New-York tribune., 1906-06-10
LITERARY NOTES.


The new edition Of Ibsen's works Is to be
complete one, containing the text of all the later
plays as well as that OF the Norwegians earlier
works. There are to be eleven volumes
No doubt the present possessor of John Eve
yn's manuscripts has what he believes are good
reasons for not permitting any editor of the
famous Diary to have access to them. Mr.
wheatley asked to see them twenty-five years
ago. and in vain. A recent effort also proved
fruitless II is. of course possible that the por-
tions of the Diary which were omitted are OF
particular interest value, but it is possible,
too, that an editor of to-day might not agree
on that point with the editor who dealt with
them in the early days of the last century.
which had some success in this country several
years ago. is bringing out new book, entitled
1.-The Bridal Of Anstace." 1t tells the story of
a girl and man who marry and separate at
the church door.
William Iithgow's 'sTotan Discourse of the
Rare Adventures and Painefun PeregrinatiOns
of long ntneteene Yeares TravayleS' is to be
added to the fascinating series Of reprints OF
turtles now in course OF publication by James
MacLehose & Sons, of Glasgow. Iithgow was
a Scotchman, who in 1910 started out TO improve
| his mind lin Surveighing of Forty eight King
domes ancient and moderne-" Coming back
from this '-painefulP expedition. the Spaniards
caught him and imprisoned him spy at
Malaga, and he describes in his book the tort
ures they inflicted upon him. The original
edition was brought out in 1922 The edi-
tion, which will be published in the autumn,
will be uniform with the MacLehose edition OF
Hakluyts Voyages
A valuable collection of prints and portraits
OF events and men from ITO to the present day
in France has just been bestowed upon the
Biblotheque Nationale in Paris The gift in
cludes copy of No 61S of "L;Ami du PeUpe,'
which is stained with the blood of Marat
note the margin, written by a Colonel Maui
rim. states that he got the paper from MaratS
| sister.
Denis Duval' the novel upon which Thacke-
ray at work when death came TO him, has
just gone out Of copyright-"thanks," says an
English commentator, "to our copyright law
which gives an author no power to assign be
yond a forty -two-year lease the property which
is thoroughly his than any freehold"
This is the book of which Charles Dickens said:
I'm respect to earnest feelings, far-seeing pur-
pose character. incident and certain living
picturesqueness blending the whole, believe il
to be much the best of all his works.
The eight chapters of Denis Duval" show a
power almost as great that anmatng ''Es-
mond" Would that the story could have been
completed with it's foreshadowed episodes OF the
French Revolution.
statue Of Lecky, the historian, has just been
unveiled in front Of Trinity College Dublin. on
this occasion Lord Baltimore announced as a
fact not generally known that Lord Salisbury
had pressed upon Lecky the acceptance OF the
regius professorship of history at Oxford. The
Archbishop of Armagh celebrated the unVeillng
by publishing a poem containing these well
meaning but curousy unpOetic lines:
Champion of Reason: twas high joy for him
To watch its eager daWnng not vain
First whitening thoughts window long tirle dim
Till all the morning flushed from every pane.
A Liverpool bookseller has at hand fine set,
eXtra-illUstrated, of Forster's Life of the
novelist and the Letters Of Dickens" edited
by his daughter and law. The six vo,
u1nes are extended to twelve and contain two
autograph letters
The story of a queer coincidence is told by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. While travelling upon
the Continent he visited certain mountain
inn which was in winter. he learned. occupied
only by These men. prisOned in a
waste of and ice, had for all that period
no communication with the world below. Here
a situation for novelist And the novel
iSt accordingly began 10 let his imagination
play about the possibilities of tragedy SUR
rounding the two their mountain height
But the story never written, for happening
upon volume by Guy de MaUpaSSant.
which was new TO him. he found therein under
the title of 'L'Auberge." the very story he had
meant to write