New-York tribune., 1906-07-22

LITERARY NOTES.
NJ HerriOt's book. Madame Recamier and Her
ts Erlends--a book which won the Bordin prize OF
Ine Hrench Academy-haS been translated into
English and VIII be published in the autumn
An Introduction for a new edition Of I,ongfel-
Saintsbury This volume is to be one Of a, series
OK Tolden Poets 70 be brought out in Edin-
5urgh. NJ. A c Benson is writing an intro
ouctlon Tor the Whittier; and Mr. Augustine
BirreA is at work upon one for the volume of
h1o"nlns-a volume which he viii himself edit
Miss Marie CorellPs forthcoming novel is on
Ctled The Treasure Of Heaven" and a sub
title describes it as ga romance of riches II Il,
TO have as HOntispiece new portrait of the
author
The play "Suzeraine," which has been made
out OF the late Henry Harland's charming novel
Ene Lady Paramount provided Nine Rejane
with a part which might be considered quite m
suited TO her powers as a comedian. It appears
however, that she played the bewitchine voune,
girl the Comtesse de Sampaolo, with a romantic
tenderness daintineSs and delicacv that thor
oushly fulfilled Harlands idea Of his little
heroine.
In Scotch collection Of autographs there is
a long letter from Lady Byron, the mother of the
poet, IN which she says that the then Youthful
author OF Hours Of Idleness' begged her never
to mention his poetry again, and wished himself
to forget it "As schOOlboy it was well enough,
ouC as man he has done with il forever he
says"
=. The family Of the late John Maxwell, the Eng
ilsh publisher, is one Of authors. The widowed
Mrs Maxwell produced, under her maiden name
Of M. E. BraddOn. nearly sixty novels. One Of
her sons w. B. Maxwell, has written novels Of
genuine power; another son, Gerald Maxwell
has written stories and plays, and a third son,
Edgar Maxwell Is an essayist and reviewer.
Mr.. Kipling is quoted by ''The Bookman" as
saying, in answer to somebody who had praised
the French motto, Liberte, egalite, fraternite,s
as embOdying an ideal:
Yes, it ernbodies an ideal or rather three ideals
But of the three great nations none has attained
to to more than one OF these ideals. You viii never
have never enjoyed liberty, and they care nothing
equality and they insist upon it. The English on
the other r. hand. despse equality and detest fra
at any time. You Americans haven't even a taste
great peoples. Equality is the thing that you
always always {ryIng to avoid But you come out tre-
good natured; easygoing and tolerant-scandaIorsly
So o IN Iaft your ldea Is nat al OF you shall be
succeeded in achieving is just fraternity.
writing for the last thirty years, is now fifty
four. He is of Scotch Irish blood, and is the
squire Of Moore Hail. County Mayo. He is said
to own 1850 acres in that Irish county.
In the eighth volume of the "Stratford Town
Shakespeare will be found q reproduction of the
famous GarriCk Club bust Of the poet, taken
directly from the original This is the bust of
which Mr.. Sidney Lee says:
bust said to be OF Shakespeare, was discov-
cred in 1916, brcked up in a wall in Spode & Cope
lands china warehouse, in LincOln's Inn Fields.
The warehouse had been erected on the site CT the
Dukes Theatre, which was built by DAVen2nt in
1860 Tho bust. which is OF black terra Gotta and
bears of Italian workmanship, is believed to
have adorned the proscenium Of the Dukes The
atre II was acquired by the surgeon William
Cliff, from whom it passed to Gifts sOn-in-ldw,
Richard (afterWard Sir Richard Owen, the natural
ist The latter sold il to the Duke OF Devonshire,
who presented it in 1851 to the Garrick Club after
having two copies made in plaster
From one of these plaster copies, which is now
in the Memorial Gallery at StratfOrd, there was
made the reproduction which appears in Mr..
Lees life of the poet. The black terra Gotta
original has been difficult to photograph success
fully and until 1t has been thought to be
impossible. An elaborate essay on the portraits
Of Shakespeare which Mr.. NJ H Spielmann has
prepared for this new edition, Is said TO contain
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