New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-28

| this old story:
TO mi M 6plns American once Tr 5: He Hear
with the word Thanks" and kept the dollar
The people of Ravenna, the city in which
Dante died, are arranging to commemorate his
residence therein by the erection Of a Dante
library, pictures, busts, etc.
Mr.. Andrew Lang has just confided to his
readers that his first literary endeavor, when
he was a lad at St Andrews, was his sending
piece Of verse to Temple Bar" cot course"
he adds, lit about Sir Launcelot and his
adventure in the chapel in the waste when q
wounded knight was borne and laid beside ths
altar still remember one stanza:
Then Launcelot saw four candles all alight,
And yet he saw not any hand that bore.
He the silver table broad and bright,
And the great Grail cup he had seen before
Or even on the Quest he rode.
1.-THE rhymes rode on the quest in vain; they
came back marked No r. Y.'-the init aI5
being probably those Of Mr.. Edmund Yates"
1t is announced that there is to be an elabo-
rate biography of Robert owen, the socialist-a
work in two volumes. to be based on unpub-
lished letters and family papers 1t viii be pub
lished in the spring. Mr.. Frank POdmore, its
author, was one Of the founders of the Fabian
Society. ...-.4s1
Mr.. Rider Haggard's "Ayesha." the sequel to
"She," has been successful to the extent of four
large editions. II II had been published within
six months after the publication Of "She" tho
editions would have rushed up far above that
number
| A correspondent of Notes and Queries says.
concerning the preliminary statement. that tho
name Ayessha should be pronounced Assha':
cannot help thinking that there is some mis-
print here. # 0rientals do say Assha, it IS only
through careiassneSs The name IS really OF three
initial sIia6I Parbars This is WAT NT ' ira az!
Z will no IS 4
hiatus between the first and second vowels. To
avoid this. many speakers insert the c7nsonant Y,
There is no reason whatever why Mr.. Hazards
readers should not proIounc" the name Of his las
cinatng heroine exactly rs II IS spelt, viz, as
tri-syIIabe. with antepenuitmate stress.
Mr. A. H. BuIIen is to he the edi5or-an excel
! lent one, it may be predicted-of the old Cen
viii greatly please many faithful readers-he
/ will restore many of the features dropped years
! ago, and will put back the obituary notices and
/ the gossip of Mr.. Sylvauus Urban into their old
places
/ A forthcoming book by Dorothea Gerard is to
! be called The House Of Riddles" from the long
story with which it opens. This story begins in
! the Klondike and ends in Scotland.
/ Katharine Howard the wretched girI-wife Of
Henry VIII, is to be the heroine Of triloGy OF
novels by Mr.. Ford MADDOX Hueffer. The title
of the first volume, which will soon be pub
lished (and which is complete in ITSELF, is The
Fifth Queen
A book which viii kecnlv interest a small
group of old families in this State viii soon ap-
pear in London. This is the diary of Lady de
Lancey. wife of General Sir William de Laucey,
who received his mortal wound at Waterloo
while speaking to Wellington the field. The
poor lady uursed her husband during his last
hours. and left this account of her experiences
/ a narrative which has hitherto remained Uupub-
lished. Samuel Rogers refers to il i'm his "RecOl-
leCtious." and Scott and Dickens, who the
. manuscript, spoke of il Of the most
. touching records they had ever read. The book
is to be called "A Week at Waterloo i'm 1S15."
The NEWCOMERS of whom we have spoken viii
have difficulty in Identifying General de
Laucey, d loyalist who left these shores to play
a distinguished part throughout the PeninsuIar
War.
Sir Theodore Martin is ninety years old but
is nevertheless about to bring out a book.
Entitled monographs" it will contain biograph-
zeal sketches Of Garrick, Macready. Rachel and
Baron StockmaT. These sketches are based on
articles first published in periodicals many years
ago
Miss Beatrice Harraden's new story The
Scholars Daughter" congresses its incidents
within a period of three four days-a short
time indeed for the action Of a novel
Mr.. Louis Becke. author Of South Sea tales,
has deserted that picturesque region for France,
and in a volume of Sketches in Normandy" is
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