New-York tribune., 1905-07-02

mnabituai ma AN historical" whereas one says
| phonetic laziness. adds The Chronicle:
The m Of the article is step over the
anG h the ste m t the aeprae at the
the crucial instance With the accent on the first
Second syabl and you qa must aVs say IAN HOTEL It
Is mere question of stress accent that later syl,
the e6ns nGSe not 1T Hay & be n e n a
| sneezing.
| Three hundred years ago that quaint and elo-
| quent physician. Sir Thomas Browne, was born
| in London. When he was thirty-two he settled
in Norwich, and spent the rest of his life there,
and it is there that his birth is to be COM
memorated this year. There is no antfdote
against the opium of time" wrote Browne in
Hydriotaphia"-happy would he have been sl
work that antidote was to be found.
Mr.. Shorter tells US a strange thing. l. E.,
that transations of great books on Napoleon
have ceased to be popular. He is, of course,
considering in that statement only British
public. 1t IS the short summary that is now
| wanted, he declares. not the undiluted article,
and he instances the fact that an excellent
translation in four handsome volumes Of Bar
ras's Memoirs may now be purchased a
remainder for a very small sum. We doubt
If this fact proves anything except lack of the
right business perception In the publisher OF
the work. For the career of Napoleon is sub
ject of perennial interest and 1T is probable that
no book of intimate value to that subject will
ever lose permanently its appeal not only to
students. but to those who read for enjoyment
| Charles Lambs familiar letters turn up with
| singu1ar frequency and no one can guess when
| definitive edition may be possible. MI LUCAS
| has lately offered number of newly printed
epistes-and behold. read of four letters OF
Lamb to Thomas Allsop and his wife. which are
| believed to be unpublished.
There is a prospect that to the innumerable
editions of the 'Rubaiyat' another will be added
| In the shape of a Limited and choice' issue,
serving a memorial of the English Omar
| Khayyam Club. The volume will contain not
| only the verses of Omar, but the memorial
verses written from time to time by members OF
the club The Essex House Press is named as
| the printer: the number cf copies as a hum
| dred. These will be on hand made paper, and
| there will also be few additional copies on
vellum-
| Aberystwith is to be the site Of the proposed
national library Of Wales. Historically, the
town is interesting the place where Strong
bow erected great baronfal castle, now In
| ruins. Not far away was the wonderful oid
monastery of Strata Florida-the "Monarchios
Ystrad F1ur"-the Mecca of countless pilgrims
| from all over the world, where, as Borrow re-
| minds us, kings. saints and mitred abbots were
buried and in which, or in whose precincts. was
| buried Dafydd Alb Gwilyrn, the greatest genius
of the Cimbric race and one Of the first poets OF
| once preserved in the stately mansion "Hafod"
| a magnificent library, noted especially for It's
Welsh manuscripts. This library was destroyed
| in a fire so tremendous that 1t Is to this day
called "the great fire of Hafod"
| The National Museum Of Wales. 1t Is an
nounced is to be established at Cardiff. In tho
castle which still looks down on this modern.
thriving town the eldest son of the Conqueror
died after half lifetime Of imprisonment
Does anybody now remember that once popu-
lar novel "The House with the Green Shut
ters"? We are reminded Of 1t by the announce :
ment of a new and very cheap edition. We havo
not yet seen the much talked of study OF
Hamlet" which the late Mr.. Douglas left among
his papers but it is said that 1t viii certainly
be published some day.
In a volume eff "reminiscences Just published
by the Hon. r. Leveson Cover occurs this
story:
The famous historian, MI Motley, when Annerf-
can Minister in London, hired a house In Airing
ton-st where l present at the first dinner he
gave He took much pains about the arrange.
that time couples were sent In to dinner IN pairs,
but nobody's place was fixed MIR. Motley told
each guest by whom he to sit and was well
satisfied with the arrangement unfortunately,
the Turkish Ambassador allotted to Lady
waldegrave; who did not care to have him as her M
place was at the other side of the table. he;
sat down opposite to her. This upset the whole
arrangement. The couples wandered about the
room like sheep that were being driven out of
field. Mr.. Motley who had every merit except a
died of laughing.
Mr. William Waldorf Astor has written new
story which he calls "A Glimpse Behind the
veil'' IT is to appear in the August number OF
NThe Pail Mall Magazine" which will contain
also a short story by Jack London. called De
metrfos Contos."
The new quarterly which is to be brought out
by the Cambridge University Press will be de-
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