the poets
bbe. Moore and Bowles. Where the interna-
ticna1 element came in was in the unwilling of
the tablet by NJ. Rene Huchon, of Nancy This
French professor has written an elaborate work
on crabbe. translation OF which is to be pub
lished early in the year. and it was graceful
of the Bath Corporation to make him. though a
foreigner, salient figure in the recent cere-
monies
The third of the four volumes in which Mr..
Luther S. Livingston is publishing his Auction
Prices of Books Dodd, Mead & Coz has just
appeared II carries the record from Lapham
to Richards. which is to say from THE Antiq-
uities of wisconsin to THE History of the De
Traffords of Trafford' Like its predecessors
the handsomely printed volume of nearly six
hundred pages offers good browsing to the book
lover. The figures of the auction room have
after all. meaning which is not commercial
alone To study these entries is sometimes to
get quaint sdelight on human nature. This
FIorio's .'Montaigne," in the folio of 1903 was
sold as recently as 1887 for So 90 but in 1902
a copy OF what take from Mr. Livingston's
list TO be the edition in The Tudor Transla-
tons sold for as much as S5I 80. To be sure,
the folio has scared to a very high price, the
Frederickson copy in the Lefferts sale. three
years ago. having fetched SLID; but this was
q remarkable copy. and, in any case, the wonder
remains that for some othersa reprint
should occasionally distance original, A
yield surprises.
Since the late Walter Pater has been made the
object of fad, copy of Essays from the
Guardian profoundly unimportant book, has
been sold for much as S43 IS whereas the
first edition of a masterpiece like Charles
Reade's "Cloister and the Hearth fetched
thu two occasions noted by Mr.. Livingston only
S. and SO respectively. Yet It would be danger
Gus to draw any very solemn conclusions from
caprice often as they spell a principle of
market value. In the autumn of 1900 Bangs of
this city. sold complete set the first edition
of Charles Levers works for S61S 70. Within
less than five months the same set was resold by
the same auctioneer for S453 IS Surely there
could have been no revolution of taste in that
brief period serious enough to account for the
drop We might go indefinitely citing sim
liar episodes from Mr.. Livingston's pages. They
NAV not prove absolutely conclusive. but they
are suggestive to the collector. and they
tainly make good resting. This volume en-
braces any number Of important topics Ameri-
csna FIizab ethian dramatists moderns like Poe,
Ionefellow and Lowell. and so on. and may
add that everywhere Mr.. Livingston does his
wor. with the thoroughness Of an expert and
enthusiast
An advance note about the October number
~ ..Srr.bners Magazine promises that the
second instalnleTlt OF George Bancroft's letters