New-York tribune., 1906-12-02
LITER4RT NOTES.

The '.Maxims and Sentences of Queen Chri=-
tina of Sweden, the MS of which found
translated by Miss Una Birch and are to bs
! brought out soon in d neat volume.
Most people Of genius in the nineteenth centur,
were devoted admirers of Scott's novels Nr
Percy Fitzgerald reminds US that Charles Dick-
ems spoke with extraordinary praise" of Scott;
and he remembers that the EngIishrnan once,
when III and lying a sofa, for a copy
Of his favorite, THE Bride of Lamnerynoor." to
solace him in his depression
It in i-~litely creditabIe to the English King
and hE aI Ivisers that honors should have Just
been bestowed upon quiet and modest scholar
in the person OF Professor RAMSAY of Aberdeen
II is true. The London Sphere" says. thaf
the public is not interested in The Historical
Geography Of Asia Minor" in The Cities and
BlshoPrlcs of Phrygia' and in The Church oc
the Roman Empire. but II Is Wei that for once
in a way the merit that IS not widely known
should be recognized.
The old stories Of antagonsm between he
coIlaborators. W. s. Gilbert and Arthur Sul,i-
van. have lately been cOntradicted by Mr. tiil-
nocteG with art lie said: his music for NY
words NV words for his rnusjr There US
never a question between us as To our complete
and mutually delightful collaboration. No diff
Guilty ever arose between US in connection with
the production of our plays and when. at one
Tune the relations between US We're little
I strained owing To my difference with Mt. D'Oyly
Is peasant TO me to remember that a thorough
and complete understanding existed between Us
at the time of his death It has been assumed
L!ldL my absence from his funeral was due TO
another quarrel: but. a matter Of fact.
were on excellent terms and on the day of The
funeral I myself was lying desperately i'll at
Helouan, near Cairo, from a severe attack Of
rheumatoid arthritis."
Until the other day the trustees of Shakes
peare's birthplace at Stratfori-on-Avon had
not been able TO secure a perfect copy of any OF
those editions of The Merchant of Venice" or
OF King Lear which We're published in the
dramatists lifetime Now. however they have
acquired for little over $4,000 copies in excep-
tionauy fine condition of very early quarto edi-
tionS Of both plays
The trustees, it is stated, need more money in
order To continue the collection of earlv editions
of the plays for the Birthplace Library. and
there has been published q urgent call for an
nual subscribers to their fund Each subscriber
now receives a voucher giving him with one
friend free access to all the buildings of the
trust well the Birthplace Garden and the
Trustees Room. which are not open 10 the gen.
eral public
A valuable boek-a prodigiously valuable
book if it had not been cruelty mutilated- has
been discovered in 4 private collection of old
books sent up to London from Yorkshire To pe
sold 1t is folio comprising within the con-
temporary stamped leather boards three works
printed by William Caxton- The Atheneum''
says:
damaged either by the cutting AVA of blank mar
S or 0y h Te Ro5 R9o o5 or BOOK 5E % ~
the coIophon of which bears the date 1854; The
Book OF Good Manners" l4S7. and The Doctrinai
of SapienCe." lS9 The first mentioned is the most
seriously imperfeet-indeed is hardly more than
fragment, containing about 100 leaves of 100,
and leaving only three of the six woodcuts which
are found in complete copy OF the book. The
second work which there only perfect
copies England, viz, at Cambridge and Lam
heth) has suffered less probably account Of it's
place in the middle OF the volume and contains
GO leaves out of TO In The Doctrnal OF Sdpcnce'
many leaves have been wholly cut away leaving
only about 50 out OF 80.
A perfect COPY of The Royal Book sold
in 1903 for S77JO
Mr. Austin DobsCn has been collecting at odd
times during the last twenty years the edi-
torial material which is to accompany the OK
ford edition Of the complete poetical works OK