The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-13

very Sunday by literary pilgrims curious
u re the writer who had 20 touched the
sophistcated heart OF modern Germany,
il the son Of a village carpenter and was
born within the sound Of the Nc nth Sea
in the remote village Of Bart. The novel,
which took &c rmany by storm on it, pub
licaton, il now being translated by +. s.
Delmer Of Be Rim University.
The Last Letters Of Aubrey Besrdshy,
which are edited by his oonfessor, Father
Gray constitute singular and pathetic
human document, In them one sees
man die inch by inch, roo riding each symp-
tom of his disease, calmly noting each
condition Of body or soul In an absorbed
limited manner but with oertain sincerity
that il like the sincerity Of his life and his
art, He il received into the Church. makes
his first confession, takes his frst COM
munion and clings 10 religion as TO his
friend. thinking that IL may help him 10
keep himself in life. II Is the drowning
mans last clutch Of the floating straw,
Don't think me foolish to haggle about
few months, he writes, when he is hoping
all the time that "the end IL less near than
il seems
The widespread interest In the ethical
culture movement IL evidenced by the
people who are interested in the endowment
Of the proiessorship Of social and political
ethics now held al Columbia University
by Felix Adler In the list Of donors are
Jacob SchiH, George Foster Peabody
Robert Fulton Cutting Adolph Lewisohn,
Seth Low. c. G. Willard and James j, Phelps
The endowment will put Prof Adlers work
a. Columbia on a more secure footing and
enable him 70 give more time to the develop
ment Of the ethical culture idea and 70 liter
airy work. Selections from Prof Adler's
addresses, arranged in consecutive order
to give expression TO the principles and
ideals Of the ethical culture movment are
shortly TO he printed.
The publication OF History Of England
from the Conquest to the Death Of Queen
Victoria is 10 he commenced by Longmans,
Green h Co. this month with the intention
20 set forth In readable form the results
at present only 20 be obtained by historical
research Il will be presented in a dozen
volumes each volume written by differ
ent author but conforming 10 unity Of de-
sign and treatmen, throughout. Or Will
liam Hunt and Mr.. Reginald l. Poole. tire
editor Of the English RistricdI Reueu,
will edit the work and Volume X. written
by Dr., Hunt, will be the first published.
Those who read memoirs and letters
and they are large publc-will be inter
ested in the Life and Letters OF Lady
Sarah IennoX. l745-lS26r edited by the
Countess Of Ilcheser and Lord Staurdale,
for these letters are in themselves a real
romance Of the eighteenth century. far
more romantic than the work Of Richard
son or Fie ldinR. The two beautiful girls
Of which the letters make intimate and
personal revelations lady Sarah Lenno1
and Lady Susan Fox Strangwaysl sacri-
feed everything for the men they loved
The well known story Of the youthful Kings
love affair With Lady Sarah Lennon is
well told and il would have been a good
thing II George III. had married the Duke
Of Richmond's daughter. for the Lady
Sarah was one woman in q thousand At
the height Of her fame az court beauty
Lady Sarah married Mr., afterward Sir,
Charles Bunhury. Il was not a happy
union and Lady Sarah ran away from Sir
Charles with Lord William Gordon. Later
she was divorced from Sir Charles and
married Colonel the Hon George Napier
and became the mother Of three famous
soldiers. Lady Susan Fox Strangways
eloped with Mr.. O'Brien, a good looking
charming and clever young Irishman who
is described a. closely connected with the
theatrical profession and who not only
hadn't chilling but wasn't capable Of
earning anything. However. this marriage
vas a perfectly happy one.