New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-21
same class in view''-"the imagination is being
killed by hamilton"

easier. paid his passage back to America
No wonder Tennyson dreaded the presence OF
curiosity hunters and other uncongenial intrud-
ers-solitude to him largely condition Of
composition:
He wrote on the tablets OF the BRAIN" and used
transfernence The sfanzas Of nm Memoriar
written random intervals through many years
book. such as butchers use, kept by Tennyson in
by heart and When half Of them We're lost found
that he could write them down. -
You have never written hymn. Lord Tennyson?
SAID his fayorte nurse 10 him one day Haven't
and was very silent. When he came home he wrote
down exactly as we now possess it, the poem en-
Goethe never ceased to oppose the publication
of an edition of his poems arranged in strict
chronological order. His wishes up to this time
have been respected: but now 1T is felt that
such edition should be prepared for the bene
fit of students who wish 10 study the growth
Of the poets genius" Alas for the poetry which
is approached in this spirit!
Mr. Rider Haggard has come to higher honor
and more effective popularity than have most
OF his story telling contemporaries There is TO
be excellent cheap edition OF his novels, IL
Illustrated by artists like Maurice Greiffenhagen
and Byam Shaw. Newnes is the publisher. and
the price of each volume is only six pence in
English currency. NADIA the Lily Will lead
the list
DR. Max Nordau has written book ION Art
and Artists" which will probably be unpleasant.
The volume IS said to give "a comprehensive
view of the development Of modern art repre-
sented by such painters Whistler, Rodin,
Meunier, Gustave Moreau, Carriere and"-save
the neutrality-suspicious.
Life in Spain IN the seventeenth century had
its drawbacks, and very serious ones; but It had
many and great advantages If We may credit
the relation of Lady Fanshawe. wife OF the Brit
ish Ambassador there in 1865. One Of these
advantages the extreme courtesy OF the
people 'I have seen" says the Englishwoman.
"a grandee and duke stop their horse when an
ordinary woman passeth over kennel. because
he would not spoil her clothes; and put off his
hat to the meanest woman that makes a rever-
ence though 1t be their footman's wife" They
are pleasant and facetious in company" Lady
Fanshawe continues, but in this their women
exceed, who seldom laugh and never loud: but
the most witty in repartees and stories, and
notions in the world" AS for food-shall we
tantalize the moderns TO be fed henceforth on
preserved" meats and cold storage f1avorless
fruits?
There is not in the Christian world better wines
sherry and canary Their water tastes like milk,
their corn white a miracle and their wheat
makes the sweetest and best bread in the world:
bacon beyond belief good; the Segovia veal much
larger and fatter than C~rs; mutton most excel
lent; capons much better than ours. They have q
small bird that lives and fattens grapes and
corn. fat that II exceeds the quantity of flesh
They have the best partridges that I ever eat and
the best sausages; and salmon. pixies and sea,
Dreams, which they send up in pickle called
'escabeche,' to Madrid, and dolphnS which are
excellent meat, besides carps and many other sorts
Of fish. The cream. called ''nata, is much sweeter
and thicker than any l in England; their
eggs much exceed ours and so all sorts of salads
and and fruits What 1 most admired are
melons, peaches, burgamot pears, grapes. oranges,
lemons, ctrons, figs and pomegranates: besides
that l have eaten many sorts of biscuits, cakes,
cheese and excellent sweetmeats. I have not here
mentioned especially manger-blanc: and they have
olives which nowhere good