New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-18

An instructive paragraph in the London 'Ath-
| enauIn' deserves to be reprinted here at full
| length:
| 1t has been confidently asserted in more than
o9equarter recently that the printing Of the tenth
being prepared, will be done in the United states.
time that this work has been produced outside
Edinburgh and its loss will be severely felt by the
| the custom for publishers to have works up in
the United States In many cases sheets and stereo
plates sent to Great Britain
Leonard smithers, the publisher of the de-
COMES Of sg bon itb t anbre M sU5G
illustrations he was overjOyed.' Now, he adds,
moderate prices at which they were originally
| issued"
| We are told to expect a detailed anecdotal
| biography of David Garrick, written by Mrs
| Clement Parsons, who is student of eighteenth
century life. The book will be brought out
| next autumn
Mr.. Andrew Langs biography of Sir Walter
ever he isn't writing something else he continues
| to be dominated by new volume Of his History
| Of Scotland"
| Mr.. E V. Lucas. the biograp her of Charles
Lamb, has written novel, which is to be pub
lished next autumn. He has also written COM
psnion to his Charming, ''Tanderer in HoIland''
IN the shape of a volume TO be called "A Ram
bier in London" His Life of Lamb has just
gone into its third edition in England.
proof that spirit is Independent OF environ
mental circumstances is found by Mr. Hayelack
Ellis in an American Of genius He says in The
| Contemporary Review:
In another writer OF the early nineteenth century
we find the Celtic spirit in finer form than Moore
VfroHu,entaI ciTcIn9sta!ces There IS no nurcr ex-
ample Of the Celtic spirit in literature than is
furnished by Hawthorne. and even II We never
we Go tdr ra cts II m any page t Of his ne e
back tn q -ern0te mas when The shadow Of the
spiendor OF old Rome had been thrown their
by vanished past that peoPled by the soTnbre
heroes driven oversee as eAileS from {hety 0i
Cables and the rest, after the lapse of thousand
years we find the exact qualities that we found 10
infinitely realized and decorative detail the atI4os-
phere of twilight of a life that Is lived IN strange
Mr. E. F. Benson's uew novel. THE Angel Of
PAIN is to be succeeded by another upon which
ne is now engaged-a tragic story whose hero
| commits murder.
The ancestry of Bret Harte has lately been
matter of interest TO Mr.. Clement X Shorter.
who made observations Mr. II. w.
| Boyntons failure to state that the novelist Was
of Jewish origin Mr.. Boynton is represented as
saying that he ignorant "of any such GER
tSinty"; whereupon Mr.. Shorter says:
I have again seen Mr.. Bret Harte's daughter.
Miss Ethel Bret Harte, and she tells me that her
father never made the least secret in his home
circle at least of the fact that he had Jgw -
gram father. Bret Harte. Francis Br't filrIc-
| to give him his full name, was the second son OF
Henry Harte and his Wife N2thariRe 5ifett; a
Christian, with not drop Of Hebrew blood III Aer
veins.
After the child, Henry d8ret Hartes father. was
born. the husband and wife would seem to have
quarrelled over religious matters, and they Cd
to separate when the child was still quite baby
Thus Henry Harte never entered as an adult ms
fathers house Bret Harte recalled that he was
once taken by his father TO the Stock ExcLaU-e IN
| New York. of which his grandfather. bernard
Harte. the first president. and the old man
was pointed out the young Bret Ha~te his
| grandfather, but he never spoke to him saw
him again.
| II is said that the late Duke of Marlborough
| once remarked. My brother Randolph never
i Il NJ