New-York tribune., 1906-04-15

King Edward VII and one of his subjects AIR.
Yates Thompson, have done an adnlr'pe thlns
"a thing which reflects infinite credit upon
,bcm as men of honor and of enlightened
culture. They have united in restoring TO lht
RibliotheOue Rationale of Paris a long lost
treasure of which they were innoccitlF ana
legally II not with abstract justice, in posses
sion. This is the nearly complete second Noiufhe
of the famous MS. of Josephus. the larger mum
Der of whose miniature illustrations We're mace
by Jean Fouquet. This volume disappeared
from the library. when nobody knows. ii was
sold in the Townley sale hundred years aso
and did not appear again until three years ago.
when at another London sale Mr.. Yates Ihomp-
son bought It. OF the thirteen touquel NINA
lures il originally contained only one remained
In 1904 the volume was shown in the t-Nhibltloh
of Primitive French Art in Paris. and when
Sir Rirhord Holmes th, librarian Of Windsor
Castle visited the exhibition he at once saw that
ten miniatures which for nearly thIce-quarterS
of a century had been in the royal library, ana
whose author source no one had been able To
identify must have originally belonged 10 THIS
Josephus The King has ordered that the
miniatures be restored to the despoed volume
and Mr.. Yates Thompson has sent 1t back to the
French library. French and English collectors
viii be on the alert for the two missing ninia-
lures which were probably sold separately by
the unknown thief Of long ago.
Les Dfsenchanteos" is the title Of Pierre
LOTS new story. the scene of which IS set in
Turkish harcm The Circassian beauties therein
are not in the least Of the old fashioned type
They are quite modern and smart" speaking
French. German Italian and English, reading
Shakespeare. Byron, Vcrlainc and Haudelare
and wearing the very latest lar:sian fashions.
Here IS an auecdotc once related by Herbert
Spcnc,r-who. by thc way. was rather heavy IN
hand when he undertook 10 pl1y story teller
Apropos Of HuXley's humor h. described q din
Of distinguished authors.
Over their cigarettes they fcl 20 discussing their
various methods OF commencing to write.
one said he wrote and wrote tore ~. then wrote
George Lewes, who was present. looked surprised.
'oh I'm not like that I commence to write at
s9asGc directly The pen IS in my hand In fact.
Indeed" cut in Mr., HUXLEY. "tha, is very in
Irare imngs yhfPa9 ,S IN to & GRP'r M r'on
ar5eq ,''' "'-''' OF course greeted '"'7 's'S' rep
MIR George Moore's semi raphical pa
pers to be issued in volume. His
"reminiscences Of Vcrlane and IIuysuilns Will be
included.
II is said that several manuscripts. finished
and unfinished. We're left by Walter Pator. and
BE- used more or less in the Life Of Pater''
which that busy bioEra phical mill called Thomas
Wright IS about to undertake. There IS avail |
ablr good deal Of material; one Of the items
is Iaters first contribution TO literature-a frag
Incnt on Coleridge. which appeared in THE |
Westminster Review In 1866. Mr.. A. c. Ben |
sons monograph Pater. by the way Is on |
the point OF publication.
(ln1
grown-Ups). called Puck of Pooks Hill" will be |
brought out in the autumn.
What will probably be an excellent series of |
volumes dealing with the great art galleries OF |
Europe viii soon bc brought from the presses |
of NcwneS. Each volume will contain a preface |
by highly competent authority.
Tho author of a forthcoming book on Rous-
seau holsters up her admiration by the promu- |
cation Of curious Clam-a claim that she has
discovered plot among ROusseauS literary
contemporaries to present him in the most evil
light to the world. Nine d'Epinay's memoirs, |
for example. were, she declares, prepared for
publication in n way that was grossly unfair |
1t is not stated what she proposes to do with
her hero's opinion of himself
"Corydon' is the title OF an clcgy in memory
OF Matthew Arnold, which an oxford man, MIR
Reginald FansiaWc is bringing out. The title
waS Of course, suggested by ArnodS "Thyrsis."
II is TO be hoped that the proposed Johnson
Museum in London may not remain merely a
proposal of the Johnson Club. 1t is, in brief %
purchase ana turn into such Il literary museum
the house i'll Cough Square in which the lcxcoc-
raphcr lived 50 long, wherein he compiled the
dictionary and finished The Rambler" and
wherein his wife died.
".ex years at the Russian Court" is th. title
of a book which English woman. Miss Edgar |
IS about to bring out she had charge Of the
children of the Emperor and Empress until the |
outbreak of the war with Japan